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$10,000 – $350,000 credits
Startup Deal Overview
Verified Startup Deal
Trial / Runway 12 Months
Credit Pool $10,000 – $350,000 credits
Eligibility Age 10y
Verification Manual Review (1–5d)
Payout & Expiry Upfront Pool · 12mo Expiry
Entity Rules Registered Entity
Credit Card Required
Work Email Personal / Any Email
Startup Deal Detail
The Cloudflare for Startups program provides early-stage and growth-stage companies with up to $350,000 in usage credits valid for 12 months across Cloudflare’s Developer Platform.
The program is organized into three distinct tiers based on your funding stage

• Tier 3 ($10,000 Credits): Designed for bootstrapped, self-funded, or pre-seed startups that have raised under $1M.
• Tier 2 ($100,000 Credits): Built for startups funded by partner VCs/accelerators that have raised under $5M.
• Tier 1 ($350,000 Credits): Tailored for fast-scaling venture-backed startups with $5M+ in funding.

What Credits Cover: Credits apply to usage-based products across compute, AI, and storage, including

• Compute: Cloudflare Workers, Workers for Platforms, Durable Objects, and Workflows.
• AI Compute: Workers AI inference (capped at $2,500 for Tier 3, $10,000 for Tier 2, and $50,000 for Tier 1).
• Storage & Databases: Workers KV, D1 SQL, Queues, Vectorize, and R2 Object Storage (capped at $10,000).
• Delivery: Cloudflare Pages, Images, Stream, Cache Reserve, and Argo Smart Routing.

Included at Zero Cost (All Tiers)

• 3 Enterprise zone upgrades with 100% SLA.
• Unlimited Pro and Business zone upgrades.
• Enterprise WAF (up to 1,000 custom rules), Advanced DDoS mitigation, Bot Management, and Page Shield.
• Global Anycast CDN, DNS, and Load Balancing (2 origins).

How to Apply
How to Claim this Deal

1. Create a standard account on Cloudflare (dash.cloudflare.com)with a verified credit card on file.
2. Complete the 3-minute application on the Cloudflare for Startups Application Portal.
3. Provide your company domain email, website URL, social link (LinkedIn/GitHub/X), and Cloudflare Account ID.
4. Applications are manually reviewed within 48 hours. Once approved, credits and enterprise plan upgrades are applied directly to your account.

Key Benefits

• Tiered Cloud Credits: $10,000 (Bootstrapped), $100,000 (Seed/Partner-backed), or $350,000 (Series A/B+).
• AI & Object Storage Allowances: Up to $50,000 for Workers AI inference and up to $10,000 for R2 object storage with zero egress fees.
• Free Enterprise Infrastructure: 3 Enterprise domains included at zero cost with 100% uptime SLA, advanced Bot Management, and 1,000 custom WAF rules.
• Full Serverless & Database Stack: Full access to Workers, Durable Objects, Workflows, D1 (Serverless SQL), Vectorize (Vector DB), and KV.
• Priority Advisory & Support: Dedicated Account Manager (Tier 1/2), bi-weekly Solutions Architect office hours (Tier 1), and priority ticket support across all tiers.

Cloudflare is offering.dev and.app domain registrations for $1.00 for the first year when you're on a paid Cloudflare Workers plan.
Standard pricing ($12.20/yr for.dev and $14.20/yr for.app) applies upon renewal.
Perfect if you're deploying web apps or developer tools and need an SSL-enforced domain on the cheap.
How to Claim this Deal

1. Log in to your Cloudflare dashboard with an active paid Workers plan (dash.cloudflare.com).
2. Head to the Domain Registration or Registrar tab.
3. Search for your desired.dev or.app domain.
4. Complete checkout the $1.00 promo price will automatically apply at payment.

Key Benefits

• $1.00 domain registration for.dev or.app for year one
• Built-in HTTPS/SSL enforcement by default on.dev and.app TLDs
• No registrar markup fees on subsequent renewals
• Integrated directly with Cloudflare DNS and Workers setup

1 Year of Workers paid plan
This developer platform allows you to build, deploy, and scale serverless applications globally with incredibly low latency.
The promotion waives the $5/month base fee for 12 months.
Users remain responsible for any additional usage costs over the generous base plan allotments.
How to Claim this Deal

1. Sign up for a free Cloudflare account (dash.cloudflare.com) using your institutional.edu email address and verify it.
2. Go to the Billing page in your dashboard and add a valid credit card.
3. Make sure your primary billing email address is set to that same.edu email.
4. Head to the Workers Plans page and add the Workers Paid plan to your subscription.
5. The $5/mo fee drops to $0 automatically for the next 12 months.

Our recommendation: Cloudflare Workers Paid plan offers one of the amazing tech stack and we also use it on Textfrog such as Pages, KV to store cache and store incremental pageviews, claim count etc.
Read more about Workers and Pages tier on Textfrog.
Key Benefits

• Deploy up to 500 individual Worker Scripts simultaneously.
• Get 10 million included requests and 20 million logs per month.
• Enjoy up to 30 seconds of high-performance CPU execution time per request.
• Code runs with lowest latency across Cloudflare's global edge network.
• Includes extra Workers KV edge storage and 6 concurrent build slots.

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