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The programme terms add that participation is 'subject to our approval and ongoing eligibility, which we determine in our sole discretion', that applicants must give 'information about your company's funding, product, and team', and that promotional credits 'Expire 12 months from the issue date' and 'Can only be used after you've used up Deepgram's standard signup credits'.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://deepgram.com/startup-program","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"application-gated-credit"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://deepgram.com/startup-program","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://deepgram.com/startup-program","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://deepgram.com/startup-program"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"if awarded, USD 100,000 at the Nova-3 pre-recorded rate of USD 0.0043 a minute is about 23 million minutes, which is 388,000 hours of transcription, and no single client workload comes close; the standard USD 200 credit recorded separately is the reachable substitute.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"a company and a funding story are the entry ticket: the application asks for 'your company's funding, product, and team', the award is discretionary, and the amount is 'up to' USD 100,000 rather than a published figure, so a person with an email address reaches only the standard USD 200 signup credit.","source":"https://deepgram.com/startup-program"}],"limits_note":"a company and a funding story are the entry ticket: the application asks for 'your company's funding, product, and team', the award is discretionary, and the amount is 'up to' USD 100,000 rather than a published figure, so a person with an email address reaches only the standard USD 200 signup credit.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"a company and a funding story are the entry ticket: the application asks for 'your company's funding, product, and team', the award is discretionary, and the amount is 'up to' USD 100,000 rather than a published figure, so a person with an email address reaches only the standard USD 200 signup credit.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"institution: the applicant must be 'An AI builder or early-stage startup' in production or launching within 6 months, and the terms require 'information about your company's funding, product, and team', with participation 'subject to our approval and ongoing eligibility'. No card, hold, phone number or ID document is stated in any evidence row: unknown. The reachable substitute is the standard signup credit noted in this record, whose own signup requirement is not in the evidence.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://deepgram.com/startup-program","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Apply to Deepgram for Startups and get up to $100,000 in credits over 12 months', quoted; and the three applicant criteria listed verbatim"},{"url":"https://deepgram.com/startup-program-terms-of-service","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Your participation in the Program is subject to our approval and ongoing eligibility, which we determine in our sole discretion' and 'You agree to provide complete and accurate information about your application, including information about your company's funding, product, and team', quoted from the terms page as rendered in the search index"},{"url":"https://deepgram.com/startup-program-terms-of-service","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"all promotional credits 'Expire 12 months from the issue date unless otherwise agreed in writing' and 'Can only be used after you've used up Deepgram's standard signup credits', quoted from the terms page as rendered in the search index"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"These are inference credits, not general compute. Recorded as a refutation: the largest speech credit in this market asks for a company. 'Up to' is the vendor's word and no floor is published, so the number to plan with is unknown even for an award.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"refutation","free_tier_kind":"application-gated-credit","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.notes","partly-held"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}