Deepgram pricing per hour and per minute
Deepgram charges $0.258 to $0.312 an hour for recorded audio ($0.0043 to $0.0052 a minute) across 3 options, and $0.462 to $0.552 an hour for live audio ($0.0077 to $0.0092 a minute) across 4 options at regular prices; a promotion lowers some of them for now. Every new account gets $200 of free credit, which doesn't expire until used. Billed per second, with no rounding up.
Ranked by each vendor's cheapest option at 100 hours a month, Deepgram comes 9th of 12 for recorded audio and 4th of 10 for live audio.
Prices by model
| Model | Audio | Per minute | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nova-3 Monolingual | batch | $0.0043 | $0.258 |
| Whisper Large | batch | $0.0048 | $0.288 |
| Nova-3 Multilingual | batch | $0.0052 | $0.312 |
| Nova-3 Monolingual Promotion: $0.0048 a minute, no end date given. | streaming | $0.0077 | $0.462 |
| Flux English Promotion: $0.0065 a minute, no end date given. Built for voice agents, with turn detection. | streaming | $0.0077 | $0.462 |
| Flux Multilingual Built for voice agents, with turn detection. | streaming | $0.0078 | $0.468 |
| Nova-3 Multilingual Promotion: $0.0058 a minute, no end date given. | streaming | $0.0092 | $0.552 |
What 10, 100, 1,000 and 10,000 hours a month cost
| Model | 10 hours | 100 hours | 1,000 hours | 10,000 hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nova-3 Monolingual batch | $2.58 $0.258/h | $25.80 $0.258/h | $258 $0.258/h | $2,580 $0.258/h |
| Whisper Large batch | $2.88 $0.288/h | $28.80 $0.288/h | $288 $0.288/h | $2,880 $0.288/h |
| Nova-3 Multilingual batch | $3.12 $0.312/h | $31.20 $0.312/h | $312 $0.312/h | $3,120 $0.312/h |
| Nova-3 Monolingual streaming | $4.62 $0.462/h | $46.20 $0.462/h | $462 $0.462/h | $4,620 $0.462/h |
| Flux English streaming | $4.62 $0.462/h | $46.20 $0.462/h | $462 $0.462/h | $4,620 $0.462/h |
| Flux Multilingual streaming | $4.68 $0.468/h | $46.80 $0.468/h | $468 $0.468/h | $4,680 $0.468/h |
| Nova-3 Multilingual streaming | $5.52 $0.552/h | $55.20 $0.552/h | $552 $0.552/h | $5,520 $0.552/h |
Regular prices. One-off credits and promotions aren't counted.
Free tier and credits
- Once, at sign-up: Every new account gets $200 of free credit, which doesn't expire until used.
Billing
- Billed per second, with no rounding up.
- Stereo files are billed per channel: a 10-minute two-channel file counts as 20 minutes.
- Deepgram's streaming prices carry a limited-time promotion with no end date given; we rank the regular prices. Its FAQ quotes the promotional $0.29 an hour for Nova-3 streaming.
- Older models stay available: Nova-2 streaming at $0.35 an hour, Enhanced at $0.99 and Base at $0.87.
Add-ons
| Feature | Audio | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker diarization | batch | Included |
| Speaker diarization | streaming | +$0.002 a minute ($0.12 an hour) |
| PII redaction | batch, streaming | +$0.002 a minute ($0.12 an hour) |
| Keyterm prompting | batch, streaming | +$0.0013 a minute ($0.078 an hour) |
| Entity detection | batch, streaming | +$0.0017 a minute ($0.102 an hour) |
Volume discounts and commitments
- The Growth plan, a prepaid commitment from $4,000 a year, cuts pre-recorded Nova-3 Monolingual to $0.0036 a minute and Multilingual to $0.0043; overages cost the Growth rate plus 10%.
Quick answers
How much does Deepgram cost per hour?
$0.258 to $0.312 an hour for recorded audio, and $0.462 to $0.552 an hour for live audio, at regular pay-as-you-go prices.
What do 100 hours of audio a month cost on Deepgram?
$25.80 for recorded audio on Nova-3 Monolingual, or $46.20 for live audio on Nova-3 Monolingual.
Does Deepgram have a free tier?
Every new account gets $200 of free credit, which doesn't expire until used.
Does Deepgram bill per second?
Billed per second, with no rounding up.
Is anything cheaper than Deepgram for recorded audio?
Yes: at 100 hours a month, 8 of the 11 other vendors we price cost less: Groq Whisper Large V3 Turbo at $0.04 an hour, Speechmatics Melia 1 at $0.12 an hour, AssemblyAI Universal-2 at $0.15 an hour and 5 more.
Is anything cheaper than Deepgram for live audio?
Yes: at 100 hours a month, 3 of the 9 other vendors we price cost less: AssemblyAI Universal-Streaming at $0.15 an hour, Speechmatics Linden 1 (voice agents) at $0.20 an hour and ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime at $0.38 an hour.
