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