Deepgram
Based on public pricing signals, xpay verified that Deepgram exposes a complete per-minute STT, per-character TTS, and per-minute Voice Agent rate card on a fully indexable HTML page, alongside a $200 no-credit-card starting credit. Self-serve PAYG and a public developer documentation site at developers.deepgram.com complete a strongly agent-friendly profile.
Straightforward costs for projects at any scale — Pay As You Go, No credit card required
$0.0048/min Nova-3 STT; $0.030/1k chars Aura-2 TTS; $0.075/min Voice Agent
$0
Contact sales
Available
How Deepgram scores on the 7 agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
15 / 15
Usage-based / metered
25 / 25
Self-serve checkout
8 / 15
Public API
15 / 15
Low / no minimum
8 / 10
Unauth automated payment
6 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
77 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Deepgram?
Discover price
https://deepgram.com/pricing — full per-minute and per-character rate tables visibleSelect a plan
Three programmatically distinguishable tiers: PAYG, Growth ($4k+/yr), EnterprisePay per task
True per-second billing at $0.0048/min Nova-3 disclosed at https://deepgram.com/pricingAvoid a sales call
PAYG and Growth completable via console.deepgram.com signup; only Enterprise sales-ledAPI docs without auth
https://developers.deepgram.com — public, no auth wallEstimate cost upfront
Per-minute rate plus FAQ confirming true per-second billing at https://deepgram.com/pricingPros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-03. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Per-unit billing is published, so an agent can budget for a single task before committing.
- API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
- Per-unit rate is concrete enough that an agent can model expected spend before issuing a request.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- Some tiers are sales-led; the highest-capacity surfaces are not self-serve.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Deepgram could lift its score
Deepgram is already Verified. Two missing points: (1) publish /.well-known/ai-pricing.json mirroring the per-minute rate card; (2) enable an anonymous one-shot PPU purchase via xpay widget so an agent can transcribe without creating a console account first. Both lift to 100/100.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Straightforward costs for projects at any scale — Pay As You Go, No credit card required |
| tier_count | 3 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 0 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | $200 credit, no credit card, no expiration |
| per_unit_price | $0.0048/min Nova-3 STT; $0.030/1k chars Aura-2 TTS; $0.075/min Voice Agent |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 1 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://developers.deepgram.com |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
Deepgram
77
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Speech & Transcription
Straightforward costs for projects at any scale — Pay As You Go, No credit card required
3
Yes
$200 credit, no credit card, no expiration
Free
$0.0048/min Nova-3 STT; $0.030/1k chars Aura-2 TTS; $0.075/min Voice Agent
1 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-03