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No expiration.' and 'No credit card required', quoted"},{"url":"https://deepgram.com/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Nova-3 Monolingual pre-recorded listed at '$0.0043/min' and Nova-3 Multilingual at '$0.0052/min' on the pay-as-you-go column, quoted"},{"url":"https://deepgram.com/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"concurrency table: 'Speech-to-Text Up to 50 for the REST API, Up to 150 for the WSS API' and 'Audio Intelligence Up to 10 for the REST API', quoted"},{"url":"https://deepgram.com/terms","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Credits expire upon the closing or termination of your Account or cancellation or termination of your subscription to the Subscription Services.', quoted; the pricing page states 'No minimums. No expiration. No credit card required.'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T07:52:00.000Z","notes":"These are inference credits, not general compute. The vendor contradicts itself on expiry: the pricing FAQ says the credit is 'available until you use it up' and contrasts it with free tiers that 'expire after 12 months', while the managing-projects documentation says promotional credits expire one year from signup. A third-party deal page reports both readings and advises planning for 12 months (grabaicredits.com, 2026, reported). Treat the 12-month reading as the safe one; the console balance is the only authority for a given account. The 'over 700 hours' figure is the vendor's, and 775 hours is our division at the pre-recorded Nova-3 rate. Not probed: no account was created. Re-read on 2026-10-23: the pricing page states no expiration and the terms end the balance at account closure, so the 12-month caution above remains the safe reading.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"credit-large-enough-for-real-workload","free_tier_kind":"one-time-credit","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":200,"unit":"Credit","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.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":[]}