6 Nov 2026 Alex Mashrabov, co-founder of Astana Hub participant Higgsfield, receives Kazakhstani citizenship. Alex Mashrabov, co-founder of Higgsfield, a company within the ecosystem of the Astana Hub international innovation cluster, has received citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The company is valued at $5.4 billion. "Higgsfield's story is inseparable from Kazakhstan. My co-founder Yerzat and our team have demonstrated the strength of the engineering talent here and the boundless ambition. Here, we found exceptional creative talent that shaped Higgsfield's DNA. There has also been incredible, heartfelt support from people outside Higgsfield. We see how millions of Kazakhstanis believe in us, and we are immensely grateful for Astana Hub's support. Back in 2023, I realized that this was where we would build our company's foundation, and time has shown that it was absolutely the right decision. I am deeply grateful to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for his trust. It is a tremendous source of pride for me to officially call this country my home and become part of Kazakhstan," said Alex Mashrabov. Alex Mashrabov and Kazakhstani AI engineer Yerzat Dulat met as school students at international programming and physics olympiads. In 2023, they founded Higgsfield together with Mahi de Silva. Almaty has been the company's main engineering center since its inception. The team trains AI models and develops products there, while Mashrabov, working from the United States, helped establish the company and expand its international presence. Higgsfield is an Astana Hub participant and a portfolio company of Astana Hub Ventures, which invested $500,000 in the project. The company's co-founder Yerzat Dulat participated in Astana Hub's R&D program in 2020-2021. The company develops a platform for creating visual content using artificial intelligence. Its products are used by more than 40 million people across 238 countries and territories. In August 2026, Higgsfield raised $400 million in a Series B round at a valuation of $5.4 billion. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. In October, Alex Mashrabov presented the company's results to the President of Kazakhstan at AI & Digital Bridge 2026. At the closing ceremony, the Prime Minister presented Higgsfield with the "International Breakthrough of the Year" award. The co-founders combine expertise in AI development and bringing technology products to global markets. Yerzat Dulat, a graduate of the Republican Physics and Mathematics School and Higgsfield's Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for developing and improving AI technologies. Alex Mashrabov oversees the company's international growth and turns technological advances into products for a broad audience. Before founding Higgsfield, Mashrabov co-founded AI Factory, a startup acquired by Snap, the company behind Snapchat, for $166 million. Following the acquisition, he led generative AI at Snap.

Higgsfield free trial, promo codes and What a free account gets. Higgsfield has a free plan but no running free trial. What a free account gets, which trials and promos have ended, and where real promo codes come from, checked on 2026-11-01. Video examples here were generated on Cicadas and keep their model, settings and date. Cicadas earns money when you generate with these models. How Cicadas test * Test window: - 2026-09-22 - 2026-11-03 * Clips recorded with these models: - 183 * Models: - MiniMax H3 Max, Seedance 2.5 * Their provider cost: - ≈$65.33 * Selection: - every clip Cicadas keep is listed with its settings, cost and request ID; failed or discarded runs are listed in the test record. In short: Higgsfield is free to sign up for, but there is no free trial running. Its help center says plainly that there is no trial period; what you get without paying is a free account with a small set of models, no credits, a Higgsfield watermark on every generation and, per Higgsfield's own pricing article, no commercial use. The $0 one-day trial and the July referral deal are over, and the unlimited offer running now comes only with paid plans. Promo codes do exist, but Higgsfield hands them out through its social channels, Discord events and support, not on a public page, so any code you find on a coupon site is unverified. If what you need is one clean clip at a known price, a 5-second MiniMax H3 Max clip on Cicadas is 63 credits, about $0.62, with no subscription. Cicadas make Cicadas, an AI video site that competes with Higgsfield. Everything below about Higgsfield comes from Higgsfield's own help center, blog and product pages, read on 2026-11-01; each claim names its page. Cicadas did not sign up, redeem a code or generate on Higgsfield for this post. 1. What a free Higgsfield account gets. Four Higgsfield pages describe the free tier, and one of them disagrees with the others on credits. * Models. The help center article "How do Higgsfield plans work?" (dated August 1, 2026) says you can generate without a paid plan, but access is limited to a small set of models and does not include credits. * A welcome bonus, maybe. Higgsfield's AI image page answers "Is Higgsfield free to use?" with 10 free credits as a one-time welcome bonus for image generation. That line is not dated and conflicts with the help center's "doesn't include credits", so treat it as image-only and possibly out of date. * Watermark. The help center article on watermarks (dated August 3, 2026) says every generation on a free account carries a Higgsfield watermark, there is no setting to turn it off, and subscribing later does not clean up files you already made. * Commercial use and speed. Higgsfield's pricing explainer (dated October 24, 2026) lists the free tier as not for commercial use and limits it to one video job at a time. So a free account is for looking around and testing prompts, not for publishing client or brand work. 2. The free trial: what ran, and when it ended. Higgsfield has run free or near-free offers before. None of the ones below is open on 2026-11-01. * One-day trial, ended July 23, 2026. A Higgsfield blog post dated July 22 described a 24-hour trial of unlimited generation on 20+ models for new users on the free plan. It cost $0 but needed card details at checkout, and unless cancelled it renewed into a monthly Plus subscription. It had to be activated before July 23 at 1:30 PM UTC. * Referral promotion, ended July 17, 2026. A July 14 post let Plus and Pro subscribers earn up to 7 days of unlimited Seedance 2.0 by inviting friends; the friends saw up to 60% off a paid plan. Invites had to go out before July 17. * 33 days of unlimited Seedance, activation closed August 9, 2026. This offer started at the Plus plan, so it was paid. The help center's current answer to "Is there a free trial before buying a subscription?" is that there is no trial period. Guides that still promise a "Higgsfield free trial" are describing the July offer. 