Five of these seven say free, in their own words, in a place you can read without an account. Two never print a price at all, in either direction, and it would be dishonest to fill that silence in for them. Here is where every claim actually comes from.
Open the module 路 2 units 路 about 20 mins 路 Trailhead badge, +200 points, no coding
What it is. The fastest credential on the list and the reason Monday is easy. Two units: "Explore the Capabilities of Generative AI" at about 10 minutes, then "Understand the Technology Ecosystem of Generative AI" at about 10 minutes.
What it actually teaches. What generative AI can and cannot do, then the technology sitting underneath it, at a level pitched deliberately at an end user rather than a developer. Foundational on purpose, which is why it belongs first rather than being skipped.
What you walk away with. A badge on your Trailblazer profile worth 200 points, which you can add to LinkedIn.
The honest bit. Each unit ends in a challenge you have to pass, so it is earned rather than handed over, and a free Trailblazer account is required. This is a badge, not a certificate, and there is no PDF and no credential ID. Salesforce is a name recruiters know, so it is still worth twenty minutes.
Open the course 路 then the accreditation 路 about an hour of training plus a 20 to 25 minute assessment 路 Databricks badge, 80% to pass, no coding
What it is. Two pages, one credential, and the pairing is the point: the course teaches it and the separate accreditation assessment is what actually earns you the badge. Databricks is the data platform a very large share of enterprise AI work runs on, so the logo lands in exactly the industries that are cautious about AI hires.
What it actually teaches. Generative AI at a business-literacy level rather than an engineering one: what large language models are, where they get applied, and the risks and governance questions that come with putting them near real company data. The accreditation page is the one to read for the current syllabus, because it is the page tied to the assessment.
What you walk away with. A Databricks badge, which Databricks itself tells you to put on LinkedIn and on your r茅sum茅. That matters more than it sounds: a badge the issuer explicitly pitches for a r茅sum茅 is a badge you can list without overselling it.
The honest bit. Two things. The assessment needs 80% to pass, so it is earned rather than collected. And Databricks does not print a price anywhere on either page, so do not let anyone tell you it is confirmed free. What is certain is that you register for an account first. Check the cost on the page before you block out the evening.
Open the certificate 路 free prep course 路 1 hour course + a 45 minute exam 路 free course, free exam, no coding
What it is. The fastest credential here with a real exam behind it, and the best value on the list if you want something that says "certificate" rather than "badge" without paying for it. Atlassian's own framing is "Quick and free".
What it actually teaches. Finding, learning and acting on information using Rovo's Search, Chat and Agents across Atlassian tools and connected third-party apps. In practice it is a proper grounding in how an AI layer sits on top of a company's existing systems, which is the shape most workplace AI is taking.
What you walk away with. A Rovo Fundamentals certificate: a digital badge plus a downloadable PDF you can attach anywhere.
The honest bit. The certificate is valid for 12 months and then needs renewing, though renewing is just retaking the same free exam, with no continuing-education units to collect. That makes it the only credential in this week with an expiry date, so diary it at eleven months.
Open the badge series 路 5 parts 路 1 to 2 hours 路 free skill badge, no coding
What it is. The easiest genuine win of the week, and the one most directly about using AI in an office job rather than understanding AI in the abstract. Asana states it plainly: "This program is entirely free."
What it actually teaches. Five parts: Asana for Agentic Work Management (20 mins), Boost personal productivity with AI (20 min), Maximize team impact with AI (20 min), Drive organizational clarity with AI (20 min), then the wrap-up and quiz (30 min). The middle three are the useful ones, because they are about delegating real work rather than tool clicks.
What you walk away with. An Asana Academy skill badge, earned by passing a 20-question quiz with at least 80%.
The honest bit. You need to be logged in. Existing Asana users log in as normal; new users are enrolled in a trial, which is free but is still an account you are creating. You also have a 30 day enrolment window to finish once you start, so do not begin it and wander off. There is a separate AI Studio Foundations badge on the same academy, which needs a paid Asana add-on and is not this one.
Open the course 路 4 units 路 3 hr 5 min 路 Beginner 路 Course Completion badge, no coding
What it is. The enterprise-brand day, and the longest published sit of the week. SAP runs the back office of a very large share of the world's big companies, so the logo carries weight in exactly the industries that are slowest to hire on AI skills and most impressed by them.
What it actually teaches. Beginner-level AI fundamentals across four units, framed for business use rather than for building. It is the most conventional "explain AI properly" course on the list, and the one that fills gaps the shorter days skip over.
What you walk away with. A Course Completion badge issued by SAP Learning's own badge engine, not by Credly. Worth getting right, because plenty of write-ups say Credly and that is the wrong platform for this one. It still gets its own verifiable record and can go on LinkedIn.
The honest bit. You earn the badge by passing the quizzes, so it is not a watch-and-collect, and a free SAP Learning account is needed. And as with day 2, SAP never prints a price for this course, so nobody can honestly confirm it is free. Check the page before you plan an evening around it.
Open the course 路 5 lessons 路 free, "provided at no cost", certificate of completion, light in-browser Python
What it is. The interview-answer day. AI ethics sounds like the soft option and is the opposite: it is the topic most likely to come up in an interview for any AI-adjacent role, and most candidates have nothing concrete to say about it.
What it actually teaches. Five lessons: Introduction to AI Ethics, Human-Centered Design for AI, Identifying Bias in AI, AI Fairness, and Model Cards. Four of the five come with a hands-on exercise, so you leave having actually measured a fairness problem rather than having read about one.
What you walk away with. A Kaggle certificate of completion, downloadable as a PDF and shareable to LinkedIn.
The honest bit. There is light Python, but all of it runs in the browser in Kaggle Notebooks with the code mostly written for you, so no setup and no install. Unlike almost every other Kaggle course this one has no prerequisite course, so you can start it cold. Kaggle does not issue a credential ID, so display it as a certificate of completion rather than implying an accredited qualification.
Open the assessment 路 no time limit, no expiry 路 free, SAS Knowledge Badge, no coding on the badge track
What it is. The quietly best-designed credential on this list, and the reason is the rules. The assessment page prints Pricing "Free", Time limit "None", Expiration "None", and retakes "Unlimited. 24-hour wait period". A free, untimed, never-expiring, open-book credential with unlimited retakes is close to unheard of, which is why it closes the week rather than opening it.
What it actually teaches. AI foundations from a company that has been doing statistics for decades, so the framing is noticeably less hype-driven than most AI courses. The assessment itself is the credential; the learning sits in SAS's qualifying courses.
What you walk away with. A SAS Knowledge Badge, with its own shareable URL. SAS's own page calls it a SAS Knowledge Badge and never mentions Credly. SAS's own framing is that you can put it on LinkedIn, a r茅sum茅, a website or an email signature.