Deepgram
Low-latency streaming transcription and voice agent infrastructure.
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Deepgram vs MiniMax Speech
Deepgram (Deepgram) and MiniMax Speech (MiniMax) both sit in Audio. MiniMax Speech is the cheaper entry point at from $30/mo. Deepgram shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (11 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Deepgram Deepgram | MiniMax Speech MiniMax |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Audio | Audio |
| Version | Nova-3 | 2.8 |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $4,000/min | from $30/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · Growth $4000 | Free free · API per 1M chars $30 |
| Model stack | Aura-1 · Aura-2 · Flux · Flux English · Flux Multilingual · Flux STT · Flux TTS · flux-general-en · flux-general-multi · Nova-3 · Nova-3 Medical · Nova-3 Monolingual · Nova-3 Multilingual · Nova-3 Pharma · phoneLLM mini · Think-Fast · Whisper · Whisper Cloud · Whisper Large | MiniMax Music 3.0 · MiniMax Speech 2.8 · Speech 2.8 |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 11 | 9 |
| Origin | Global | China |
| Capabilities | Real-time streaming, Keyterm prompting, Multilingual, Voice agent API, Text to speech, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, Voice Agent API | Voice cloning, 30+ languages, Emotion control, Streaming, Speech Generation, Audio Generation, API, speech generation |
MiniMax Speech
MiniMax's speech stack covers 30+ languages with fast cloning from short samples.
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