Deepgram

Trial verified 2026-10-08 · 2d ago no cardno phonecommercial OK

Biggest free credit here, for speech (STT/TTS)

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

Credit card
not required
Phone verification
not required
Commercial use
allowed

Free limits

Numeric limits are not recorded in structured form for this provider.

In the provider's words

STT pre-recorded up to 50 concurrent; STT streaming up to 150; TTS REST up to 15; TTS streaming up to 45

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.

PlanTrial credit
How it renewsOne-time trial credit
Expiresno expiry (per the provider, read 2026-10-09)
Modalitiesaudio
OpenAI base URLNot OpenAI-compatible: see the official docs

Free models: not listed yet.

Get started

This is a first-party API, not OpenAI-compatible, so there is no drop-in base URL. The endpoint, the key and a working example are in the official docs.

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Change history

How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-30) — generated from the git history of providers.json.

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