ChabadLabs AI FOR SHLICHUS

Discounts, Free Trials, and Hacks

Community-documented ways to lower AI costs: nonprofit discounts, free trials, and referral deals. Verify before relying.

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What the community has documented as ways to lower AI costs. Offers change, so verify before relying on any of them.

Important: every offer here has an expiry date, vendor discretion, or waitlist status. This list was current as of mid-2026. Treat all entries as leads to check, not guarantees; pricing and availability change frequently.

See Paid vs Free for the broader debate.

Still working (as of May 2026)

Perplexity Pro: 1 year free via Samsung Galaxy Store

On a Samsung phone, download Perplexity from the Galaxy Store and create an account; you automatically get a Pro account free for one year. You can then access that account from anywhere.

Gemini: 4 months free

Referral link: g.co/g1referral/ZAPZU83S.

Google AI Studio: free

aistudio.google.com ships $300 in free credit for new API users. It lets you use Gemini Pro or Nano Banana via the API for free within the rate limits, and it has a vibe-coding canvas.

Google Workspace Nonprofit: bundled Gemini

If your Chabad House qualifies as a 501(c)(3), you get Gemini for Workspace plus the storage tier. Caveat: adding Gemini sometimes downgrades the shared-drive tier, so talk to your admin first.

Gemini Plus: $6/month

The cheaper tier released around November 2025. Less generous than Pro.

ChatGPT Go: $8/month

A middle tier between free and Plus, released in February 2026. Sufficient for most shluchim who use AI a couple of times a day.

ChatGPT for Teachers: free through 2027

openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-teachers. Qualifying educators (including yeshiva and day-school staff in some cases) get free access through 2027.

Codex for Open Source: 6 months free ChatGPT Pro

openai.com/form/codex-for-oss, for open-source developers.

Claude for Nonprofits: 75% off (5-seat minimum)

claude.com/solutions/nonprofits. A five-seat plan works out to about $40/month total (five $20 seats, less 75%).

Anthropic Skilljar: free training

anthropic.skilljar.com hosts Anthropic's free Claude certification courses. Useful when onboarding a Chabad-House team.

Amex and ChatGPT Business hack

Via Dan's Deals: get 2 ChatGPT Business seats for the price of 1 for up to 4 years, which pairs well with the $300 annual Amex credit. See the Dan's Deals writeup.

Lovable gift cards and occasional free windows

The community has distributed $25 Lovable gift cards, and Lovable opened a roughly 24-hour free window during the megillah.app sprint.

manus.im/invitation/K0TGDPJ7OIFCWG, a referral link that stretches the free-credit budget.

Cursor: 50% first month

Referral link: cursor.com/referral?code=NKUHQBD2D1ZI.

Turboscribe: 3 free transcriptions/day

turboscribe.ai; the bulk plan is $20/month. The best value the chat has found for bulk English transcription.

transcribe.ivrit.ai: free Hebrew

Free transcription for Hebrew audio.

Wispr Flow: free tier

Referral link: wisprflow.ai/r?MEIR42.

Google Pinpoint: free transcription

Use recorder.google.com (mobile) and the desktop equivalent. Officially for journalists and students, with no enforced limit on the number of files (2 hours per file).

Sunsama: 50% nonprofit plus free trial

Project management. A free-month link was shared in the chat.

Monday.com: limited nonprofit free tier

Some AI features are included, with limited free images.

Fillout: nonprofit discounts

try.fillout.com/menachemt, a form platform with nonprofit pricing and Zite integration.

Zmanim Graphics: 3 months free

zmanimgraphics.com with code SHLUCHIMWA. Auto-generates candle-lighting graphics 1 to 2 days before Shabbos or Yom Tov.

Little Green Light: $100 credit

littlegreenlight.com via the community credit link.

Expired

  • Perplexity Pro free year via PayPal. It ended on December 31, 2025.

Hard to qualify

  • OpenAI for Nonprofits (Goodstack-verified, 20% off). Academic, medical, and governmental institutions are excluded.

Tools designed to compound savings

  • OpenAI Codex for OSS plus Claude for Nonprofits stack across model providers.
  • Poe AI bundles Claude, GPT, and Gemini under one subscription if you want a single bill. It is API-based and lacks some native-app features.
  • LMArena.ai offers side-by-side LLM comparisons, free.

Caveats

  • Free tiers may train on your data unless you opt out. The chat carried several warnings on this.
  • Workspace admins can see Gemini chats on managed accounts, and users cannot easily delete them.

Last updated May 2026 · Maintained by Hermes AI Agent