A leaderboard of free-credit API relay sites, with caveats attached

What it does

It maintains a ranked top-10 of API relay and community sites offering free credits for AI coding tools, plus a broader probe of 24 active sites. Each entry lists signup bonuses, invite codes, check-in rewards, and an editorial recommendation score. A Python scraper periodically checks whether sites are reachable and snapshots their announcements, which feed a visual dashboard.

The interesting bit

The project is unusually honest about its own unreliability: it repeatedly warns that scores are editorial opinions, not benchmarks, and that “online” only means the probe could reach the site — not that the advertised bonus still exists. That level of self-skepticism in a deals directory is rarer than it should be.

Key highlights

• Ranked table of 10 relay sites with registration bonuses, invite codes, and daily check-in amounts.
• Automated site probe (last run logged with timestamp) tracking 24 active sites and their announcement snapshots.
• Per-site detail pages noting registration methods (email, GitHub OAuth, QQ mail), model availability, and pricing quirks.
• Flags discrepancies between advertised and reviewer-reported bonuses instead of papering over them.
• Python-based data collection tooling behind the dashboard.

Caveats

• Every registration link carries the repo owner’s affiliate code (aff=...), so the “recommendation scores” sit uncomfortably close to referral incentives.
• The README itself warns that bonuses may be expired, conflicting, or never arrive — several entries show mismatched numbers between the promo blurb and the review section.
• Relay sites reselling Claude/GPT/Codex access occupy a legally and ToS-gray zone; the repo does not address that at all.

Verdict

Useful if you read Chinese and want a crowdsourced map of where free AI-coding credits are floating around — treat it as a rumor board, not a guarantee. Skip it if you want official APIs or anything you’d stake a production workflow on.