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      "free_tier": "$50 in free credits on signup (one-time) across data-extraction / OCR workflows",
      "rate_limits": "Up to 3 users on the free credit",
      "notes": "One-time signup credit, not renewing; no credit card required to start. Paid plans start at $100/month afterwards.",
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      "rate_limits": "2 concurrent real-time sessions on the free plan",
      "notes": "No credit card required to start; add a card only when you exceed the free limit. Recurring monthly allowance covering both STT and TTS. Commercial-use permission not explicitly stated on the pricing page.",
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      "rate_limits": "3 concurrent calls; hard cap pauses at the limit (no overages)",
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      "rate_limits": "15 requests per minute",
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        "image",
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      "free_tier": "8,000 credits/month (~7 min of generation, up to 500 characters per generation); TTS, STT and voice cloning",
      "rate_limits": "500 characters per generation; 8,000 credits/month",
      "notes": "Free plan is personal, non-commercial only (commercial use requires a Premium subscription). No credit card required to sign up.",
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      "rate_limits": "Document Parse billed $0.01/page (+$0.03 for extract), drawn from the $10 credit",
      "notes": "No credit card required to receive the $10 credit; Studio agents also include 10 free runs. A separate institutional grant (up to 1 year of free Solar + Document Parse) exists for eligible organizations only. Credit validity period not stated.",
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      "notes": "No credit card required. The 'Free Forever' 100 docs/mo tier is the standing free tier (a separate 14-day trial unlocks paid features). Proprietary OCR / document-intelligence REST API.",
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      "free_tier": "$50 in free credits on signup (no credit card) — speech-to-text",
      "rate_limits": "Bounded by the $50 credit; pay-as-you-go afterward",
      "notes": "No credit card required to start — an explicit $50 developer credit. Commercial terms not stated on the pricing page. Native STT REST API.",
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