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Support

Who keeps Vale running

Vale is free and MIT-licensed, and stays that way because companies sponsor the work, foundations fund it, and providers donate the infrastructure it runs on.

Used by 170 teams, including Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, Datadog, and GOV.UK.

GitHub Sponsors Open Collective

$1,000+

Sponsor Spotlight eligibility

Open source

Funding goes back into Vale

Two paths

Sponsor through Open Collective or GitHub

Ways to sponsor

Pick the level that fits

Vale is free and always will be. The teams that depend on it keep it that way.

Backer

Any amount

one-time, or recurring if you prefer

For anyone who uses Vale and wants to keep it going.

Listed on this page with your total

GitHub Sponsors Open Collective

Partner

$5,000

one-time payment

For teams whose builds depend on Vale.

Everything in Sponsor
A private channel on the Vale Discord for your team's questions and requests, open for a year
Your requests triaged first
A year of Vale CMS Site for everyone at your domain

Become a Partner

Limited to six Partners

Custom

Let's talk

one-time payment

For companies that want to fund one area of work.

Fund Std, Voices, Journals, Harper, or agent tooling

What Partner includes

The channel: A private channel on the Vale Discord for your team and the maintainer, open for a year. Use it for questions, config help, bug reports, and requests.
Triaged first: Partner requests are read before anything else. It is best effort, with no guaranteed response time.
Bugs stay public: A real bug becomes a public issue, and the fix ships to everyone.
Vale CMS: A year of the Site plan: the full editor for every address at your domain, and the MCP server for the accounts your CI and agents run as.

Paying as a company

One payment, with an invoice

Every level is a one-time payment, with a receipt or an invoice for your records.

Open Collective

Sends invoices and receipts, and takes cards and bank transfers. The easiest route for procurement.

opencollective.com/vale

GitHub Sponsors

Bills through your organization's GitHub account, as a one-time payment.

github.com/sponsors/jdkato

Sponsor spotlights

These companies support Vale's future — and put it to work in their own products today.

Mintlify Sponsor Ships Vale as a built-in CI check. Read the story Promptless Sponsor Runs Vale on every doc its agents write. Read the story

Open Collective & GitHub Sponsors

Who backs Vale

Every contribution is public, and so is every expense.

Backers: 38
All time: $11,452
A year: $2,485

Organizations

commercetools GmbH $500

Web Traffic Booster $30

Abundant.dev —

Appwrite —

Individuals (32)

Amounts are lifetime totals. Open Collective reports them; a GitHub recurring sponsorship has none published, so those are its rate across the cycles it ran and are marked ~.

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