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Together AI Startup Accelerator

Tiered inference/training credits for startups building generative AI apps on Together AI.

Together AIUpdated monthly · checked 19 h ago

Together AI Startup Accelerator is an AI and ML perk from Together AI worth up to $50K in free platform credits, open to any startup.

Value
Up to $50K
Who qualifies
Any startup
Benefit type
Credits
Apply at Together AI (opens the program details)

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What you get

Inside Together AI Startup Accelerator

Tiered credits by fundraising: Build (under $5M raised) up to $15,000, Scale ($5M-$10M) up to $30,000, Grow (over $10M) up to $50,000, across serverless inference, dedicated endpoints, fine-tuning, and instant clusters, plus engineering and GTM support.

Source: The provider's official program page (together.ai/startup-accelerator) · as of Nov 14, 2026

Eligibility

Who it's for

SeedSeries ASeries B+
Funding / backing
Any startup
Startup stage
Seed, Series A, Series B+
Geography
Global
Recurring / expiry
Cohort-based selection.
Other requirements
Credit tier set by total funding raised.
How to claim

How to apply for Together AI Startup Accelerator

Steps to apply
  1. 1Apply with the form on Together AI's Startup Accelerator page; selection is by application, for startups building generative AI apps on Together AI.
Good to know: The old /startups page is gone (404); the program page is /startup-accelerator with the Build (up to $15K), Scale (up to $30K) and Grow (up to $50K) tiers and the application form.
Apply at Together AI (opens the program details)

Source: The provider's official program page (together.ai/startup-accelerator) · as of Nov 14, 2026

Confirmed on : the page still states “Up to $50K in free platform credits*”

Value is the headline maximum Together AI advertises. What your company actually receives depends on your eligibility and how you use the program, and terms can change. A comparison, not endorsed by the programs listed. A program labeled Same owner comes from the company that runs StartupPerks. Confirm current terms on the provider's page.
If Together AI does not fit

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Each value is the one its own program page shows today. The reasons were read on the linked pages on October 29, 2026.

Questions

Together AI Startup Accelerator: what founders ask

Each answer restates what Together AI and the pages linked under it say, read on October 29, 2026.

How many credits does the Together AI Startup Accelerator give?

Up to $15K for startups that raised up to $5M (Build), up to $30K for $5M to $10M raised (Scale) and up to $50K for over $10M raised (Grow). Each tier also includes free forward-deployed engineering time.

The three tiers on Together AI's page
  • Build, up to $5M raised: up to $15K in free platform credits and 3 hours of free forward-deployed engineering time.
  • Scale, $5M to $10M raised: up to $30K in free platform credits and 6 hours of engineering time.
  • Grow, over $10M raised: up to $50K in free platform credits and 10 hours of engineering time.

Source: Together AI Startup Accelerator page (together.ai/startup-accelerator)

What can the Together AI startup credits be used on?

Together AI says the credits apply to serverless inference, dedicated endpoints, fine-tuning and instant clusters. They do not apply to Reserved GPU Clusters.

The page gives the amounts as 'up to', and does not say how long the credits last or when they expire. Ask Together AI when you are accepted.

Source: Together AI Startup Accelerator page (together.ai/startup-accelerator)

Who can join the Together AI Startup Accelerator?

It is a selection-based program for startups, and the tier you land in depends on how much funding you have raised. Together AI publishes no other eligibility rule on the page, so its team decides from your application.

The application asks how much funding you have raised, how many paying customers you have, which VCs you are affiliated with, your current cloud provider and your main use cases. The Build tier is for startups that have raised up to $5M.

Source: Together AI Startup Accelerator page (together.ai/startup-accelerator)

How do I apply to the Together AI Startup Accelerator?

Fill in the application form at the bottom of Together AI's accelerator page. The team reviews it and gets back to you, and acceptance is not automatic.

What the form asks for
  • Your name, company email, job title and company website.
  • Funding raised, paying customers, affiliated VCs and current cloud provider.
  • Use cases (inference, LLMs, training, research, rendering and more) and the GPUs you need.
  • Monthly GPU spend, number of GPUs, model architecture and deployment timeline.

Source: Together AI Startup Accelerator page (together.ai/startup-accelerator)

What else does the Together AI accelerator include besides credits?

Free engineering time from Together AI, exclusive content, joint go-to-market support, a peer community and a connection to its VC network.

Together AI describes joint go-to-market as marketing, co-sell and other venues to reach 800K+ Together AI developers. The community side is exclusive events with peers and AI researchers.

Source: Together AI Startup Accelerator page (together.ai/startup-accelerator)

Does Together AI give free credits or a free trial without the accelerator?

Together AI's docs say it does not currently offer free trials, and that using the platform requires a minimum $15 credit purchase. After the first purchase the minimum top-up is $5.

The platform is fully prepaid, so API access is suspended if your balance reaches zero. The docs say prepaid balance credits do not currently expire.

Source: Together AI docs: credits (docs.together.ai/docs/billing-credits)

Terms history

Together AI Startup Accelerator's terms over time

We have read Together AI's page for it (together.ai/startup-accelerator) 3 times since August 15, 2026, most recently on November 10, 2026. No read has found a different figure or a change in whether it takes applications.

Every startup program change we found this quarter
GPU credits, comparedTogether AI Startup Accelerator next to every other GPU credit program for startupsThe credit, who qualifies, how to apply and each provider's own H100 price, with what each credit buys in GPU-hours, read from each provider's own page.
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