Search The Internet's Best AI Software and Compute Grants and Credits

Google Cloud for Startups

Up to $350,000 in credits over 2 years specifically for AI-first startups

Microsoft Azure

Access cutting-edge AI models and developer tools to build faster on Azure, backed by Microsoft

AWS Activate

Up to $100,000 in AWS credits, with Generative AI Accelerator offering up to $1M

NVIDIA Inception

GPU discounts, DGX access, and technical support for AI startups

IBM Startup with IBM

IBM Cloud + watsonx credits

Oracle for Startups

Up to $500,000 in Oracle Cloud credits for eligible startups

DigitalOcean Hatch

Up to $100,000 in credits for early-stage startups

Linode Rise

$10,000 in credits for cloud infrastructure and compute resources

Alibaba Cloud Startup

Up to $59,000 in credits with Create@ program for various startup stages

Vultr

$100k + long term discounts

Intel Liftoff

Free compute time on Intel DevCloud for AI workloads

OVHcloud Startup Program

Up to €100,000 for European startups with minimal egress fees and transparent pricing

Scaleway Startup Program

Cloud + GPU credits for 12 months

Gcore for Startups

Cloud infrastructure credits for startups

Tencent Cloud Startup Program

Credits + tech support

Huawei Cloud Startup Program

Credits for compute/AI stacks

OpenAI Startups

Investment and API credits for AI-first companies

Anthropic Claude Credits

API credits for Claude AI model usage

HuggingFace ZeroGPU

Credits for Hugging Face Hub, Spaces, and Inference Endpoints

Cohere Startup Program

API credits for natural language processing models

OpenAI Researcher Access

Up to $1,000 in API credits for qualifying researchers and academic institutions

OpenAI GPT-5 Bio Bug Bounty

Bug bounty program for identifying security vulnerabilities in GPT-5 bio/chem safety

Lambda Labs Research

$5,000 in GPU cloud credits for qualifying researchers

RunPod GPU Grants

1,000 H100 GPU hours with per-second billing for AI startups

Together AI Research Program

Model inference credits for AI applications with startup program

Modal Labs Startup Program

Up to $50,000 in compute for serverless platform designed for AI workloads

Scale AI Free Tier

1,000 labeling units and upload/curate 10,000 images

Roboflow Startup

Full feature access, 1800 platform credits, 50 projects, 20 seats, and priority support

Comet ML Free

25k spans per month, LLM tracing, Datasets and experiments, and LLM-as-a-judge metrics

Databricks Platform

Build data-driven applications on the lakehouse - the data platform that scales to all your data needs

Kaggle GPU Access

free access to NVIDIA TESLA P100 GPUs

Anthropic Research Access Program

To support and lower the barrier to entry for researchers working on AI safety and alignment topics

Meta Llama

Llama crowd credits for US based AI companies.

Meta Llama Impact Accelerator

For startups based in Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, or South Africa that are building impactful solutions using Llama

Stability AI Research

Compute partnerships and research collaboration for AI model development

Mistral AI Research

Mistral AI has recently launched our very first Startup Program — the Mistralship!

Strong Compute Research Grant

You/your team is solving for useful, trustworthy AI. You need GPU.

Nebius AI Cloud

AI infrastructure designed to scale your AI workloads

Thesys

Helping early stage teams bring Generative UIs to life.

Bytez

Free Inference credits can apply to 150,000 open and closed source AI models

Groq for Startups

LPU™ inference credits for AI apps

Perplexity for Startups

Research/API credits and team seats

Groq × Vercel OSS Starter Pack

OSS-focused inference credit bundle

Cerebras Cloud for Startups

Wafer-Scale Engine training/inference credits (Supernova program)

ElevenLabs Startup Grants

Build intelligent, real-time conversational AI agents into your new product or startup for free with an ElevenLabs Grant

Vapi for Startups

Unlock 90,000 free minutes, dedicated Slack support, priority feature access, and an exclusive community

fal Research Grants

Open to anyone passionate about advancing AI through open source projects

GitHub for Startups

Free GitHub Enterprise, Advanced Security, and priority support.

