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Startup credits + AI FinOps for Claude and AWS

Get more startup credits. Spend less on AI.

Creduna helps startups discover AWS and Claude credit programs, check eligibility, prepare stronger applications and continuously optimize AI infrastructure costs.

Check my eligibility Analyze my AI spend

Find the credits you qualify for before you start paying full price for AI infrastructure.

  • Read-only access
  • No prompt content
  • Independent platform
  • No infrastructure changes
  • ≈ 5 minute setup
Creduna · EstimateEST · 2026-10
Company stage
Prompt caching−$2,160/moBatch + model routing−$1,440/moAWS + Claude credits, year 1up to −$144,000
Year-one potentialup to $187,200
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Illustrative. Assumes 30% of token spend is recoverable and AWS and Anthropic program maximums. Credits are awarded by AWS and Anthropic.

01 Credit programs

Credits you may qualify for

Four programs from AWS and Anthropic, with the conditions they publish. Creduna assesses your company against each one and prepares the application draft.

Amazon Web Services

AWS Activate Portfolio

Potential benefit
Up to $200,000 in AWS credits
Who it is for
Startups backed by a VC, accelerator or incubator in the Activate Provider network.
Requirements and conditions
Main requirements
  • Organization ID from your provider
  • Pre-Series B
  • Founded in the last 10 years
  • Working company website
Previous credits
Not available if you already received an equal or larger Activate package.
Where credits apply
AWS services, including Claude on Amazon Bedrock.
Program details
Creduna: eligibility assessment + application draft
Amazon Web Services

AWS Activate Founders

Potential benefit
$1,000 in AWS credits; up to $5,000 for select startups
Who it is for
Self-funded startups without institutional backing.
Requirements and conditions
Main requirements
  • Self-funded
  • Founded in the last 10 years
  • Working company website
  • AWS account on a paid plan
Previous credits
For companies new to Activate credits.
Where credits apply
AWS services, including Claude on Amazon Bedrock.
Program details
Creduna: eligibility assessment + application draft
Anthropic

Claude for Startups

Potential benefit
$1,000 in API credits, a year of Claude Team for up to five seats, partner offers
Who it is for
Early-stage startups building with Claude. VC funding is not required.
Requirements and conditions
Main requirements
  • Founded in the last 5 years or funded in the last 2
  • Claude Console account
  • Company email on the website domain
  • Short description of what you are building
Previous credits
Not specified by Anthropic.
Where credits apply
Anthropic API only. Credits expire six months after they are granted.
Program details
Creduna: eligibility assessment + application draft
Anthropic

Claude for Startups: VC partner benefits

Potential benefit
Up to $100,000 in additional API credits
Who it is for
Startups backed by a venture firm in the Anthropic partner network.
Requirements and conditions
Main requirements
  • Investment from a partner VC
  • Claimed through that investor
Previous credits
Not specified by Anthropic.
Where credits apply
Anthropic API only.
Program details
Creduna: eligibility assessment + application draft
Check what credits you qualify for

Benefits shown are potential, not guaranteed: they are the amounts AWS and Anthropic published as of October 2026 and can change. Applications are reviewed and submitted by the customer. Eligibility and awards are determined exclusively by the relevant program provider.

02 Eligibility checker Live

Check what credits you qualify for.

About three minutes and no AWS connection. Answer questions about your company, funding and current usage, and see where you stand before you apply anywhere.

  • A status for each program, from published rules
  • A Creduna Risk & Readiness Score for each program
  • What is ready and what may block the application
  • Your Creduna Credit Path: what to apply for first
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Example result

We found 3 potentially relevant programs.

  • Claude for StartupsLikely eligible
  • AWS Activate FoundersLikely eligible
  • AWS Activate PortfolioNeeds more information

    Requires an Organization ID from your accelerator or VC.

  • Claude VC partner benefitsNot currently eligible

    Requires a partner VC.

Creduna Risk & Readiness Score, Claude for Startups87 / 100
03 Startup Credits Assistant Early access

Creduna prepares the application. You submit it.

The eligibility engine applies the published rules. Claude then turns your company profile into application drafts, using only what you told us and marking anything that is missing.

Creduna prepares the application. You review and submit it directly to the provider.

After the eligibility check, Claude explains your result and writes editable application drafts on the same page. Saved accounts are in early access.

  1. Relevant programs and likely eligibility
  2. Missing requirements and potential blockers
  3. Application checklist and supporting information
  4. An application draft for each program
  5. A recommended order of applications
04 Credit runway

Make your startup credits last longer.

