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  • AI coding tool
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  • Voice app
  • Video app
  • Image app
  • Workflow automation
  • RAG app
  • Agent product
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The ladder

Credits for workflow automation and integrations — connectors, triggers, and ops stacks that run while you sleep.

Credits for automations, integrations, and ops.

11 curated·5 free tiers·Verified weekly

Railway Trial

Railway·Verified

  • Curated
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

$5

trial + Hobby plan for solo projects

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PostHog for Startups

PostHog·Verified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

$50,000

PostHog credits + Teams plan

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Linear for Startups

Linear·Verified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

50% off Business plan for 1 year

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Notion for Startups

Notion·Verified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Up to

$6,000

Plus/AI

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Deepgram — Startup Program

Deepgram·Verified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Up to

$100,000

credits over 12 months (tiered)

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LangSmith — For Startups

LangChain·Verified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Up to

$10,000

LangSmith credits on Scale tier (eligibility applies)

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Upstash — Free Tier

Upstash·Verified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free tier — Redis, vector search, QStash within published limits

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Jina AI — Free API Tokens

Jina AI·Verified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free API tokens across embeddings, reranker, reader, and search

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Tavily — Free Search API Credits

Tavily·Verified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free monthly search API credits — built for LLM agents

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Firecrawl — Free Crawl Credits

Firecrawl·Verified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free monthly crawl + scrape credits — LLM-ready markdown output

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Browserbase — Free Browser Automation Credits

Browserbase·Verified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free starter browser-session minutes for AI automations

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