Discover AI and Cloud Credits for Your Startup

Corporate cards and spend management platform offering startups no-personal-guarantee cards, cashback, and $350,000+ in partner perks and software credits.

Microsoft for Startups gives Azure credits. Without an investor, new Azure users get $1,000 for 90 days, then $4,000 for 180 days after business verification. With an investor referral code, most startups start at $100,000 and can earn up to $150,000.

Provides over $150,000 in value with one year free including up to 1 billion events.

Provides up to $120,000 cloud credits for cloud services and AI.

Provides up to $100,000 in credits for one year of free Datadog Pro.

Up to $100,000 in Oracle Cloud credits with $500 free to start and 70% discount.

Render's Startup Program gives early-stage teams cloud hosting credits plus hands-on migration help to ship apps, services, and databases fast.

Neon's Startup Program offers serverless Postgres credits so early-stage teams can run production-grade databases with branching while keeping infra costs near zero.

$2,500 in Stripe product credits plus over $50,000 in partner discounts from AWS, Mercury, Carta, and more.

Provides up to $50,000 in credits for data and AI workloads.

Twilio Segment is a customer data platform that collects, cleans, and routes first-party data to your analytics and marketing tools.

AI acceleration cloud offering tiered platform credits up to $50K plus dedicated AI engineering support for inference, fine-tuning, and clusters.

PostHog for Startups gives early-stage companies platform credits plus merch and partner perks for product analytics, session replay, and feature flags.

Bundled free premium access to Jira, Confluence, Loom, Bitbucket, Compass and Jira Product Discovery for early-stage startup teams.

Mistral ran a startup program, Mistralship, that gave a cohort of about 10 startups roughly €30,000 in La Plateforme credits. Its announcement page now returns a 404 and there is no open public application.

Auth0 for Startups gives venture-backed early-stage companies the B2B Professional plan free for one full year.

Offers services valued at $25,000 for CRM and cloud services.

Eligible startups get up to 93% off Intercom's AI-first customer service platform plus a free first year of the Fin AI Agent.

Serverless GPU and CPU compute platform offering early-stage AI startups up to $25K in credits, engineering support, and a founder community.

WorkOS for Startups makes apps enterprise-ready with User Management free up to one million monthly active users.

Developer-first email API offering Y Combinator startups large credit grants plus direct founder and engineering access.

All-in-one workforce platform unifying HR, payroll, IT, and spend management on one system for scaling startups.

Clerk for Startups offers early-stage companies discounted Pro authentication features on top of a generous free tier.

Customer engagement platform giving eligible early-stage startups up to 12 months free of its messaging and automation tooling.

Grants Business plan free for up to 6 months (saving up to $12,000) including Notion AI for new startup teams.

International payroll and EOR built for founders. Pay contractors in 150+ countries from $19/month or hire EOR employees in 27 markets from $299/month, plus $12,000+ a year in free enterprise support. No equity, no setup fee, open to any company.

AWS Advanced Tier Partner that helps startups access AWS credits, cut cloud costs, and get hands-on support from AWS-certified experts — with no added service fee.

$10,000 in GitHub platform credits for 12 months, usable on GitHub Enterprise, Copilot, Advanced Security, and Actions. For partner-affiliated startups funded up to Series B.

Fast-inference platform offering AI-native startups build credits, higher rate limits, and applied-engineer support to ship generative AI on open-weight models.

Run open-weight AI models via API with per-second billing; startups can claim inference credits with no VC referral required.

Algolia for Startups grants early-stage companies credits toward AI-powered search and discovery, plus partner perks and early feature access.

Composable content platform offering startups a free year of the Growth plan through select venture and accelerator partners.

All-in-one back office for venture-scale startups covering incorporation, cap table, equity, fundraising tools, and 409A valuations.

33 million characters (over 680 hours of Agents usage) for 12 months, worth $5,500+, for startups with fewer than 25 employees.

Provides eligible partner-affiliated startups a free year of Zoom Workplace Business Plus for up to 25 seats.

