Render
Closes at Series BTerms read on 9 Aug 2026
$500 to $100,000 in credits, four tiers
Read this first
Credits last one year from approval, so applying before you have workloads spends the window on an idle account. The tier is decided by your investor relationship, which means the honest thing to check before applying is which list your VC is on.
How to claim it, in 4 steps
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What the terms actually say
The clearest tier table on this shelf, and the spread is two hundred fold. Every qualified startup gets $500. Coming through an enrolled partner gets $2,500, or $5,000 from select partners. Funding from a top tier VC in Render's network gets $10,000 under a million raised and $25,000 above it. The AI tier at $100,000 needs at least $2.5M from one of those same VCs and an AI native, data heavy or agent driven product. So the number you see depends almost entirely on who your investor is, not on what you are building. Every tier caps at pre Series B, under five years old and under $100M raised, and credits expire one year from approval.
Who can claim it, in Render's words
New customer, less than five years in operation, raised less than $100M and pre Series B. The $500 tier additionally needs at least $25K of seed funding. Everything above it requires an enrolled partner or a top tier VC from Render's network.
What you get without this
Render's free instance types for static sites and small services, then published per service pricing.
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