Accelerate your AI stack — without the infrastructure overhead.
ManyLayers for Startups gives AI-first companies free access to our full platform for 12 months, so you can focus on your product instead of your AI infrastructure.
- Free Team tier for 12 months — all features included
- Multi-provider routing with 40+ supported providers
- Guardrails, audit logs, and team budgets from day one
- Workspace with RAG, agents, and 20+ connectors
- On-prem model deployment with ManyLayers Deploy
- Dedicated Slack channel with engineering support
Everything you need to ship AI products fast.
Free Team tier for 12 months
Full access to ManyLayers Gateway, Workspace, and Deploy at no cost for your first year. All features, no artificial limits on providers or connectors.
Dedicated Slack support
Direct access to our engineering team via a shared Slack channel. Questions answered within hours, not days.
Go-to-market support
Co-marketing opportunities, feature in our startup showcase, and introductions to enterprise customers when you're ready.
On-prem model serving
Access to ManyLayers Deploy for self-hosting open-weight models on your own infrastructure — GPU compute not included.
Early access to new features
Program members get preview access to features in development. Your feedback shapes the roadmap.
Usage guidance & evals
Hands-on onboarding session with our team to configure routing, guardrails, and evaluation pipelines for your specific use case.
Who qualifies for the startup program.
The program is designed for early-stage AI-first companies. If you're unsure whether you qualify, apply anyway and we'll let you know.
AI-first product
Your core product is built on or deeply integrates with AI — LLMs, embeddings, or multimodal models are central to what you're building.
Seed through Series A
Company founded within the last five years, and at Seed, Pre-Series A, or Series A stage. No prior ManyLayers commercial contract.
Net-new to ManyLayers
You are not currently a paying ManyLayers customer. Existing free-tier self-hosted users are welcome to apply.
“Setting up a compliant AI gateway used to mean months of work and a dedicated infra engineer. With ManyLayers we had routing, guardrails, and audit logs running in an afternoon — and never had to worry about where our user data was going.”
Founder — AI productivity startup (seed stage)