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AI & Machine Learning for Startups

Compare programs, credits and discounts from 35 ai & machine learning 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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Alibaba Cloud for Startups

1 available offer

Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing and AI services arm of Alibaba Group, offering 200+ products including computing, storage, databases, AI/ML, and big data. The largest cloud provider in Asia Pacific, serving 4M+ customers across 200+ countries.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Startups

3 available offers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's leading cloud platform, offering 200+ services spanning compute, storage, databases, networking, AI/ML, and security. Used by startups and enterprises alike, AWS lets teams build, deploy, and scale applications globally without managing physical infrastructure. Credits through the AWS Activate program give early-stage startups up to $100,000 to get off the ground fast.

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AssemblyAI for Startups

1 available offer

AssemblyAI is an AI speech recognition and audio intelligence platform. Provides state-of-the-art transcription, speaker detection, content moderation, topic detection, and sentiment analysis APIs — trusted by thousands of developers to power audio-first products.

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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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Cartesia AI for Startups

1 available offer

Cartesia is an AI company building real-time, low-latency voice and audio generation models. Its Sonic models produce the most natural-sounding AI speech available, designed for voice agents, customer service automation, and real-time audio applications.

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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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Databricks for Startups

2 available offers

Databricks is the Data + AI company behind Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Its Lakehouse Platform unifies data engineering, machine learning, and analytics in one open platform — used by 10,000+ organisations including Comcast, Shell, and Regeneron.

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Deepgram for Startups

1 available offer

Deepgram is an AI speech recognition company building the fastest and most accurate voice AI models in the world. Its APIs power transcription, text-to-speech, and voice intelligence for thousands of companies building voice-enabled products.

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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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DigitalOcean for Startups

2 available offers

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure platform built for developers, startups, and SMBs. Offers simple, affordable compute, managed databases, object storage, Kubernetes, and GPU droplets — with straightforward pricing and a developer-friendly experience.

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ElevenLabs for Startups

1 available offer

ElevenLabs is an AI voice technology company building the most realistic, emotionally expressive text-to-speech and voice cloning models in the world. Used by developers, publishers, and creators to produce natural-sounding audio in 29+ languages.

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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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HeyGen for Startups

1 available offer

HeyGen is an AI video generation platform that lets anyone create professional-quality videos using AI avatars, voice cloning, and automatic translation. Used by 40,000+ companies to produce product demos, training videos, and marketing content at scale.

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Ibm for Startups

1 available offer

IBM is a global technology and consulting company offering cloud computing, AI (watsonx), quantum computing, enterprise software, and IT services. IBM Cloud provides scalable infrastructure and managed services for enterprises and startups building the next generation of applications.

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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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Modal for Startups

1 available offer

Modal is a cloud platform for serverless GPU compute, letting developers run Python code on powerful GPUs without managing infrastructure. Ideal for AI inference, fine-tuning, batch processing, and training — with per-second billing and instant cold starts.

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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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Nebius for Startups

2 available offers

Nebius is an AI cloud infrastructure company offering high-performance GPU compute, managed AI tools, and cloud-native services optimised for machine learning workloads. Provides H100 clusters and fine-tuning infrastructure with a startup-friendly pricing model.

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NVIDIA for Startups

1 available offer

NVIDIA is the world's leading GPU and AI computing company. Best known for its graphics cards, NVIDIA's data centre products and CUDA platform power the majority of AI training and inference worldwide — from research labs to hyperscale cloud providers.

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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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Render for Startups

5 available offers

Render is a unified cloud platform for deploying apps, databases, and background workers. Offers web services, static sites, cron jobs, private networks, and managed PostgreSQL — a modern Heroku alternative with zero devops and automatic deploys from Git.

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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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Roboflow for Startups

2 available offers

Roboflow is a computer vision infrastructure platform that helps developers build and deploy CV models faster. Provides dataset management, model training, deployment APIs, and a model library — used by 250,000+ developers at NASA, Microsoft, and the US Department of Defense.

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RunPod for Startups

1 available offer

RunPod is a cloud GPU infrastructure platform providing on-demand and spot GPU compute for AI training, inference, and fine-tuning. Offers the most affordable GPU pricing in the market with 1-click deployments of popular frameworks including PyTorch and Stable Diffusion.

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Runwayml for Startups

1 available offer

Runway is an AI research company building creative tools for video generation and editing. Its Gen-2 and Gen-3 models can generate, edit, and transform video using text prompts — used by filmmakers, artists, and creators to push the boundaries of visual storytelling.

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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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Vultr for Startups

1 available offer

Vultr is a cloud infrastructure provider offering compute, GPU, storage, networking, and managed cloud services.

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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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