Deepgram Pricing
deepgram.com · Speech & Transcription · refreshed 2026-05-03deepgram.com/pricing
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
Plans & what each tier includes
Synthesized from Deepgram's public pricing page on 2026-05-03. Tier names normalized to a starter / team / business / enterprise pattern; the actual Deepgram pricing page is the source of truth for in-tier features.Free
$0
forever$200 credit, no credit card, no expiration
Access to Deepgram's speech & transcription surface
Standard per-unit pricing applies once free quota is consumed
Full public API documentation available
Enterprise
Contact sales
customCustom pricing negotiated with the Deepgram sales team
Dedicated account manager and SLA commitments
Volume discounts on per-unit costs
Procurement-friendly: invoicing, NDAs, security questionnaires
What Deepgram charges
Deepgram operates in the speech & transcription space. The published pricing page lists 3 tiers, including a free tier, with per-unit pricing of $0.0048/min Nova-3 STT; $0.030/1k chars Aura-2 TTS; $0.075/min Voice Agent. The pricing page positions plans as: "Straightforward costs for projects at any scale — Pay As You Go, No credit card required".
For the deeper analysis — score, simulation, pros & cons for AI agents, and the one-line fix that would lift this listing into the Verified band — see the agent-readiness scorecard.Deepgram pricing FAQ
Deepgram offers a free tier ($200 credit, no credit card, no expiration). Paid pricing is sales-led — the live pricing page does not list a self-serve paid plan as of 2026-05-03.
Yes — Deepgram publishes a free tier: $200 credit, no credit card, no expiration. This makes it possible to evaluate Deepgram without committing budget.
Deepgram's public pricing page lists the following per-unit pricing: $0.0048/min Nova-3 STT; $0.030/1k chars Aura-2 TTS; $0.075/min Voice Agent. This is the rate captured by xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS Index on 2026-05-03 and is the basis for the agent-readiness score on the linked scorecard.
Deepgram's pricing page positions itself as: "Straightforward costs for projects at any scale — Pay As You Go, No credit card required". Per-unit pricing of $0.0048/min Nova-3 STT; $0.030/1k chars Aura-2 TTS; $0.075/min Voice Agent is published. For the strict definition of agent-buyable PPU — a per-task purchase that an AI agent can complete without an annual commitment — see the agent-readiness scorecard.
Partially. 1 Deepgram tier is self-serve via card checkout; 1 tier requires contacting sales.
Yes — Deepgram's API documentation is publicly accessible at https://developers.deepgram.com. An AI agent or developer can inspect the integration surface without authentication.
xpay scored Deepgram 77 / 100 on its Agent-Ready SaaS Index, which places it in the Approaching Agent-Ready band. 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. For the full 6-step purchase simulation and the one-line fix that would lift this listing into the next band, see the linked scorecard.
In the Speech & Transcription category, xpay's Agent-Ready Index lists multiple alternatives ranked by their ability to support AI agent purchase. Visit the agent-readiness scorecard for Deepgram to compare with 3 nearest peers, or browse the full Speech & Transcription category from the index.
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Can an AI agent buy from Deepgram?
77
/ 100 in xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS IndexBased 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…
See the full scorecardIncludes the 6-step agent purchase simulation, score breakdown across 7 dimensions, and the one-line fix that would lift Deepgram into the Agent-Ready Verified band.At a glance
$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 tier
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Deepgram pricing summary derived from a live read of https://deepgram.com/pricing on 2026-05-03. For the agent-readiness assessment — including the 6-step purchase simulation and a per-dimension scorecard — see xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS Index entry for Deepgram.