Cloudflare for Startups
Review as an infrastructure option when idea, pre-seed, seed teams in cloud, developer tools, AI already use or plan to evaluate Cloudflare tooling, credits, or technical support.
Terms
$10K to up to $350K in Cloudflare credits (Tier 3: $10K bootstrapped/self-funded; Tier 2: $100K under $5M raised with affiliated partner; Tier 1: $350K for $5M+ raised with affiliated partner)
No equity stated on the official program page
Credit caps include R2/Cache Reserve and Workers AI categories
Cloudflare Workers, R2, D1, Zero Trust, CDN/security, and AI infrastructure benefits
Founder fit
Infrastructure, security, SaaS, AI inference, and devtools founders building on Cloudflare primitives.
Software product or service, active website, founded within 5 years, and funded up to Series B.
Global, subject to Cloudflare eligibility.
Online application and eligibility review.
Verification note
Credit tiers updated since last check: Tier 3 increased from $5K to $10K, Tier 1 increased from $250K to $350K. Eligibility criteria now explicitly state founded within last 10 years (previously the record said 5 years), funded up to Series B within the last 12 months, active technology product, live website, and active public social/GitHub presence. AI Gateway is temporarily excluded from credit coverage. Program is active and rolling with no cohort gates.
Source quality: official program page scraped directly on 2026-06-14. Status confidence: high.