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AI & ML Credits for Startups

Inference and training credits from AI labs and platforms: Anthropic, Google Gemini, Together AI, Modal and the rest of the modern AI stack.

AI & ML credits are part of all 171 startup programs — browse the full directory › Get up to $350,000 in Google Gemini credits Gemini models via AI Studio and Vertex AI Featured opportunity
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Google Gemini AI models / API
$350,000in credits Gemini models via AI Studio and Vertex AI Easy
Amazon Bedrock AI models / API
$200,000in credits AWS managed service for foundation models (Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Amazon, etc.) Easy
Azure OpenAI AI models / API
$150,000in Azure credits OpenAI models hosted on Microsoft Azure Moderate
Anthropic AI models / API
$100,000in API credits plus up to… Claude LLM API, Claude apps and Claude Code agentic coding tool Hard
Daytona AI / Infrastructure
$100,000in credits Secure sandboxes for running AI-generated code Easy
Deepgram AI models / API
$100,000in credits Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice agent APIs Moderate
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Retool AI coding
$60,000in credits Build internal tools, apps and AI agents on your data Easy
OpenAI AI models / API
$50,000Unpublished GPT model API and ChatGPT Hard
Together AI AI / Infrastructure
$50,000in credits Inference, fine-tuning and GPU cloud for open-source models Hard
Runware AI / Infrastructure
$50,000in API credits Low-cost image and video generation inference API Moderate
v0 AI coding
$30,000in credits AI UI and app generator for React/Next.js by Vercel Moderate
Baseten AI / Infrastructure
$27,500in credits Inference platform for deploying and serving AI models Moderate
Modal AI / Infrastructure
Free GPU compute credits Serverless GPU/CPU compute platform for AI inference, training and batch jobs Moderate
RunPod AI / Infrastructure
$75,000bonus credits GPU cloud for AI training, inference and serverless endpoints Moderate
E2B AI agents
$20,000in credits Cloud sandboxes for AI agents to run code Moderate
AssemblyAI AI models / API
12 months of recurring free Speech-to-text and speech understanding APIs Moderate
GitHub Copilot AI coding
$10,000in credits AI pair programmer and coding agent inside GitHub and IDEs Hard
LangChain AI agents
$10,000in credits LLM app observability, evals and agent deployment platform Moderate
ElevenLabs AI models / API
$5,50033M credits for 12 months AI voice: text-to-speech, voice agents, cloning and dubbing Moderate
Braintrust AI agents
6 months free Pro plan LLM evaluation, observability and prompt testing platform Easy
Vast.ai AI / Infrastructure
$2,500in GPU credits GPU cloud marketplace for training and inference Moderate
Base44 AI coding
$1,000in credits AI app builder (owned by Wix) generating apps from prompts Moderate
Tavily AI agents
Up to 100k free API Web search and extraction API built for AI agents Moderate
Agora AI voice
Up to 1,000,000 freeminutes Real-time voice, video and conversational AI SDKs Moderate
Fireworks AI AI / Infrastructure
Creditsamount not published Fast serverless inference and fine-tuning for open models Moderate
Langfuse AI agents
50% off LangfuseCloud for 12 months Open-source LLM observability, tracing and prompt management Easy
xAI AI models / API
Not published Grok model API (xAI / SpaceXSI) Moderate

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