Fireworks for Startups

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.

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.

How to Apply

1. Open the program form at fireworks.ai/startup-program using the Join Program link.
2. Create an account at app.fireworks.ai/signup if you do not have one.
3. For program questions, contact [email protected].