Startup credits
Credit and discount programmes can reduce early software costs, but eligibility and terms change. Compare the offer on file, then confirm it with the provider before planning around it.
Workers, R2, CDN, Zero Trust and the rest of the Cloudflare platform, credited for a year.
Venture-backed startups; tier scales with funding stage
GCP and Firebase credits; the Start tier covers roughly $2K for pre-funding MVPs, scaling with backing.
From idea stage (Start tier) to Series A (Scale tier)
Hosting, previews, edge functions and v0 credits on the Pro/Enterprise platform.
Early-stage, typically via partner VCs and accelerators
Tiered Azure credits (from ~$5K, unlocking as you grow) plus GitHub Enterprise, M365 and OpenAI access.
No funding requirement — open to pre-idea founders
Founders tier gives $1K to anyone; the Portfolio tier via accelerators and VCs reaches $100K.
Founders tier: any startup; Portfolio tier: via an Activate provider
Infrastructure monitoring, APM and log management across the Datadog platform.
Early-stage, typically via partner VCs and accelerators
A free year of Retool plus discounted credits for internal tools and admin panels.
Pre-Series A, under $10M raised
A free year across Jira, Confluence, Loom and more for small teams.
Under $15M raised, under 50 employees (typical terms)
A free year of the Growth plan with generous event volumes for product analytics.
Under 5 years old and under $8M raised (typical terms)
Product analytics, session replay, feature flags and experiments — the whole PostHog suite.
Under 2 years old and under $5M raised
Error monitoring, tracing and session replay credits on the Team/Business plans.
Early-stage, via partner programmes
Customer data platform credits to pipe product data into every downstream tool.
Under 2 years old and under $5M raised (typical terms)
Postgres, auth, storage and edge functions on the Supabase platform.
Early-stage, typically via partner VCs and accelerators
Hosted search and discovery APIs, credited for a year.
Under 3 years old and under $5M raised (typical terms)
Droplets, managed databases and Kubernetes credits for 12 months.
Early-stage startups, typically via partner communities
Atlas database credits plus technical advisory and co-marketing.
Pre-Series B, less than $10M raised
Product analytics and experimentation on the Growth plan, free for a year.
Early-stage with fewer than 20 employees (typical terms)
A free year of Auth0’s B2B/B2C plans with generous monthly active user limits.
Under $5M raised and under 5 years old (typical terms)
Signup rewards, elevated card points and a large partner-discount marketplace.
US-incorporated startups with professional funding (typical terms)
Canva Pro free for early teams, usually through accelerator perk bundles.
Via partner accelerators and perk programmes
Credits toward Clerk’s user management, MFA and organisation features.
Image and video processing, storage and delivery credits.
Three months of the Scale plan free for AI voice — TTS, agents and dubbing.
Early-stage startups building with voice AI
Edge delivery, image optimisation and compute credits on the Fastly network.
A free year of Figma and FigJam Professional for early design teams.
Early-stage, typically via partner programmes
Copilot Business seats bundled for eligible teams through GitHub for Startups.
Through the GitHub for Startups programme
20 seats of GitHub Enterprise free for a year, then 50% off the second.
Series B or earlier, via a partner investor or accelerator
Steep first-year discounts on the CRM, marketing and sales hubs, tapering after.
Via approved partner VCs, accelerators or entrepreneur programmes
The full customer-messaging and AI-support platform at 90% off, stepping down over 3 years.
Under $10M raised, under 25 employees (typical terms)
Half-price All Products Pack licenses for the whole team.
Under 5 years old, not yet profitable (typical terms)
Half a year of Linear’s Business plan for issue tracking and product planning.
Early-stage, typically via partner programmes
A free period of Loom Business for async video updates and demos.
Sending credits on Mailgun’s email API for transactional mail.
A free period on Miro’s collaborative whiteboard for planning and workshops.
Credits on Neon’s serverless Postgres with branching and autoscaling.
Six months of the Business plan with unlimited Notion AI for the whole team.
Via partner VCs, accelerators or startup communities
API credits granted through accelerators, VC partners and Azure/Microsoft programmes rather than one public tier.
Via partner accelerators and investor programmes
Credits for Pinecone’s managed vector database for AI retrieval workloads.
Credits and discounted pricing on bank-linking and financial data APIs.
Credits toward PlanetScale’s managed MySQL/Postgres databases.
Usage credits for deploying apps, databases and cron jobs on Railway.
Signup credits plus negotiated SaaS discounts through Ramp’s partner network.
US-incorporated businesses
Credits toward services, Postgres and background workers on Render.
Discounts and credits on Slack Pro/Business+, usually via accelerator perk bundles.
Via partner accelerators and VC perk programmes
Dependency, container and code vulnerability scanning free for small teams.
Incorporate a Delaware C-corp/LLC and unlock a bundle of partner credits — AWS, OpenAI and dozens more.
Companies incorporated through Stripe Atlas ($500 one-time fee)
Partner perks and processing-fee discounts for businesses contributing to carbon removal.
Stripe users enrolled in Climate contributions
Transactional and marketing email credits, usually granted through AWS Activate and similar bundles.
Via partner programmes such as AWS Activate
Discounted plans for forms, surveys and lead capture.
Weaviate Cloud credits for vector search and hybrid retrieval.
Workspace and site plan discounts for building the marketing site without engineers.
Free or discounted Zoom Workplace licenses for early teams.
Offers change constantly — values and terms last verified July 2026. Always confirm on the programme page before planning around a number.