Amazon
AWS Generative AI Accelerator
Cohort program for generative AI startups with up to $1M in AWS credits and mentorship.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Free money for founders, in one list.
Cloud credits, AI API credits, free SaaS years and accelerators your startup can claim. Each listing says who qualifies, whether you need a VC, and how sure we are the offer is real.
Listed perk value, combined
$9,397,274
- Programs
- 137
- Open to anyone
- 38
- Confirmed
- 9
137 of 137 programs · $9.4M combined
Values are maximums. Most programs grant less at first.
Andreessen Horowitz
a16z speedrun
Accelerator for games and consumer tech with investment and partner perks.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Foundation Capital
FC Build accelerator
Free accelerator with $1M of partner credits, small cohorts and hands-on support. Takes no equity.
Who qualifies: Selective cohort; launched with Cal and IIT founders.
Founders, Inc.
Blueprint (f.inc)
Three-month San Francisco program for frontier and hardware founders. $150K investment per team plus over $1M in partner credits.
Who qualifies: Apply to a cohort. Includes an equity investment.
YC
Y Combinator
Standard YC deal plus hundreds of partner perks for the batch.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Brex
Brex Perks
Card and spend platform with a marketplace of partner credits, including OpenAI.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare for Startups
Credits for Workers, R2, AI and the rest of the Cloudflare developer platform, in tiers.
Who qualifies: $10K if bootstrapped with under $1M raised. $100K and $350K tiers need funding from a Cloudflare partner.
Google Cloud
Google for Startups Cloud Program
GCP and Firebase credits over two years, plus technical support and Google Workspace discounts. Standard tier is lower.
Who qualifies: Funded startups. The top tier is for AI-first companies.
Ramp
Ramp for Startups
Corporate cards and spend management, plus a partner-perk library worth over $350K.
Who qualifies: US entity with an EIN and a linked bank account with a minimum cash balance.
Techstars
Techstars Accelerator
Investment, mentorship and a large perks package.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
AWS
AWS Activate
AWS credits for 200+ services, including third-party models on Bedrock. The self-serve Founders tier gives $1K to $5K.
Who qualifies: The $200K tier needs an Activate Provider Org ID (VC, accelerator or incubator).
Databricks
Databricks for Startups
Credits for the Databricks data and AI platform, plus expert support and go-to-market help.
Who qualifies: VC-backed startups through partner investors.
Edge City
Builder grants
Popup-city residencies for frontier builders. Edge City says it has given over $1M in grants. We found no source for a $200K credit package.
Who qualifies: Tied to residency participation.
Mercury
Mercury Perks
Business banking with a partner perks marketplace and Mercury Raise community.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Microsoft
Microsoft for Startups
Azure credits that unlock in stages, plus access to OpenAI models on Azure, GitHub and Microsoft 365.
Who qualifies: No VC backing needed. Credits grow as you hit milestones.
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud AI Catalyst
Cloud credits plus 2 billion Model Studio tokens and office hours with AI experts.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
IBM
IBM for Startups
IBM Cloud credits and access to watsonx for eligible startups.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Vultr
Vultr for Startups
GPU instances, compute and storage credits.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
OVHcloud
OVHcloud Startup Program
European cloud credits, from bare metal to managed Kubernetes, with technical mentoring.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups; tiers by stage.
Anthropic
Claude for Startups
A year of Claude Team (5 Premium seats), a $1K API credit, office hours and up to $45K in partner deals. Partner-VC-backed teams can get up to $100K more in API credits.
Who qualifies: Founded in the last 5 years or funded in the last 2. Bootstrapped founders qualify for the base package.
Datadog
Datadog for Startups
A year of Datadog Pro for funded startups via partner referral.
Who qualifies: Needs a referral from a partner VC, accelerator or perks platform.
Deepgram
Deepgram Startup Program
Speech-to-text and voice AI credits. Direct applicants start at $1K and can upgrade. Partner referrals get more.
Who qualifies: Early-stage, under $10M raised.
DigitalOcean
Hatch
Credits for Droplets, managed databases, Kubernetes and GPU Droplets, plus priority support.
Who qualifies: Startups backed by a Hatch partner, under a funding cap.
Fabric VC
Portfolio perks
Circulates on X as $100K in credits. We found no program page backing it.
Who qualifies: Likely tied to investment.
Oracle
Oracle for Startups
$500 to start, then Oracle Cloud credits and a 70% discount on OCI.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Render
Render for Startups
Hosting credits for web services, databases and background workers on Render.
Who qualifies: Check Render's site for the current offer.
Zendesk
Zendesk for Startups
Free Zendesk Suite for customer support, with AI agents included.
