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Deepgram
A speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice-agent API built for developers, with a $200 signup credit.
- Provider
- —
- Latest confirmed model
- Not applicable / not verified
- Pricing
- Free plan + paid
- Free plan
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Status
- Available
- Last verified
- Oct 18, 2026
What is Deepgram?
A speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice-agent API built for developers, with a $200 signup credit.
Adding accurate transcription, natural speech or real-time voice agents to an application without building or hosting speech models.
Why use Deepgram?
Who it suits
Not documented yet.
When another tool may fit better
Not documented yet.
- Learning curve
- Not assessed
- Skills needed
- None beyond basic computer use
Getting started
Create an account at deepgram.com — the signup includes a $200 credit and no card is required — then follow the developer docs to send your first audio file to the REST API.
What can it do?
- Speech-to-text (pre-recorded and streaming) with speaker diarisation and smart formatting
- Text-to-speech voices
- Voice Agent API for real-time conversational agents
- Audio intelligence: summarisation, topic, sentiment and intent detection
- Redaction of sensitive data from transcripts
Good for
- Transcribing meetings, calls and podcasts
- Adding voice output to an assistant
- Searching and analysing call recordings at scale
- Building a real-time voice agent
Where it runs
Pricing and plans
Free plan + paid Pay-as-you-go with a $200 signup credit and no credit card required; speech-to-text is billed per minute, text-to-speech per 1,000 characters and the Voice Agent API per minute. Enterprise plans add SLAs and HIPAA agreements. Verify current rates on Deepgram's pricing page.
Pricing not verified. We have not confirmed a plan-by-plan breakdown for Deepgram yet — the summary below comes from the provider's own pages.
API and developer access
Deepgram offers developer access — documentation (opens in a new tab); the details have not been verified yet.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- Generous documented starting credit with no card required
- Covers transcription, speech synthesis and voice agents in one API
- Published per-minute and per-character pricing
Disadvantages
- It is an API product, not a consumer transcription app
- Usage is billed per minute or per character after the credit runs out
- Accuracy varies by audio quality, language and model
Privacy: Audio is uploaded to Deepgram for processing; HIPAA BAAs are available on Enterprise plans. Check retention terms before sending sensitive recordings.