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Cloud Provider Credits — $2.7M on the table.

73 verified programmes for startups that need compute, storage, and bandwidth — sorted by face value, each with the eligibility gate spelled out so you know whether you qualify before you apply.

73 programmes
73Programmes
$2.7MKnown value
$350KLargest single
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Cloud Provider Credits compared

The 8 largest programmes that publish a figure, side by side with what it takes to get them.

Cloud Provider Credits compared by value and eligibility
Programme Value Eligibility gate
Cloudflare for Startups $350K Partner referral needed
Google Cloud for Startups $350K Partner referral needed
Google for Startups Cloud Program $200K Startups
Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub $150K Partner referral needed
Akamai RISE $120K Partner referral needed
Alibaba Cloud Startup Catalyst Program $120K Under 10 years old
IBM Cloud for Startups $120K Under 5 years old
IBM for Startups $120K Startups

All 73 programmes

Every cloud infrastructure credits programme we have verified, sorted by face value. Programmes without a published figure sit at the end.

Cloudflare for Startups

$350K

Tiered credits for the whole Cloudflare stack — $10K bootstrapped, $100K with partner funding, $350K at $5M+ raised — covering Workers, R2, D1 and Workers AI, valid one year.

Partner referral needed See eligibility

Google Cloud for Startups

$350K

Google for Startups Cloud Program offers AI-focused startups up to $350K in GCP credits over two years — plus Workspace, Firebase, Maps and access to Google's AI and ML services.

Partner referral needed See eligibility

Google for Startups Cloud Program

$200K

Accelerate your startup journey with flexible tiers that match your company's growth stage—providing up to $200,000 USD in Google Cloud credits, technical resou

Startups See eligibility

Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub

$150K

Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub gives early-stage companies up to $150K in Azure credits over 5 years — plus GitHub Enterprise and Microsoft 365, with no investor requirement.

Partner referral needed See eligibility

Akamai RISE

$120K

Akamai Cloud RISE Program (formerly Linode) gives qualifying startups up to $120K/year in cloud credits — compute, GPU, object storage and CDN via the infrastructure Akamai acquired from Linode.

Partner referral needed See eligibility

Alibaba Cloud Startup Catalyst Program

$120K

The Alibaba Cloud Startup Catalyst Program provides comprehensive support for startups to build and scale their cloud infrastructure, offering up to $120,000 in

Under 10 years old See eligibility

IBM Cloud for Startups

$120K

$120K in IBM Cloud credits — enterprise-grade infrastructure, AI, and data services at zero cost for early-stage teams

Under 5 years old See eligibility

IBM for Startups

$120K

Partner with IBM for Startups to accelerate innovation with IBM AI, scale globally, and present your solution to enterprises and investors—no cost, no equity re

Startups See eligibility

AWS Activate

$100K

AWS Activate gives startups up to $100K+ in AWS credits via accelerator and VC partners — the Founders self-serve track offers up to $5K with no sponsor required.

Partner referral needed See eligibility

Aiven Cluster Startup Program

$100K

The Aiven Cluster Startup Program offers up to $100,000 in credits to help startups build scalable data infrastructure using Aiven's fully managed services, exp

Under 7 years old See eligibility

Datadog for Startups

$100K

Up to $100K or 1 year free Datadog Pro — observability and monitoring stack for Series A and earlier engineering teams

Raised under $15MPartner referral needed See eligibility

DigitalOcean Hatch

$100K

DigitalOcean Hatch offers up to $100K in cloud credits for startups under $5M ARR — Droplets, Managed Databases, Spaces and App Platform covered by simple, developer-friendly infrastructure.

Raised under $50MPartner referral needed See eligibility

Grafana Labs Startup Program

$100K

Get up to $100,000 in Grafana Cloud credits for 12 months with enterprise plugins and 24/7 support

Startups See eligibility

Neon YC Startup Deal

$100K

Y Combinator startups can claim $100k worth of Neon credits for their first year with a competitor match guarantee.

