Funds LLM API? — ✅ first-party LLM-API credits · ◐ cloud/compute usable for managed LLM APIs (Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI) · ✖ training / perks only.
| Program | Audience | What you get | Funds LLM API? | Who qualifies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure for Students | Students | $100 Azure credit / 12 mo, no card; covers Azure OpenAI | ◐ via cloud | Full-time university students, verify with a school email |
| GitHub Student Developer Pack | Students | GitHub Copilot access + $100 Azure credit + many dev tools | ◐ via cloud | Verified students (Azure offer 18+) |
| Cohere Labs — Catalyst Grants | Researchers | Free Cohere LLM API access for eligible projects | ✅ LLM API | Academic / civic / impact-focused AI projects |
| Google TPU Research Cloud | Researchers | Free access to 1,000+ Cloud TPUs to train/run models | ◐ via cloud | ML researchers; apply; must share results publicly |
| AWS Cloud Credit for Research | Both | Up to $5k (students) / uncapped (faculty) AWS credits; covers Bedrock | ◐ via cloud | Faculty, research staff or grad students at accredited institutions |
| Google Cloud Research Credits | Researchers | GCP credits (proposal-based); covers Vertex AI / Gemini; non-commercial | ◐ via cloud | Faculty / PhD / postdoc at accredited institutions |
| NVIDIA Academic Grant | Researchers | GPU-hours / hardware grants (e.g. up to 30k H100-hrs) | ◐ via cloud | Full-time faculty at PhD-granting institutions |
| Lambda Research Grants | Researchers | Up to $5k Lambda GPU cloud credits | ◐ via cloud | Qualifying researchers; competitive |
| AWS Educate | Students | Free training, labs and badges (no spendable credits) | ✖ perks only | Anyone 13+, email only, no card |
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