Y Combinator for students
Y Combinator
$25K
estimated value
Category
Infrastructure
Last verified
Sep 11, 2026
What the Y Combinator student offer is
Y Combinator runs a student deals portal that bundles cloud and AI credits into one place. It includes credits from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, OpenAI, and Anthropic, plus tools built by YC companies. Y Combinator states the bundle is worth over $25,000.
Eligibility
The conditions Y Combinator actually applies to Y Combinator applicants, written out from their own terms, are available to members.
How to apply
The direct apply link, plus the claim steps for the programs we have written a guide for, are available to members.
the rest of this listing
Membership opens the Y Combinator conditions, the apply link and 234 other perks.
Not sure you would qualify?
$24/mo or $228/yr. 316 verified perks, every apply link, the guides we have written, and the 13-chapter SaaS Marketing Handbook.
Who the Y Combinator perk is for
Perkstack has not pinned this listing to a single funding stage, which usually means the provider judges applicants on product and company age rather than on how much you have raised. Access is partner routed: an investor, accelerator or cloud partner has to put you forward, so the introduction matters as much as meeting the criteria. We rate the realistic chance of approval for an eligible team as low.
What the Y Combinator perk is worth
Perkstack estimates this listing at about $25K. Every figure on the site is an estimate of what the credit or benefit is realistically worth to an early stage company, not a quote and not a guarantee of the tier you will be offered. Providers routinely run several tiers, so treat this as the ceiling to aim at and check the program page for the current numbers.
What the listing includes
- The eligibility conditions for Y Combinator, written out from the provider's own terms
- The direct apply link, so you are not guessing which of the provider's five pages is the real form
- A step by step claim guide written for Y Combinator specifically, with the exact fields the application asks for
- The same treatment on 234 other perks, each with a last verified date
How this listing is verified
A human last opened Y Combinator's own program page and confirmed this offer on Sep 11, 2026. Credit programs change quietly: tiers get cut, forms move behind partner referrals, and dead programs stay published for months. Perkstack rechecks listings and marks the ones that expire or change their terms, so the date above is the date the offer was confirmed rather than the date the page was written.
Frequently asked
How much is the Y Combinator student offer worth?
Perkstack values the Y Combinator student offer at about $25K. That is our estimate of what the benefit is realistically worth to an early stage company, and the listing carries the date we last checked it.
Who qualifies for the Y Combinator student offer?
Y Combinator sets its own conditions, and they usually cover company age, funding stage and whether you are a new customer. The eligibility section on this listing spells out the ones we verified.
Do I need an investor or accelerator to get Y Combinator credits?
This listing is partner exclusive, so access runs through an investor, accelerator or cloud partner rather than an open public form. The route matters as much as the eligibility, and the listing names the conditions we verified.
Is the Y Combinator student offer still available?
It was active when we last hand verified it on Sep 11, 2026. Perkstack rechecks listings and marks programs that expire or change their terms, so the date on this page is the date the offer was confirmed.
How do I claim the Y Combinator student offer?
You apply on Y Combinator's own site. Perkstack members see the direct apply link, the eligibility conditions we verified, and a step by step claim guide for the programs we have written one for.
What are the alternatives to Y Combinator?
Perkstack tracks other Infrastructure perks alongside this one, including Cloudflare, Google Cloud and AWS. Stacking several small programs usually beats waiting on one large approval.