| Field | Deepgram | Scaleway Generative APIs |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Trial credit · trial-credit | Trial credit · trial-credit |
| What's free | $200 free credit on signup (no card, no expiration) — Nova speech-to-text and Aura text-to-speech at pay-as-you-go rates | 1,000,000 tokens free + 60 min Whisper transcription; billing starts at token 1,000,001 |
| Rate limits | STT pre-recorded up to 50 concurrent; STT streaming up to 150; TTS REST up to 15; TTS streaming up to 45 | With a validated payment method: 300 RPM / 200k TPM per model; 600 RPM and higher TPM once identity is verified |
| Expires | no expiry | no expiry |
| The catch | No card and no expiration on the credit. Data catch: the Model Improvement Program is opt-OUT — send mip_opt_out=true per request to keep your data out of training. Native REST/WebSocket API, not OpenAI-compatible. | European provider (France). Free allowance is a one-time token bucket, not time-limited. Official rate limits apply once a valid payment method is registered; identity verification raises them. |
| Credit card | not required | not required |
| Phone verification | not required | not confirmed |
| Commercial use | allowed | not confirmed |
| OpenAI-compatible | no | yeshttps://api.scaleway.ai/v1 |
| Modalities | audio | text, audio |
| Free models (sample) | no sample | llama-3.3-70b-instruct qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507 mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506 gpt-oss-120b gemma-4-26b-a4b-it qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct |
| Official docs | deepgram.com/pricing | www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/model-as-a-service/ |
| Last verified | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-08 |