They’re worth $5,000 of pay-as-you-go usage across eligible Cloudflare developer services (like Workers, R2, D1, Pages, Queues, Durable Objects, and Workers AI), usable for up to one year or until consumed. In real usage, that can cover an MVP running at the edge plus storage and a database without paying cash for a while. If you’re doing AI inference through Workers AI, those credits also apply (Workers AI is billed at about $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons). The exact “how long it lasts” depends on traffic, storage volume, and whether you use paid-only products like Stream.

Yes. A credit card is required on file, and Cloudflare bills it once credits are exhausted or expire.

These credits last one year from activation, or until you use them up.

Yes. If you have Cloudflare credits you won’t use before they expire, you can list them on AI Credit Mart and sell them at up to 70% of face value. Companies regularly list surplus credits from startup programs and enterprise agreements.

AI Credit Mart has discounted Cloudflare credits available from companies with surplus allocations. Prices are typically 30-70% below retail.

Once they expire (or you spend them), Cloudflare charges your card for usage above the always-free limits, while free-tier services continue at their free caps and enterprise domain protections revert unless you subscribe.

The credits apply to pay-as-you-go developer platform products, including Workers, Pages, R2, D1, Images, Stream, Queues, Durable Objects, Workers AI, KV, and Hyperdrive. You also get enterprise-grade protections on up to three domains (CDN, DDoS, DNS, WAF, Zero Trust, Argo Smart Routing, and Advanced Certificate Manager).

No.

They’re worth $25,000 of Cloudflare platform usage applied over 12 months, covering the Developer Platform (Workers, R2, D1, Pages, Durable Objects, Queues) plus up to three Enterprise-level domains. Practically, that can fund a real production rollout on Workers/Pages and absorb meaningful overages beyond the always-free limits. If you’re doing storage-heavy work, remember R2 + Cache Reserve is capped together (so you can’t spend the entire $25K there). With AI inference, Workers AI can also be a substantial consumer of credits once you go beyond free Neurons.

Yes. Cloudflare’s steps specify adding a valid credit card when creating the free account.

These startup credits last 1 year, and unused credits expire at the end of that window.

Yes. If you have Cloudflare credits you won’t use before they expire, you can list them on AI Credit Mart and sell them at up to 70% of face value. Companies regularly list surplus credits from startup programs and enterprise agreements.

AI Credit Mart has discounted Cloudflare credits available from companies with surplus allocations. Prices are typically 30-70% below retail.

They’re use-it-or-lose-it: credits are non-transferable, non-refundable, and expire after 12 months. Once they’re gone, Cloudflare applies the free tier where it fits, and anything beyond that runs on standard pay-as-you-go pricing.

No.

Workers AI is available, and all accounts (including free) get 10,000 Neurons/day at no cost. When you exceed the free Neurons, usage can be covered by your credits (still subject to the $25K total). Cloudflare lists model options like Llama 3.x Instruct, Llama Vision, Whisper, and image models such as Stable Diffusion/FLUX, with pricing varying by model and token type. Beta models can have unlimited free usage until they graduate, which can be a nice bonus if you’re experimenting.

They’re worth up to $250,000 of Cloudflare pay-as-you-go usage over 1 year, but two services have hard caps: R2 + Cache Reserve tops out at $10,000, and Workers AI tops out at $50,000. Everything else draws from the remaining balance (up to about $190,000). In practice, the value is biggest if you’re running real production workloads on Workers plus security/performance features for up to three domains. If you were planning to pay for WAF, DDoS protection, and Zero Trust anyway, the “included Enterprise-level domains” portion can be a quiet bargain.

Yes. The signup flow explicitly requires adding a valid credit card to your Cloudflare account.

These startup credits expire after 1 year (or when you use them up).

Yes. If you have Cloudflare credits you won’t use before they expire, you can list them on AI Credit Mart and sell them at up to 70% of face value. Companies regularly list surplus credits from startup programs and enterprise agreements.

AI Credit Mart has discounted Cloudflare credits available from companies with surplus allocations. Prices are typically 30-70% below retail.

Your account switches to standard pay-as-you-go billing, and Enterprise domain features revert to your current plan level. There’s no automatic renewal, and you can reapply only if you still meet eligibility (with no guarantee of approval).

R2 + Cache Reserve is capped at $10,000, and Workers AI is capped at $50,000, regardless of the $250,000 headline amount.

No. The program explicitly excludes Cloudflare Registrar, so domain purchases must be paid separately.

They’re worth $100,000 of Cloudflare usage across the Developer Platform plus enterprise features on up to three domains, with specific caps of $50K for Workers AI and $10K combined for R2 + Cache Reserve.

Yes. Cloudflare requires a credit card on file, but it won’t be charged until credits run out (or the year ends and you keep using paid services).

The Seed credits last 1 year or until fully consumed, whichever comes first.

Yes. If you have Cloudflare credits you won’t use before they expire, you can list them on AI Credit Mart and sell them at up to 70% of face value. Companies regularly list surplus credits from startup programs and enterprise agreements.

AI Credit Mart has discounted Cloudflare credits available from companies with surplus allocations. Prices are typically 30-70% below retail.

Your Startup Plan ends, usage-based services move to pay-as-you-go billing on your card, and enterprise domain features revert to your account’s plan level. There’s no automatic cancellation warning, so you need billing alerts. If you still need help, Cloudflare says you can request additional credits case-by-case via startups@cloudflare.com, but approval isn’t guaranteed.

Workers AI is capped at $50,000, and R2 + Cache Reserve share a combined $10,000 cap.

Yes, but you’ll likely need to email startups@cloudflare.com with your perk manager’s details so Cloudflare can try to establish a partnership.

You get 10,000 Neurons per day, which Cloudflare estimates is roughly 1,300 LLM responses, about 12,500 embeddings, around 2,000 small image generations (512×512), or about 8,300 image classifications. Neuron cost varies by model, so bigger models will burn through the daily budget much faster. The good news is the allowance resets every day at 00:00 UTC, so you can treat it like a daily “compute stipend.” If you’re building a demo, split workloads: use smaller models for most requests and reserve the heavy one for the handful of cases that actually need it.

No.

There’s no time limit, but the 10,000 Neurons reset daily at 00:00 UTC.

Yes. If you have Cloudflare credits you won’t use before they expire, you can list them on AI Credit Mart and sell them at up to 70% of face value. Companies regularly list surplus credits from startup programs and enterprise agreements.

AI Credit Mart has discounted Cloudflare credits available from companies with surplus allocations. Prices are typically 30-70% below retail.

For Workers AI’s free tier, they don’t “expire”; the daily neuron quota simply resets at 00:00 UTC.

Yes, Workers AI supports OpenAI-compatible endpoints for chat completions, text completions, and embeddings, so you can swap the base URL and keep standard parameters like temperature and max_tokens.

Yes. Cloudflare notes that wrangler dev still consumes your Cloudflare account’s neuron quota, so local testing can quietly burn your daily allowance.