Deepgram
Low-latency streaming transcription and voice agent infrastructure.
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Deepgram vs Whisper
Deepgram (Deepgram) and Whisper (OpenAI) both sit in Audio. Whisper is the cheaper entry point at Pricing not specified on page. Deepgram shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (11 vs 2). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Deepgram Deepgram | Whisper OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Audio | Audio |
| Version | Nova-3 | whisper-1 |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $4,000/min | Pricing not specified on page |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · Growth $4000 | Open Source Model free |
| 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 | gpt-transcribe · Whisper · Whisper large-v3 · whisper-1 |
| Context window | n/a | 30 second windows |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 11 | 2 |
| 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 | 99 languages, Translation to English, Word timestamps, Open weights, Robust to noise, File transcription, Language detection, Support for mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, wav, and webm formats |
Whisper
A widely deployed multilingual transcription and translation model.
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