The ladder

Credits for voice apps: speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and realtime voice agents you can put in front of users.

TTS, STT, and realtime voice agent credits.

10 curated5 free tiersVerified weekly

Modal Startup Credits

ModalVerified

  • Curated
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Compute credits for AI startups

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Groq Developer Free Tier

GroqVerified

  • Curated
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free tier — Llama, Mixtral inference on LPU

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Hugging Face Inference — Free Tier

Hugging FaceVerified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free serverless inference with monthly quota

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ElevenLabs Startup Grant

ElevenLabsVerified

  • Curated
  • No VC needed

Voice API credits for startups

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NVIDIA Inception

NVIDIAVerified

  • Official source
  • No VC needed

GPU cloud credits + DGX discounts + NVIDIA tech access

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Deepgram — Startup Program

DeepgramVerified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Up to

$100,000

credits over 12 months (tiered)

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AssemblyAI — Startup Program

AssemblyAIVerified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

200,000 hours speech-to-text credits (approved startups)

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Cerebras Inference — Free Developer Tier

CerebrasVerified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free inference on Llama + Qwen — fastest tokens/sec available

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SambaNova Cloud — Free Developer Tier

SambaNovaVerified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free developer access to hosted Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek

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LiveKit Cloud — Startup Program

LiveKitVerified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Discounted or free LiveKit Cloud for approved early-stage startups

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