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The EUR 50,000 minimum is also a floor that a solo applicant must reach with a genuine multi-month plan. I did not establish whether the Agency will contract a private individual in a country outside Germany: the form text implies yes and the 2023 challenges document says yes for that programme, but no 2026 first-party sentence states it, so that part is inferred rather than documented.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"grant-individual","free_tier_kind":"cash-grant","shape":null}}},"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"],["$.evidence[1].proved","withheld"],["$.evidence[2].proved","withheld"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.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":[]}