Startups that added a free sign-up or free trial
In Q4 2026 (to 10 November 2026), 10 startups added a free sign-up or free trial, out of 1,797 with at least two captures in the archive that quarter. These are observations in the archive, not a market-wide rate. Coverage differs by quarter.
| Quarter | Companies with changes | With 2+ captures | Observed share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2026 · so far | 10 | 1,797 | 0.6% |
| Q3 2026 | 1 | 815 | 0.1% |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | 168 | 0% |
| Q1 2026 | 4 | 401 | 1.0% |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | 61 | 0% |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | 499 | 0% |
What counts
The homepage newly offers a free sign-up or free trial button. A change counts in a quarter only when both checks it lies between fall in that quarter; the share is out of the startups with at least two visible captures in that quarter. Two captures do not guarantee a usable comparison, and observation frequency varies. Method.
1,413 observations cannot be allocated to a quarter. Inspect their date ranges. Zero counted changes does not establish that nothing changed.
Dated less precisely
- Corgea: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Braintrust Data: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Apify: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Cube: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Cubbit: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- OpenMeter: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Rendered.ai: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- OtterTune: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Podcastle: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Camb AI: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- CrateDB (Crate.io): Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Autoblocks: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Earthly: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Keep: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Instabase: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Diadem Capital: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Klu: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Bardeen: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Foxglove: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Linearity: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Felt: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Humata AI: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Pawp: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Graphite: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Blueshift: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Hostfully: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- DigitalOcean: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- ElevenLabs: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Hasura: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- IoTFlows Inc.: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Mini City: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Ariglad: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Brieff: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Sloop: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- BodyPro: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- EINO: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- JITX: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Bitfount: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Rep AI (Hello Rep AI): Added a free sign-up or free trial.
- Sojorne: Added a free sign-up or free trial.
Cite this page
StartupHistory, “Startups that added a free sign-up or free trial”, https://startuphistory.org/t/added-free-trial (accessed 10 November 2026)