Deepgram against the market: recorded audio
| # | Vendor and option | Per month | Per hour | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Groq Whisper Large V3 Turbo | $4 | $0.04 | $0.0007 |
| 2 | Speechmatics Melia 1 | $12 | $0.12 | $0.002 |
| 3 | AssemblyAI Universal-2 | $15 | $0.15 | $0.0025 |
| 4 | OpenAI gpt-4o-mini-transcribe | $18 | $0.18 | $0.003 |
| 4 | Google Cloud V2 dynamic batch | $18 | $0.18 | $0.003 |
| 4 | Azure AI Speech Batch transcription | $18 | $0.18 | $0.003 |
| 7 | Rev AI Reverb (English) | $20 | $0.20 | $0.0033 |
| 8 | ElevenLabs Scribe v2 | $21.01 | $0.21 | $0.0035 |
| 9 | Deepgram Nova-3 Monolingual | $25.80 | $0.258 | $0.0043 |
| 10 | Gemini API Gemini 3.5 Transcribe | $30.60 | $0.306 | $0.0051 |
| 11 | Amazon Transcribe Standard | $36 | $0.36 | $0.006 |
| 12 | Gladia Starter (async) | $61 | $0.61 | $0.0102 |
Deepgram against the market: live audio
| # | Vendor and option | Per month | Per hour | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AssemblyAI Universal-Streaming | $15 | $0.15 | $0.0025 |
| 2 | Speechmatics Linden 1 (voice agents) | $20 | $0.20 | $0.0033 |
| 3 | ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime | $38.03 | $0.38 | $0.0063 |
| 4 | Deepgram Nova-3 Monolingual | $46.20 | $0.462 | $0.0077 |
| 5 | Gemini API Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live | $53.55 | $0.536 | $0.0089 |
| 6 | Amazon Transcribe Standard | $60 | $0.60 | $0.01 |
| 7 | Gladia Starter (real-time) | $75 | $0.75 | $0.0125 |
| 8 | Google Cloud V1 with data logging | $95.04 | $0.95 | $0.0158 |
| 9 | Azure AI Speech Real-time transcription | $100 | $1 | $0.0167 |
| 10 | OpenAI gpt-live-transcribe | $102 | $1.02 | $0.017 |
Price your own monthly hours with the speech-to-text cost calculator, or see the cheapest speech-to-text API.
Head to head: Deepgram vs AssemblyAI, Deepgram vs Whisper API, Deepgram vs ElevenLabs Scribe, Speechmatics vs Deepgram, Gladia vs Deepgram, AWS Transcribe vs Deepgram, Deepgram vs Azure Speech to Text.
Generating speech instead? See Deepgram Aura text-to-speech pricing.
Sources
Read on 6 October 2026:
- deepgram.com/pricing (plain HTTP; FAQ answers read from the page's own FAQ structured data)
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Limited-time promotional rates on streaming.
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Streaming pricing Model Pay As You Go Growth Flux English i Conversational speech recognition for real-time voice agents with built-in turn detection, natural interruption handling, and ultra-low latency. Current price $0.0065/min Regular price $0.0077/min Current price $0.0057/min Regular price $0.0065/min Flux Multilingual i Conversational speech recognition for real-time voice agents that handle multiple languages within a single conversation, with built-in turn detection, natural interruption handling, and ultra-low latency. $0.0078/min $0.0068/min Nova-3 Monolingual i Our highest performing model. Recommended for most use cases, especially audio with multiple languages, background noise, crosstalk and far field audio. Current price $0.0048/min Regular price $0.0077/min Current price $0.0042/min Regular price $0.0065/min Nova-3 Multilingual i Our highest-accuracy multilingual model with automatic language detection. Recommended for audio with multiple languages, background noise, crosstalk, and far-field input. Current price $0.0058/min Regular price $0.0092/min
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Pre-Recorded pricing Model Pay As You Go Growth Nova-3 Monolingual i Our highest performing model. Recommended for most use cases, especially audio with multiple languages, background noise, crosstalk and far field audio. $0.0043/min $0.0036/min Nova-3 Multilingual i Our highest performing model. Recommended for most use cases, especially audio with multiple languages, background noise, crosstalk and far field audio. $0.0052/min $0.0043/min Whisper Large $0.0048/min $0.0048/min
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Speaker Diarization Detect multiple speakers and label who spoke when in the transcript. $0.0020/min Streaming pricing , single-column view of the table above
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Pre-Recorded pricing Feature Description Pay As You Go Growth Redaction Automatically identify and remove sensitive PII such as social security numbers, credit cards, and phone numbers. $0.0020/min $0.0017/min Keyterm Prompting Boost accuracy for specific domain-specific jargon, product names, or acronyms important to your use case. $0.0013/min $0.0012/min Smart Formatting Automatically format punctuation, casing, dates, and currency for readability. Included Included Entity Detection Identify and extract entities like person names, organizations, locations, and dates from your audio. $0.0017/min $0.0017/min Speaker Diarization Detect multiple speakers and label who spoke when in the transcript. Included Included
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Every new account receives $200 in free credit, which is equivalent to approximately 43,000 minutes (over 700 hours) of transcription using our Nova model. Unlike "free tiers" that expire after 12 months, this credit is available until you use it up
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No. Deepgram uses true per-second billing. If your audio file is 14 seconds long, you pay for exactly 14 seconds.
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If you process a 10-minute file with 2 channels (stereo), you are billed for 20 minutes of processing.
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The Growth plan requires a commitment (starting at $4k/year) but unlocks up to a ~20% off across our products
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overages are billed at your current Growth plan rate plus a 10% premium (plus tax).
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Pay-As-You-Go pricing for Nova-3 (our standard model) is $0.29/hour for monolingual streaming and $0.35/hour for multilingual.
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Nova-2 streaming at $0.35/hour, Enhanced at $0.99/hour, and Base at $0.87/hour.
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