Claude for Startups API Credits

This is a time-limited or expiring offer, not an ongoing free tier. Verify eligibility, expiration and billing before use.

TIME-LIMITED OFFEREarly-stage startup founders can apply to be considered for one-time first-party Claude API credits and priority rate limits. Anthropic does not promise a public fixed credit amount for each applicant.

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Plan details

What do these plan and deployment labels mean?

Plan: Time-limited offer
Deployment model: Cloud
Credit card: Check provider
Commercial use: Check provider
Added to directory (UTC): 2026-11-07
Last checked: 2026-11-07

Important restrictions

General founder community access does not guarantee free credits. Claude credits/extras require qualifying institutional equity funding, company age within four years and no previous Anthropic startup credits; an Anthropic/Claude Console account, company email and site are required. Credits are not valid for AWS Bedrock or Google Vertex AI; standard API billing applies after the program credit is exhausted.

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