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33 verified cloud & gpu offers: startup programs, free tiers, signup credits and student deals. Each one is quoted from the vendor's own page with a last-verified timestamp.

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VendorOfferTypeEligibilityLast verified
NebiusCredits via Nebius VC partners for startups that raised $5M+accelerator perkStartups with $5M+ raised and a Nebius-partner investor
Hugging FaceCommunity GPU Grants for Spaces + free CPU Basic hardwarefree tierBuilders of community Spaces
KaggleFree access to NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs in notebooks (weekly quota)free tierKaggle users (phone-verified)
Modal$30/month free compute credits (Starter plan)free tierAnyone on Modal Starter
Paperspace (DigitalOcean)Free GPU tier for Gradient notebooksfree tierFree account holders
IBM CloudUp to USD 500 in free credits for first 3 months (Cloud Object Storage) TRYCOSpromo codeNew IBM Cloud users provisioning COS
IBM CloudUSD 1,000 credit for 120 days on Bare Metal Servers for VPC (excludes GPU profiles) VPC1000promo codeNet-new IBM Cloud accounts
IBM CloudUSD 2,500 in credits for IBM Power Virtual Server POWERVS2500promo codeNew PowerVS users per IBM terms
Akamai Cloud (Linode)US$100 credit for new accountssignup creditNew Akamai Cloud accounts
Anyscale$100 credit to get startedsignup creditNew Anyscale accounts
AWSUp to $200 in credits ($100 at signup + up to $100 earned) over 6 monthssignup creditNew AWS customers (Free plan)
BasetenFree credits for new accounts (amount not stated)signup creditNew Baseten accounts
Google Cloud$300 in free credit for new customerssignup creditNew Google Cloud customers
Microsoft Azure$200 credit to use within 30 days + 65+ always-free servicessignup creditNew Azure customers
Oracle CloudUS$300 cloud credit for 30 days + Always Free servicessignup creditNew Oracle Cloud accounts in select countries
AWSUp to $200,000 in AWS Activate Credits (additional credits for AI startups)startup programPre-Series B, founded in last 10 years, AWS account on Paid Tier plan
AWSUp to $5,000 USD in Activate Credits (start with $1,000)startup programSelf-funded startups
BasetenUp to $25,000 credits (Dedicated Inference/Training) + up to $2,500 Model APIsstartup programEligible startups
CloudflareUp to $350k in credits (tiers $10k / $100k / $350k; Workers AI up to $50,000)startup programEarly-stage companies; Tier 3 needs no minimum funding
DigitalOcean12 months of DigitalOcean credits (amount varies) + 15 months free Standard supportstartup programStartups (DigitalOcean Hatch)
Google CloudUp to $350,000 in Cloud credits over two yearsstartup programStartups; tiers by stage (see page)
Google CloudUp to $350,000 Google Cloud credits over 2 years (AI-first: 100% up to $250,000 in Year 1)startup programAI startups using Gemini; Pre-Seed/Seed within 5 yrs or Series A within 12 months; founded within 5 years; not >$5,000 GCP credits before
MicrosoftUp to $150,000 in creditsstartup programStartups (Microsoft for Startups)
ModalStartup credits for VC-backed startups (tiered; see page)startup programRaised VC from Modal partner network or >$1m from any fund
NVIDIAFree cloud credits from NVIDIA and partners + partner offers (amount not stated)startup programAI startups
OVHcloud€10,000 free cloud credits (Start) up to €100,000 (Scale)startup programStartups / scaleups
RunPod$1,000 in free credits (Starter Tier)startup programEarlier-stage startups with real AI workloads
RunPod$25,000 bonus credits when committing $50,000 ($75K total)startup programVC-backed startups with production workloads
ScalewayUp to €36,000 cost-coverage for cloud servicesstartup programStartups from pre-seed to Series A (tiered)
Camber (via GitHub Student Pack)Free Student plan: 40 CPU hours, 5 GPU hours, 50 GB storage/monthstudent/educationGitHub Student Pack members
LambdaUp to $5,000 in cloud credits for qualifying researchersstudent/educationQualifying researchers
Microsoft Azure$100 credit to use within 12 months, renewable yearly; no credit cardstudent/educationFull-time university students (school email)
ModalUp to $10k free compute credits for academicsstudent/educationGraduate students, labs, researchers