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For startups

Spend your runway on the product, not the cloud bill

Infrastructure in minutes, bills that can't run away from you, and a Startup Program with $5,000 in credits for your first year on Edge.
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For startups founded in the last 5 years with under $5M raised, backed by an approved accelerator, incubator or VC.

Credits, first year
$5,000
Egress, at any scale
$0
Edge locations
988
Median global latency
<15ms

What kills startups

Four ways the cloud eats your runway

Most of them show up on an invoice before they show up in a dashboard. Edge is built so none of them can.
  1. 01

    Every dollar on infrastructure is a day off the runway

    $5,000 of credits for your first year, then per-resource pricing billed by the hour. Nothing idle on a plan.

  2. 02

    One good launch, one bill you can't pay

    Free tiers pause at their caps instead of billing, compute runs from a prepaid balance, and egress is free.

  3. 03

    Bots signing up faster than customers

    Edge Shield scores every signup in the background. Free, with no puzzle in your onboarding flow.

  4. 04

    Re-platforming just as traction arrives

    The VM you launch on scales up in place and out across regions. Same console, same API.

How it works

Guardrails built into the billing, not bolted on

Billing you control

Hard caps and a prepaid balance

Free tiers pause at their limits rather than start billing. Compute draws on a balance you top up, deducted hourly. Stop a VM and its CPU and RAM charges stop the same hour; only its disk keeps billing.
  • CDN: 500k requests a month free, then $0.25 per million
  • Storage: 5 GB free, then $0.015 per GB-month
  • At zero balance, VMs stop. Nothing is deleted
  • Egress is $0, whatever your traffic does
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Scale

From one VM to a fleet, without re-platforming

Launch on a single Standard VM for $19.24 a month. When users arrive, resize it in place, add more behind the CDN, and spread across regions on a private network. It's the same console, CLI and API from the first day to year two.
  • Resize vCPU, RAM and disk on running VMs
  • Private networks between VMs
  • 33 compute regions across 5 continents
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Edge Shield

Stop fake signups from day one

Bots sign up to farm free tiers, test stolen cards and skew your metrics. Shield gives every signup a 1–100 humanity score before the account exists, so you reject automation without putting a puzzle in front of real users.
  • Free at any volume
  • Two snippets and one server-side call
  • No cookies, no tracking, no puzzle
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Edge for Startups

The Startup Program

Qualifying startups get a year of credits, a direct line to the people who build Edge, and a community of founders building on it.
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What you get

  • $5,000 in credits for your first year
  • Priority technical support
  • Direct access to the engineering team
  • Co-marketing opportunities
  • Access to the Edge startup community

Who's eligible

  • Under $5Mraised in total
  • Foundedwithin the last 5 years
  • New to Edgenot currently a customer
  • Backedby an approved accelerator, incubator or VC

How far the credits go

$500/mo
$50$400$2,000
Months covered by credits
10
You pay in year one
$1,000$6,000

Assumes a steady monthly bill. Programme credits are for your first year on Edge.

Recommended stack

Everything an early product needs

Deploy guides by stack
Case study

Case study: Environmental media

Ecohustler

How Ecohustler cut its environmental footprint

Ecohustler is an independent media platform covering the climate crisis for a global audience. It needed infrastructure that matched its values.

Serving content from the location nearest each reader shortened the distance data travels and cut energy use by up to half, while pages got faster.

“Edge is the cloud as it should be. Conscious by design, clean in operation.”
Matt MellenFounder & Editor, Ecohustler
Read the Ecohustler case study
Less energy
50%
Edge locations
988
Egress fees
$0
Edge products in use
5

Expert Services

No engineering team yet? Borrow ours.

Senior engineers who work as part of your startup, from the first prototype to the growth phase, at rates 20%+ below hiring in-house. No recruiting, onboarding or notice periods.
Below in-house cost
20%+
Recruitment hassle
0
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What we build for startups

FAQ

Questions founders ask

Not sure you qualify? Ask us.
Who can apply for the Startup Program?
Startups with less than $5M in total funding, founded within the last 5 years, that aren't already Edge customers and are affiliated with an approved accelerator, incubator or VC partner.
What do the $5,000 credits cover?
They're applied to your Edge usage during your first year, up to $5,000, so your infrastructure isn't coming out of the runway while you find product-market fit.
What happens when the credits run out?
You carry on paying for what you use, billed hourly from a prepaid balance. Free tiers stay hard-capped and egress stays free, so nothing starts billing silently.
Can I start before I'm accepted?
Yes. Sign up and build on the free tiers today. Credits are added to your account once your application is approved.
Are we locked in if we outgrow Edge?
No. VMs are standard Linux, storage is S3-compatible, and downloads are free, so moving your data out costs nothing.

Build the next big thing on Edge

Apply for $5,000 in credits, or start on the free tiers today. Every limit is a hard cap, so a good week never becomes a bad bill.

Apply for creditsStart free

Free tiers pause at their caps instead of billing. Egress is always $0.