How to Apply for Cloudflare for Startups

Trying to scale your product without burning through startup runway? Cloudflare for Startups offers up to $350,000 in service credits for early-stage tech teams.

The full developer stack is covered: Workers, Pages, D1 SQL, Queues, Durable Objects, Workers AI, Vectorize, and zero-egress R2 storage. Enterprise-grade security, including DDoS mitigation, custom WAF rules, and Anycast CDN, is included. Tier 3 starts at $10,000, even for bootstrapped or self-funded projects.

What You Need

• A software/tech product with a live domain and website.
• A company incorporated within the last 10 years.
• A first-time application to the Cloudflare Startup program.

Tutorial

1. Apply here.

Wrapping Up

The program offers credits in tiers, up to $350,000, and Tier 3 opens the door for bootstrapped teams. If you are paying full price for cloud infrastructure, this is worth a couple of minutes before your next bill arrives.