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Deepgram

Build speech recognition, text-to-speech, and conversational voice agents through APIs.

Sources checked Sep 25

Pricing: Pay As You Go starts with a $200 credit, then charges for usage. Growth starts at $4,000 per year in prepaid credits, while Enterprise requires a sales quote. Official source 1 ↗
Available as: The speech platform supports real-time and batch processing in cloud or self-hosted deployments. Official source 1 ↗
Primary group: Voice & Speech

What it does

Deepgram unifies speech recognition, speech synthesis, and language-model orchestration through its Voice Agent API.

Speech transcription. Transcribe live or recorded speech with Nova models, supporting 45+ languages and features such as speaker labels and formatting. Official source 1 ↗
Speech generation. Generate speech for assistants and conversational applications through the text-to-speech API. Official source 1 ↗
Conversational agents. Use a unified API for speech recognition, LLM orchestration, and speech generation. Official source 1 ↗
Transcript enrichment. Extract named entities or redact sensitive details using paid add-ons. Official source 1 ↗

$200 introductory credit, then usage-basedMetered API usage

No minimum or card required to start; public model endpoints with standard concurrency limits. Official source 1 ↗

From $4,000Annual prepaid credits

Annual prepaid credits applied to actual API usage, with advertised savings up to 20%. Official source 1 ↗

Contact salesCustom contract

For high volume, deployment or data requirements, and additional support needs. Official source 1 ↗

Pay-as-you-go text-to-speech rates are $0.045 per 1,000 characters for Flux TTS, $0.030 for Aura-2, and $0.015 for Aura-1. Official source 1 ↗

The Standard Voice Agent tier costs $0.075 per minute on Pay As You Go, measured by WebSocket connection time. Official source 1 ↗

Prerecorded Nova-3 monolingual transcription is $0.0043 per minute on Pay As You Go; model and add-on choices change the rate. Official source 1 ↗

The initial $200 credit is a usage allowance, followed by pay-as-you-go charges. Official source 1 ↗

Embed real-time voice interactions in an application without manually combining separate recognition and speech APIs. Official source 1 ↗

Concurrent requests. Pay As You Go allows up to 50 REST speech-to-text connections, 150 streaming speech-to-text connections, and 45 voice-agent connections; Growth raises selected limits. Official source 1 ↗