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- Free allowance
- Up to USD 200 in Startup credits immediately to start building on Azure.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedUSD 200 is the whole reachable slice; the next milestone is gated on business verification and everything above it on Azure spend a user does not have.
- Evidence
- documented4 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 | Up to USD 200 in Startup credits immediately to start building on Azure. Milestone 1 requires: sign up for Azure and verify your identity using a personal LinkedIn account, with no business accounts allowed at this step. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-shot-credit |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) USD 200 is the whole reachable slice; the next milestone is gated on business verification and everything above it on Azure spend a user does not have. source
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| Identity | email A personal LinkedIn account plus an Azure signup. |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | USD 200 of Azure buys a few days of a small VM or a modest amount of Azure OpenAI usage. It composes as a way to test an Azure-only service before paying, and with the Azure free account allowance, but it is too small to train anything. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The program page itself, microsoft.com/en-us/startups, returns 200 but prints only marketing prose and no eligibility list; the Learn page carries the ladder. Treat USD 200 as the only part reachable without a legal entity. The one recorded is the better-evidenced. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/startups/microsoft-for-startups/ge | Milestone 1 is USD 200 and requires signing up for Azure and verifying identity with a personal LinkedIn account, quoted: 'Verify your identity (use a personal LinkedIn account, no business accounts allowed at this step)' |
| 2026-10-22 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/startups/microsoft-for-startups/ge | Milestone 2 is USD 5,000 and requires completing business verification, defined on the same page as 'Confirm your startup is a registered legal entity' |
| 2026-10-22 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/startups/microsoft-for-startups/ge | the full milestone ladder USD 200, USD 5,000, USD 25,000, USD 50,000, USD 150,000 with its workload and spend conditions, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/startups/microsoft-for-startups/ge | each 60-day clock starts once the workload count is met and every workload must stay above USD 1 of spend for all 60 days, quoted |
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