$1.3M+ in Free Startup Credits, Perks and Tools for Founders

Up to $250,000 in Cloudflare credits across the stack, 1 year

$250,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Mixpanel for Startups

1 year free Startup Plan — all features, up to 1B events/yr, Session Replay, Experiments

$150,000 ● ANY COMPANY

DigitalOcean for Startups

Up to $100,000 compute credits (12 mo) + 3 mo free GPU Droplets + premium support

$100,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Anthropic for Startups

$25,000-$100,000+ in Claude API credits, 12 months

$50,000 ● VC-BACKED ONLY

Stripe Atlas Perks Bundle

$2,500 Stripe credits + $50K+ partner discounts (AWS $5K, Mercury, Carta, Xero) — one-time $500 fee

$50,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub

Up to $5K Azure credits at entry, expandable to $25K-$150K. Includes GitHub Enterprise, M365, LinkedIn Premium

Mercury

Free business banking + Raise perks bundle ($5K AWS, $2.5K OpenAI, GitHub Enterprise 20 seats free)

Customer.io for Startups

12 months free on Essentials plan up to 30K profiles. Email/SMS/push

$12,000 ● ANY COMPANY

PostHog Free Tier

1M events/mo, 5K session recordings/mo, 1M feature flag requests, 1-yr retention, unlimited team members

$6,000 ● ANYONE

ElevenLabs Grants

12 months of free access including 33M credits (~680 hours of Conversational AI)

$4,000 ● ANYONE

Y Combinator SAFE Documents

Official post-money and pre-money SAFEs (US, UK, Singapore variants)

AWS Activate Founders

$1,000 AWS credits + $350 Developer Support credits

$1,350 ● ANY COMPANY

NVIDIA Inception

Free DLI training credits, SDK/model access, hardware/software discounts, $100K AWS Activate, $150K Nebius

$250,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Deepgram Startup Program

Up to $100,000 in voice/ASR credits

$100,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Amplitude Startup Scholarship

1 year free Growth plan (200K MTUs, 100M events). Includes Analytics, Experiment, Session Replay, CDP

$60,000 ● ANY COMPANY

HubSpot for Startups

90% off Y1, 50% Y2, 25% Y3 on Pro/Enterprise (~$60K value at top tier)

$60,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Twilio Segment for Startups

Up to $50,000 in Segment Team credits over 2 years + $1M+ partner credits

$50,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Vercel for Startups

12+ months free Pro, up to $30K-$200K credits depending on track

$30,000 ● VC-BACKED ONLY

Together AI Startup Accelerator

$15000-$50000 in inference/fine-tuning credits + dedicated engineering hours

$30,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Modal for Startups

Up to $25000 in compute credits (one-time)

Brex

Free corporate card no PG, free banking, perks marketplace ($5K AWS, $2.5K OpenAI, etc.)

AssemblyAI Startup Program

Monthly replenishing credits up to $18000/yr

$18,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Intercom Early Stage

95% off Advanced (~$65/mo from $1,483) Y1, 50% Y2, 20% Y3 + 315 free Fin AI outcomes/mo

$17,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Oracle Cloud Always Free

4 ARM Ampere A1 cores + 24GB RAM, 200GB storage, 2 Autonomous DBs, 10TB egress/mo, 3,000 emails/mo — forever

$10,000 ● ANYONE

Notion for Startups

6 months free Business plan + Notion AI ($12K value via partner; 3 mo direct)

$6,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Perplexity for Startups

$5000 in Sonar API credits + 6 months Enterprise Pro for up to 50 seats

$5,000 ● VC-BACKED ONLY

Linear / Figma / Loom / Framer / Superhuman / Webflow for Startups

6-12 months free or 100% off — applies to each program

$5,000 ● VC-BACKED ONLY

Product Hunt + Hacker News + BetaList + Indie Hackers

Free product launches, distribution, community feedback

$5,000 ● ANYONE

OpenAI for Startups (Tier 1)

$2,500 in OpenAI API credits (Tier 1, self-serve)

$2,500 ● ANY COMPANY

Cloudflare Workers + R2 + Pages

Workers 100k req/day; R2 10GB + unlimited free egress + 1M Class A ops; unlimited Pages

IBM Cloud Lite

40+ always-free services (Object Storage Watson APIs Code Engine Cloud Functions) + $200 trial credit 30 days

Ahrefs Webmaster Tools

Site Audit (170+ checks), 5K crawl credits/project/mo, 1K backlinks per query, web analytics up to 1M events/mo

Deel HRIS

Permanent free HRIS up to 200 employees

Wellfound (was AngelList Talent)

Unlimited free job postings, access to 10M+ candidate profiles

NocoDB / Appsmith / Budibase

Airtable / Retool alternatives — self-hosted free

Google Cloud for Startups (Start)