3. Promo codes: where real ones come from. Higgsfield's help center article "How do promocodes work?" (dated August 3, 2026) is the source for everything in this section. * What a code gives: a discount on a plan or bonus credits. * Where codes come from: marketing promos are announced first on Higgsfield's official social media channels; community events in the Higgsfield Discord are another source; and the support team sometimes issues a code as compensation, case by case, which cannot be requested. * How to redeem: click your avatar, open Manage Account, choose Promocode in the left sidebar, then Enter code. The benefit applies instantly and the page shows the discount and the credits added. * Limits: some codes are limited by time or number of uses, one code activates once unless its terms say otherwise, and support codes expire if not activated within 7 days. * Expiry: promo credits expire on the date shown when they are added, and they stay usable on the free plan after you cancel, until that date. Cicadas found no promo code published on Higgsfield's own pages on 2026-11-01. Coupon sites list several, with claims such as a percentage off; none of those sites is Higgsfield, Cicadas did not test their codes, and Cicadas do not repeat them here. Two more Higgsfield discounts work without a code, and the help center explains both: * Promo prices are first-payment prices. A promo price covers the first payment or the period the offer states; the next billing cycle renews at the standard plan price. * Exclusive Offers are personal. They are shown to active subscribers only, vary from account to account and cannot be requested. 4. The unlimited offer running now is not free. Higgsfield's 7-Day Unlimited Bonus, announced October 30, 2026, gives seven days of unlimited generation on Seedream 5.0 Pro, GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana Pro and Seedance 2.5. It comes with eligible Pro, Plus, Max and Ultra subscriptions for a limited time; Starter is excluded, and a free account gets nothing from it. Seedance 2.5 is the part most people want, and it is narrower than the headline: * Monthly Pro and Plus do not include it. * Monthly Max includes it at 480p; annual Pro, Plus and Max and monthly Ultra at 720p; annual Ultra at 1080p. * Every option caps a clip at 20 seconds, and only one unlimited video runs at a time. For what each paid plan costs, see its Higgsfield pricing guide; for Higgsfield next to other generators on refunds and credit expiry, see AI video pricing and terms compared. 5. Before you pay Higgsfield to "try it" If the free account is not enough and you pay for a plan to test the models, three help center rules matter: * Refunds depend on zero credits used. Within 7 days of the initial purchase, a subscription with no credits spent can be refunded, minus a service fee of up to 6%. Spend one credit and it cannot be. Free generations and unlimited generations do not count as usage. * Renewals are not refundable. Cancel before the renewal date in Manage Account, under Subscription. * Unlimited stays on higgsfield.ai. Generations through MCP, CLI, Canvas or Supercomputer always deduct credits. 6. If you want one clean clip without a subscription. Cicadas has no free plan either: a new account gets one free watermarked video (5 seconds, 480P, on a supported page, voucher valid 7 days, daily places limited), and everything after that is paid. What it does differently is sell credits in one-time packs and show the price of each clip before you generate. The $9.90 pack holds 1,000 credits, valid for 365 days, with no subscription. * MiniMax H3 Max: 63 credits (about $0.62) for 5 seconds at 480P, or 125 (about $1.24) for 10 seconds, with generated sound. A paid clip downloads without a watermark. * Seedance 2.5: 276 credits (about $2.73) for 5 seconds at 480p. * Kling 4.0 and other models show their own quote on their page. A failed generation returns its credits automatically; a finished clip you do not like is still charged, so start short. If Higgsfield's Katana skill is what brought you here, its Katana alternative has Claude write a motion-graphics video and renders the MP4 in your browser, with no Higgsfield subscription. The cover of this post is minimax-city-rain, a 5-second 480P vertical clip with sound recorded on the MiniMax H3 page, the 63-credit clip size quoted above: umbrellas crossing a wet city street at night, seen from a high window. How Cicadas checked. On 2026-11-01 Cicadas loaded these Higgsfield pages and took every statement above from them: the help center articles on plans, promo codes, promo prices, Exclusive Offers, credits, watermarks, Unlimited models and refunds for unused subscriptions (dated July 30 to August 3, 2026); the blog posts on the one-day trial (July 22), the referral promotion (July 14), the 33-day Seedance offer, pricing (October 24) and the 7-Day Unlimited Bonus (October 30); and the AI image page. Higgsfield's pricing page only renders its plans in the browser, so for plan prices Cicadas point to its own reading of it in the pricing guide. Cicadas prices come from its generator's per-second rates, rounded up to whole credits as the generator does, at the $9.90 pack. Method: how Cicadas test.

Higgsfield has launched Cinema Studio 4.0, an AI filmmaking workspace that lets creators direct camera, lens, lighting, pacing and character performance before generation. It is available now at higgsfield.ai. The update builds 30-second multi-shot scenes from up to 50 references. Version 3.5 offered 15-second clips and nine references. A new Director's Panel offers seven genres, decades from the 1960s to the 2020s, and more than 50 colour grading presets, up from eight. An Emotion Wheel guides facial expression and body language. Creators can extend uploaded videos, edit parts of a clip without regenerating it, and add native audio. Generations are charged in credits. A 10-second 720p clip costs 70 credits, and a 30-second 1080p clip costs 480.