Kong for Startups Alternatives

$100 free processing —€” test payment infrastructure at scale for free

Accept payments, send payouts, and manage subscriptions globally.

$500 incorporation + $2.5K Stripe credits + $50K partner perks —€” all-in-one startup launch package

Stripe Atlas incorporates your startup as a Delaware C-Corp or LLC for $500. Includes $2,500 in Stripe product credits for payment processing and access to over $50,000 in partner discounts from AWS, Google Cloud, Notion, GitHub, MongoDB, and more.

$10 free Jamba API credits for 3 months —€” test 256K-context models at no cost

Jamba family LLM API (Jamba Large 398B, Jamba Mini 52B, Jamba 3B) all with 256K context window. $10 free credits valid for 3 months. No permanent free tier —€” credit card required after trial.

$2,000 in Airtable credits —€” spreadsheet-database hybrid with automations, use code CARTA

Airtable offers $2,000 in credits for Interfaces, Sync, and Extensions through the CARTA partnership. Spreadsheet-database hybrid with rich views, automations, and integrations. Perfect for project management, CRM, and data tracking. Enter code CARTA at signup.

Free collaborative base.

No-code database and app builder.

Save $100+/mo on managed Postgres, MySQL, Redis —€” free tier covers dev and staging

Managed open-source databases including Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and more.

Free 10K records with typo-tolerant search saves startups $50/mo

Hosted search API with typo-tolerance, faceting, and analytics. Free for 10K records.

$10K Algolia search credits for startups —€” enterprise search API with typo-tolerance and AI recommendations

Algolia Startup Program offers $10,000 in search API credits for qualifying early-stage startups. Access to hosted search with typo-tolerance, faceting, analytics, and AI-powered recommendations. In addition to the existing free tier (10K records).

1M free tokens per model on Qwen —€” test Alibaba's latest LLMs including Qwen 3.5/3.6

Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio offering 1 million free tokens per model. Access to Qwen family models including Qwen 3.5 and Qwen 3.6. International account and credit card required.

1 year free Amplitude Growth ($36K/yr) —€” enterprise product analytics with behavioral cohorts and experimentation

Amplitude Growth plan free for 1 year for qualifying startups. Includes product analytics, behavioral cohorts, real-time dashboards, user paths, and experimentation tools. Single application gives $36K/year value.