Vercel Pro Plan

Get Free Vercel Pro for Startups. Up to $30,000 in credits toward our platform

Stripe Atlas

Waived processing fees and startup incorporation support

Retool

Get Retool for free for a year to automate manual tasks with custom internal tools and build customer portals

Gumlet

Full access to Gumlet video, video insights, and Image optimization

Confluent

Utilize free product credits along with expert technical help to deploy the power of Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink®

Vercel AI Accelerator (No Equity)

AI infra & platform credits bundle (multi-partner)

Cursor for Students

Verified university students get one year of free Cursor Pro

Daytona Startup Grid

Daytona is always committed to supercharging startups

MassChallenge Global

CHF 500,000+ in non-dilutive cash prizes across all startups through zero-equity programs

NSF CloudBank 2.0

Cloud access credits through eligible NSF solicitations

America's Seed Fund (NSF)

Non-dilutive funding for R&D for American companies via the US National Science Foundation

Hessian Lean AI Funding

For students, quickly test and validate your idea in the field of AI and turn it into a business case.

NSF ACCESS

Free access to advanced computing resources through merit-based allocations in ACCESS Credits

NSF SBIR Phase I

$305,000 funding for technical merit validation

NSF SBIR Phase II

$1,000,000 funding for continued R&D

NIH STRIDES

Discounted cloud access for NIH-funded researchers through AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure partnerships

