AssemblyAI Startup Program
AssemblyAI·United States
12 months of recurring free credits plus discounted pricing on AssemblyAI's speech-to-text APIs, for bootstrapped through Series A teams launching within six months. No amount is published.
What you get
“12 months of recurring free credits and discounted startup pricing, access to all of AssemblyAI's latest features, exclusive co-marketing opportunities, and a global community of Voice AI builders. (No amount published.)”
Can you apply
Who is eligible for the AssemblyAI Startup Program? Early-stage startups, bootstrapped through Series A, that are building products with voice or audio and launching within the next six months. The application takes minutes and applications are reviewed within one week. Portfolio companies of partner VCs and accelerators, including Accel and Y Combinator, are fast-tracked and should receive decisions in 48 hours.
When
Always open, applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
What AssemblyAI funds
AssemblyAI gives speech-to-text credits to early startups building voice products, and unlike most of its peers it takes bootstrapped teams as readily as funded ones. The real gate is timing: you have to be launching within six months.
Everything AssemblyAI funds →Details
Credits cover the core speech APIs: pre-recorded speech-to-text, streaming speech-to-text and dictation. They land in the console within 48 hours of approval. Discounted startup pricing continues after the credits run out and standard pricing phases in with no cliff, though the discount does not apply to the LLM Gateway. Portfolio companies of partner VCs and accelerators, including Accel and Y Combinator, are fast-tracked to a decision in 48 hours.
Read off the AssemblyAI page on 8 Sept 2026. Funders move amounts and eligibility without announcing it, so confirm any figure here before you count on it.