Vendor intelligence

Deepgram

Speech recognition models with separate speech generation and managed voice-agent APIs.

At a glance / documented capabilities

Read the signals. Keep the scope.

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Voice

Conditional

Scope & source

YesConditional · 2026-09-28Configured recognition/TTS combination

Source ↗

Telephony / SIP

Conditional

Scope & source

YesConditional · 2026-09-28External Bot Media Gateway

Source ↗

Agent tools

Verified Yes

Scope & source

YesVerified Yes · 2026-09-28

Source ↗

Integrations / webhooks

Conditional

Scope & source

YesConditional · 2026-09-28Unknown

Source ↗

Enterprise / HIPAA path

Vendor claim

Scope & source

YesVendor claim · 2026-09-28Deepgram published compliance statement

Source ↗

STT

A place in your stack.

Best for

Developers comparing streaming recognition independently of an LLM
Teams evaluating turn detection versus conventional transcription

Watch-outs

The current Nova-3 streaming rate is promotional.
Flux and Nova-3 are different recognition products, not interchangeable configurations.
STT add-ons and other voice-stack components are separately priced.

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Pricing, with the fine printVoice Agent Standard $0.075/min; BYO TTS $0.065/min; BYO LLM + TTS $0.050/min; Advanced $0.163/min (PAYG)

Tracked component / plan: $0.075 / minute
V3.3 evidence review · Voice Agent Standard PAYG WebSocket connection minutes; other tiers/BYO variants differ

All-in call price: Unknown — Complete cost cannot be established from this reference. Carrier, hosting, model tier and BYO usage prevent a universal full monthly or per-minute ceiling.
Pricing model: component-stack
Cheapest plan: Voice Agent Standard PAYG WebSocket connection minutes; other tiers/BYO variants differ
Free offer: $200 new-account credits
Evidence status: official
Last price check: 2026-09-28
Last product check: 2026-09-27

Deepgram Pricing | Scalable Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech & Voice Agent APIs

Product evidence coverage

Documented claims, not tested performance.

11 / 23 fields

Product specification

What the evidence says.

Unknown means we have not established it. It does not mean No. Compliance claims require plan and contract review.

White label

UnknownUnknown after research

Embedding/channel partner tracks exist. FAQ headings and project API do not establish a turnkey white-label billing/tenant dashboard.

Source ↗2026-09-28

Client tenancy

UnknownUnknown after research

Embedding/channel partner tracks exist. FAQ headings and project API do not establish a turnkey white-label billing/tenant dashboard.

Source ↗2026-09-28

Client billing

UnknownUnknown after research

Embedding/channel partner tracks exist. FAQ headings and project API do not establish a turnkey white-label billing/tenant dashboard.

Source ↗2026-09-28

ISO 27001

Unknown

Not established by the evidence reviewed. This does not mean unsupported.

No verified source

BAA availability

DocumentedConditional

BAAs offered to Enterprise customers handling ePHI; executed agreement required.

Source ↗2026-09-28

SIP

DocumentedConditional

Customer media gateway terminates SIP/RTP then bridges to Deepgram WebSocket.

Source ↗2026-09-28

Warm transfer

UnknownUnknown after research

Human transfer example and AI-to-AI summary handoffs do not establish attended consultation, emergency/backstop service or full transfer recovery semantics.

Source ↗Source ↗2026-09-28

Cold transfer

UnknownUnknown after research

No supporting statement located in the bounded official corpus; confirm scope with vendor. Unknown is not No.

Source ↗Source ↗2026-09-28

Batch calling

Unknown

Not established by the evidence reviewed. This does not mean unsupported.

No verified source

MCP tools

UnknownUnknown after research

Developer CLI/docs MCP is documented; runtime Voice Agent MCP server support not established.

Source ↗2026-09-28

Webhooks

DocumentedConditional

Reference application exposes protected Twilio webhook endpoints; customer hosts them.

