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AI APIs & models for Startups

Compare programs, credits and discounts from 17 ai apis & models providers.

Algolia for Startups

2 available offers

Algolia is a search and discovery API platform that powers fast, relevant search experiences for websites, apps, and e-commerce. Processes 1.75 trillion search requests per year for brands including Lacoste, Stripe, and Twitch, with AI ranking built in.

Claude for Startups

2 available offers

Anthropic is an AI safety company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Creators of Claude — a family of large language models designed to be helpful, harmless, and honest — Anthropic is one of the most respected AI research labs in the world.

Cohere for Startups

1 available offer

Cohere is an enterprise AI platform providing large language model APIs for search, summarisation, classification, and generation. Focused on building secure, private AI for the enterprise — used by companies including HyperScience, Notion, and Oracle.

DeepInfra for Startups

1 available offer

DeepInfra is a serverless AI inference platform providing ultra-fast, cost-efficient access to the world's leading open-source models including Llama, Mistral, and Qwen. Pay-per-token pricing with no minimums and sub-100ms inference latency.

Google Cloud for Startups

5 available offers

Google Cloud is the cloud computing and AI division of Alphabet, offering 200+ products across compute, storage, data analytics, AI/ML, and security. Home to Vertex AI, BigQuery, Kubernetes (GKE), and Gemini — serving millions of organisations globally.

Groq for Startups

1 available offer

Groq is the AI inference company behind the Language Processing Unit (LPU) — purpose-built silicon that delivers the fastest inference available; processing popular models like Llama; Mixtral; and Whisper at up to 2000 tokens/second. Far faster and more cost-effective than GPU-based inference for latency-sensitive applications.

Hugging Face for Startups

1 available offer

Hugging Face is the AI community platform hosting 500,000+ open-source models, datasets, and Spaces demos. The Enterprise Hub adds private model repos, dedicated inference endpoints, SOC 2 / GDPR compliance, Spaces compute, and team access controls — the standard platform for AI teams.

Microsoft for Startups

2 available offers

Microsoft is a global technology company offering cloud computing (Azure), productivity software (Microsoft 365), developer tools (GitHub, VS Code), and AI services (Azure OpenAI). Azure is the second-largest cloud platform in the world, serving businesses in 140+ countries.

Mistral for Startups

1 available offer

Mistral AI is a French AI company building frontier open-source and commercial language models. Known for producing state-of-the-art models that punch above their weight class, Mistral's models are among the most capable and efficient available through API or self-hosting.

MongoDB for Startups

1 available offer

MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL document database, used by 46,000+ customers including Adobe, Coinbase, and eBay. Its Atlas platform provides a fully managed cloud database with vector search, mobile sync, and data federation — all on one developer data platform.

Openai for Startups

1 available offer

OpenAI is an AI research company and the creator of GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Whisper. Its API powers tens of thousands of applications across coding, content, customer support, and more — making it one of the most widely used AI platforms in the world.

OpenRouter for Startups

1 available offer

OpenRouter is a unified API gateway providing access to 200+ AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, and more — through a single standardised endpoint. Lets developers compare models, manage costs, and switch providers without rewriting code.

Perplexity for Startups

1 available offer

Perplexity is an AI-powered search and research platform that provides cited, real-time answers by searching the web and synthesising information. Used by millions for research, competitive intelligence, and knowledge work — with an enterprise API for developers.

Pinecone for Startups

1 available offer

Pinecone is the leading vector database purpose-built for AI applications. Enables fast, accurate similarity search at billion-vector scale — powering semantic search, RAG, recommendation engines, and anomaly detection for AI-native products.

Together for Startups

3 available offers

Together AI is a cloud platform for training and running open-source AI models. Provides API access to the world's largest fleet of open-weight models including Llama, Qwen, and FLUX, plus fine-tuning, retrieval, and custom model deployment at scale.

Vercel for Startups

2 available offers

Vercel is the frontend cloud platform for shipping high-performance web applications. Provides instant global deployments, edge functions, and the fastest CDN — creators of Next.js and the platform powering the frontends of companies like Notion, TikTok, and Under Armour.

Yext for Startups

1 available offer

Yext is an AI-powered digital presence and search platform. Helps businesses manage listings, reviews, and site search with structured data — and now powers AI search experiences that give customers accurate, real-time answers wherever they search.

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