$200 in Vultr credits per participant
Added Oct 23
$200in credits
For AI
All Promos →Free credits for building with AI: model APIs, GPUs, cloud and the dev tools around them. Every offer is checked against its official page.
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Free OpenAI API credits (amount not published)
Added Oct 23
Up to $5,000 in Sentry credits plus priority support
Added Oct 23
$500 to $100K in Render credits by tier
Added Oct 23
$150in API credits
Freefor 1 week
Freeuntil Oct 31
Free OpenAI API credits (amount not published)
OpenAI makes the GPT models and sells access to them through its API. Startups backed by its partner VCs can get free API credits, possible rate limit upgrades, time with solutions engineers and events.
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12 months of recurring free credits plus discounted startup pricing
AssemblyAI sells speech AI APIs that turn live or recorded audio into text. Its startup program gives 12 months of recurring free credits on Speech-to-text, Streaming speech-to-text and Dictation, plus discounted pricing, forward deployed engineer help and co-marketing.
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20,000 PT of hosted usage each month (1 PT = $0.001, so up to $20), no card needed
Perch AI's free Starter plan gives a monthly hosted-usage allowance and a rotating set of free models, currently Laguna S 2.1, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash, plus MiniMax M3.1 Flash for a limited time.
Verified Oct 231 post on X
$20per month, no card
Up to $100,000 in Deepgram credits over 12 months; direct applicants start at $1,000
Deepgram credits for its speech-to-text, text-to-speech and Voice Agent APIs, plus invite-only events, engineering support groups and the Deepgram startup community.
Verified Oct 231 post on X
$100kup to, 12 months
Free use of mammoth-1 (27B) and elephant-1 (9B) on Baseten Model APIs for one week
Baseten's research lab released two open-source decision models, mammoth-1 and elephant-1, and made them free to try for one week on Baseten Model APIs from Oct 21.
Released Oct 21Verified Oct 231 post on X
Freefor 1 week
$150 in Meta Model API credits per selected participant, plus a $1M prize pool
Meta's ten-day virtual AI hackathon (Oct 26 to Nov 4) gives each selected participant $150 in Meta Model API credits to build with, plus a shot at a $1M prize pool.
Released Oct 13Verified Oct 231 post on X
$150in API credits
GPU and compute
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Up to $25,000 for Dedicated Inference or Training, plus up to $2,500 for Model APIs
Baseten is a cloud platform for deploying, running and training AI models. Its startup program gives up to $25,000 in credits for Dedicated Inference or Training and up to $2,500 for Model APIs, plus support, events and go-to-market help.
Verified Oct 231 post on X
Up to $15K, $30K or $50K in platform credits by funding tier, plus forward deployed engineering hours
Together AI is a cloud for running, fine-tuning and training open-source AI models on GPUs. Its accelerator gives selected startups platform credits for serverless inference, dedicated endpoints, fine-tuning and instant clusters, plus 3 to 10 hours of forward deployed engineering.
Verified Oct 231 post on X
$1kfree credits
One-time $20,000 in E2B credits and the Pro tier
$20k of sandbox credits for teams building AI agents.
Verified Oct 23
$20k+ Pro tier
$200 in Vultr credits per participant
Vultr's online Agent Rush hackathon (Nov 3 to 8) gives every participant $200 in Vultr credits to build AI agents on its cloud.
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$200in credits
$5,000 to $60,000 in OCI Universal Credits, plus possible funding for one year of Level 1 OPN membership
Oracle's program for startups building on OCI: Universal Credits, with possible account and engineer support, a year of Oracle PartnerNetwork membership and Oracle Cloud Marketplace access.
Released Oct 15Verified Oct 231 post on X
$60kup to, OCI credits
Up to $150,000 in credits
Azure credits plus AI tools and dev resources for startups.
Released Jun 2Verified Oct 23
$150kup to
DigitalOcean credits (amount varies) for 12 months, plus partner perks
A year of DigitalOcean credits for startups, with a lean toward AI-native teams.
Released May 11Verified Oct 23
$10/mo in Google Cloud credits with AI Pro; $40/mo with AI Ultra
Paying for Google AI Pro or Ultra also gets you monthly Google Cloud credits through the Developer Program.
Released Jan 27Verified Oct 23
$40/moup to, with AI Ultra
$300 in free credit for new customers, plus free monthly usage on 20+ products
New Google Cloud accounts get $300 to try anything, and a permanent free tier on popular products.
Released Aug 11, 2020Verified Oct 23
$300new accounts
Dev infrastructure
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Up to $5,000 in Sentry credits plus priority support
Sentry is an error tracking and performance monitoring tool for developers. Its startup program gives up to $5,000 in Sentry credits and priority support.
