Fireworks for Startups
Fireworks AI Build Credits for VC-backed startups, valid one year
What you get from Fireworks for Startups for free
Overview
Fireworks for Startups is the startup program for Fireworks AI's inference platform for generative AI models. Accepted companies get Build Credits, options for higher rate limits, direct access to Fireworks' applied AI engineers, and community and marketing benefits. The page does not publish a dollar value for the credits.
Program Credits & Benefits
- Build Credits: "Unlock credits and options for higher rate limits" to prototype and scale; credits "apply automatically to usage charges" and "expire after 1-year."
- Where credits apply: Text & Vision Inference (e.g. LLaMA, Mistral, Stable Diffusion), Image Generation (Stable Diffusion, Flux), Speech-to-Text (e.g. Whisper-v3), Embeddings, Model Fine-tuning, and On-Demand GPU Deployments.
- Not covered: reserved compute/GPU commitments and Fireworks professional services or premium support.
- Support and community: world-class applied AI experts, exclusive startup community access (meetups, workshops, hackathons), product insights and roadmap sessions, ready-to-use libraries, cookbooks, repos and guides, plus joint marketing and case studies.
How to Apply
- Open the program form at fireworks.ai/startup-program using the Join Program link.
- Create an account at app.fireworks.ai/signup if you do not have one.
- For program questions, contact startups@fireworks.ai.
Before you claim
- Incorporated company: Be a registered company with a functional website
- Other: Privately held, for-profit entity
- Company age: Founded within the last 5 years
- Minimum funding: Venture-backed with more than $500k in funding
- Funding stage: Not have raised Series D or later
- Who can claim: Privately held, for-profit startups, venture-backed with more than $500k in funding, founded within the last 5 years and not past Series D.
- Payment card: Not needed.
- Account: Sign up with the provider.
Key limits
- Build Credits expire after 1 year
- Credits auto-apply to usage charges; pay-as-you-go afterward
- Not valid for reserved GPU capacity, SLAs, professional services, or premium support
- Options for higher rate limits included
Eligibility
- Be a registered company with a functional website.
- Operate as a privately held, for-profit entity.
- Founded within the last 5 years.
- Venture backed startups with >$500k in funding.
- Not have received Series D or later funding.
As the provider states it on the date shown above. The provider decides who qualifies.
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Models served free
Limits as the provider publishes them; a dash means none is published.
| Model | Context | RPM | RPD | TPM | Tools | Vision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-5Build Credits auto-apply to Fireworks usage (offer row); listed in the Fireworks model library; limits for program credits unpublished | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3.8 MaxBuild Credits auto-apply to Fireworks usage (offer row); listed in the Fireworks model library; limits for program credits unpublished | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen3.8 Flash NextBuild Credits auto-apply to Fireworks usage (offer row); listed in the Fireworks model library; limits for program credits unpublished; library lists FP8 and FP4 deployments | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| GLM 5.2Build Credits auto-apply to Fireworks usage (offer row); listed in the Fireworks model library; limits for program credits unpublished | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Minimax M3Build Credits auto-apply to Fireworks usage (offer row); listed in the Fireworks model library; limits for program credits unpublished | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kimi K3Build Credits auto-apply to Fireworks usage (offer row); listed in the Fireworks model library; limits for program credits unpublished | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek V4.1 FlashBuild Credits auto-apply to Fireworks usage (offer row); listed in the Fireworks model library; limits for program credits unpublished | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| GLM 5.3 FlashBuild Credits auto-apply to Fireworks usage (offer row); listed in the Fireworks model library; limits for program credits unpublished | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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