Pricing trends for Startup Perks: 13 tracked pricing changes across 122 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

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Startup Perks Pricing Trends

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reduced 4 restructured 3 increased 3 model change 1 restricted 1 new 1

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reduced ScaleGrid Startup Program discovered 2026-09-19 · effective date unknown medium
The Startup Saver program now has eligibility criteria of less than $1.5M in revenue and less than $1.5M in funding. Small plan sizes receive 50% off BYOC and 25% off Dedicated Hosting plans for 3 months. Source ↗
reduced The Intercom Early Stage Program discovered 2026-09-19 · effective date unknown medium
The number of Fin outcomes and qualifications available in Years 2 and 3 have been reduced. Source ↗
restructured Amplitude discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown medium
Amplitude renamed its Startup Scholarship "Early Stage Startup Pricing". The first year is still the full Growth plan free for startups with under 20 employees and under $10M raised; year 2 is now 40% off the annual Plus plan, or the free plan. Source ↗
restructured Ramp discovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknown high
Ramp's AWS perk no longer states an amount. It now says "Redeem AWS credits through the AWS Activate program."; in the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-05-21 it said "New to AWS? Get $5,000 in AWS credits to get started". Source ↗
increased Cloudflare discovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknown high
The program now offers up to $350k in credits instead of $250k. Tier 1 now offers $350k, Tier 2 offers $100k, and Tier 3 offers $10k. Workers AI credit caps are now $2,500 for Tier 3, $10,000 for Tier 2, and $50,000 for Tier 1. AI Gateway is temporarily not covered by credits. Source ↗
restructured FeedBear discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium
The Startup plan is now $40/month billed annually or $49/month billed monthly, a price increase from the stored $49/month for up to one year. Source ↗
increased Bench discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
The deal has changed from 20% off the first 6 months to 50% off the first 6 months for Stripe users. Source ↗
model change Sendinblue discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown high
The deal is now 50% off Starter and Standard Plans, not 12 months free on the Premium plan. Source ↗
reduced Mercury effective 2026-07-02 medium
Mercury paused its Google Cloud perk. mercury.com/perks/google-cloud offered "Google Cloud and Firebase costs covered up to $200,000 USD over 2 years" in the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-02-10 and said "Offer temporarily unavailable. New offer coming later this year" in the capture of 2026-07-02, as it does today. Source ↗
increased AWS Activate effective 2026-06-14 medium
AWS raised Activate Portfolio from up to $100,000 to up to $200,000 in credits. aws.amazon.com/startups/credits/ said "Up to $100,000 USD AWS Activate Credits" in the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-05-31 and "Up to $200,000 USD in Activate Credits" in the capture of 2026-06-14. Source ↗
restricted DigitalOcean effective 2026-05-13 medium
As of 2026-05-13, DigitalOcean's startup credits exclude Dedicated and Serverless Inference, third-party AI models, Paperspace Machines, Cloudways and Bare Metal GPUs as well as GPU Droplets and H100 GPU products, the two exclusions its page stated before. The page also now puts the monthly credit limit at $10,000; its April capture mentioned a monthly limit without an amount. Source ↗
new Amazon Kiro (AWS Startups) discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown medium
AWS Startups offers up to 1 year of free Kiro Pro+ (worth $480/year). Three tiers: Starter (up to 2 users), Growth (up to 50 users), Scale (up to 100 users). Eligible: early-stage to Series B companies. Source ↗
reduced FeedBear discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown low
Early-stage deal ($29/mo) replaced by Startup plan at $49/mo Source ↗

We hold 40 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

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