Source ↗2026-09-28

Calendar

UnknownUnknown after research

No supporting statement located in the bounded official corpus; confirm scope with vendor. Unknown is not No.

Source ↗Source ↗2026-09-28

CRM

UnknownUnknown after research

No supporting statement located in the bounded official corpus; confirm scope with vendor. Unknown is not No.

Source ↗Source ↗2026-09-28

Bring your carrier

DocumentedConditional

Documented Twilio transport bridge; carrier and app server configured by buyer.

Source ↗Source ↗2026-09-28

Bring your model

DocumentedVerified Yes

Supported LLM table includes OpenAI, Anthropic and Google; custom provider endpoint and model tier determine billing.

Source ↗2026-09-28

Bring your voice

DocumentedVerified Yes

Bring supported external synthesis providers; managed Flux TTS and Aura are also available.

Source ↗2026-09-28

HIPAA / BAA

DocumentedVendor claim

Supplier claim; no independent audit document reviewed.

Source ↗2026-09-28

SOC 2

DocumentedVendor claim

Supplier claim; no independent audit document reviewed.

Source ↗2026-09-28

GDPR

DocumentedVendor claim

Supplier claim; no independent audit document reviewed.

Source ↗2026-09-28

Languages

DocumentedConditional

Flux Multilingual supports ten recognition languages; spoken output depends on chosen TTS, not automatically all ten.

Source ↗2026-09-28

Voices

Unknown

Not established by the evidence reviewed. This does not mean unsupported.

No verified source

Realtime audio

Nova streaming and Flux

Source ↗2026-09-27

Voice cloning

Unknown

Not established by the evidence reviewed. This does not mean unsupported.

No verified source

Architecture & connections

Understand the moving parts.

STT

Deepgram Flux · Deepgram Nova-3

LLM

OpenAI · Anthropic · Google Gemini

TTS

Deepgram Flux TTS · Deepgram Aura · Cartesia or other supported external providers

TELEPHONY

Unknown — provider details not established by reviewed evidence.

Integrations

LiveKit · Daily

Deepgram pricing Deepgram model options Deepgram partner program

Research outcomes / sources / limitations

Evidence you can inspect.

A documented feature, a supplier claim and an unanswered question are different kinds of evidence.

Buyer-relevant evidence114 / 114 applicable P0 fields researched

46 strong-source resolved · 35 unknown after research

Evidence coverage details

Strong-source resolved: 46
Vendor-claim only: 3
Conditional: 30
Other sourced outcomes: 0
Unknown after research: 35
Conflicting evidence: 0
Not applicable: 0
Not researched: 0

P1: 157 / 157 researched · Relevant P2: 27 / 27 researched.

Checked 2026-09-28. P0 means buyer-critical. Research coverage measures the work completed, not product quality, trust, or a benchmark score. A researched field can still be Unknown.

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September 2026 remains the historical baseline. A new research date does not mean a feature launched that day. Unknown after research and not researched are separate states.

Official documentation establishes what the supplier documents. No paid calls, independent product benchmarks or compliance audits were performed in this research pass. Coverage measures research work, never product quality.

Buyer intelligence / September 2026 baseline

The operating decision.

Price structure

Component stack

V3.3 evidence review · Voice Agent Standard PAYG WebSocket connection minutes; other tiers/BYO variants differ

component-stackVerified Yes · 2026-09-28

STT audio minutes, TTS characters and Voice Agent connection minutes are distinct.

Deepgram Pricing | Scalable Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech & Voice Agent APIs ↗

Human fallback

Unknown — no established fallback mode

UnknownUnknown after research · 2026-09-28

No individually verified capability establishes this selection. Conditional support and vendor claims do not satisfy Strict Must-have.

amazon connect and deepgram voice agent ↗multi agent architecture ↗Deepgram Pricing | Scalable Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech & Voice Agent APIs ↗model ↗

Documented transfer is not a staffed human service. Verify who answers, when they answer and what happens if they do not.