Startups See eligibility

Open Telekom Cloud TechBoost Program

$100K

Accelerate your cloud-based startup with Deutsche Telekom's TechBoost program, offering up to €100,000 in Open Telekom Cloud credits, access to a vast B2B netwo

Startups See eligibility

Tencent Cloud Startup Program

$100K

Empower startups to build and grow with the full force of Tencent Cloud. The program offers comprehensive support including financial vouchers, service discount

Under 5 years old See eligibility

VIP Digital Startup Program

$100K

Receive up to $100,000 in free credits for your Vultr migration and enjoy up to 35% long-term discounts on cloud services, complemented by exclusive executive s

Startups See eligibility

Airbyte Y Combinator Startup Program

$75K

Airbyte offers Y Combinator startups up to $75,000 in Airbyte Cloud credits along with free educational resources, workshops, swag, and priority support to acce

Students See eligibility

Cloudways Startup Program

$50K

Empowering startups with managed hosting discounts, exclusive growth tools, and personalized mentorship for sustained business success.

Startups See eligibility

Modal Startup Program

$50K

Up to $50K in serverless GPU/CPU credits for early-stage AI startups building on Modal's elastic compute platform.

Startups See eligibility

Convex for Startups

$25K

Reactive backend-as-a-service credits for early-stage teams building full-stack apps on a TypeScript-first platform

Startups See eligibility

Render for Startups

$25K

Render for Startups hands early-stage teams managed cloud credits so infra stops eating the runway.

Startups See eligibility

Appwrite Startups Program

$20K

The Appwrite Startups Program supports early-stage startups with a complete backend solution, offering $20,000 in cloud credits for Appwrite Scale for 12 months

Under 10 years old See eligibility

DigitalOcean Open Source Credits

$20K

DigitalOcean offers grants of credits to open source projects to help with their development, infrastructure, and testing needs.

Osss See eligibility

Pulumi for Startups

$10K

Pulumi for Startups offers up to $10,000 in Pulumi Credits and exclusive technical support to help pre-Series A companies scale their cloud infrastructure effic

Startups See eligibility

Sunrise Startup Program

$10K

Cloudzy's Sunrise startup program empowers early-stage startups with up to $8,000 in cloud VPS credits in the first year, a 30% rebate on VPS purchases in the s

Under 5 years old See eligibility

Akamai $100 Free Trial & Business Credits

$5K

Sign up for a new Akamai Connected Cloud account and receive $100 in free credits. A valid payment method is required to verify your identity, but you won't be

Startups See eligibility

Cloudinary for Startups

$2K

Cloudinary's startup program turns image and video headaches into a free media-management runway for early-stage teams.

Startups See eligibility

Estuary Flow Startup Program

$2K

Get $2,000 in free credits for Estuary Flow's Cloud plan over 12 months, plus complimentary email and Slack-based technical support and access to step-by-step t

Startups See eligibility

Framer Startup Offer

$2K

Empowering early-stage startups with a $2000 credit package: $1,000 for hiring a vetted Framer Expert via Contra and $1,000 for Framer hosting and maintenance,

Startups See eligibility

TiDB Cloud Serverless Credits for Open-Source Heroes

$2K

Receive up to $2,000 in free TiDB Cloud Serverless credits for open-source contributors to build scalable, innovative applications.

Osss See eligibility

Scalingo Startup Program

$2K

Eligible startups receive up to €1,800 in hosting credits (up to €200/month for 9 months), priority developer support, and GitOps-powered continuous deployment

Startups See eligibility

Upstash Open Source Program

$1K

Serverless Redis/Kafka/QStash costs covered up to $1,000 a month for open-source projects — effectively a $12K/year infrastructure grant.

Osss See eligibility

Meteor Cloud Galaxy Professional Plan

$600

Get $600 in credits for 1 year on Galaxy, the only cloud platform built specifically for Meteor.js applications with auto-scaling and professional DevOps featur

Raised under $50M See eligibility

Heroku Open Source Software Credit Program

$500

Receive monthly platform credits for 12 months designed to support open source software projects hosted on Heroku.

