As recorded at collection: Tencent Cloud CloudBase 1 billion free tokens

Tencent Cloud CloudBase’s Mini Program Growth Plan is official support designed to let users use AI in Mini Programs or develop Mini Programs with AI. It offers six months of cloud development environment, 1 billion HY-3 tokens, and 100,000 image generations for free until December 31, 2026.

Join the Growth Plan in the Mini Program admin console, then click ‘Go to use’ to open the Tencent Cloud CloudBase management screen. Check the environment ID and API key, the key used for call authentication, then configure the chat feature by selecting a Node.js template in Cloud Functions, the server-side functionality. Save `index.js` and `package.json` from the `01-text-completion` folder in the open-source repository to the Cloud Functions folder, then install the dependencies required to run it. Enter the API key and environment ID in the repository’s `cloudbase_func_http.py` to make calls. For image generation, create a `hy_image` Cloud Function in the same way and use the files in the `03-image-generation` folder. Use Cloud Hosting if you need streaming responses, responses delivered in parts, and a custom address. Zip the repository’s `04-hy3-openai` folder, upload it, enter the service name and environment variables, the service configuration values, and deploy. The environment variables require the environment ID, the authentication key and secret key for the Tencent Cloud account, and an API key you set yourself. After deployment, you can call the OpenAI-compatible chat completion feature using the public address provided. An example call is in the repository’s `cloudbase_openai.py`. The default API key is `sk-hy3-cloudbase-openai`.

The pricing plans differ before and after June 30, and calls are unavailable on the previous quota-based plan, so you need to switch to the resource-point pricing plan. The Tencent Cloud account key required for Cloud Hosting must be created by logging in with a Mini Program account. The post notes that a month of Cloud Hosting may leave you short by 40,000 points, and that if there are no calls for 2 hours, the service may pause and the first call after resuming may take a long time.