Nirvana Labs October 2026 Roundup

October was about making it easier to start.

We launched Nirvana Startup Credits with up to $50,000 for AI agent teams. We opened a welcome campaign with $250 for new accounts, an annual plan that gives you 12 months for the price of 9, and a referral program. We shipped the Nirvana MCP Server so agents can configure cloud resources from Cursor, VS Code, or Claude Code. We published a new PostgreSQL benchmarking guide. And we leaned into a round of brand and product explainers to give new teams a cleaner on-ramp.

Here's what moved.

Nirvana Startup Credits Are Live

For founders building databases, agents, and apps that run around the clock. Bring the workload. We'll bring the cloud credits.

Three tiers:

• 🚀 Founders: $1,000
• 🌱 Portfolio: up to $25,000
• 🤖 AI agents: up to $50,000

Five teams received credits in week one.

Apply with your workload: https://nirvanalabs.io/startup-credits

Welcome Campaign: $250 Credit + Annual Plan + Referrals

Three new ways to start on Nirvana without a sales call.

• $250 welcome credit for new accounts. Add a card, run a qualifying workload, test it against whatever you're running today.
• Annual Plan: 12 months for the price of 9. Pay upfront, lock in the rate. Stacks with the $250 welcome credit.
• Referral credit: $250 for the referrer, paid out after the referred team's third consecutive active month with a card on file. New teams can stack the $250 welcome credit with the $250 referral credit.

Start here: https://nirvanalabs.io/welcome

The Nirvana MCP Server

Connect your agents to the Nirvana API from Cursor, VS Code, or Claude Code. Configure cloud resources through MCP.

The server is published to npm. Install, point your agent at it, and it can spin up VMs, provision ABS volumes, and manage NKS clusters from inside its editor.

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nirvana-labs/nirvana-mcp

Brand and Product Explainers

A batch of fresh storytelling this month to give new teams a cleaner on-ramp.

Workloads changed. Your cloud should too. 60-second introduction to Nirvana for teams catching up. A high-performance storage cloud built for modern workloads: databases, analytics, blockchain, AI.

Phippy & Captain Kube: NKS, explained in cartoon. Phippy ships the app. Captain Kube runs the ship. Who looks after Captain Kube? NKS. Cluster creation, control plane ops, upgrades, maintenance. We handle it; you build the app. → https://nirvanalabs.io/product/orchestration

Persistent volumes vs memory snapshots for agents. Workspace files, memory snapshots, checkpoints. Each preserves a different part of a job. Most agent runtimes save only one. Nirvana Agent Sandboxes keep /workspace on persistent ABS (no TTL), so you can pause compute and resume with files intact. → Read the blog · Docs

What's Next

The next piece of the storage cloud is close. More benchmarks in the pipeline. More customer stories from teams running real-time and data-heavy systems. And a POC with a team handling 2B+ API requests a month, with more to come on that.

Same mission as always: Make performance the default. Not a premium add-on. No throttling. No burst credits. Predictable price next quarter.

Data never stops growing. Your cloud shouldn't slow it down.

About Nirvana Labs

Nirvana Labs is a high-performance storage cloud purpose built for blockchain, AI and databases i.e. the most demanding, real-time, stateful workloads. Accelerated Block Storage (ABS) offers 20K baseline IOPS included, no over provisioning. Nirvana Kubernetes Service (NKS) with Karpenter auto-scaling, high clock-speed compute and private networking. Backed by Jump Trading, Crucible, etc with 50+ customers live in production today.

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