Who qualifies: New subscribers, up to Series B, under 10 years old. Teams of 50 to 249 need a partner referral.
Cognition
Devin for Startups
$15K in Devin credits on approval, plus a dollar-for-dollar match on your next $100K of usage, up to $50K.
Who qualifies: Reported to need VC backing and the Team plan.
Retool
Retool for Startups
Discounted or free Retool plans for building internal tools.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups. Check Retool for terms.
Atlassian
Atlassian for Startups
Free Jira, Confluence and other Atlassian Cloud products for a year.
Who qualifies: VC-backed or accelerator-affiliated, $10M raised or less, not a paying customer.
Civo
Civo Startup Program
Managed Kubernetes and GPU cloud credits.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Daytona
Daytona Startup Grid
Sandbox infrastructure for AI agents. $10K on acceptance, then more tranches as you hit milestones. Some posts say $100K; the official terms cap it at $50K.
Who qualifies: Privately held companies.
Mixpanel
Mixpanel for Startups
A free year of the Growth plan, including analytics and session replay.
Who qualifies: Under 5 years old, raised $8M or less.
PostHog
PostHog for Startups
Credits for product analytics, session replay, feature flags and experiments. From 14 Sep 2026, credits do not cover PostHog AI tools.
Who qualifies: Under 2 years old and under $5M raised. Company email only.
Statsig
Statsig for Startups
One billion events across feature flags, A/B tests and analytics.
Who qualifies: Under 5 years old and under $50M raised. Aimed at fast-scaling teams.
Together AI
Startup Accelerator
Credits for serverless inference, dedicated endpoints, fine-tuning and GPU clusters, plus engineering and go-to-market support.
Who qualifies: AI startups building on open models.
Twilio Segment
Segment for Startups
Team plan free for up to two years plus partner software deals.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Scaleway
Scaleway Startup Program
European cloud and GPU credits with expert support.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups; tiers by stage.
Auth0
Auth0 for Startups
A free year of Auth0's B2B Professional plan for login, SSO and user management.
Who qualifies: Venture-backed, under $5M raised, under $1M ARR, under 2 years old.
Koyeb
Koyeb for Startups
Serverless compute and GPU credits for deploying apps and models.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Runware
Runware
Image and video generation API credits.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Vercel
Vercel for Startups
Credits for hosting, edge functions and v0 on Vercel.
Who qualifies: Funded startups via partner investors.
Intercom
Intercom Early Stage
Up to 93% off Intercom in year one, plus a year of the Fin AI agent.
Who qualifies: $10M funding or less, under 15 employees, not a customer.
Modal
Modal for Startups
Serverless GPU compute credits, engineering support and community access.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Resend
Resend for Startups
Large email API credit grants for Y Combinator startups, plus direct engineering access.
Who qualifies: Needs a referral from a partner VC, accelerator or perks platform.
Salesforce
Salesforce for Startups
Discounted Salesforce CRM for early sales teams.
Who qualifies: Under 5 years old, under $5M raised, enterprise-focused, not a customer.
WorkOS
WorkOS for Startups
User Management free up to one million monthly active users, plus enterprise SSO tools.
Who qualifies: Early-stage, company-domain email, live website.
Neo4j
Neo4j Startup Program
Aura graph database credits plus technical and go-to-market support for GraphRAG apps.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Clerk
Clerk for Startups
Discounted Clerk Pro for sign-up, login and user profiles.
Who qualifies: Launched in the last year, $5M raised or less.
Customer.io
Customer.io for Startups
Up to 12 months free messaging and lifecycle automation.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Rippling
Startup Stack
HR, payroll, IT and device management in one system.
Who qualifies: US venture-backed startups new to Rippling.
Notion
Notion for Startups
Up to six months of a paid plan with Notion AI. Redeem before you start paying, or you lose the offer.
Who qualifies: Via partner referral or Stripe Atlas.
SH
Shor
Shor
International payroll and EOR with $12K+ a year of free enterprise support.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Algolia
Algolia for Startups
AI search and recommendation credits plus partner perks.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Cloudvisor
Cloudvisor
AWS partner that helps startups unlock AWS credits and cut cloud costs, with no service fee.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI Startups
Build credits, higher rate limits and engineer support for open-weight models.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
GitHub
GitHub for Startups
Twenty free seats of GitHub Enterprise for a year, with Advanced Security discounts.
Who qualifies: Startups backed by a GitHub partner, Series B or earlier.
Replicate
Replicate Credits
Credits to run and fine-tune open models via API.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Sanity
Sanity for Startups
A free year of Sanity's Growth plan for your content backend.
