Startup Credits Kit
About $70,000 in credits you can apply for without investors
If you are self-funded, these are the startup programs that will still say yes. The kit maps all 15 programs we checked, who qualifies, and exactly how to apply, so you can do it in an afternoon.
Checked on each vendor page on October 14, 2026
One-time. PDF plus agent prompts for Cursor, Claude Code and Codex, right after payment.
What a self-funded founder can get
- PostHog for Startups
- $50,000
- Under $5M raised, under 2 years old
- Cloudflare for Startups, Tier 3
- $10,000
- Bootstrapped or under $1M raised
- ElevenLabs Grant
- Over $5,500 in value
- Monetized product, under 25 people
- Google for Startups Cloud
- $2,000
- Pre-funded, building an MVP
- AWS Activate Founders
- $1,000 to $5,000
- Self-funded, pre-Series B
- Neon, self-funded tier
- Up to $1,000
- Under $1M raised
- Deepgram
- $200
- Anyone who signs up
About $69,700, up to $73,700, if you qualify for each one. Every program reviews applications and can say no. With VC or accelerator backing, the published maximums across the 13 open programs add up to about $1.3M, but that assumes the top tier everywhere, which most startups will not reach.
What is inside
- 15 programs: 13 open now with credit amounts, eligibility rules, and the exact link to apply, plus 2 on a watch list.
- Which tiers need an investor code, and the email to send your investors to get one.
- A 60 minute plan for applying in the right order.
- Includes agent prompts for Cursor, Claude Code and Codex: an eligibility interview, a stack audit of your repo, application drafts, a tracker and a credit burn plan, plus one master prompt.
- Every program checked on the vendor's own page, with the date.
All 15 programs covered
Open now (13)
- Google for Startups Cloud
- Cloudflare for Startups
- AWS Activate
- Databricks Startup Program (Neon)
- Microsoft for Startups
- PostHog for Startups
- Vercel for Startups
- ElevenLabs Grants
- Deepgram
- MongoDB for Startups
- Pinecone Startup Program
- Modal for Startups
- OpenAI for Startups
Watch list (2)
- Anthropic (Claude for Startups): cohort full, not accepting applications on check date
- Supabase: no credit amount on startups page on check date
The same facts are public at /credits.json.
$19, one-time
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Token Thrift is independent. No program in the kit paid to be listed. Programs change often, so the vendor page is always the final word. Free startup deals are also in the deals directory.