Verified Oct 23
$500 to $100K in Render credits by tier
Render is a cloud hosting platform for web apps, APIs, databases and background workers. Its startup program gives platform credits by tier: $500 Prototype, $2,500 or $5K Build via partners, $10K or $25K Scale via top VCs, and $100K for the AI tier.
Verified Oct 231 post on X
$500 in platform credit plus a free iMessage line for one month
Keiki's startup program: $500 toward AI replies, email and agent tools on its agent platform, your own iMessage number with the first month free, and founder support.
Verified Oct 231 post on X
$500platform credit
Free Search and Fetch calls through server-side tools in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex until billing starts
DeepSeek's new Search and Fetch APIs are free when called through server-side tools in DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code and Codex until billing starts on Oct 31, 2026.
Released Oct 17Verified Oct 231 post on X
Freeuntil Oct 31
100k free API credits, plus hands-on support and GTM opportunities
100k search API credits for startups building agents.
Released Oct 14Verified Oct 23
100kAPI credits
$20 in free X API credits on first purchase with a saved card; first auto-recharge matched up to $50; up to 20% back in free xAI API credits
Bonus credits for new X API buyers, plus xAI API credits back on X API spend.
Released Oct 2Verified Oct 23
$20+ match up to $50
$50,000 in PostHog credits for 12 months, plus about $12,000 in partner perks
$50k of PostHog credit for a year for young startups.
Released Sep 14Verified Oct 231 post on X
$50k+ ~$12k perks
Up to $30,000 in Flexible Commitment Amount, plus Enterprise-tier access
Credits toward Vercel Enterprise for startups, with startup-focused support.
Released Aug 6Verified Oct 231 post on X
$30kup to
Self-funded: up to $1,000 in Neon credits. VC-backed: up to $200K in Neon and Databricks credits
Neon Postgres credits for startups, from $1k for bootstrappers to $200k for funded teams.
Released Jun 16Verified Oct 23
$200kup to, VC-backed
Atlas credits and Voyage AI tokens, tiered from Inspire to Scale
Tiered Atlas credits and embedding tokens for startups at any stage.
Released Oct 28, 2025Verified Oct 23
Free Standard Tier and Pro Support, plus usage credits and discounts
Free Standard tier and support on Pinecone's vector database for early startups.
Released Jun 4, 2025Verified Oct 23
FreeStandard tier + credits
$10,000 in Algolia credits, valid 12 months
$10k of search credits for a year for new Algolia users.
Released Apr 5, 2022Verified Oct 23
$10kfor 12 months
One year of the B2B Professional plan free, up to 100k MAU
A free year of Auth0's B2B Professional login stack.
Verified Oct 23
1 yearB2B Professional free
Up to 1 year free of Convex Professional, no seat fees, 30% off usage-based fees up to $30k
A free year of Convex Professional for small startups.
Verified Oct 23
1 yearProfessional free
$10,000 in flexible platform credits
$10k of credits across GitHub Enterprise, Copilot, Advanced Security, and Actions.
Verified Oct 23
$10kplatform credits
100% off for one year, value up to $60K; 25% off the following year
A free year of Retool for internal tools.
Verified Oct 23
$60kup to, 1 year free
A year of Datadog Pro, up to $100k in credits
One free year of Datadog for early startups that come through a partner.
Verified Oct 23
$100kup to, 1 year
Up to $1,000 in free credits
Exa offers up to $1k of search credits to startups and education projects.
Verified Oct 23
$1kup to
$10 in credits every month plus a $10 onboarding bonus
Exa's free tier gives monthly search API credit, which it pitches as over $120 a year.
Verified Oct 23
$10per month
10kfree credits
1,000 credits per month (about 500 searches or 1,000 pages)
Free monthly scraping and search credits from Firecrawl.
Verified Oct 23
1,000credits per month
1,000API credits per month
Hackathons and open source
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Up to $200 per month in free credits
Monthly background-agent credits for OSS maintainers.
Released Feb 4Verified Oct 23
$200per month
Free Copilot Pro
Copilot Pro at no cost for popular OSS maintainers and teachers.
Released Jun 21, 2022Verified Oct 23
FreeCopilot Pro
Six months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex, API credits via the Codex Open Source Fund, conditional Codex Security access
OpenAI gives OSS maintainers ChatGPT Pro with Codex, plus API credits for PR review and maintainer automation.
Verified Oct 232 posts on X
6 moChatGPT Pro
6 months of free Claude Max 20x
Six free months of Claude's top Max tier for people who maintain widely used open source.
Verified Oct 232 posts on X
6 moClaude Max 20x
Some promos are so fresh they might not be available in all regions yet. Looking at you, EU 🇪🇺