Two offers, and they do different jobs.
One is for companies with a year of runway who need to stop worrying about a model bill while they find out what they are building. The other is for a room of people with a weekend.
Portfolio credits
of routed inference, free, for every company in your portfolio
For accelerators, funds, and incubators. You tell us who is in the programme, we issue codes, and your companies redeem them themselves. It costs you nothing and there is no revenue share, no referral fee, and no data going back the other way.
Hackathon credits
every dollar a participant adds returns three more, free
For hackathons, university programmes, and developer communities. The match is live for the length of the event, applies to every participant with an event code, and works on the first fifty dollars each of them adds.
A hundred dollars is not a trial. It is a quarter.
Free credit is usually enough to run a demo and then stop. This is enough to run a product while you work out whether it has users.
~28 million tokens
~5 million tokens
~10 million tokens
Figures are arithmetic on the blended rate our own calculator quotes for a mixed workload, and on published provider list rates checked 10 August 2026. Your real number depends on your token mix, so treat these as the shape of the difference rather than a quote.
One key, every model
Point the OpenAI SDK at our base URL and change nothing else. A founder stops maintaining four provider integrations on the day they start, which is worth more than the hundred dollars.
They can see what it costs
Every response carries which model ran, on which provider, whether a fallback fired, and what the call actually cost. A seed stage company that knows its cost per user has an answer most of them do not.
Nothing to unwind later
There is no plan to be on and no contract to exit. If they outgrow us or want to go direct to a provider, they change the base URL back. Free credit that creates a migration is not a gift.
Four steps, and two of them are ours.
You apply
Your programme, a portfolio list or event
We verify
One call. We check the programme is real
Codes issued
One per company, or one event code for all
They route
Redeemed by the founder, live in under an hour
You never hold the credits, and we never ask your companies for a pitch.
If you have a cohort, you qualify.
The bar is that the programme is real and that somebody there can confirm who is in it. Size is not the test.
Accelerators
Cohort based programmes running a batch. Codes are issued per cohort, so a new batch is one email rather than a new application.
Venture funds
Pre-seed through Series A, where the portfolio is building rather than scaling. Add a company mid cycle and it gets the same grant.
Incubators and studios
Including venture studios running several ideas at once. Each company gets its own grant, because each one has its own bill.
Hackathons
In person or online. One event code covers every participant, and the match runs from your first session to your submission deadline.
University programmes
Course cohorts, research groups, and student societies. The same terms as a hackathon, over a term rather than a weekend.
Developer communities
Meetups and build clubs running an organised event with a start and an end. A standing community without one is a conversation rather than an application.
Short enough to read, so nobody is surprised later.
The one rule worth reading twice is the first. A balance has two parts, the credit somebody paid for and the credit we gave them, and requests draw the paid part down first. It only matters for a refund, where we can return what was actually paid. The same rule is on the pricing page, because it applies to everybody. pricing page.
The ones partners ask first.
Send us the cohort. We will send back the codes.
One email with the programme name, roughly how many companies or participants, and the dates if it is an event. That is the application.