Developer Tools Startup Perks

Clerk's bootstrapped tier gives self-funded startups $5,000 in authentication platform credits for 6 months — covering user management, MFA, SSO, and more. Note: Clerk's free tier already includes 50K MAUs and 100 organisations before the program is needed.

Bubble is a software development platform that enables anyone to build and launch web applications without writing code.

Datadog is an observability and security service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Spend more time on your product, not internal tools. Use Retool free for a year to quickly build admin panels, dashboards, and internal tools without losing focus.

Agora is the world’s leading real-time engagement PaaS that enables brands around the globe to engage audiences with real-time voice, video chat, group video chat, and live audio/video interactive streaming.

As the leading end-to-end web3 developer platform, QuickNode is transforming blockchain infrastructure and tooling by simplifying development and providing high-performance access to every major chain and network.

Aikido is the no-nonsense security platform for developers. Aikido centralizes all necessary code-to-cloud security scanners in one place. We focus on finding what matters, so you aren’t bothered by what doesn’t. Get security done with Aikido.

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.

Auth0 by Okta provides your startup with a comprehensive and simple authentication experience that is extensible and scalable – enabling you to focus on building your application. We secure billions of logins every year and were named a 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader in Access Management.

Atlassian gives early-stage startups free access to its entire suite — Jira, Confluence, Loom, Bitbucket, and more — for a full year, for up to 50 users.

Sentry's Startup Program gives early-stage companies 6 months free on the Teams plan plus up to $5,000 in credits — covering error monitoring, performance tracing, and session replay.

Linear offers qualifying startups 6 months free on any plan — the fast, modern issue tracker purpose-built for software teams that want to ship great products.

Grafana Labs gives early-stage startups up to $100,000 in Grafana Cloud credits to monitor metrics, logs, and traces — the industry-leading open-source observability platform.

Supabase for Startups gives early-stage companies startup-friendly credits and onboarding support for the full Supabase platform — Postgres database, auth, storage, edge functions, and realtime.

GitLab for Startups gives eligible early-stage companies 20 seats of GitLab Ultimate completely free for one year — the complete DevSecOps platform covering planning, source control, CI/CD, and security scanning.

WorkOS gives qualifying startups free access to its enterprise-ready auth platform for up to 12 months — SSO, SCIM directory sync, and fine-grained authorization so you can close enterprise deals faster.

Snyk for Startups gives early-stage software companies free access to the Snyk developer security platform — scanning code, containers, open-source dependencies, and infrastructure-as-code for vulnerabilities.

Clerk for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free access to the complete Clerk auth platform — drop-in user management, multi-tenant auth, and enterprise SSO for modern web and mobile apps.

Vanta for Startups gives early-stage companies $1,000 off the Vanta compliance platform — the fastest way to get SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant and start closing enterprise deals.

JetBrains for Startups provides qualifying early-stage software companies with free team licenses for the full JetBrains IDE suite — IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, and more.

Okta for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free access to the Okta Identity Cloud for up to 25 users for one year — covering SSO, automated provisioning, and MFA without engineering overhead.

n8n for Startups gives qualifying early-stage teams 50% off the n8n Business plan — the powerful workflow automation platform with 400+ integrations that gives engineers full control over their automations.

Twilio for Startups gives early-stage companies free resources; API credits; and access to Twilio communications infrastructure covering SMS; voice; WhatsApp; email; and AI-powered customer engagement tools.

Vonage for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies up to EUR 500 in communication API credits — SMS; voice; video; and messaging APIs to build communications features faster.

Drata for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies discounted access to the Drata continuous compliance platform — automating evidence collection for SOC 2; ISO 27001; HIPAA; GDPR; and more to help close enterprise deals faster.

Wiz Go gives qualifying startups 50% off the Wiz cloud security bundle — covering cloud; code; runtime; and AI environments with full visibility and protection built for fast-moving teams.

Descope Hello World Startup Plan gives qualifying early-stage companies 12 months free on the Descope Pro tier — a complete no-code authentication and user management platform with passwordless auth; SSO; MFA; and B2B multi-tenancy.

Beefree SDK for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies 90% off the Core or Superpowers plan for 12 months — the no-code white-label email and page builder SDK for embedding visual content creation inside your own application.

Persona for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies 500 free KYC and AML identity verifications per month for one year — the flexible identity platform for building onboarding flows; fraud prevention; and compliance workflows.

incident.io for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free access to incident.io — the modern incident management platform for on-call; runbooks; status pages; and post-mortems built for engineering teams.

Sprinto for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies $5000 in free credits on the Sprinto compliance automation platform — helping startups achieve SOC 2; ISO 27001; and HIPAA compliance without the manual work so they can close enterprise deals faster.

Appwrite for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies $20000 in Appwrite Cloud credits — the open-source backend platform providing authentication; databases; storage; functions; and messaging in one unified API.

Stytch for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free access to the Stytch authentication platform — the developer-first auth and fraud prevention platform supporting passwordless; B2B SSO; MFA; device fingerprinting; and more.

Pulumi for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies a significant discount on the Pulumi Cloud platform — the leading Infrastructure as Code tool letting teams provision cloud infrastructure using real programming languages.

Redis for Startups gives qualifying venture-backed pre-seed and seed companies $10000 in Redis credits; 12 months free Redis Cloud; early access to new features; dedicated technical support; and go-to-market opportunities.

Temporal for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies $6000 in Temporal Cloud credits; onboarding support; and dedicated technical help — the durable workflow execution platform for building reliable distributed systems and AI agents.

GitHub for Startups gives eligible early-stage companies $10000 in flexible platform credits covering GitHub Enterprise; Copilot; Advanced Security; Actions; and more - the complete agentic developer platform.

GitHub for Startups gives eligible early-stage companies $10000 in flexible platform credits covering GitHub Enterprise; Copilot; Advanced Security; Actions; and more - the complete agentic developer platform.

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.

Infobip Startup Tribe gives qualifying early-stage companies up to $60000 in Infobip product credits — the global cloud communications platform for SMS; voice; email; WhatsApp; and omnichannel customer engagement at scale.

Rootly for Startups gives qualifying early-stage engineering teams up to 50% off the Rootly incident management platform — the Slack-native on-call; incident response; and runbook tool built for modern engineering teams.

Sanity for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies 1 year free access to the Sanity Growth plan — the headless CMS and content operating system for building structured content for web; mobile; and AI-native applications.

Kinde for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies $5000 in Kinde credits — the modern authentication and user management platform providing passwordless login; MFA; SSO; and multi-tenancy with clean APIs and fast integration.

Gitpod for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies 2 years free access to Gitpod — the cloud development environment platform that provides instant; ephemeral developer workspaces in the browser without local setup.

Bitrise for Startups gives qualifying early-stage mobile teams 20% off their first year of Bitrise — the leading low-code CI/CD platform for mobile app development with automated testing and fast build infrastructure.

DeepSource for Startups gives qualifying early-stage companies free access to the DeepSource static analysis platform — automatically detecting bugs; anti-patterns; performance issues; and security flaws during code review.

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.