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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.

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

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

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

Offers up to $100,000 in AWS credits for cloud infrastructure, AI model credits via Bedrock, and up to $1M for select accelerator cohorts.

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

Offers $25,000 to $100,000+ in Claude API credits for startups depending on stage.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

What credits are available for startups?

Credit for Startups lists 43 credits programs, including Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Microsoft, Mixpanel, worth up to $350,000. Browse the list to compare value, eligibility, and how to apply.

Do I need to be VC-backed to qualify?

Not always. Some programs are open to bootstrapped founders; others require a VC or accelerator referral. Each listing shows its referral requirement and application difficulty — or use the Get Matched tool to filter to programs that fit your startup.

How do I apply?

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