Credits are a balance with an expiry date. What decides how long they last is your monthly burn. Move the numbers to see what optimization does to your runway.

Estimated lifetime · $1,420 / month7.0 months
With Creduna recommendations · $866 / month11.5 months

+4.5 months more runway

A calculator, not a forecast: your real reduction depends on your workload. Automatic tracking of balances and expiry dates is planned.

05 AI FinOps

See where every token dollar goes.

Creduna reads usage metadata, never content. From it you get token economics for each model and the opportunities ranked by monthly impact.

Open opportunities$3,240 / month
OpportunityWorkloadSaving / moEffortStatus
Cache the 14k-token system promptSupport agent$1,240LowReady
Route intent classification to HaikuRouter$860LowReady
Move nightly evals to batchEvals$540LowReady
Trim retrieved context to the top 6 chunksRAG$410MediumReview
Cap output length on summariesSummaries$190LowReview

Sample data from a demo account.

Sources

  • Amazon Bedrock Live
  • AWS Cost Explorer Live
  • Anthropic API usage Early access

What it tracks

  • Input and output tokens Live
  • Cache reads and writes Live
  • Cache hit ratio Live
  • Model distribution Live
  • Cost by model Live
  • Monthly AI spend Live
  • Average request size Live
  • Cost by application and feature Planned
  • Cost by environment Planned
  • Burn rate alerts Planned
  • Forecast Planned
06 Claude Optimization Agent Live

Claude turns your usage data into a savings plan.

An agent built on Claude investigates your usage with a fixed set of tools. Every number comes from a calculation on your metadata. Claude decides where to look and explains why.

Every recommendation includes

  • Estimated monthly and annual saving
  • Implementation effort
  • Expected quality impact
  • Suggested change with a technical explanation
  • Eval requirement
  • Deployment surface
  • Confidence level
creduna audit
  1. Read31 days of usage metadata
  2. DetectRepeated 14k-token prefix, 0% cache hit rate
  3. RecommendEnable prompt caching after the tool definitions
  4. Estimate$1,240 / month potential saving
  5. VerifyRun against your existing eval suite

Illustrative example.

What it looks for

  • Prompt caching Live
  • Batch processing Live
  • Model routing and downgrades Live
  • Output limits Live
  • Context trimming Planned
  • Retry optimization Planned
  • Duplicate request detection Planned
  • Tool-call optimization Planned
  • Async processing Planned
07 Built with Claude

Claude is the reasoning layer of Creduna.

Claude powers Creduna’s reasoning layer. Creduna keeps official program matching, eligibility rules and usage calculations deterministic, while Claude analyzes company readiness, explains eligibility results, prepares application drafts and turns AI usage signals into actionable optimization recommendations.

Startup credits

  1. Company profile
  2. Program rules
  3. Eligibility engine
  4. Creduna Credits Assistant
  5. Explanation + application draft

Readiness

  1. Creduna Trust Signals
  2. Program requirements
  3. Hard rules and score caps
  4. Creduna AI Review
  5. Risk & Readiness Score + Credit Path

AI FinOps

  1. Anthropic and AWS usage
  2. Creduna metrics
  3. Opportunity detection
  4. Claude Optimization Agent
  5. Savings plan

What Claude receives for FinOps

  • Model
  • Token volume
  • Cache utilization
  • Request count
  • Cost
  • Workload type

Core FinOps analysis does not require prompt or completion content.

Creduna MCP server Planned

Ask Claude “how long will my AWS credits last?” and get the answer from your Creduna data. Not available yet.

Two deployment surfaces

Anthropic API

  • Powers Credits Assistant and application drafts
  • Powers the Optimization Agent and reports
  • Source of first-party Claude usage: tokens, cache, model mix, service tiers

Amazon Bedrock

  • Claude workloads you run inside AWS
  • Usage from CloudWatch, cost from Cost Explorer
  • AWS credit planning

Credits from different providers apply to different billing surfaces. Anthropic credits do not cover Amazon Bedrock usage, and AWS credits do not cover usage billed by Anthropic.

08 Security

Your infrastructure stays yours.

Creduna connects through a cross-account IAM role that you create and can delete at any moment. It reads cost data and token counts. It never sees what you send to Claude or what comes back.

