AI Promotions: Perch puts MiniMax M3.1 Flash on its free Starter plan, and Beam 1.0's Starter promo ends today
Perch AI's promotions page lists MiniMax M3.1 Flash on the free Starter plan since October 19 with no end date, and Beam 1.0 on Starter until October 23 at 2 p.m. Eastern (18:00 UTC). Both count toward Starter's included allowance - free, not unlimited. Verified on the vendor page.
AI Promotions: Perch puts MiniMax M3.1 Flash on its free Starter plan, and Beam 1.0's Starter promo ends today
Perch AI's model-promotions page, which I read on October 23, 2026, lists two current offers: MiniMax M3.1 Flash joined the free Starter plan on October 19 with no announced end date, and the Beam 1.0 Starter promotion runs until today, October 23, at 2 p.m. Eastern (18:00 UTC). On Starter both count toward the plan's included allowance - free to use, but not unlimited.
The two current offers
MiniMax M3.1 Flash on Starter started on October 19, 2026. The page calls it a limited-time offer with no set end date yet; when it ends, the model leaves the Starter lineup. Beam 1.0 on Starter runs until October 23, 2026, at 2 p.m. Eastern - the page says "Eastern", and with US daylight saving still in effect until November 1 that is 18:00 UTC. Both are picked in the model picker under a Promo tag, or from the CLI with /model beam-1.0-starter and /model minimax-m3.1-flash-starter. Perch model promotions page
How the usage counts
On Starter, every model is free within the plan's included allowance - no paid plan or credit card is required - and the page is explicit that free does not mean unlimited: promotional usage still counts toward the included allowance and the usual usage limits, checkable under Settings, Usage. On Pro the mechanics differ by model. Beam 1.0 is a regular pinned model there: it uses the manual-model allowance and stays available after the Starter offer ends. Free promo models on Pro do not use the manual-model allowance; they count toward Roost's fair-use limits, with the usual five-hour and weekly caps shared with other Roost usage. If a fair-use limit is reached, the desktop app and CLI can offer an explicit choice to continue on usage credits - continuing requires the user's choice.
What already ended
The page's history section shows the Cloud Agents launch promotion ran from October 6 at 2 p.m. Eastern until October 13 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. As a result, Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 and Qwen 3.8 Flash are no longer on Starter. On Pro they remain, together with GPT-6.1 Sol, as regular pinned models that use the manual-model allowance.
The fine print
Promotional access ends at the stated time and models return to their usual plan access. The page warns that offers may differ and advises checking the current announcement and the model picker before starting a task. What the page does not give for either current offer is a per-user allowance number on this page itself - it points to the Starter plan guide for the included allowance, so the practical cap depends on the plan, not on the promotion.