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by Deepgram, Inc.

Enterprise-grade speech AI API for real-time and batch transcription at scale.

Pros

  • Among the cheapest accurate STT APIs
  • Per-second billing avoids rounding overcharges
  • $200 free credit with no expiration
  • Strong real-time/streaming latency

Cons

  • Add-on intelligence features billed separately
  • Growth tier requires $4,000 annual minimum
  • Voice Agent API costs ~10x base STT

✓ Where it shines / best for

  • Developers building real-time transcription and voice features into products
  • Startups needing low-latency streaming speech recognition
  • Enterprises requiring scalable, programmable STT infrastructure
  • Teams building voice agents and conversational AI

✕ Not the best fit for

  • Non-technical users wanting a consumer dictation app
  • Users needing a no-code solution with a UI
  • Small projects with extremely tight budgets (PAYG adds up at scale)

Features

  • ✓ Nova-3 and Flux models with industry-leading real-time latency
  • ✓ Streaming and pre-recorded transcription via REST and WebSocket APIs
  • ✓ 45+ language support
  • ✓ Speaker diarization, smart formatting, keyterm prompting
  • ✓ Text-to-speech (Aura-2) and Voice Agent API
  • ✓ $200 free credit on signup, no credit card required
  • ✓ EU region at same price (GDPR-compliant)
  • ✓ Audio Intelligence add-ons: summarization, sentiment, entity detection

Pricing

PlanPriceBillingNotes
Pay As You Go$0.0048per minute$200 free credit on signup, no credit card required; Nova-3 Monolingual streaming rate; no minimums, no expiration
Pay As You Go (Pre-recorded)$0.0077per minuteNova-3 Monolingual pre-recorded; Flux English streaming at $0.0065/min
Growth$4,000+yearPrepaid annual credits; up to 20% discount vs PAYG; higher concurrency limits
EnterpriseCustomannualCustom pricing for large-scale deployments; contact sales

Pricing verified from the official source. Prices change often — confirm on the vendor's site before buying.

Specifications

modelsNova-3, Aura
billingper-second
deploymentCloud, on-prem, private cloud
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