What is Deepgram
Deepgram provides speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice-agent, and audio-intelligence APIs. Its plans use prepaid credits that are redeemed against published model usage.
Plans
As of October 17, 2026, Pay As You Go begins with US$200 of free non-expiring credit, has no minimum commitment, and provides access to public models. Growth starts at US$4,000 per year in prepaid credits and discounts published rates by as much as 20 percent. Enterprise uses custom pricing for large-volume, deployment, data, and support requirements.
Speech and voice rates
Streaming Pay As You Go Nova-3 Monolingual starts at US$0.0048 per minute and Nova-3 Multilingual at US$0.0058. Flux English starts at US$0.0065 per minute and Flux Multilingual costs US$0.0078. Pre-recorded Nova-3 Monolingual costs US$0.0043 per minute, Nova-3 Multilingual US$0.0052, and Whisper Large US$0.0048. Growth rates are lower.
Flux TTS costs US$0.045 per 1,000 characters on Pay As You Go, Aura-2 costs US$0.030, and Aura-1 costs US$0.015. Voice Agent API tiers range from US$0.050 per minute for Custom with bring-your-own LLM and TTS to US$0.163 per minute for Advanced, before Growth discounts.
Smart Formatting is included. Redaction and Keyterm Prompting have separate per-minute charges, while audio summarisation is token priced. Deepgram notes that the displayed model rates opt in to its Model Improvement Program.
Official sources: Deepgram pricing, Deepgram pricing-program clarification.