Cloudflare for Startups — nonprofit / civil-society track
- Free allowance
- Up to $350,000 in credits for a year on the current program page (tiered: Tier 3 $10k upward).
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedapplication is declined; application window has closed, so treat as 'reapply at next intake'
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Up to $350,000 in credits for a year on the current program page (tiered: Tier 3 $10k upward). The nonprofit track announced 2025-09-22 offers 'up to $250,000 in Cloudflare credits ... which can be used for a variety of our developer and core products, including databases & storage, compute services, AI, media, and performance and security'. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: the storage product's own object cap applies (single-part 315 MB / multipart ~5 TiB class) — not binding at 10 TiB. request-rate: Workers/API rate limits apply to control-plane calls; object GETs are not rate-limited at these volumes. retention: credits are for 'a year'; the free-tier storage allowance that exists without credits is small (10 GB-class) and is where data lands if the application is declined. |
| Binding | write-gated the write is a queue with a person or a rule in it, so the upload rate is set by somebody else |
| Identity | institution not published |
| Egress | not published |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | Award is discretionary and cohort-based (501(c)(3) or equivalent required); the announcement's application window has closed, so treat as 'reapply at next intake'. Nothing about the credits is permanent — after year one the workload reverts to paid or to the small free tier. |
| Interface | s3-compatible, rest, rclone, cli rest |
| Tooling | Cloudflare API + Wrangler; Workers bindings; rclone backend 's3' works against Cloudflare's S3-compatible object storage endpoints, and the S3 API is the documented path for the storage product. |
| Composes with | Credit grant per organisation, applied for in cohorts ('The application period ... runs until December 1', then Cloudflare selects a cohort) — so it is a gated annual intake, not an open self-serve tier. $250k of usage-based credit at storage-class rates is a very large number of GB-months; the constraint is the one-year credit window and the cohort gate. |
| Reliability | Award is discretionary and cohort-based (501(c)(3) or equivalent required); the announcement's application window has closed, so treat as 'reapply at next intake'. Nothing about the credits is permanent — after year one the workload reverts to paid or to the small free tier. |
Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.cloudflare.com/forstartups/ | 'up to $350k in credits'; tier cards starting at Tier 3 $10k |
| 2026-10-21 | blog.cloudflare.com/expanding-startups-for-nonprofits/ | 'up to $250,000 in Cloudflare credits ... including databases & storage'; 'registered 501(c)(3) non-profit'; window closed 2025-12-01 |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: GET www.cloudflare.com/forstartups/ -> 200; GET blog.cloudflare.com/expanding-startups-for-nonprofits/ -> 200 |
Unknown values 5
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