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AI APIs & Models for Startups

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

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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.

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Baseten for Startups

1 available offer

Baseten is an AI inference platform for deploying open-source, fine-tuned, and custom models into production. Its Inference Stack delivers fast, autoscaling model serving with dedicated deployments and model APIs — trusted by AI-native companies to run mission-critical inference.

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Anthropic for Startups

2 available offers

Anthropic develops Claude, a family of AI models built to help people and businesses work with advanced artificial intelligence. Anthropic for Startups brings together the Claude offers currently available to eligible founders and growing companies through PerkBook. Startups can use Claude to support product development, software engineering, research, analysis, content workflows and customer experiences. Review the current offers below to compare benefits, eligibility requirements and access details. Availability and program terms may vary by offer.

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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.

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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.

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Google Cloud for Startups

3 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Replit for Startups

2 available offers

Replit is an AI-powered software creation platform where teams build, test, and deploy applications entirely in the browser — no setup required. Its Agent writes and ships production code from natural language, making Replit one of the fastest ways for startups to go from idea to deployed product.

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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.

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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.

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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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