Deepgram
Low-latency streaming transcription and voice agent infrastructure.
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Deepgram vs Cartesia
Deepgram (Deepgram) and Cartesia (Cartesia) both sit in Audio. Cartesia is the cheaper entry point at Free tier · from $5/mo. Deepgram shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (6 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Deepgram Deepgram | Cartesia Cartesia |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Audio | Audio |
| Version | Nova-3 | Sonic 3 |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $333.33/mo | Free tier · from $5/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · Pay As You Go free · Growth $333.33 · Enterprise free | — |
| Model stack | Aura-1 · Aura-2 · Flux · Flux English · Flux Multilingual · Flux TTS · Nova-3 · Nova-3 Monolingual · Nova-3 Multilingual · Whisper · Whisper Cloud · Whisper Large | Sonic 3 |
| Context window | n/a | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 6 | 0 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Real-time streaming, Keyterm prompting, Multilingual, Voice agent API, Text to speech, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, Voice Agent API | Sub-100ms TTS, Voice cloning, Realtime API |
Cartesia
Ultra-low-latency voice models built on state space models.
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