Microsoft Azure credits

Free allowance: Quoted: 'Many Microsoft product teams grant Azure credits to open source communities to support their work', but 'Microsoft is not accepting new applications from projects directly and is instead relying on strategic, organic relationships between Microsoft businesses and the open source that...
Verdict: fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
Cost: no price stated
Identity: institutionno card, no phone
Binding limit: write-gatedThere is no application route at all: an award now depends on a Microsoft product team choosing a project it already depends on, which no individual can initiate.
Evidence: documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Free tier	Quoted: 'Many Microsoft product teams grant Azure credits to open source communities to support their work', but 'Microsoft is not accepting new applications from projects directly and is instead relying on strategic, organic relationships between Microsoft businesses and the open source that they depend on', and 'The application form is not currently open'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none
Price	none stated
Limits	write-gated (binding) There is no application route at all: an award now depends on a Microsoft product team choosing a project it already depends on, which no individual can initiate. source
Identity	institution not published
Egress	not stated
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	This closes the Microsoft lane for an individual and leaves GitHub as the only Microsoft-owned route that still takes applications, which is why the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund record carries the Azure credits instead.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded as fails-identity rather than dead because grants are still being issued: the programme changed from an open form to relationship-based allocation, and a reader who finds only the 2021 blog post will believe the form is open. That divergence between a 2021 announcement and the 2026 landing page is the finding. Microsoft's FOSS Fund, named on the same page, is an internal employee-directed fund and has no external application.

Evidence 3

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	opensource.microsoft.com/azure-credits/	quoted the closed-application sentences, 'The application form is not currently open', and 'Most grants span a single Microsoft fiscal year'
2026-10-22	opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2021/09/28/announcing-azure-cr	the original 2021 announcement, which stated that any project with an OSI-approved licence was eligible to apply; that open route no longer exists, which is the change worth recording [date precision: month, 2021-09]
2026-10-22	opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2024/11/12/whats-new-with-micr	reported that Azure credits now flow to CNCF and its hosted projects rather than to individual applicants [date precision: day, 2024-11-12]

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 "facets": {
  "class": "vendor-oss-credits",
  "free_tier_kind": "none",
  "shape": null
 }
}

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