Perks

Vercel for Startups gives eligible teams up to $30,000 of Vercel usage credit (valid up to one year), Enterprise-tier access and startup-focused support. Vercel also runs the AI Accelerator, a selective cohort with partner credits, for AI startups with traction.

Supabase provides credits through partner accelerators and programs (for example $40K sponsored into the Vercel AI Accelerator); AI Lounge is applying to be a partner so members can claim credits directly. Until then, the Pro plan ($25/mo) covers most launches.

MongoDB for Startups gives $5,000 in Atlas credits (vector search included) and technical advisors; the AI Innovators track adds up to $5,000 more for AI products built on Atlas and Voyage AI.

PostHog gives startups $50,000 of credits for a year across product analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking and LLM analytics.

Neon is serverless Postgres with branching and scale-to-zero, now part of Databricks. Self-funded startups get up to $1,000 of Neon credits; venture-backed startups get up to $200,000 in combined Neon and Databricks credits, onboarding from the Neon product team, early feature access and co-marketing. Credits are valid for 12 months and existing users can apply for added credits.

Datadog for Startups gives up to 12 months of the complete Datadog platform (infrastructure, APM, logs, LLM Observability, security) with up to $100,000 in credits, onboarding materials and an optional technical engagement manager. Applications must come through a referral partner, a VC, accelerator, hyperscaler startup program or vendor program.

GitHub for Startups gives $10,000 in credits on a GitHub Enterprise Cloud account, usable for 12 months on Enterprise licenses and add-ons including GitHub Copilot (licenses, premium models and agent features), GitHub Advanced Security and other metered products.

Pinecone is the managed vector database behind many RAG and agent products. The startup program gives free access to the Standard tier (any cloud/region, RBAC, backups, import, Prometheus metrics) and Pro Support with a dedicated Slack channel, plus usage credits and discounts as you grow.

Retool is the fastest way to build internal tools, admin panels and AI workflows on your data. Eligible startups get a 100% discount on the monthly Team or Business plan for one year (value up to $60,000), 25% off the following year, partner deals worth $160K and playbooks from fast-growing startups.

Sentry catches errors, slow transactions and broken releases across your web, mobile and backend code, including AI agent traces. Startups get $5,000 of credits (valid for one year), priority support and swag.

Mixpanel's Startup Plan gives a year of product analytics free: all advanced reports, 1 billion events, 1 million Session Replays, Experiments (1.2M MEUs) and Feature Flags, plus Data Pipelines, Group Analytics and Warehouse Connectors. Mixpanel values the plan at $145,000.

Amplitude's Startup Plan is the full Growth plan free for 12 months: product analytics, session replay, experiments, MCP and agents, up to 100 million events a month and unlimited teammates, with 40% off in year two. Most startups are approved instantly.

Resend is the developer email API used by many AI products for transactional and marketing email. Y Combinator companies get $25,000 in credits for 12 months in the current batch, or $15,000 as YC alumni, plus direct access to the founders and engineering team.

Neo4j's Startup Program gives Aura credits for a managed, production-ready graph database, used for GraphRAG, knowledge graphs and agent memory, plus technical guidance and co-marketing. Existing Aura users can apply too.

Algolia provides hosted search and AI-powered discovery for products and docs. Approved startups get $10,000 in Algolia credits to use within 12 months, partner deals (Datadog, Notion and more) and early access to new features.

Sanity is a content platform for websites and in-app content. Startups get one year of the Growth plan free, worth up to $9,000, then move to standard pricing.

Weights & Biases tracks training runs and evaluates LLM apps and agents (Weave). Members of Microsoft for Startups get 50% off the Pro plan for one year; W&B values Pro at $3,000 a year.

Auth0 for Startups gives early companies everything in the B2B Professional plan free for 12 months: login, organizations, enterprise SSO connections, MFA and Auth for AI agents.

Clerk handles sign-up, login, user management and organizations for React and Next.js apps. The startup program discounts Clerk Pro features on top of the free tier; the discount period starts on approval.

Mintlify builds documentation sites that are readable by people and agents (llms.txt, MCP). Startups get Pro at half price for a year plus priority support; companies in a current partner batch get 12 months free.

GitLab is the all-in-one DevSecOps platform: source control, CI/CD, security scanning and GitLab Duo AI. Seed-stage startups get Ultimate free for a year for up to 20 seats (SaaS or self-managed), then 50% off in year two. Series A and B startups get 50% off in year one and 25% off in year two.

JetBrains makes IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, Rider and the rest of its IDEs, plus JetBrains AI and the Junie coding agent. Startups get up to 50% off for five years, on up to 10 IDE subscriptions, 10 team or learning tool subscriptions and 10 JetBrains AI subscriptions.