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Deepgram

Approaching Agent-Ready
Agent-Ready SaaS Index · deepgram.com · scored 2026-05-03 · rubric v1.1
Score 71 / 100
Speech Transcription
Free tier
Self-serve checkout
Public API

Deepgram's pricing URL resolves, but plan structure is not surfaced clearly enough for an agent to enumerate without hand-parsing. Per-unit pricing is published — an agent can forecast cost per task before committing. Self-serve signup exists alongside a sales-led / custom tier. Public API documentation is reachable without an auth wall. A free or freemium tier is offered.

See Deepgram pricing summaryLive pricing page
Pricing snapshot
Deepgram Pricing — Straightforward costs for projects at any scale.
As of 2026-05-03 · derived from deepgram.com/pricing
Per-unit pricing

$0.030/1k characters

Free

$0

No card
Snapshot rendered from xpay's extracted pricing signals. The full tier list lives on the live page — see source link above.
Score breakdown · rubric v1.1
How Deepgram scores on the agent-ready dimensions

Public pricing

7 / 15

Usage-based / metered

20 / 25

Self-serve checkout

15 / 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
71 / 100
Agent purchase simulation
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Deepgram?
✓

Discover price

https://deepgram.com/pricing — full per-minute and per-character rate tables visible
✓

Select a plan

Three programmatically distinguishable tiers: PAYG, Growth ($4k+/yr), Enterprise
✓

Pay per task

True per-second billing at $0.0048/min Nova-3 disclosed at https://deepgram.com/pricing
◐

Avoid a sales call

PAYG and Growth completable via console.deepgram.com signup; only Enterprise sales-led
✓

API docs without auth

https://developers.deepgram.com — public, no auth wall
✓

Estimate cost upfront

Per-minute rate plus FAQ confirming true per-second billing at https://deepgram.com/pricing
Analysis
Pros 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.
✓ For an AI agent
  • 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.
◐ Opportunities for the provider
  • 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.
One-line fix
How Deepgram could lift its score

Expose an anonymous-purchase path (no account required) for the smallest paid tier — even a $1 PAYG entry.

pricing_visible

true

headline_phrasing

Deepgram Pricing — Straightforward costs for projects at any scale.

tier_count

0

lowest_paid_entry_usd

null

free_tier

true

free_tier_terms

null

per_unit_price

$0.030/1k characters

annual_required

false

self_serve_paid_tiers

1

sales_only_tiers

0

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

per_unit_classification

{"unit_class":"other","confidence":"medium","agent_task_price_forecastable":"yes","rejected_reason":null,"evidence_text":"$0.030/1k characters"}

usage_headline_present

true

custom_tier_present

true

agent_friendly

{"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":true,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false}

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Page heading: Deepgram Pricing
CTAs (40): Search · Contact Us · Log In · Sign Up Free · Get Started · Contact Sales · Developer Documentation · Streaming · Pre-Recorded · $/minute · $/hour · Calculate the Text-to-Speech concurrency you need
Price tokens (50): $200 · $4 · $0.0065/min · $0.0077/min · $0.0057/min · $0.0065/minFlux Multilinguali · $0.0078/min · $0.0068/minNova- · $0.0048/min · $0.0077/min · $0.0042/min · $0.0065/minNova-
SearchContact UsLog InSign Up FreeDeepgram PricingStraightforward costs for projects at any scale.Find the right plan with our clear, transparent, and flexible pricing. Whether you're just exploring or deploying at enterprise scale, our plans are built for innovation, not contract negotiation.Pay As You GoNo minimums. No expiration. No credit card required.GrowthSave up to 20%With pre-paid credits for the year. Credits are redeemed against actual usage.OverviewPriceFree $200 Creditthen pay-as-you-go$4K+/ yearBest forDevelopers & StartupsGrowing ApplicationsAccessAll endpoint in public modelsAll endpoints in public modelsUsage & Scale (Concurrency)Speech-to-TextUp to 50 for the REST APIUp to 50 for the REST APIUp to 150 for the WSS APIUp to 225 for the WSS APIUp to 5 for Deepgram Whisper CloudUp to 5 for Deepgram Whisper CloudText-to-SpeechUp to 45 for the REST API + WSS APIUp to 60 for the REST API + WSS APIVoice Agent APIUp to 45 for the WSS APIUp to 60 for the WSS APIAudio IntelligenceUp to 10 for the REST APIUp to 10 for the REST APISupportSupport ChannelsCommunity & DiscordCommunity & DiscordSLAsStandard UptimeStandard UptimeSign Up FreeGet StartedEnterpriseFor businesses with large volumes, data or deployment requirements, or support needs.Contact SalesSpeech to Text Power your applications with world-class speech recognition APIs. Nova models support 45+ languages with advanced capabilities including Speaker Diarization (multi-speaker detection), Smart Formatting for re…
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Agent-Ready Spec
Deepgram
Approaching Agent-Ready

71

/ 100 (rubric v1.1)
Category

Speech Transcription

Pricing model

Deepgram Pricing — Straightforward costs for projects at any scale.

Tier count

0

Free tier

Yes

Lowest paid entry

Sales-led

Per-unit price

$0.030/1k characters

Self-serve / sales-only tiers

1 / 0

Public API docs

Public

Anonymous purchase path

No

Machine-readable pricing

Not published

Last refreshed

2026-05-03

Actions
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Verdict reflects Approaching Agent-Ready status under rubric v1.1. Source observed at https://deepgram.com/pricing.
Agent-friendly features2 of 7 present
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.

ai-pricing.json

agents.txt

llms.txt

sitemap.xml

MCP Server Card

Agent Skills

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