Who qualifies: Under 20 people, under $5M raised, in a Sanity partner's portfolio.
AngelList
AngelList Stack
Cap table, banking and fundraising tools on the Starter plan.
Who qualifies: Delaware C-corp with an EIN, under $1M raised.
Zoom
Zoom for Startups
A free year of a Business plan for up to 25 seats.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Deel
Deel for Startups
Five free seats for international contractors, plus free US payroll for founders.
Who qualifies: Venture-backed with at least $500K raised.
ElevenLabs
Startup Grants
Free usage of ElevenLabs voice, TTS and conversational AI for building voice products.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups building with voice.
Highlight
Highlight.io
Free use of the open-source monitoring and session replay platform.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
MojoAuth
Startup Program
Half off the Business Pro plan for passwordless login.
Who qualifies: Under 5 years old, under $10M raised, public website.
MongoDB
MongoDB for Startups
Atlas credits, Voyage AI embedding tokens and a technical advisor session.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Perplexity
Perplexity for Startups
Six months of Enterprise Pro plus $5K in Sonar API credits.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
PlanetScale
PlanetScale for Startups
Database credits plus zero-downtime migration help.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Salad
Salad Cloud
Distributed GPU cloud credits for inference and batch jobs; $5K with a published case study.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Sentry
Sentry for Startups
Discounted plans for error tracking, tracing and session replay.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Shortcut
Shortcut for Startups
A free year of Shortcut's Business plan for project tracking.
Who qualifies: Under 50 people, under $10M raised, under 5 years old. No agencies.
Snyk
Snyk for Startups
Discounted code, dependency and container security scanning.
Who qualifies: Early-stage software teams. Applications are reviewed.
SSOJet
Startup Program
Half off enterprise SSO for a year.
Who qualifies: Pre-Series A and under 3 years old, or non-profit and open source.
Twilio
Twilio for Startups
Communications API credits for SMS, voice, WhatsApp and email, with startup team access.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Supabase
Supabase for Startups
Six months of the Team plan for Postgres, auth and storage. Older listings say $300 in credits.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups.
GrackerAI
GrackerAI Startups
AI Engine Optimization platform to get your brand cited in AI search answers.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Loom
Loom for Startups
A free year of Loom Business for async video.
Who qualifies: Through Atlassian for Startups or an accelerator partner.
Mintlify
Mintlify for Startups
AI credits and Pro features for developer documentation.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Weights & Biases
Weights & Biases
Discounted Pro access, mainly through Microsoft and Google Cloud startup programs.
Who qualifies: Needs a referral from a partner VC, accelerator or perks platform.
OpenAI
API credits via partners
No self-serve application. Credits come through partner VCs and accelerators, Ramp rewards ($2.5K) or OpenAI Grove cohorts ($50K).
Who qualifies: Through partners, not a direct application.
Stripe Atlas
Atlas perks
Delaware C-corp incorporation for $500, $2.5K in Stripe fee credits, and a perks library that unlocks AWS, Notion and others.
Who qualifies: Anyone incorporating through Atlas.
1Password
1Password for Startups
Six free months of 1Password for your team.
Who qualifies: Early-stage, through a founder or accelerator partner.
Carta
Carta Launch
Free cap table management until you outgrow the limits.
Who qualifies: 25 stakeholders or fewer, under $1M raised.
Oyster
Oyster for Startups
Discounted global employment and EOR for your first 12 months.
Who qualifies: Pre-seed to Series A, or bootstrapped under 50 people. Request at sign-up.
Figma
Figma for Startups
Up to a free year of Figma Professional.
Who qualifies: Under $10M raised, VC- or accelerator-affiliated, new customer.
Linear
Linear for Startups
Free Linear for issue tracking and product planning.
Who qualifies: Under 50 people, new customer, through an official partner.
Miro
Miro for Startups
Credits toward Miro's paid whiteboard plans.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Vanta
Vanta for Startups
A discount on your first SOC 2 or ISO 27001 compliance setup.
Who qualifies: First-time certification, new customer.
AG
AgentGrown
AgentGrown Startups
SEO MCP server for coding agents with Search Console and GA4 data, free for six months.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Tally
Tally for Startups
Half off Tally Pro for forms and surveys.
Who qualifies: Under 3 years old, under $2M raised, through a partner.
