{"rid":"compute/elevenlabs-startup-grants","card":{"rid":"compute/elevenlabs-startup-grants","eid":"elevenlabs","topic":"compute","slug":"elevenlabs-startup-grants","provider":"ElevenLabs Startup Grants","url":"https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants","domain":"elevenlabs.io","category":"inference API","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-identity","vorder":4,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"documented","binding":"write-gated","identity_kind":"institution","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":1,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"'Scale for 12 months ... 33,000,000 characters ... That's over 680 hours of Agents usage. More than $5,500+ in value.' The gate is a company: 'The ElevenLabs...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":10},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"elevenlabs-startup-grants","provider":"ElevenLabs Startup Grants","url":"https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants","category":"inference API","free_tier":{"stated":"'Scale for 12 months ... 33,000,000 characters ... That's over 680 hours of Agents usage. More than $5,500+ in value.' The gate is a company: 'The ElevenLabs Grants program is open to all startups or companies with less than 25 employees', 'Only applications with valid business emails will be considered', 'Agencies, consulting firms and SMBs are not eligible', 'One application per company', and the programme requires 'a business or monetization strategy' with 'No short-term or one-off projects'.","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"term-credit-12-months"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"33M characters at 1 credit a character is 33,000 minutes of TTS, and the vendor prices that against its own Pro tier: 600,000 credits for USD 99, so 33M credits is about 55 months of Pro. What breaks: the award, not the quota. No chain makes an unapproved application usable.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"a review committee decides: the grant is applied for and approved 'in our sole discretion', so a person with an email address alone holds a company-shaped application with no product to show; the 33M characters are unreachable without a company, a business email domain and a monetisation story.","source":"https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants"}],"limits_note":"a review committee decides: the grant is applied for and approved 'in our sole discretion', so a person with an email address alone holds a company-shaped application with no product to show; the 33M characters are unreachable without a company, a business email domain and a monetisation story.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"a review committee decides: the grant is applied for and approved 'in our sole discretion', so a person with an email address alone holds a company-shaped application with no product to show; the 33M characters are unreachable without a company, a business email domain and a monetisation story.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Scale for 12 months ... 33,000,000 characters ... That's over 680 hours of Agents usage. More than $5,500+ in value', quoted"},{"url":"https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Only applications with valid business emails will be considered' and 'The ElevenLabs Grants program is open to all startups or companies with less than 25 employees at the time of receiving the application', quoted from the eligibility FAQ"},{"url":"https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'After your grant period is over or once you have 10,000 credits left, your plan will automatically convert to a Free plan', quoted: the grant is a clock, not a budget"},{"url":"https://elevenlabs.io/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the pricing page repeats the offer as '12 Months free ... 33M Characters ... Valid for 12 months', corroborating the size"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"These are inference credits, not general compute. Recorded as a refutation: the largest per-person voice credit in this market is not reachable by a person. An applicant would need a registered company, a domain email and a product with a monetisation strategy, and even then the decision is discretionary. The value claim of 'USD 5,500+' is the vendor's own arithmetic, not measured.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"refutation","free_tier_kind":"term-credit-12-months","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":680,"unit":"hours","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"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"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.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":[]}