Osss See eligibility

Mux for Startups

$500

Get a minimum of $500 in Mux video credits, free video analytics, and expert onboarding support to build and scale live and on-demand streaming.

Raised under $15MPartner referral needed See eligibility

CockroachDB Cloud Free Trial

$400

New organizations receive $400 in free credits to trial CockroachDB Cloud, available across all cluster plans.

New customers onlyPartner referral needed See eligibility

AWS Rapid Ramp Credits

$300

Small businesses can apply for $300 in AWS credits to quickly test and validate their cloud workloads.

Startups See eligibility

Google Cloud $300 Trial

$300

New GCP customers can receive $300 in credit to explore and deploy a range of Google Cloud products, plus additional perks for verified business accounts.

Startups See eligibility

Oracle Cloud Free Tier

$300

Oracle Cloud Free Tier enables users to build, test, and deploy applications on Oracle Cloud for free, starting with a US$300 free trial and continuing with a s

Startups See eligibility

Vultr

$300

Vultr is one of the largest independent IaaS providers — VPS, bare metal, NVIDIA H100 / A100 / GH200 GPU compute, Managed Kubernetes, and S3-compatible object storage across 32 global data centres. New accounts get $300 in cloud credits.

Startups See eligibility

Civo Free Trial $250

$250

Get $250 free Civo credit for 1 month to explore managed Kubernetes, cloud services, and more. Enjoy blazing fast cluster deployment, expert mentorship, and fre

Startups See eligibility

InfluxDB $250 Trial

$250

Enjoy a $250 credit for 30 days to explore InfluxDB Cloud Serverless, a fully-managed, elastic, and pay-as-you-go time-series database optimized for smaller wor

Startups See eligibility

Azure $200 Trial

$200

Azure's free account offers new users $200 in credits to explore and build on the platform within 30 days, plus 12 months of free use of 20+ popular services.

Startups See eligibility

DigitalOcean $200 Free Trial

$200

Start your free trial with a $200 credit for 60 days. A valid credit card is required, but you won't be charged unless you exceed the free credit or continue af

Startups See eligibility

Neon $100 Credits

$100

Get $100 in Neon credits to try out their serverless Postgres database platform for free.

Startups See eligibility

Namecheap Education Program

$50

University students get a free .ME domain for one year plus GitHub Pages hosting and professional tools to kickstart their online presence

Students See eligibility

Browserless Free Tier

$20

Get 1,000 free monthly requests for headless browser automation including web scraping, PDF generation, and screenshot capture with zero infrastructure setup

Startups See eligibility

Cloudflare R2 Storage Free Tier

$8

Cloudflare R2 Storage offers a permanently free allowance of S3-compatible object storage, operations, and zero-egress data transfer so teams can test and launc

Startups See eligibility

Agora for Startups

Agora for Startups turns minutes of live video into product — without burning runway on real-time infrastructure

Startups See eligibility

Cleura Startup Program

European open-source cloud credits for early-stage startups that need GDPR-native OpenStack infrastructure

Osss See eligibility

ClickHouse Cloud Startup Program

Real-time analytics database credits for early-stage startups building data-heavy products

Startups See eligibility

Confluent for Startups

Managed Kafka and Flink free for up to a year — serious infrastructure if you are doing anything event-driven or real-time AI.

New customers onlyPartner referral needed See eligibility

CoreWeave Ventures / Startup Accelerator

GPU-first cloud credits built for AI startups that need real NVIDIA horsepower, not a generic $100K voucher.

Startups See eligibility

Datadog for Startups Program

Real-time performance monitoring at startup-friendly cost. Datadog offers a comprehensive Startup Program with dedicated support, technical training, and access

Raised under $50MUnder 5 years oldPartner referral needed See eligibility

Gumlet Startup Credits Program

Gumlet's SCP enables startups to deliver optimized video and image content across platforms at half the cost.

