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Developer Tools Credits for Startups

Monitoring, auth, APIs and automation credits from Google Maps, Datadog, Grafana, Stytch, Kong and the tools engineering teams run on.

Developer Tools credits are part of all 171 startup programs — browse the full directory › Get up to $350,000 in Google Maps credits Google's maps, places, geocoding and routes APIs Featured opportunity
More credits: All Credits 171 AI & ML 27 Cloud & Infra 32
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ToolPotential valueDescriptionApproval indexAction
Google Maps APIs
$350,000Monthly Maps credits Google's maps, places, geocoding and routes APIs Easy
Mixpanel Experimentation
First year free Experiments and feature flags built into Mixpanel analytics Easy
Datadog Monitoring
$100,000in credits Cloud monitoring, APM, logs and security platform Hard
Grafana Monitoring
$100,000in credits Hosted metrics, logs, traces and dashboards Easy
Kong Developer tools
$100,00050% off for 24 months API gateway and API management platform (Kong Konnect) Moderate
Amplitude Experimentation
1 year free Experimentation and feature flags within Amplitude platform Easy
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Statsig Experimentation
$50,000in credits + 1B events Feature flags, experimentation and product analytics (now Amplitude family) Easy
CircleCI Developer tools
$20,000in credits Cloud CI/CD platform Moderate
GitHub Developer tools
$10,000in credits Code hosting, CI (Actions), security and collaboration Hard
Pulumi Developer tools
$10,000in credits Infrastructure as code in general-purpose languages Easy
Temporal Developer tools
$6,000in credits Durable execution platform for reliable workflows Moderate
JetBrains Developer tools
50% off up to 10 Professional IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm) and AI assistant Moderate
Sentry Monitoring
$5,000in credits Error tracking and performance monitoring for developers Easy
Clerk Auth & Identity
$2,000Up to 1 year of Clerk Pro free Drop-in authentication and user management for React/Next.js Easy
monday dev Monitoring
$2,000in savings Product and dev workflow management on monday.com Moderate
incident.io Monitoring
$1,500in credits Incident management, on-call and status pages Easy
Make Automation
$1,200in credits Visual automation platform for complex multi-step workflows Easy
Mux APIs
$500in credits Video streaming and video analytics API Easy
n8n Automation
Discounted Business plan Fair-code workflow automation, self-hosted or cloud Easy
Auth0 Auth & Identity
1 year of B2BProfessional free Customer identity and authentication platform by Okta Moderate
Bitbucket Developer tools
12 months free Premiumup to 50 users Git hosting and CI/CD (Pipelines) by Atlassian Moderate
Cloudinary APIs
Not published Image and video management, transformation and delivery APIs Moderate
CodeRabbit Developer tools
50% off Team for 6months AI code reviews on pull requests Moderate
ConfigCat Experimentation
50% off year 125% off year 2 Hosted feature flag and remote configuration service Easy
Descope Auth & Identity
$2,988 No-code drag-and-drop authentication and identity flows Easy
GitLab Developer tools
Up to 1 year freeGitLab Ultimate DevSecOps platform: repos, CI/CD, security Moderate
Mintlify Developer tools
Up to 12 months ofMintlify Pro free 50% off for… AI-native developer documentation platform Moderate
MojoAuth Auth & Identity
50% off annualBusiness Pro for 1 year Passwordless authentication (OTP, magic link, passkeys) for apps Easy
PagerDuty Monitoring
6 months free On-call alerting and incident response platform Easy
SSOJet Auth & Identity
50% off for 12 months Enterprise SSO (SAML/OIDC) and SCIM add-on for B2B SaaS apps Easy

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