Three credit tiers, $10,000 to $350,000, based on how much you've raised and whether you're funded by a Cloudflare partner.
Credits and free tiers from the dev-tools founders actually ship with — observability, deployment, version control, databases.
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Approval Index
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Cloudflare
Infra / Edge
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$350,000 |
Three credit tiers, $10,000 to $350,000, based on how much you've raised and whether you're funded by a Cloudflare partner. |
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Microsoft
Cloud
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$150,000 |
Microsoft for Startups: $200 in Azure credits at signup, $5K after business verification, scaling up to $150K as Azure usage grows; investor-referred startups get a $1K starter grant and review for up to $150K. Pre-seed to Series B B2B startups. |
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Datadog
Monitoring / Observability
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$100,000 |
Up to $100,000 in credits for the entire Datadog platform for your first year, for Series A or earlier startups referred through a Datadog partner. |
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Render
SaaS / Database & Infrastructure
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$100,000 |
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
SaaS / Database & Infrastructure
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$100,000 |
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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Segment
SaaS / Analytics & Data
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$50,000 |
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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PostHog
SaaS / Developer Tools
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$50,000 |
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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Vercel
Hosting / AI
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$30,000 |
Vercel for Startups: up to $30,000 in Vercel usage credit (valid up to 1 year) plus Enterprise-tier access, for Series A-or-earlier startups backed by an approved Vercel Startups Partner, applying within 12 months of their last round. |
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Neo4j
Partner
Database / AI
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$16,000 |
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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GitHub
Development
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$10,000 |
$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. |
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Algolia
SaaS / Developer Tools
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$10,000 |
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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PlanetScale
SaaS / Database & Infrastructure
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$5,000 |
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
SaaS / Developer Tools
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$5,000 |
Sentry for Startups provides early-stage companies credits and priority support for application monitoring, error tracking, and performance observability. |
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Highlight.io
SaaS / Developer Tools
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$5,000 |
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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Mintlify
SaaS / Developer Tools
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$3,000 |
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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AgentGrown
Partner
Developer Tools / SEO
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$300 |
The SEO MCP server for developers building with coding agents. One MCP server gives Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP client your Google Search Console and GA4 data plus Google keyword demand, and the Startups program covers six months of usage free. |
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DigitalOcean
Cloud
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Varies |
DigitalOcean Hatch gives startups that have raised $10M or less 12 months of infrastructure credits (amount varies) plus 15 months of Standard support. |
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Pinecone
Vector DB
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Varies |
Offers usage credits, discounts, Pro support, and access to all regions for vector database infrastructure. |
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MongoDB
Database / AI
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Varies |
MongoDB for Startups gives Atlas credits, Voyage AI access and go-to-market support across four tiers: Inspire (self-funded), Grow (early-funded), Innovate (venture-funded) and Scale. |
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Three credit tiers, $10,000 to $350,000, based on how much you've raised and whether you're funded by a Cloudflare partner.
Microsoft for Startups: $200 in Azure credits at signup, $5K after business verification, scaling up to $150K as Azure usage grows; investor-referred startups get a $1K starter grant and review for up to $150K. Pre-seed to Series B B2B startups.
Up to $100,000 in credits for the entire Datadog platform for your first year, for Series A or earlier startups referred through a Datadog partner.
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.
Join 5,000+ founders getting monthly credit alerts. No spam.
Twilio Segment is a customer data platform that collects, cleans, and routes first-party data to your analytics and marketing tools.
PostHog for Startups gives early-stage companies platform credits plus merch and partner perks for product analytics, session replay, and feature flags.
Vercel for Startups: up to $30,000 in Vercel usage credit (valid up to 1 year) plus Enterprise-tier access, for Series A-or-earlier startups backed by an approved Vercel Startups Partner, applying within 12 months of their last round.
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.
$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.
Algolia for Startups grants early-stage companies credits toward AI-powered search and discovery, plus partner perks and early feature access.
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.
Mintlify Startups gives venture-backed early-stage teams free AI credits and Pro features to build beautiful, agent-ready product documentation.
The SEO MCP server for developers building with coding agents. One MCP server gives Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP client your Google Search Console and GA4 data plus Google keyword demand, and the Startups program covers six months of usage free.
DigitalOcean Hatch gives startups that have raised $10M or less 12 months of infrastructure credits (amount varies) plus 15 months of Standard support.
Offers usage credits, discounts, Pro support, and access to all regions for vector database infrastructure.
MongoDB for Startups gives Atlas credits, Voyage AI access and go-to-market support across four tiers: Inspire (self-funded), Grow (early-funded), Innovate (venture-funded) and Scale.
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