Supabase Startup Program
Supabase publishes no startup credits program. Its Free plan is $0 and Pro starts at $25 a month; other backend providers still fund startups.
This program no longer exists
Supabase publishes no startup credits program. As of October 30, 2026, supabase.com/startups redirects to a product overview with no application, amount, or eligibility, and no other Supabase page offers startup credits. The Free plan is unaffected.
See what to apply to insteadApply to these instead of Supabase
Live startup programs that cover the same job, each checked against the provider's own page.
How they compare
- Databricks Startup Program
- Worth
- Up to $200,000 in credits
- Referral
- Not needed
- Review
- Not published
- Google for Startups Cloud Program
- Worth
- Up to $200,000 (or $350,000 for AI-first)
- Referral
- Not needed
- Review
- 14 to 28 days
- Convex for Startups
- Worth
- Up to 1 year of Convex Professional free
- Referral
- Not needed
- Review
- Not published
- Turso for Startups
- Worth
- Turso credits (amount not published)
- Referral
- Not needed
- Review
- Not published
- Auth0 for Startups
- Worth
- 1 year free B2B Professional (~$24K value)
- Referral
- Not needed
- Review
- 7 to 14 days
- MojoAuth Startup Program
- Worth
- 50% off annual billing for 12 months
- Referral
- Not needed
- Review
- 3 to 5 days
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- Move from Supabase to FirebaseFirestore versus the Postgres-backed SQL Connect path
Keep the cost down without a program
Vendors often drop startup offers once they move upmarket to enterprise buyers. These still work for an early team.
- Stay on Supabase's Free plan, which is $0 a month, until you hit its limits.
- On Pro, the first Micro compute instance is covered by the $10 a month in compute credits the plan includes.
- Use credits from Neon, Convex, Turso or MongoDB programs in this directory for a different backend.
- Self-host Supabase, which Supabase documents, if you have an engineer who can run it.
- Use credits from AWS Activate or Google for Startups Cloud for managed databases on those clouds.
About
Supabase does not publish a startup credits program. As of October 30, 2026, supabase.com/startups redirects to supabase.com/solutions/startups, a product overview with no application form, no credit amount, and no eligibility rules. No other Supabase-owned page describes free credits for startups.
What Supabase does document for early teams is its Free plan, at $0 a month: unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, a 500 MB database on a shared CPU with 500 MB of RAM, 5 GB of egress plus 5 GB of cached egress, 1 GB of file storage, and community support. Free projects pause after one week of inactivity, and you can run two active projects. The Pro plan starts at $25 a month and includes $10 a month in compute credits, which Supabase says covers one Micro instance. The Team plan starts at $599 a month.
When supabase.com says credits, it means billing. Each organization has a credit balance that is applied to future invoices. You can top it up yourself, up to $2,000 per top-up; those credits do not expire and are non-refundable, and Supabase asks you to get in touch for packages above $2,000. A downgrade also credits back unused subscription time. None of this is a startup grant.
Deal aggregators still list a Supabase startup offer, usually as six months of the Team plan free or as $3,000 in credits over twelve months. The two figures contradict each other, neither links to a working application, and neither appears on a Supabase page. A listing on a perks roundup is not evidence that a program exists.
Supabase also does not document an affiliate or referral program. Its partner program at supabase.com/partners is for companies that build integrations on Supabase or build on it for clients.
If you want to keep part of Supabase, two things on its own docs matter. Supabase has first-class support for third-party auth providers, including Auth0, Clerk, Firebase Auth, AWS Cognito and WorkOS, so you can use the Data API, Storage, Realtime and Functions without moving your users to Supabase Auth. And Supabase documents self-hosting. For credits from other backend and database providers, see the guide linked below.
Frequently asked about Supabase Startup Program
Does Supabase have an affiliate program?
No affiliate or referral program is documented on supabase.com. What Supabase documents is a partner program at supabase.com/partners with two tracks: Integration Partners, who have built a tool, extension, connector, or service that works with Supabase, and Solution Partners, agencies and consultancies that build on Supabase for clients. Partners get a Partner Catalog listing, co-marketing, and a direct line to the product team. The page describes no commissions or referral payouts. Supabase says applying takes about five minutes and review takes about a week.
What does the Supabase Free plan include?
The Free plan costs $0 a month and includes unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, a 500 MB database on a shared CPU with 500 MB of RAM, 5 GB of egress, 5 GB of cached egress, 1 GB of file storage, and community support. Free projects pause after one week of inactivity, and you can have two active projects.
Can I buy Supabase credits?
Yes. Each Supabase organization has a credit balance that is applied to future invoices before your card is charged. You can top it up from the billing page, up to $2,000 per top-up. Top-up credits do not expire and are non-refundable, and they cannot pay an invoice that is already outstanding. For packages above $2,000, Supabase asks you to contact it.
Is Turso part of Supabase?
Supabase announced on October 2, 2026 that it is acquiring Turso. Supabase says nothing changes for existing users: Supabase continues building around Postgres, Turso continues its work on SQLite, and Turso continues operating.
Is Supabase Startup Program still available?
Supabase publishes no startup credits program. As of October 30, 2026, supabase.com/startups redirects to a product overview with no application, amount, or eligibility, and no other Supabase page offers startup credits. The Free plan is unaffected.
What should startups use instead of Supabase Startup Program?
The closest live options are Databricks Startup Program, Google for Startups Cloud Program, Convex for Startups and Turso for Startups. Each one is listed with its current terms and application link on this page.
Why is this page still published if the program ended?
Because founders still search for it. Removing the page would send them to third-party sites that are still republishing the old terms as if they were current. Keeping it, with the offer stripped out, is the only way to correct the record at the place people actually look.
How can I tell whether a startup credit program is still live?
Open the provider's own startup or partner page and look for a working application form with stated eligibility and credit amounts. Aggregator sites routinely keep listings up for years after a program ends, so a deal roundup is not evidence that the program exists.