Pulumi for Startups

Get up to $10,000 in Pulumi credits and exclusive help for your projects

Pulumi for Startups gives early-stage teams up to $10,000 in credits, office hours, and 12 months of runway to build cloud infrastructure as code.

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Help your small, nimble team scale up infrastructure

Pulumi for Startups helps early-stage companies build and deploy their cloud apps on our infrastructure as code (IaC) platform. Your team can manage and automate cloud infrastructure in the languages you already use — JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, .NET, Java, and Go — so you can adopt the cloud without learning a new domain-specific language (DSL) or dedicating a whole team to managing and scaling your infrastructure.

Program benefits

Up to $10,000 in Pulumi credits
Your whole team can build on Pulumi, with up to $10,000 in free credits.
Exclusive office hours and events
Office hours and workshops to help you ship your product quickly.
12 months of runway
Bill credits will be applied for up to 12 months.
Built for your stage
Designed for pre-Series A companies with less than $1 million in annual revenue.

Why startups build on Pulumi

Real programming languages
Use loops, conditionals, functions, and classes, catch errors at compile time, reuse code across projects, and refactor with confidence.
Hundreds of providers
Full API coverage for all major clouds: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes — plus service providers like Cloudflare, Datadog, and GitHub.
Test before you ship
Write unit tests for your infra code, integration tests for pre-prod environments, smoke tests for releases — all with industry-standard tools.
Put agents to work
Equip your agents with best-practices skills and use Neo, our infrastructure agent, for more complex tasks, debugging, and code generation.
Eliminate secrets sprawl
Fetch secret values from any supported store with a single Pulumi Cloud access token. No more juggling multiple credentials manually.
Self-service options
Code, low-code YAML, or no-code portals. Engineers can work the way they prefer with consistent governance.

Startup success stories

“Pulumi supercharged our whole organization and empowered our developer teams to self-provision resources and ship new capabilities faster without having to wait for the infrastructure team to deploy new resources on their behalf.”

Igor ShapiroPrincipal Engineer

With Pulumi, Panther Labs was able to provide innovative solutions to their customers quickly, which is a clear advantage for a startup.
Lemonade's Ops team supports a much larger group of developers by using Pulumi to standardize infrastructure components and enforce best practices.
Pulumi helps to supercharge Kubernetes deployments at Sourcegraph, ensuring their team has continuous access to the latest builds.
Aptos Labs used Pulumi to transform development, increasing velocity by up to 10x while improving security, compliance, and cost control.
Learn how this Edinburgh-based AI platform company deploys from contract to production in one day, with two backend engineers managing infrastructure for 19 clients using AI agents and Pulumi.
Defense tech startup accelerates compliance timelines to bring capabilities to market up to 6x faster while enabling rapid deployment across air-gapped cloud and edge environments.