# Open Source & Research Credit Grants — Hanzo AI

> Free API credits, GPU compute, and Hanzo Team access for open-source contributors, academic PhD researchers, and research interns.

Grants & Research

# Open Source & ResearchCredit Grants

Free API credits, GPU compute, and Hanzo Team access for open-source contributors, academic PhD researchers, and research interns.

[Apply for a Grant](#apply)[Academic Internships](https://hanzo.ai/careers#internships)

How grants work

- Apply or Contribute01
- Fast-Track Review02
- Credits & Team Access03
- Ship in the Open04

Share your open-source PRs, repository, or academic research topic

Our engineering and research leads review applications weekly

Receive free API & GPU credits plus full access to Hanzo Team

Publish open code, models, and papers under your own name

## What Grant Recipients & Interns Receive

Compute, models, and workspaces to ship open research and open-source software.

### Free API & Compute Credits

Receive free Hanzo Cloud, LLM API, and GPU compute credits for your open-source project, university lab, or dissertation research.

### Full Hanzo Team Access

Get complimentary Hanzo Team workspaces, Hanzo Dev coding agents, and direct collaboration channels with our core research and systems engineers.

### Open Weights & Papers

Everything you research or contribute ships in the open under your own name — open-source repositories, checkpoints, and peer-reviewed papers.

### Frontier Checkpoints & Infra

Early access to Zen foundation models, Kai decision models, Enso routing policies, and distributed training / evaluation clusters.

## Three Ways to Build & Research with Us

Whether you are contributing PRs to our open-source repos, running PhD experiments, or applying for a research internship.

### Open Source Contributor Grants

2,137+ repositories · 122 organizations

We always welcome and accept open-source contributors across our repositories on GitHub and git.hanzo.ai. Ship pull requests, maintain SDKs or MCP servers, or build open-source tools powered by Hanzo to receive recurring API, Cloud, and Dev credit grants.

[Apply as OSS Contributor](#apply)[Explore Repositories](https://hanzo.ai/open-source)

### Academic & PhD Research Grants

PhD students · University labs · Independent researchers

Investigating foundation models, RLHF/post-training, ML compilers, post-quantum cryptography, or agentic systems? Approved academic researchers receive free API & compute credits and full access to Hanzo Team for their research.

[Apply for Research Credits](#apply)[Research Access Questionnaire](https://hanzo.ai/beta/research)

### Academic & PhD Research Internships

Remote / SF · Year-round cohorts

Looking to intern with our research and systems teams during your PhD or graduate studies? Work directly on Zen, Kai, Enso, Hanzo Engine, and Hanzo Dev — with free compute credits, Hanzo Team access, and co-authored publications.

[Apply for Internship](#apply)[View Internship Role](https://hanzo.ai/careers/academic-research-intern)

## Apply for Credits or a Research Internship

Tell us about your open-source contributions, academic research, or internship goals. We review submissions every week.

Program TrackOpen Source Contributor Grant

Academic / PhD Research Credits

PhD / Research Internship

Full Name *

Email (.edu or work/personal) *

University / Lab / Open Source Project

GitHub / Forge Profile or PR Links

Google Scholar / ArXiv / Personal Website (optional)

Research Proposal, OSS Contributions, or Internship Goals *

Or email us directly at [careers@hanzo.ai](mailto:careers@hanzo.ai)

Submit Grant Application