Supercharge your startup journey with Nebius AI Cloud

Join Nebius for Startups program to accelerate your AI development with exclusive perks, technical training, startup resources and community support.

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Why Nebius for startups

Built for AI startups

Our cloud platform is purpose-built for AI and ML teams, providing the infrastructure, performance, and flexibility needed to scale breakthrough innovations. We understand the unique challenges startups face in the early stages — tight budgets, evolving models, and growing compute demands — which is why we offer enterprise-grade resources at startup-friendly pricing.

Access to our state of the art AI platform

By joining our program, you gain access to cutting-edge cloud solutions, expert guidance, and a thriving AI ecosystem designed to accelerate your success. Share your project with us to unlock exclusive benefits tailored to AI-first startups, empowering you to build, train, and deploy with confidence.

Program tiers

AI Explorer

Benefits

$5 000 in self-service cloud credits

Eligibility criteria

Bootstrapped, Angel, or Pre-Seed stage.
Solo founder or team of fewer than 8.
AI-first product, beyond prototype stage.
Founded within the last five years.
Startup is not affiliated with any of our approved partners.

AI Builder

Benefits

Up to $100,000 in cloud credits
Up to $6,000 in inference credits

Eligibility criteria

Bootstrapped, Angel, or Pre-Seed stage .
Solo founder or team of fewer than 8.
AI-first product, beyond prototype stage.
Founded within the last five years.
Startup is affiliated with our approved partners.

AI Scaler

Benefits

Up to $150,000 in cloud credits
Up to $10,000 in inference credits

Eligibility criteria

Funded startups (seed to pre-series B).
Affiliated with our premium partners.
AI-first product with substantial compute demand.
Founded within the last seven years.
Your startup is affiliated with our premium partners only.

Why startups love Nebius

Flexible PAYG & cost efficiency

Priority access to the latest NVIDIA GPUs

On-demand & reserved GPU options

Technical workshops & training

Dedicated global ML support

Startup-focused resources

Customer feature & branding support

Exclusive community & event invites

How we process applications

You can request both Cloud and Inference Credits using a single application form. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and you’ll receive a response within 7-10 business days.