46 of 93 programs · Credits

Startup Credits

Cloud, AI, and developer-tool credits founders can claim — usage dollars to spend on the infrastructure powering your stack.

Provides up to $200,000 in credits for cloud services and infrastructure.

VC-Backed

Offers tiered startup credits from $5,000 to $250,000 based on funding stage.

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Offers up to $150,000 in Azure credits for cloud services and development tools.

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

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IBM
Cloud
$120,000

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

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AWS
Cloud
$100,000

Up to $100,000 in AWS startup credits through AWS Activate — cloud infrastructure, AI model credits via Amazon Bedrock, and up to $1M for select accelerator cohorts.

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Provides up to $5,000 in infrastructure credits for their cloud platform.

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

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Claude credits for startups: $25,000 to $100,000+ in Claude API credits, with amounts based on stage and access through Anthropic's VC partner network.

VC-Backed

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

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

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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.

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

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Up to $10,000 in platform credits for startups, plus $40,000 in non-dilutive funding through the Accelerator program.

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

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

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

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Provides approximately €30,000 in credits for La Plateforme plus cohort mentorship through their 6-month startup program.

VC-Backed

Unified AI inference API for image, video, audio, LLM, and 3D generation, offering up to $30K in API credits through its Grant Program for early-stage teams building on Runware.

Open to All

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

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

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

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Neo4j's Startup Program gives early-stage teams Aura credits for a fully managed, production-ready graph database, plus technical enablement and go-to-market support for building GraphRAG and AI apps.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Up to $5,000 in OpenAI API credits — including the GPT-4o and ChatGPT API models — for venture-backed startups through OpenAI for Startups.

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

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

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

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

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33 million characters of audio generation (680+ hours) over 12 months for startups with fewer than 25 employees.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Frequently asked questions

What credits are available for startups?

Credit for Startups lists 46 credits programs, including Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Microsoft, Mixpanel, worth up to $350,000. Browse the list to compare value, eligibility, and how to apply.

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