Grants 6 months of Enterprise Pro (up to 50 seats) plus $5,000 in API credits for AI-powered search integration.

Legendary Benchmark investor Bill Gurley's foundation awarding $5,000 non-dilutive micro-grants to early builders and founders chasing a dream — applicants (18+, US residents) showing real commitment through unpaid work and facing a specific financial obstacle the grant would unblock. Pilot applications open May 2026; deadline Aug 1, 2026.

Global payroll, EOR, and contractor management platform letting startups hire, pay, and manage teams across 150+ countries compliantly.

Developer security platform offering a startup program with discounted access to find and fix vulnerabilities in code, dependencies and containers.

SSOJet's startup program gives qualified startups and non-profits 50% off enterprise SSO for twelve months.

MojoAuth's startup program offers 50% off annual Business Pro passwordless authentication for one year.

PlanetScale for Startups offers MySQL and Postgres database credits plus zero-downtime migration assistance for early-stage teams scaling their data layer.

Sentry for Startups provides early-stage companies credits and priority support for application monitoring, error tracking, and performance observability.

Highlight for Startups offers early-stage teams free usage of the open-source, full-stack monitoring platform for session replay, error tracking, and tracing.

Free Business-plan project management and issue tracking built for fast-moving software teams, with no VC or accelerator affiliation required.

Communications APIs platform offering qualifying early-stage startups credits, technical support, and access to its startups team.

ML experiment tracking and LLM evaluation platform offering startups discounted Pro access, mainly through Microsoft and Google Cloud partner programs.

AI Engine Optimization platform helping cybersecurity and B2B SaaS startups get cited and recommended inside AI search engines.

Supabase's Startup Program gives early-stage teams credits for its open-source Postgres backend, covering database, auth, storage, and edge functions.

Mintlify Startups gives venture-backed early-stage teams free AI credits and Pro features to build beautiful, agent-ready product documentation.

Async video messaging for startup teams, offered free for a year through Atlassian's startup program and accelerator partnerships.

Free cap table and equity management for early-stage founders to issue equity, manage SAFEs, and track ownership from day one.

Business password and secrets manager offering qualifying startups six months free, distributed through founder and accelerator partner programs.

Employer of Record platform helping startups hire, pay, and manage international employees and contractors without setting up legal entities.

Compliance automation platform that helps startups achieve SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR certifications faster with automated evidence collection.

Linear is a streamlined issue tracking and project management tool built for high-performance software and product teams.

Collaborative design and whiteboarding platform offering startups up to a free year of the Professional plan via accelerator partners.

Incorporate a US C-Corp from anywhere in the world. $500 flat fee covers incorporation, EIN, founder agreements, and Stripe product credits.

No-code form builder with unlimited free forms, offering startups 50% off the Pro plan for one year via partners.

Open-source AI hub offering startups free PRO access for a limited time, distributed via partner perk marketplaces and promo codes.

One year free of the Growth plan with up to 1.2 billion events and 200K monthly tracked users.

DigitalOcean Hatch gives startups that have raised $10M or less 12 months of infrastructure credits (amount varies) plus 15 months of Standard support.

Offers up to 90% off on marketing, sales, and CRM software for startups.

Offers discounted enterprise AI pricing (up to 25% off) and grant access through Cohere Labs for early-stage startups.

Offers usage credits, discounts, Pro support, and access to all regions for vector database infrastructure.

Offers expanded Atlas credits, Voyage AI tokens, and go-to-market support for startups building on MongoDB.

Grants free usage credits plus 6-month accelerator with GTM support for startups building on the Snowflake data cloud.

Provides startup credits for serverless hosting and deployment, with multi-vendor credit pools through their AI Accelerator.

The NVIDIA Inception program is free for AI and data-science startups — discounts on NVIDIA hardware/software, technical training, and go-to-market support. No fees, no equity, open globally at every stage.

Mozilla's themed grant program for early-stage open-source AI builders. Awards up to $100K per project. Currently between cohorts — watch builders.mozilla.org for the next call.