Builders move fast. We’re here to help you move faster. Today, we’re launching Fireworks for Startups: a program that gives AI‑builders the platform, tools, and expert support to turn ambitious ideas into production‑grade products.
Startups don’t have time to wrestle with infrastructure, managing the rapid pace of new model releases and rising costs. The real challenge is building innovative products that stand out. Differentiation comes from fine-tuning and customization, but those shouldn’t be out of reach. Fireworks enables the infrastructure, customization and cost hurdles so founders can focus on what matters most: developing unique products, getting to market faster, and scaling with confidence.
The Fireworks for Startups program offers comprehensive support for startups building AI products. Our industry-leading serving and tuning platform makes it easy to scale AI with speed, efficiency, and reliability, while our world-class AI engineers give you the guidance and support needed to accelerate your time to market and deliver a superior experience for your end users.
Here’s how it works:
- World-Class Applied AI Experts: Direct access to world-class applied AI engineers with experience running fast, efficient inference.
- Exclusive Startup Community Access: Connect with builders through curated startup meetups, workshops, and hackathons.
- Build Credits: Unlock credits and options for higher rate limits to help you prototype and scale without worrying about upfront costs.
- Product Insights: Collaborative roadmap sessions with the product team to learn about the latest features and strategize.
- Ready-to-Use Resources: Comprehensive libraries of resources, cookbooks, repos, and guides.
- Boost Your Brand: Increase visibility across the AI ecosystem through joint marketing and case studies.
Scale at the speed of Fireworks
- Day 1 access to the latest SOTA models: Fireworks is a launch partner for many leading OSS models. Our teams conduct rigorous evaluations and benchmarking to help you choose the right one for your use case. We also provide OpenAI-compatible API support for text, audio, VLM, and image modalities.
- Resilient Infrastructure Built for Scale: Fireworks AI abstracts away the complexity of managing your own infrastructure and provides resilient, geo-distributed deployments across 8 CSPs and 18 regions. Experiment, iterate, and deploy AI applications without worrying about GPUs, DevOps, or scaling.
- Fast and Cost-Efficient Performance: Fireworks’ proprietary inference engine delivers leading performance for low-latency, high-throughput applications. Flexible, usage-based pricing supports cost-efficient rapid prototyping, including per-token serverless models and per-second on-demand GPU deployments. Reserved throughput pricing helps you productionize at a competitive cost per performance.
- Customization and Product Differentiation: Fireworks supports easy fine-tuning of open models with your own data across all leading fine-tuning approaches—enabling startups to build truly differentiated AI products, from custom chatbots to vision models, search tools, and more. No need to train from scratch or rely on generic APIs.
Join the program
If you’re building the next transformative AI product, we’d love to partner with you. https://fireworks.ai/startups
