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# Guest access
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Membership comes with something to share: any member can **give a friend
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guest access to the co-op**. Guest access is **$5 of AI usage for 60 days** — the friend
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gets their own account and spends it in the chat and the API, with a
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dashboard showing what's left.
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Guest access doesn't come out of your own balance. You can send guest access
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once every 30 days, and an address can receive it only once — guest access is
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for people new to the co-op.
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## How to send guest access
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Email [info@inference.coop](mailto:info@inference.coop) with your friend's
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name and email address. They get an **invitation email** from the co-op,
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naming you, with a link to set up their account — it takes about a minute.
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## What your guest receives
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- **The invitation email** with their setup link.
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- **$5 of credit** for the chat and the API, ready on their first login. The
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$5 is a hard cap — usage stops when it's spent.
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- **Their own dashboard** at
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[dashboard.inference.coop](https://dashboard.inference.coop) showing what's
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left.
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- **The weekly newsletter** by email.
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- **These docs** — public to everyone already.
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Their access runs for **60 days**; the credits themselves don't expire early.
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## What guests can't do
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Guest access is not membership. Guests don't get Matrix, the governance
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forum, or any vote in the co-op — the chat, the API, the dashboard, the docs
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and the newsletter are the whole of it. On their dashboard, a **Become a member**
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button sits where members see the credit-pack option.
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## When guest access ends
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Guest access ends when **the $5 is spent or the 60 days are up**, whichever comes
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first, and your friend gets an email saying so. Access stops, but **the
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account and its data are kept** — if they become members later, everything
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picks up where it left off.
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## Cancelling early
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A guest can end their own guest access at any time, with the **Cancel guest access**
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link on their dashboard. Unspent credit returns to the co-op; the account and
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its data are kept.
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## From guest to membership
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Becoming a member works the same for a guest as for anyone: contribute on
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[Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/inference-cooperative/contribute)
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and the account converts automatically — same login, same dashboard. Any
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unspent guest credit carries over onto the member balance. See
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[Become a member](getting-started.md#1-become-a-member) for how membership
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works.
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