Creduna can read

  • Cost Explorer and Cost & Usage Reports
  • Bedrock token counts in CloudWatch
  • Which Claude models and inference profiles you use
  • Account structure in AWS Organizations

Creduna cannot

  • Read prompts, completions or application data
  • Invoke models or spend on your account
  • Change infrastructure, quotas or billing
  • Keep access after you delete the role
Read the security page
creduna-readonly.yaml
CredunaReadOnlyRole:
  Type: AWS::IAM::Role
  Properties:
    AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
      Statement:
        - Effect: Allow
          Action: sts:AssumeRole
          Condition: { sts:ExternalId: <yours> }
    Policies:
      - PolicyDocument:
          Statement:
            - Effect: Allow
              Action:
                - ce:Get*
                - cur:Describe*
                - cloudwatch:ListMetrics
                - cloudwatch:GetMetricData
                - bedrock:List*
                - organizations:List*
              Resource: "*"
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • CloudWatch
  • Cost Explorer
  • CUR
  • Organizations
  • CloudFormation
09 How it works

Get the credits. Make them last. Spend smarter.

  1. ≈ 3 min1

    Check eligibility

    Answer questions about your company. See likely eligibility for each program and what is missing.

  2. By email2

    Prepare the application

    We prepare drafts with Claude. You review them and submit directly to AWS and Anthropic.

  3. ≈ 5 min3

    Connect usage

    Launch one CloudFormation stack. It creates a read-only role scoped to billing data and usage metrics.

  4. Ongoing4

    Optimize

    Get savings opportunities ranked by impact, so the credits you received last longer.

10 Integrations

Works with what you already run.

  • AWS Cost Explorer Live
  • Amazon CloudWatch Live
  • Amazon Bedrock Live
  • Google Sheets export Live
  • Anthropic API usage Early access
  • Creduna MCP Planned
11 Pricing

Start free. See what you qualify for.

Creduna is free during early access. Check your startup credit eligibility, see how ready you are to apply, and get AI-powered guidance on what to do next.

Creduna Early Access

$0

Free during early access

Everything you need to discover, prepare for and make better use of startup credits.

  • Credit eligibility checker
  • Creduna Risk & Readiness Score
  • Creduna Trust Signals
  • Creduna Credit Path
  • Creduna Next Best Action
  • Claude and AWS startup program matching
  • Application readiness checklist
  • Application Assistant with an editable draft
  • AI FinOps preview, on request
  • First optimization recommendations, on request
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No credit card · No success fee during early access · No obligation

What happens later?

Core credit eligibility and basic readiness checking are planned to remain free. Paid plans are planned for continuous FinOps monitoring, advanced optimization, alerts, reporting and team features. You’ll always see the price before choosing to upgrade.

Creduna does not take a percentage of the credits you are awarded during early access. Credit eligibility and awards are determined by the relevant program provider. Creduna is an independent company and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Amazon Web Services or Anthropic.

12 FAQ

Questions founders ask first.

Does Creduna guarantee that we get credits?

No. Creduna assesses your company against the published rules and prepares the application. AWS and Anthropic alone decide who receives credits and how much.

Can Creduna submit the application for us?

No. Both programs require the startup to apply from its own accounts. We prepare the draft; you review it and submit it directly to the provider.

Can we use AWS credits and Claude credits at the same time?

Yes, but not on the same request. Claude for Startups credits work only on the Anthropic API and expire after six months. AWS credits work only on AWS, including Amazon Bedrock. We plan which workload runs where, so the credits that expire first are spent first.

Can you see our prompts or customer data?

No. The role reads billing data and usage metrics such as token counts per model. It has no permission to read model inputs, outputs or invocation logs.

Will cheaper tokens make our product worse?

Caching and batch do not change model output. Routing and context trimming can, so those are proposed as separate changes and measured against your evals before anything ships.

Is Creduna affiliated with AWS or Anthropic?

No. Creduna is an independent company. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Amazon Web Services or Anthropic.

How much does Creduna cost?

Creduna is currently free during early access. You can check startup credit eligibility, assess application readiness and use the current early-access features without entering a credit card. We plan to introduce paid plans for advanced continuous FinOps capabilities later, with pricing shown clearly before you upgrade.

Does Creduna take a percentage of my credits?

Not during early access. Creduna does not take a percentage of credits awarded through the programs you apply for.

How do we remove access?

Delete the CloudFormation stack. The role is gone and so is the access, immediately.

Get the credits. Make them last. Spend smarter.

Leave your email and choose where to start: the eligibility check, or a read-only look at your AI spend.

No credit card. No obligation.