Biggest perks
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Codex Open Source FundUp to $25,000 in API credits. A $1 million fund of one-time OpenAI API credit grants for open source projects using Codex CLI or OpenAI models, reviewed on an ongoing basis.2
Microsoft FOSS FundEvery quarter Microsoft engineers nominate and vote on open source projects they use, and the fund distributes up to $12,500.3
GitHub Secure Open Source FundFunding paid to the invited maintainers in tranches, security training in program sessions, and $10,000 in Azure credits.4
Neon Open Source ProgramUp to $10,000 in credits. Yearly Neon credits and promotional support for open source tools that use Postgres.5
Outreachy internships$7,000 for a 3-month internship. Paid, remote open source internships twice a year for people underrepresented in tech.6
Vercel Open Source Program$3,600 in credits over 3 years. Platform credits, community support and an OSS Starter Pack of third-party credits.7
Upstash Open Source ProgramUpstash covers Upstash costs up to $1,000 a month for open source projects building on it.8
Ona for Open SourceUp to $200 a month in credits. Monthly credits for background coding agents, sized by how much you contribute.
Alpha-Omega grantsGrants for security work in critical open source, decided in four seasons a year: a month to apply, a month to co-design the work, a month to decide and fund.
AWS promotional credits for open sourceAWS promotional credits for open source projects, typically for upstream and performance testing, CI/CD and artifact storage.
CircleCI open source planOrganizations on the open source plan get up to 400,000 build credits a month across Linux, Arm and other executors.
Credits for open source projectsAnnual credit grants for open source projects, tiered by GitHub stars (reported from $60 to $20,000 a year).
FOSS Sustainability FundOpen Technology Fund support for maintaining internet freedom technology, in solicitation rounds.
Google Summer of CodeContributors are paid to work on open source with mentoring organizations over the summer; the program ends in November.
NGI Zero grants€5,000 to €50,000 for a first grant. Grants for technical open source development, with a call deadline every two months.
Project AlexandriaCloudflare's open source credits program: recurring yearly credits for Workers, Pages, R2, Zero Trust and plan upgrades.
Small Development GrantsA microgrant program for NumFOCUS sponsored and affiliated projects.
Sovereign Tech FundWork over €50,000 funded. Germany's fund for developing and maintaining open digital base technologies.
webclaw for OSSThe Growth plan's 100,000 web scraping credits a month, free, renewing while the project stays active.
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