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UpCloud
Affiliate Program

Earn rewards by recommending cloud infrastructure developers trust.

Product-ready performance and transparent pricing. Fair affiliate economics, with potential earnings of up to $160 per customer.

  • Start earning fast

    Earn affiliate commission from the moment your referral starts a trial and continues with their first payment. Get $10 for trial signups and $20 when they convert.

  • $100 milestone bonus

    Receive a $100 bonus when a referred customer reaches $150 in usage within their first 6 months. Designed to reward steady growth and high-quality referrals.

  • High affiliate commission rates

    Our Affiliate Program enables total earnings of $130 per customer. Clear, performance-based rewards for every qualified referral.

Why affiliates succeed with UpCloud

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Built for real-world workloads

UpCloud is used across diverse range of production workloads:

  • High-performance WordPress & CMS hosting
  • Modern application & API hosting
  • Managed databases for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, and OpenSearch
  • Fully managed Kubernetes clusters
  • GPU-accelerated compute for AI/ML workloads
  • Advanced networking with load balancers, VPNs, and zero-cost egress
  • Cloud migration & hybrid deployments
  • Regulatory and sovereign-ready deployments (GDPR and ISO 27001)

How the UpCloud Affiliate Program works

Apply to the affiliate program

Get started quickly and easily.

  • Applications are reviewed by our partner managers
  • Approved affiliates receive access to tracking tools, promo assets, and reporting dashboards
  • Built for serious affiliates, not mass signups

Share your promo code

You’ll receive a unique promo code to include in e.g.:

  • Tutorials
  • Reviews
  • Comparisons
  • Migration guides

Your audience gets a 14-day trial and $250 in free credits.

Earn as customers use UpCloud

Receive a $100 milestone bonus once customers reach meaningful usage ($150 total spend within 6 months).

Simple, predictable, and transparent.

Who the UpCloud affiliate program is for

Affiliate Program Developers

You build, deploy, and explain how things work

This program works well if you:

  • Write technical blogs or deep dives
  • Create developer-focused YouTube content
  • Maintain GitHub repositories or sample projects
  • Publish benchmarks, tutorials, or comparisons

You can earn by recommending UpCloud naturally inside the workflows and content you are already creating.

UpCloud works well when developers care about predictable performance, pricing clarity, and control.

How your earnings work

Your upside grows with customer success.

Trial and first payment

$60

You earn per customer

Earn $10 when the referred customer starts their trial.

Earn an additional $50 when the first payment is made.

Milestone bonus

$100

You earn per customer

Receive $100 when your referred customer reaches a total spend of $150 within 6 months.

Affiliates can get $160 in total earnings per customer.

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Apply to the affiliate program

Share a few details about your content and audience.

We review applications manually and follow up with the next steps.

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