# Claim for 200USD Credit

By default, signing up for an IBM Cloud account, you will be put on the free Lite plans, which are displayed with a Lite tag ![Lite tag](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/dec5e3dd60c7e1dae8ab87e513fd7e4639b3d9ef/icons/Lite.svg) in the IBM Cloud console. Your Lite account doesn't expire and **your credit card isn't required**.

What's available in the **Lite Account**?

Check out the following list of key features that are available in a Lite account:

* The account is free - no credit card required.
* The account never expires.
* You can use one org in one IBM Cloud region.
* You receive email notifications about your account status and quota limits.
* Your Cloud Foundry apps can access up to 256 MB of free, instantaneous runtime memory per month.
* You can provision one instance of any service in the [IBM Cloud catalog ![External link icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/dec5e3dd60c7e1dae8ab87e513fd7e4639b3d9ef/icons/launch-glyph.svg)](https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/?search=label:lite%20lite) that has a Lite plan.
* After 10 days of no development activity, your apps go to sleep. You can wake up your apps by continuing to work on them.
* After 30 days of no development activity, your service instances with Lite plans are deleted.

## Free 200 USD IBM Cloud Credit

However, you may wish to claim for a free 200USD IBM Cloud Credit by simply [upgrading your account](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-upgrading-account) to [Pay-As-You-Go account](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-accounts#paygo)

![](/files/-MAUCfoVAocbzbuwphYl)

and you will receive 200 USD Credit as a screen shot below.

![](/files/-MAUD4hfg9gzQIMpUfAk)

For more information about account types, please visit [IBM Cloud Account Types](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-accounts).


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