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Posted on Nov 2

AI-assisted

We've been going back and forth on this while designing a trial for an API product, and I keep flip-flopping — curious how others have settled it.

Option A: the full trial credit up front. Simple to explain, feels generous, and a serious evaluator can run a real workload on day one. Downside: it's a magnet for farming — scripted signups drain it in minutes — and a genuine user can burn it accidentally in one bad retry loop and conclude the product is expensive.

Option B: the same total, released as a small daily allowance. Farming gets slow and boring, real users get a reason to come back several days in a row, and support sees problems while there's still trial left to fix them.…