Whisper
A widely deployed multilingual transcription and translation model.
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Whisper vs Deepgram
Whisper (OpenAI) and Deepgram (Deepgram) both sit in Audio. Whisper is the cheaper entry point at Pricing not specified in the document. Deepgram shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (6 vs 2). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Whisper OpenAI | Deepgram Deepgram |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Audio | Audio |
| Version | gpt-transcribe | Nova-3 |
| Entry cost | Pricing not specified in the document | Free tier · from $4,000/min |
| Pricing tiers | Open Source Model free | Free free · Pay As You Go free · Growth $4000 · Enterprise free |
| Model stack | gpt-transcribe · Whisper · Whisper large-v3 · whisper-1 | Aura-1 · Aura-2 · Flux · Flux English · Flux Multilingual · Flux TTS · Nova-3 · Nova-3 Monolingual · Nova-3 Multilingual · Whisper · Whisper Cloud · Whisper Large |
| Context window | 30 second windows | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 2 | 6 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | 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 | Real-time streaming, Keyterm prompting, Multilingual, Voice agent API, Text to speech, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, Voice Agent API |
Deepgram
Low-latency streaming transcription and voice agent infrastructure.
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