Try it yourself

Unknown — no independently checked public demo entry is attached.

External signals

No dated external signal in this record. Missing evidence is not a negative review.

Underlying model context: the documented stack above does not establish an exact benchmark checkpoint or its deployed settings. Public model results cannot become a Deepgram score.

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Append-only price history

Every capture leaves a trace.

A new check creates a new snapshot. Deltas appear only for the same currency, unit, model and scope.

Checked datePrevious → currentDeltaEvidence

2026-09-27

No earlier captureNova-3 streaming $0.0048/min (promo)

Tracked: $0.0048 / minute · Nova-3 monolingual streaming STT; limited-time promotion

First captureDeepgram pricing

2026-09-28

Nova-3 streaming $0.0048/min (promo)Voice Agent Standard $0.075/min; BYO TTS $0.065/min; BYO LLM + TTS $0.050/min; Advanced $0.163/min (PAYG)

Tracked: $0.075 / minute · V3.3 evidence review · Voice Agent Standard PAYG WebSocket connection minutes; other tiers/BYO variants differ

Evidence improvedDeepgram Pricing | Scalable Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech & Voice Agent APIs

2026-09-28

Voice Agent Standard $0.075/min; BYO TTS $0.065/min; BYO LLM + TTS $0.050/min; Advanced $0.163/min (PAYG)Voice Agent Standard $0.075/min; BYO TTS $0.065/min; BYO LLM + TTS $0.050/min; Advanced $0.163/min (PAYG)

Tracked: $0.075 / minute · V3.3 evidence review · Voice Agent Standard PAYG WebSocket connection minutes; other tiers/BYO variants differ

Evidence improvedDeepgram Pricing | Scalable Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech & Voice Agent APIs

New research observations preserve earlier captures. “Evidence improved” records what we learned; it does not claim the market changed on that date. September 2026 is the historical baseline.

Cost estimator

Price the actual workflow.

Complete cost cannot be established from this reference. Carrier, hosting, model tier and BYO usage prevent a universal full monthly or per-minute ceiling. · BYO model/TTS charges, carrier and customer transport hosting

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Alternatives by category

Other stt to inspect.

Alphabetical alternatives within the same category. An editorial starting point, not a performance ranking.

AssemblyAISTT

Developers selecting the recognition layer independently

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SpeechmaticsSTT

Teams testing multilingual live transcription

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Evidence archive

Inspect the record.

Deepgram pricing2026-09-27reviewed

Direct official HTML lists Nova-3 monolingual streaming PAYG at a limited-time $0.0048/minute (regular $0.0077); multilingual $0.0058; prerecorded monolingual $0.0043. $200 initial credit; Growth from $4K/year. STT add-ons and separate TTS/Voice Agent rates apply. Enterprise BAAs, SOC 2 and GDPR are vendor-listed.

v2-voice-deepgram-price · official · Captured 2026-09-27T02:53:32Z

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Deepgram model options2026-09-27reviewed

Deepgram documents Nova-3 for transcription and Flux for conversational recognition with turn detection. Flux Multilingual lists 10 languages. Model, language and feature combinations differ; provider benchmark claims are not independent VoiceBench evidence.

v2-voice-deepgram-product · official · Captured 2026-09-27T02:53:32Z

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Deepgram partner program2026-09-27reviewed

Deepgram offers technology, channel/reseller and consultancy/service partnership tracks. The partner page documents LiveKit and Daily integrations. Negotiated margins and publisher affiliate attribution are not established by this page.

v2-voice-deepgram-partner · official · Captured 2026-09-27T02:53:32Z

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Evidence describes documented scope, not a tested platform score. Unknown means a conclusion has not been established; API connectivity does not establish a native integration. Read our research methodology →

Commercial transparency

Public affiliate terms and API eligibility were not verified. No approved tracking link is on file.

Technology, reseller/channel and services tracks verified. Terms and margins require an agreement.

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