Academic Developer Grants
Full complimentary Pro tiers and credits for active students and researchers with valid institutional credentials.
100% Free Professional Plan for Students & Educators
Free Figma Professional plan ($144+/yr value) with unlimited files, shared libraries, and Dev Mode
100% Free Open-Source Data Engine & Startup Innovation Grant
Free open-source Headless CMS & Backend API for any SQL database, plus commercial startup grant
Spark Plan (Generous Free Quotas Forever)
Free Firestore (50k reads/day), 50k monthly active auth users, 10GB hosting, and unlimited FCM
Cloud Free Starter & $20,000 Startup Program
All-in-one open backend platform (Auth, DB, Storage, Functions) with free cloud tier and $20k startup perks
Cloud Free Tier (3 Million GraphQL Requests/Month)
Instant GraphQL & REST APIs over PostgreSQL and databases with 3M free monthly requests
Cloud 30-Day Free Trial & 100% Free Open-Source Core
PostgreSQL supercharged for time-series, events, and vector workloads with free open-source core
Free Managed Open-Source Data Services & $100k Cluster Program
Permanent free tier for managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Kafka, plus up to $100k for startups
Free 30 MB Managed In-Memory Database & $10k Startup Grant
Free 30 MB in-memory Redis database with 100 ops/sec, plus up to $10,000 for qualifying startups
$200 Free Speech & Voice AI API Credit
$200 in free API credits for real-time speech-to-text (Nova-2/Nova-3) and text-to-speech (Aura)
Fast Serverless Inference Starter & $5,000 Startup Program
Fast serverless model inference with initial starter credits, plus $5,000 grant for AI startups
25+ Permanently Free AI Models ($0 / Token)
Free unlimited-style API access to 25+ leading open LLMs including Llama 3.3 70B, DeepSeek R1, and Qwen 2.5
Free 24/7 CPU Studio & Up to 80 Free GPU Hours
1 free persistent CPU Studio plus $15-$30 in free credits for NVIDIA T4/A100 GPU compute