€10,000 at Start level or up to €100,000 at Scale, over 12 months

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Both levels run twelve months. OVHcloud does not publish what happens to an unspent balance at the end of that window or whether a Start level company can move up to Scale after raising, so the renewal question is one to put to the regional manager early rather than in month eleven. Egress and inter-instance network traffic are free outside Asia Pacific, which changes the shape of the bill after the credits end more than the credit total itself does.

How to claim it, in 4 steps

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Work out which level you are applying to first, since Start and Scale differ by an order of magnitude in credits and the split is on funding stage rather than on anything you can argue about.
Submit the application through the startup programme site. There is a single application covering both levels rather than a separate form for each.
Wait for the decision. OVHcloud says applications can be submitted at any time and that it responds within a week either way, which is a faster published turnaround than most programmes on this shelf commit to.
On acceptance, book the consultation with an engineer before deploying anything. OVHcloud puts this conversation ahead of the build in its own description of the flow, and the hours are a fixed allocation rather than ongoing support.

What the terms actually say

Two levels off a single application, split by funding stage rather than by headcount or revenue. Start is aimed at pre-seed and seed companies and carries €10,000 of credits plus six hours of one to one engineering time across twelve months. Scale is aimed at Series A and beyond and carries up to €100,000 plus up to twenty hours. The engineering hours are the part worth weighing, because they are booked against a named regional manager rather than a support queue, and OVHcloud routes accepted applicants into an architecture conversation with an engineer before anything is deployed. Credits spend across both public cloud and hosted private cloud. Note the currency: OVHcloud publishes these figures in euros, so what they are worth in dollars moves with the rate and is not a number OVHcloud states.

Who can claim it, in OVHcloud's words

Stage is the published gate and there are two of them. Start level is for pre-seed and seed startups. Scale level is for Series A funded startups and scaleups and beyond. OVHcloud publishes no company age, revenue or headcount threshold on either level, and a third track exists for enablers such as accelerators applying on behalf of their members.

What you get without this

A first Public Cloud project gets US$200 in free credit, valid for one month after activation. After that it is pay as you go, with general purpose instances from $0.0566 per hour for 2 vCores and 8 GB, and no ongoing free tier.

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How to claim it, in 4 steps

What the terms actually say

Who can claim it, in OVHcloud's words

What you get without this

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