Cursor — Free & Pro Trial
CursorVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free Hobby tier + 14-day Pro trial
Windsurf — Free Tier
WindsurfVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free Cascade agent with monthly premium-model quota
Codeium — Individual Free
CodeiumVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free forever — unlimited autocomplete + chat
Sourcegraph Cody — Free
SourcegraphVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — monthly autocomplete + chat quota
Zed — Free Editor + AI
ZedVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free editor with built-in agent (BYO key or hosted)
GitHub Copilot — Free Tier
GitHubVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — 2,000 completions / 50 chat / month
AWS Activate
Amazon Web ServicesVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
From
$1,000
Founders · up to $100,000 with accelerator/VC partner · 2 years
Google for Startups Cloud Program
Google CloudVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$350,000
over 2 years
Anthropic for Startups
AnthropicVerified
- Official source
$5,000
API
Cloudflare for Startups
CloudflareVerified
- Official source
Free Pro/Business plans + credits
Vercel for Startups
VercelVerified
- Official source
Credits + Enterprise features
NVIDIA Inception
NVIDIAVerified
- Official source
- No VC needed
GPU cloud credits + DGX discounts + NVIDIA tech access
Oracle for Startups
OracleVerified
- Official source
- No VC needed
Up to
$500,000
OCI credits (tiered)
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)
Fireworks — For Startups
Fireworks AIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Build credits + higher rate limits (application required)
Baseten — AI Startup Program
BasetenVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$27,500
credits (inference + model APIs, tiered)
LangSmith — For Startups
LangChainVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Up to
$10,000
LangSmith credits on Scale tier (eligibility applies)
Google AI Studio — Gemini API Free Tier
GoogleVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free Gemini API access with daily rate-limited quota
Lambda — GPU Cloud for Startups
LambdaVerified
- Official source
GPU credits for approved AI startups (varies by partner path)