DOE INCITE

10M+ supercomputer hours for computational science

DOE ALCC

5M+ compute hours for leadership computing

California Learning Lab

$1,500,000 education grants for learning innovation

EuroHPC AI Factories

€15M per project for European AI infrastructure

EuroHPC Supercomputers

€200M infrastructure for European supercomputing

Horizon Europe GenAI4EU

€700M total program for European AI development

UKRI Turing AI

£3-5M fellowships for UK AI research

Alan Turing Institute

£20M annual programs for AI research

Germany BMBF AI

€100,000/year for German AI development

France IA Booster

€13,000 SME support for French AI startups

Netherlands AiNed

€19.9M total program for Dutch AI research

Singapore AISG

$1B over 5 years for Singapore AI development

Japan METI AI

$324M program for Japanese AI development

South Korea MSIT

$1.3B national AI program for Korea

India IndiaAI Mission

$1.2B national initiative for Indian AI

Canada CIFAR

$50,000/year for Canadian AI research

Israel Innovation Authority

$135M total for Israeli AI innovation

Saudi Vision 2030

$40B AI investment for Saudi Arabia

MIT ORCD

$50,000+ equivalent computing resources

Stanford HAI Seed Grants

$85,000 total value for AI research

Stanford HAI GCP Credits

$100,000 GCP credits for academic research

CMU PSC Bridges-2

Variable supercomputing with H100 access

UC Berkeley BAIR

$600,000 compute + $250,000 for research

Harvard FAS RC

Major HPC access and storage resources

Princeton TIGRESS

Major HPC allocation for research

Columbia DSI

Priority access to computing resources

NYU Greene HPC

Supercomputing access for research

UW eScience Azure

Variable credits for University of Washington

UT TACC

Major allocations through ACCESS program

UCSD SDSC

Supercomputing time through ACCESS

Vector Institute

Significant compute for Canadian AI research

Oxford ARC

Free HPC use for Oxford researchers

Cambridge CSD3

Tier-2 HPC access through EPSRC

NVIDIA Academic Hardware

Variable GPU time for academic research

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

$500,000-$2M equivalent for science research

Allen Institute AI2

$100,000+ postdoc fellowships plus compute

Gates Foundation Grand Challenges

$100,000 for global health innovation

Mozilla Foundation

$50,000 for open source AI projects

Linux Foundation AI & Data

Cloud hosting for AI and data projects

Sloan Foundation

$250,000+ research grants for technology

Open Philanthropy

$40M AI safety funding pool

Climate Change AI

$1.4M innovation grants for climate AI

Cooperative AI Foundation

Multi-stage funding for cooperative AI research

Schmidt Futures

Multi-million programs for technology research

Wellcome Trust

£1M+ health research grants

AI Grant Foundation

$25,000 average grants for AI research

GitLab Startup Program

DevOps platform access through partnerships

GitHub Copilot for Students

Free AI coding assistance for verified students

GitLab Ultimate for Open Source

Free DevOps platform for open source projects

MongoDB Atlas for Startups

Credits for fully managed cloud database with technical advisor access

Redis Cloud

$10,000 in credits for high-performance in-memory database

Neo4j Aura

Credits for graph database platform for AI applications

Pinecone

Trial credits plus startup program benefits for vector database

Weaviate Cloud

Free vector database with cloud hosting

Qdrant Cloud

Free vector search database with cloud hosting

Firebase

Free backend services including database and authentication

Supabase

Free PostgreSQL backend with real-time features

PlanetScale Free

Free MySQL platform with branching

Snowflake Startup Program

AI Data Cloud credits + build help

Neon for Startups

Serverless Postgres credits

Qdrant for Startups

Vector DB credits and partner perks

Twilio Free Trial

$15 communications API credits for messaging and voice

Segment for Startups

Segment credits + partner stack

Algolia for Startups

Search/API credits for startups

Twilio AI Spotlight

Rewarding 20 promising AI startups building with Twilio

Cloudflare for Startups

Credits for performance, security, and DDoS protection

Auth0 Free Tier

Free authentication for up to 7,000 monthly active users

Okta Developer

Free identity platform for development use

Auth0/Okta for Startups

Auth platform credits (MAU limits)

Clerk for Startups

Auth/identity platform credits for early startups

Sentry for Startups

Error monitoring credits (startup discounted plans)

Grafana for Startups

Grafana Cloud credits

Datadog for Startups

Observability credits

PostHog for Startups

Product analytics credits (cloud or self-host support)

Amplitude Startup Scholarship

Analytics, Experimentation, Session Replay, Activation— free, for one year

Mixpanel for Startups

full analytics suite, Session Replay, and more

Notion for Startups

$1,000 credits for startups under $50K revenue

Figma for Education

Free design platform for verified students

TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield

$100,000+ prize plus additional credits for winning startups

MIT $100K Competition

$300,000+ in total prizes across categories

Microsoft Imagine Cup

$100,000 + $50,000 Azure credits for students

Google Developer Challenge

$350,000+ credits for AI startups in cohort program

AWS DeepRacer League

$25,000 prize pool for machine learning racing

NVIDIA GTC Startup Contest

$100,000+ DGX credits for Inception members

Epic MegaGrants

Up to $500,000 grants for Unreal Engine projects

Unity for Humanity

$500,000+ social impact grants annual February

Rice Business Plan

$1.8M+ grad students April annual competition

Hello Tomorrow Global

€100,000 deep tech annual competition

Vesuvius: Unwrapping at Scale Prize

Deliver automated virtual unwrapping at production scale on two different scrolls.

Vesuvius: First Letters & Title Prize

One of the frontiers of Vesuvius Challenge is finding techniques that work across multiple scrolls.

Vesuvius: Progress Prizes

Monthly prizes for open source contributions that help read the scrolls. 90+ winners per year.

XPRIZE AI Data For Good

Funding projects and competitions whoe outcomes directly address the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

XPRIZE Quantum Applications

A 3-year global competition designed to generate quantum computing (QC) algorithms that can be put into practice to help solve real-world challenges.

XPRIZE Healthspan

A 7-year global competition to revolutionize the way we approach human aging.