Under 4 years old See eligibility

NVIDIA Inception

NVIDIA Inception is free for AI startups — hosted NIM API endpoints for prototyping, up to ~$100K in DGX Cloud credits (reported), $10K in DLI training, preferred GPU pricing, and partner cloud credits like AWS Activate up to $100K.

Startups See eligibility

Neo4j AuraDB Free Plan

Free forever graph database with 50,000 nodes, 175,000 relationships, and Neo4j Bloom included - no credit card required

Startups See eligibility

Neo4j Startup Program

The Neo4j Startup Program supports innovative startups by providing access to the world's leading graph database and advanced graph technology tools, enabling s

Startups See eligibility

OVHcloud Start

OVHcloud Start 'n' Scale gives EU startups up to €100K in cloud credits — strong GDPR-native infrastructure with data centres in France, Germany, the UK and beyond.

Startups See eligibility

OVHcloud Startup Program

Accelerate development with up to €100,000 free cloud credits

Startups See eligibility

PlanetScale for Startups

Serverless MySQL credits for early-stage startups — Vitess-powered scaling without the DBA bill

Partner referral needed See eligibility

Runpod Startup Program

GPU cloud credits and discounted on-demand pricing for early-stage AI startups training and serving models.

Startups See eligibility

ScaleGrid Startup Program

Get started with the ScaleGrid Startup Program and enjoy a 50% discount on fully managed, BYOC hosting plans for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB for 12 mo

Raised under $1.5M See eligibility

Scaleway Startup Program

Get up to €36,000 cost-coverage for cloud services with free consulting support from solution architects and access to a 800+ startup community

Startups See eligibility

Scaleway Startup Program for NVIDIA Inception Members

Exclusive partnership offering up to €42,000 in cloud credits with NVIDIA-optimized infrastructure

Startups See eligibility

Snowflake for Startups

Free Snowflake usage credits on your first contract, plus an optional accelerator with mentorship, GTM support, and a shot at investment.

Partner referral needed See eligibility

Synadia Free Trial

The Synadia Evaluation Agreement provides a 60-day trial of the Synadia Platform for internal evaluation purposes.

Startups See eligibility

Tinybird Open Source Program

Real-time analytics backend at 80% off for six months (then 20% forever) for active open-source projects with 25+ GitHub stars.

Osss See eligibility

Turso for Startups

Free credits on Turso's SQLite-compatible edge database for venture-backed startups, with architecture reviews and early access to new features.

Startups See eligibility

Twentysix Cloud Acceleratooor Web3 Startup Program

Develop your project, launch it on aleph.im, and benefit from community recognition. Access up to $1M ALEPH credits for 1 year to deploy decentralized VMs, stor

Under 5 years old See eligibility

Vast.ai Startup Program

GPU compute credits on Vast.ai's marketplace for early-stage AI startups building training and inference workloads.

Startups See eligibility

Vultr Startup Program

Free cloud credits for eligible startups on Vultr — high-performance compute, GPUs, and global infrastructure to build and scale without the early cloud bill.

Raised under $15MPartner referral needed See eligibility

Frequently asked

What founders ask before they spend an afternoon applying.

Ask us something else

It varies per programme, which is why every card shows its own gate. The recurring conditions are a funding ceiling, a company-age limit, and a referral from an approved VC or accelerator. Cloud Provider Credits programmes are aimed at startups that need compute, storage, and bandwidth.

Usually yes — they are separate vendors with separate criteria, and stacking cloud, AI and SaaS credits is the normal outcome for a funded startup. What you cannot usually do is claim the same vendor twice, or claim after you have already been a paying customer.

You land on standard list pricing for whatever usage you have by then, which is frequently the largest bill the company has ever had. Treat a credit as a runway extension with a known end date, not as a discount.

Because the vendor does not publish one. 49 of 73 cloud provider credits programmes state a figure; the rest are listed without one rather than with a number we made up.