500 Global
500 Global Accelerator
Accelerator investment with partner credits across cloud and SaaS.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Abu Dhabi
Hub71
Housing, office and health insurance subsidies for startups moving to Abu Dhabi.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Airtable
Airtable for Startups
Airtable credits for eligible early-stage startups.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Akamai
Akamai (Linode) Rise
Cloud and GPU credits with startup engineering support.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Amplitude
Amplitude Scholarship
Growth plan free for a year, then discounted pricing.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Antler
Antler
Residency to find a co-founder and raise a pre-seed check, with a perks package.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Asana
Asana for Startups
Discounted work-management plans for new teams.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI for Startups
Speech AI credits for transcription and audio intelligence.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Attio
Attio for Startups
Startup pricing on the Attio CRM.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Cockroach Labs
CockroachDB for Startups
Distributed SQL credits for early-stage teams.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Cohere
Cohere for Startups
Discounted enterprise pricing and grant access through Cohere Labs.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Convex
Convex for Startups
A year of Pro features plus usage discounts on the reactive backend.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Drata
Drata for Startups
Compliance automation discounts for early-stage teams.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
EF
Entrepreneur First
Talent-first program that funds individuals before they have a company.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Firecrawl
Firecrawl Startups
Double your monthly web-scraping credits for a year.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Flat6Labs
Flat6Labs
Leading MENA seed and acceleration programs across Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and more.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Framer
Framer for Startups
Discounted Framer site plans for launching your marketing site.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Freshworks
Freshworks for Startups
Credits across Freshdesk, Freshsales and Freshservice.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
FullStory
FullStory for Startups
Digital experience analytics at startup pricing.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
GitLab
GitLab for Startups
Free Ultimate seats for a year for eligible early-stage teams.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Google for Startups Accelerator
Cohort program with Google mentors and cloud credits, no equity taken.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Help Scout
Help Scout for Startups
Discounted help desk plans for young companies.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
HF0
HF0 Residency
Live-in residency for repeat founders building AI companies.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
HubSpot
HubSpot for Startups
Discount on HubSpot's sales and marketing suite in year one, then smaller discounts after. Sources disagree on the exact percent.
Who qualifies: Seed to Series A, via a partner.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face Startups
Discounted Inference Endpoints, Spaces hardware and expert support.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
in5
in5 Dubai
Subsidized workspace, licensing support and mentorship in Dubai.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Intel
Intel Liftoff
Compute access, engineering support and go-to-market help for AI startups.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
JetBrains
JetBrains Startup Program
Discounted All Products Pack licenses for young companies.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
LangChain
LangSmith for Startups
Free or discounted LangSmith seats and traces for agent observability.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly Startups
Feature management at startup pricing.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Meta
Llama Startup Program
Monthly cloud inference reimbursement and Meta Llama experts for startups building on Llama.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
monday.com
monday for Startups
Free monday.com Pro seats for eligible startups.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Nebius
Nebius AI Startups
GPU cloud credits for AI startups training and serving models.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
New Relic
New Relic for Startups
Observability credits for early-stage teams.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
NVIDIA
NVIDIA Inception
Free program with hardware discounts, training credits, cloud partner offers and investor introductions.
Who qualifies: Startups building with AI or GPUs.
Pinecone
Pinecone Startup Program
Vector database credits plus Pro support in all regions.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Plug and Play
Plug and Play
Corporate-matched accelerator programs across many industries.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Postman
Postman for Startups
Discounted API platform plans for growing teams.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Redis
Redis for Startups
Redis Cloud credits and architecture support.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Sequoia
Sequoia Arc
Sequoia's catalyst program for pre-seed and seed founders.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Snowflake
Snowflake for Startups
Free usage credits plus a six-month startup accelerator.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
SPC
South Park Commons
Founder fellowship with capital for people in the -1 to 0 stage.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
UAE Ministry of Finance
MBRIF Accelerator
Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund accelerator and funding support for UAE innovators.
Who qualifies: Apply and get accepted into a cohort or residency.
Upstash
Upstash for Startups
Serverless Redis, Kafka and vector credits.
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Webflow
Webflow for Startups
Discounted Webflow site and workspace plans.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Zapier
Zapier for Startups
Automation plan discounts for early-stage teams.
Who qualifies: Early-stage startups that pass verification; some tiers need funding.
Zoho
Zoho for Startups
A year of Zoho One apps (CRM, Books, Desk and more).
Who qualifies: Open application. Use a company email and a live website.
Notes
How sure are we?
- Confirmed: matched to the provider's own program page.
- Reported: listed by founders or perk sites, not yet matched to an official page.
- Unverified: a figure is circulating but we found no source.
Where to start
Filter by Open application first. Microsoft for Startups, Claude for Startups and PostHog don't need a VC. If you have an investor or accelerator, ask them for partner codes for AWS, Google Cloud and Cloudflare.
Before you apply
Credits expire, often after 12 months, so claim them when you will actually use them. Apply with a company email and a live website. Many programs reject Gmail addresses.