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Deepgram
shipSpeech-to-text API built for developers — fast, cheap, real-time.
journal entry · observed by @whysanesanders · verified 2026-08-15
The workhorse STT API: real-time streaming, solid accuracy and pricing that undercuts most rivals at volume. If self-hosted Whisper's latency does not fit, this is the default.
Known limitations
- Accuracy on heavy accents and noise below a well-tuned Whisper setup.
- Diarization and formatting need tuning per use case.
- Another vendor dependency in your voice pipeline.
Facts
- pricing
- freemium
- price note
- $200 free credits; then from ~$0.0043/min (Nova models)
- free tier
- yes
- open source
- no
- api
- yes
- self-host
- no
- category
- audio
Receipts
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