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
Groq Developer Free Tier
GroqVerified
- Curated
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — Llama, Mixtral inference on LPU
Hugging Face Inference — Free Tier
Hugging FaceVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free serverless inference with monthly quota
ElevenLabs Startup Grant
ElevenLabsVerified
- Curated
- No VC needed
Voice API credits for startups
NVIDIA Inception
NVIDIAVerified
- Official source
- No VC needed
GPU cloud credits + DGX discounts + NVIDIA tech access
Deepgram — Startup Program
DeepgramVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$100,000
credits over 12 months (tiered)
AssemblyAI — Startup Program
AssemblyAIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
200,000 hours speech-to-text credits (approved startups)
Cerebras Inference — Free Developer Tier
CerebrasVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free inference on Llama + Qwen — fastest tokens/sec available
SambaNova Cloud — Free Developer Tier
SambaNovaVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free developer access to hosted Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek
LiveKit Cloud — Startup Program
LiveKitVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Discounted or free LiveKit Cloud for approved early-stage startups