A list of programs that provide credits, grants, or tools for people building things.
Includes programs for:
- students
- startups
- open-source maintainers
- independent developers
Only official program pages are listed.
| Program | Provider | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Codex for Students | OpenAI | $100 in Codex credits (US & Canada students only) |
| DigitalOcean Student Credits | DigitalOcean | $200 platform credit for 1 year via GitHub Student Developer Pack |
| Figma for Education | Figma | Free design tools for students |
| GitHub Student Developer Pack | GitHub | Developer tools bundle (~$10k value) |
| GitLab for Education | GitLab | Free GitLab Ultimate for education |
| Google AI Pro for Students | 1 year of Google AI Pro (US) or AI Plus (many other countries); claim window through end of 2026 | |
| Google Summer of Code | Stipend and mentorship for students contributing to OSS | |
| JetBrains Student Pack | JetBrains | Free IDE licenses |
| Kiro for Students | Kiro (AWS) | 1,000 credits/month free for 1 year (participating universities; SheerID verification) |
| LFX Mentorship | Linux Foundation | Paid remote OSS mentorship (stipends vary by region) |
| Manus Campus for Students | Manus | Campus access; earn 1,000 credits for each student you invite |
| Microsoft Azure for Students | Microsoft | Azure credits and dev tools |
| MLH Fellowship | Major League Hacking | 12-week remote fellowship with stipend |
| OpenAI Student Collective | OpenAI | Campus Lead role: ChatGPT + Codex credits, event funding, and stipend |
| Outreachy | Software Freedom Conservancy | Paid remote OSS internship (~$7,000 stipend) |
| v0 for Students | Vercel | 1 year of free v0 Premium (limited partner universities) |
| YC AI Student Starter Pack | Y Combinator | Credits and tools (~$25k value; requires attending a YC student event) |
| Zed Student Plan | Zed | All Zed Pro features for 12 months |
| Program | Provider | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Atlas Cloud for Open Source | Atlas Cloud | Up to $1,500/mo AI credits (400+ models) for active OSS maintainers |
| Capy AI OSS | Capy AI | Full platform access for open-source projects |
| Catalyst | Open Core Ventures | $10,000 sponsorship + 3-month program for eligible OSS authors and maintainers |
| Claude for Open Source | Anthropic | 6 months of Claude Max |
| GitHub Secure Open Source Fund | GitHub | $10,000 per project, Copilot Pro, Azure credits, 3-week security program |
| Microsoft FOSS Fund | Microsoft | Up to $12,500 USD for selected projects |
| Ona for Open Source | Ona | Up to $200/mo AI credits for OSS maintainers and contributors |
| OpenAI Codex for Open Source | OpenAI | 6 months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex, plus API credits |
| Snyk for Open Source | Snyk | Full Snyk platform free for qualifying OSS maintainers |
| Upstash for Open Source | Upstash | $1,000 monthly credit grant |
| Program | Provider | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| AssemblyAI Startup Program | AssemblyAI | 12 months free credits for voice/speech AI |
| AWS Activate | AWS | Cloud credits (up to $100k) |
| CircleCI for Startups | CircleCI | Up to $20,000 in compute credits |
| Clerk for Startups | Clerk | Clerk Pro at a discount for early-stage startups |
| Cloudflare for Startups | Cloudflare | Up to $350,000 in Cloudflare credits |
| Databricks Startup Program | Databricks | Up to $200k in credits across Databricks and Neon |
| Datadog for Startups | Datadog | A year of free Datadog Pro |
| Daytona | Daytona | Up to $50k in Daytona credits |
| Deepgram for Startups | Deepgram | Up to $100,000 in voice AI credits |
| Devin for Startups | Cognition (Devin) | $65,000 in credits and grants, direct support, free swag |
| DigitalOcean Hatch | DigitalOcean | Up to $100,000 in cloud credits |
| Google Cloud AI Startup Program | AI startup credits (up to $350k) | |
| Google Cloud Startup Program | Cloud credits and support | |
| Kiro for Startups | Kiro (AWS) | Up to 1 year of Kiro Pro+ credits (early stage to Series A; not stackable with active AWS Activate) |
| Microsoft for Startups | Microsoft | Azure credits |
| Miro for Startups | Miro | $500–$1,000 in credits |
| Mixpanel | Mixpanel | First year of Mixpanel free |
| Modal | Modal | Free credits and technical support |
| MongoDB for Startups | MongoDB | Atlas credits and technical advisors |
| Nebius for Startups | Nebius | $5,000 AI credits + discounts on GPU compute |
| Notion for Startups | Notion | Business plan free for up to 6 months (incl. Notion AI) |
| NVIDIA Inception | NVIDIA | Free program: partner cloud credits, training, preferred GPU/software pricing |
| OVHcloud Startup Program | OVHcloud | €10,000 for Start level; up to €100,000 for Scale level, plus technical support |
| PlanetScale for Startups | PlanetScale | Serverless MySQL database credits |
| PostHog for Startups | PostHog | Product analytics credits (up to ~$50k) |
| Render | Render | Up to $100,000 in credits |
| Retool for Startups | Retool | Free Retool access for early-stage startups |
| Sentry for Startups | Sentry | Up to $5,000 in credits and priority support |
| Stripe Atlas | Stripe | Company formation and partner perks |
| Temporal Cloud for Startups | Temporal | $6,000 Temporal Cloud credits (funded startups, $30M or less raised) |
| Vercel Startups | Vercel | Hosting credits |
| Y Combinator | Y Combinator | Funding (up to $500,000) |
| ZAI Startups | Z.AI | Free API credits for Z.AI models |
| Program | Provider | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic Startup Program | Anthropic | Claude API credits and priority rate limits |
| Hugging Face Startups | Hugging Face | AI infrastructure support |
| OpenAI Startup Program | OpenAI | API credits |
| Together AI Research Credits Program | Together AI | Research credits for AI projects |
| Together AI Startup Accelerator | Together AI | Up to $50k in credits (funding-gated) |
| Program | Provider | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Campus Ambassadors | Anthropic | Campus club lead; USD 3,600 stipend (18+) |
| Claude Community Ambassadors | Anthropic | API credits, event support |
| Cursor Campus Leads | Cursor | 6 months Cursor Ultra and event funding (applications reopen January) |
| Devin Ambassadors | Cognition (Devin) | Community benefits |
| Kimi Ambassadors | Kimi | Credits and early access |
| Mistral AI Ambassadors | Mistral | Studio API credits, early access |
| OpenAI Codex Ambassadors | OpenAI | Credits and support (applications currently paused) |
| Qwen Ambassadors | Alibaba Qwen | API credits ($50–$100/month) |
Contributions are welcome!
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Format for adding a new program:
| [Program Name](https://official-page.com) | Provider | Description of benefits |Submit a pull request to add new programs.