Tool · Voice and speech

Deepgram

A pay-as-you-go service for developers that turns speech into text (live or from files) and text into speech, priced per minute or per character. New accounts get $200 of free credit. You use it through code, not a ready-made app.

Go to Deepgram’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Closed
Only usable through the maker's app or API
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Licence: Deepgram Terms of Service (The maker's own terms)
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Can I sell what I make?: Yes
Terms 3.4: Deepgram claims no ownership of your content; no clause limits commercial use of output. You must not present generated audio as made by a human and must give legally required AI notices (3.5); no reselling the service itself.
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Cost: Free option: $200 free credit on Pay As You Go; no card, no expiry
Plans below.
How you use it: Maker's own API
Sold as an API; offers OpenAI Whisper Large alongside its own models; terms also mention a 'Saga' product with settings. Self-hosted enterprise deployment mentioned, not checked.
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Skill needed: Technical
API-first; needs code.
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Made by: Deepgram, Inc. (US)
Terms section 15 gives a San Francisco, CA company address; country taken from that address.
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Status: Available
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What you can make with it

A voice or speech, text from a recording (main use)
A voice or speech, read my text aloud

audio to texttext to audio

Also sells a voice-agent API (no matching task id).

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Plans and prices

Plan	Price	Includes
Pay As You Go: Nova-3 pre-recorded (monolingual)	$0.0043 per use	per minute of audio transcribed
Pay As You Go: Nova-3 streaming (monolingual)	$0.0077 per use	per minute of audio
Pay As You Go: Whisper Large (pre-recorded)	$0.0048 per use	per minute of audio
Pay As You Go: Aura-2 text to speech	$0.03 per use	per 1,000 characters
Pay As You Go: Aura-1 text to speech	$0.015 per use	per 1,000 characters
Growth	$4000 a year, billed yearly	'$4K+ / year' of prepaid credit, redeemed against usage at up to 20% lower rates (e.g. Nova-3 pre-recorded $0.0036/min, Aura-2 $0.027/1k chars)

Some plans are not listed here; see the source for the full list.

Prices shown as '$' only; USD assumed. Example rates only: Flux, multilingual and Flux TTS rates also listed. Enterprise is contact-sales.

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Rights and safety

Trains on your work?: Trains on your work unless you opt out
Terms 3.2-3.3: your content may be used to train and test models; API users can opt out per request with a parameter.
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Models it uses

Whisper

Models it uses (not yet listed on Plainly)

Nova-3, Flux, Aura-2, Aura-1, Flux TTS

Other options for “A voice or speech, text from a recording”

Adobe Podcast (Enhance Speech), Adobe Premiere, AssemblyAI, Async (formerly Podcastle), AudioShake, Auphonic, Azure AI Speech, CAMB.AI, Cartesia, Cleanvoice AI, Clipchamp, Descript, Distil-Whisper, Dubverse, ElevenLabs, Filmora, Gling, Happy Scribe, Hugging Face, Kapwing, Krisp, MacWhisper, MiniMax Audio, Narakeet

About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.