Up to $2000 GCP credits valid 1 year

$2,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Cooley GO

Customizable YC SAFE generator (US/UK/Singapore), term sheets, NDAs, advisor agreements

Orrick Tech Studio

Founder agreements, equity docs, financing forms, employment agreements

Y Combinator Startup School

Free 6-7 week online course, weekly accountability, co-founder matching

Render Free Tier

750 instance-hours/mo for web services, 1 free Postgres (1GB), free static sites

$1,500 ● ANYONE

Apollo.io Free + Startup

Free: 1,200 credits/yr. Startup: 50% off Basic/Professional 1 yr, up to 5 seats

$1,500 ● ANYONE

Ramp

Free corporate card + spend management. 1-1.5% cashback, no PG

$1,500 ● ANY COMPANY

Supabase Free Plan

2 projects, 500MB Postgres each, 1GB storage, 50k MAU, 500k Edge Function invocations/mo

Netlify Free Plan

300 credits/mo covering builds, bandwidth, functions

Kit (formerly ConvertKit) Free

Up to 10,000 subscribers, unlimited emails, landing pages, sell digital products

Plausible Self-Hosted

Self-hosted unlimited everything (AGPLv3)

Carta Launch

Free cap table, electronic stock issuance, SAFE generation, fundraising scenario modeling

$1,200 ● ANY COMPANY

Documenso

DocuSign alternative — open source self-host

Listmonk

Self-hosted Mailchimp/SendGrid for newsletters

Neon Free Plan

100 compute-hours/mo, 5GB aggregate storage across up to 10 projects, scale-to-zero

$1,000 ● ANYONE

Airtable Startup Program

$1,000 in Airtable credits (1-yr validity)

$1,000 ● ANY COMPANY

AngelList Stack

Free incoming/outgoing wires, ATM fee reimbursement, free Starter cap table for <$1M raised

$1,000 ● ANY COMPANY

Upstash Redis Free

Up to 10 Redis databases, 256MB each, 500k commands/mo per DB

$600 ● ANYONE

Beehiiv Launch

Up to 2,500 subscribers, unlimited email sends, custom website, basic AI

$588 ● ANYONE

MongoDB for Startups

$500 Atlas credits at entry; up to $5K for VC-backed

$500 ● ANY COMPANY

Hugging Face for Startups

Free monthly Inference Provider credits + Pro features (3-6 mo Pro free)

$500 ● ANY COMPANY

ClickUp for Startups

$500 one-time credit toward any plan

$500 ● ANY COMPANY

Every.io Free C-Corp Formation

Free Delaware C-corp, EIN, 83(b) filing, FDIC checking, corporate cards in ~24h

$500 ● ANYONE

LegalZoom Basic LLC

$0 service fee — pay only state filing fee ($35-$500, avg $130). Articles of Org prep & filing

$350 ● ANYONE

Tally

Unlimited forms AND unlimited submissions, conditional logic, Stripe payments

$300 ● ANYONE

Crisp Free

2 seats, unlimited conversations, shared inbox, chatbox, contact form

$300 ● ANYONE

Loops Free

4,000 sends/mo, up to 1,000 stored contacts, transactional + marketing

$300 ● ANYONE

Vercel Hobby

100GB transfer, 1M edge requests, 1M function invocations, 4hrs CPU/mo

GitHub Free

Unlimited public + private repos, unlimited collaborators, 2,000 Actions minutes/mo

Resend Free

3,000 emails/mo (100/day cap), 1 custom domain, API, 1,000 marketing contacts

Granola Basic

AI meeting notes, custom templates, multi-language. 30-day rolling history

Klaviyo Free

250 active profiles, 500 email sends/mo, 150 SMS credits/mo

Found

Free checking, no fees, built-in invoicing, automatic self-employment tax estimation

Cal.com Self-Hosted

Calendly replacement self-hosted: unlimited users/event types/team scheduling

Clay Free + Boost

Free: 100 data credits + 500 actions/mo. Boost: 3,000 free credits ($229) + 14 days free + 10% off

$229 ● ANYONE

Buffer Free

3 active channels (lifetime cap of 8 unique connections), 10 scheduled posts per channel

$180 ● ANYONE

Make.com Free

1,000 operations/mo, 2 active scenarios, 3,000+ app integrations

$120 ● ANYONE

Linode/Akamai $100 Trial

Trial credit

$100 cloud credit valid 60 days

$100 ● ANYONE

Wise Business

Multi-currency Essential plan free (one-time $31 setup in US). Local account details in 9+ currencies

$100 ● ANYONE

Notion Calendar

Full app free — keyboard-first calendar, scheduling links, multi-account, Notion integration

$60 ● ANYONE

Mailgun Free

100 messages/day free, 1 domain, 1-day retention

$60 ● ANYONE