Create with Claude today. Lead your market tomorrow.

Claude brings your startup’s boldest ideas to life. Access the same frontier AI trusted by industry leaders to transform ambitious concepts into market advantages. We support your journey with dedicated credits, resources, and a community. Available now through our VC partners.

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What the program offers

For startups working with our VC partners, our program provides the API credits, rate limits, and resources you need to build with Claude.

  • Free API credits

    Free credits, so you can experiment and build with confidence

  • Priority rate limits

    Our highest tier of publicly available rate limits ensures smooth operation as you grow

  • Community

    Invitations to exclusive founder events and workshops

Technology that works as hard as you do

Anthropic API & Console

  • One platform to build, test, and iterate on your AI deployment
  • Build faster with pre-built cookbooks and guides
  • Optimize for intelligence and cost with prompt caching

Claude Code

  • Embed Claude directly in your development environment
  • Seamless integration with your terminal and existing dev tools
  • Code with AI assistance without breaking your workflow

Claude

  • Collaborate effectively with intuitive team workspaces and organized projects
  • Create and edit code, documents, and designs with interactive Artifacts
  • Connect Claude to your tools for context-aware assistance
  • Create meaningful work outputs with Claude’s reasoning capabilities

Our mission is to empower the next billion software creators. We say software creators because we don’t think it’s just going to be developers. Anyone should be able to create software.

Amjad Masad
CEO and Co-founder at Replit
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We’re automating the mundane. 80% of Sales work today is manual, laborious, data work. In the era of AI, humans can focus on truly human, creative work, and we can leave the data work in the hands of AI.

Matthew Quan
Enterprise Growth Lead at Clay
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We’re trying to model human cognition. We need systems that are agentic in nature. They have to have planning, subgoal decomposition, reflection on failure, refinement of tasks as they act. They need memory, both short-term and long-term. They need to be able to retrieve information and use tools. Anthropic and Claude have consistently delivered what we need to get there.

Eno Eyes
CTO and Co-founder at Factory
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Claude Sonnet is the enabling technology that made this product possible, period.

Eric Simons
CEO and Co-founder at StackBlitz
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We want to serve the best AI and make sure that we give such a good experience to our users that they feel like they can’t get it anywhere else.

Aarash Heydari
Infrastructure Engineer at Perplexity
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Claude consistently ranks among the most accurate generative AI models available, and continues to push innovation forward with each update.

Tomas Reimers
Co-founder at Graphite
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