Startup perk category
Compare ai apis & models perks for startups and growing teams.
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Microsoft for Startups supports all Founders from Idea to Exit and is now accepting founders everywhere, no funding is required. The platform provides founders with free resources to solve startup challenges. The platform enables startups to unlock the technology and support required to scale a company from inception to growth stage.
This perk offers up to $100,000 in credits to use with Google Cloud during your first year and 20% of your usage covered during your second year, up to an additional $100,000.
OpenAI's startup program provides early-stage companies with API credits to build products powered by GPT-4, DALL-E, Whisper, and other cutting-edge AI models.
Pinecone for Startups provides early-stage AI teams with vector database credits — the purpose-built vector DB powering semantic search, RAG pipelines, and AI-native applications at scale.
Cohere for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies discounted access to Cohere's enterprise-grade NLP platform — large language models for text generation, embeddings, reranking, and semantic search.
Perplexity for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies 6 months free of Perplexity Enterprise Pro (50 seats) plus $5,000 in Perplexity API credits — AI-powered search and research for your whole team.
The Mistral AI Ambassador Program gives qualifying AI-native startups free API credits; early access to new Mistral models; and VIP recognition in a 6-month equity-free program.
MongoDB for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free MongoDB Atlas credits; Voyage AI tokens; one-on-one technical advice; and co-marketing opportunities - built on the worlds most popular NoSQL database.
Together AI Startup Accelerator gives qualifying AI-native companies free compute credits; dedicated engineering support; and GTM amplification to 800K+ developers on the leading open-source AI cloud.
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The Anthropic Startup Program provides qualifying startups with up to $25,000 in Claude API credits to build AI-powered products with one of the world's most capable and safety-focused AI models.
The Anthropic Startup Program provides qualifying startups with up to $25,000 in Claude API credits to build AI-powered products with one of the world's most capable and safety-focused AI models.
Algolia is a hosted, API first platform to build great search and discovery experiences. We provide indexing APIs to automate your data pipeline. With 18K customers, we serve more than 85 billion queries a month.
Algolia is a hosted, API first platform to build great search and discovery experiences. We provide indexing APIs to automate your data pipeline. With 18K customers, we serve more than 85 billion queries a month.
Yext for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies $35000 in Yext credits — the AI search platform that helps companies deliver accurate; consistent answers across their website; app; and third-party sites.
OpenRouter for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies $5000 in universal inference credits — usable across 300+ frontier and open-source AI models with 0% processing fees; through a single unified API.
Groq for Startups gives qualifying early-stage AI companies $10000 in free inference compute credits — the world's fastest AI inference platform powered by the Language Processing Unit (LPU) delivering up to 2000 tokens per second.
DeepInfra DeepStart gives qualifying early-stage AI companies up to 1 billion free inference tokens — the cost-effective ML inference platform for running state-of-the-art open-source models including Llama; Mistral; Qwen; and Stable Diffusion in production.
Microsoft for Startups Investor Network gives VC-backed startups up to $150,000 in Azure credits — plus GitHub; Microsoft 365; OpenAI API credits; and dedicated technical support — for startups backed by a participating investor or accelerator in the Microsoft for Startups Investor Network.
Together AI's startup accelerator gives startups that have raised between $5M and $10M up to $30,000 in compute credits plus 6 hours of engineering support — covering serverless inference, fine-tuning, and custom kernel optimisation on the largest open-weight model fleet.
Together AI's startup accelerator gives startups that have raised over $10M up to $50,000 in compute credits plus 10 hours of engineering support — covering serverless inference, fine-tuning, and custom kernel optimisation on the largest open-weight model fleet.