LangSmith for Startups
$10,000 in LangSmith credits for a year for early-stage AI startups
What you get from LangSmith for Startups for free
Overview
LangSmith for Startups is a LangChain program offering credits and discounted pricing on LangSmith, the company's platform for LLM tracing, evaluation, prompt management, and agent deployment.
Tiers & Credits
Scale tier provides $10,000 in LangSmith credits valid for 1 year, and 2 years for Y Combinator companies. It also includes VIP event invitations, office hours and cohort sessions with the LangChain team, an exclusive Slack channel for Scale founders, and editorial spotlights to LangChain's audience.
Build tier provides discounted seat pricing only, with no dollar credits.
How to Get Started
Create a LangSmith account at smith.langchain.com using your startup-domain email, then apply at langchain.com/startups and select the Build or Scale tier. Applications are reviewed manually and credits are typically applied within a few days of approval.
Related Free Tier
LangSmith's free Developer plan includes 5,000 base traces per month and one Fleet agent with 50 runs per month, with pay-as-you-go beyond those limits.
Before you claim
- New customer: Be a first-time LangSmith customer
- Funding cap: Under $10M funding
- Minimum funding: At least $25K seed raised
- Partner referral: Scale tier applicants must be backed by a LangChain premier VC partner
- Verification: Apply with your startup domain email
- Who can claim: Build tier: first-time customer, under $10M funding, at least $25K seed raised. Scale tier: first-time customer, Series A or earlier, up to $50M funding, backed by a LangChain premier VC partner.
- Payment card: Not needed.
- Account: Sign up with the provider.
Key limits
- $10K credits valid 1 year (2 years for YC companies)
- First-time LangSmith customers only
- Scale tier: Series A or earlier, up to $50M funding, premier VC partner
- Build tier: discounted seat pricing only, no credits
- Applicants must have raised at least $25K in seed funding
- Apply with your startup domain email
Eligibility
- First-time customers only; companies already paying for LangSmith are not eligible (free Developer-plan usage is fine)
- Scale tier: Series A or earlier with up to $50M in funding, backed by a LangChain premier VC partner (partners include Sequoia, Y Combinator, Amplify, Bessemer, First Round, Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and NEA)
- Build tier: less than $10M raised and at least $25K in seed funding
- Additional eligibility criteria may apply
As the provider states it on the date shown above. The provider decides who qualifies.
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