Deepgram pricing
What Deepgram charges per million characters, what that costs at real volumes, and when a cheaper or pay-once option makes sense.
Prices are list prices from the official pricing page of Deepgram, read October 8, 2026. They change; confirm before you decide. Source: https://deepgram.com/pricing
What Deepgram charges
| Item | Price | Unit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text to speech, Aura-1 | $0.0150 | per 1,000 characters | Growth plan $0.0135 |
| Text to speech, Aura-2 | $0.030 | per 1,000 characters | Growth plan $0.027 |
| Speech to text, Nova-3 monolingual | $0.0043 pre-recorded, $0.0048 streaming | per minute | Shown as a current promotion; the page lists a regular price of $0.0077 |
| Speech to text, Nova-3 multilingual | $0.0052 pre-recorded, $0.0058 streaming | per minute | Promotional; regular price $0.0092 listed |
| Voice Agent API, Standard | $0.075 | per minute | Billed on WebSocket connection time |
| Free credit | $200 | one time | Then pay as you go |
Cost at real volumes
| Model | 1M characters | 10M characters | 100M characters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura-1 | $15 | $150 | $1,500 |
| Aura-2 | $30 | $300 | $3,000 |
| Speakvora catalog voices | $3 | $30 | $300 |
One million characters is very roughly 15 to 20 hours of speech. Cost only: these models sound different, and we do not claim ours match theirs. Listen to the free samples and decide.
What Deepgram offers
- Text to speech (Aura-1 and Aura-2)
- Speech to text with pre-recorded and streaming modes
- A voice agent API billed per connection minute
- Prepaid Growth plans with discounted rates
What we did not find in Deepgram's official material
- Curated industry phrase packs
- Voice cloning or voice design in the pricing material reviewed
- Searchable phrase library with stable identifiers
How it compares with Speakvora
Deepgram is strongest as a speech-recognition company with a text-to-speech and agent layer. For transcription its listed per-minute rates are higher than Speakvora's $0.0015, but Deepgram offers a wider set of models and languages and streaming features we have not matched.
Pay once instead
If most of your audio repeats (greetings, confirmations, prompts), a one-time bundle plays offline with no per-play fee. See pay-once text to speech and the speech API alternative page.
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Questions
How much does Deepgram cost?
For text to speech, Deepgram lists between $15 and $30 per million characters depending on the model, on its pricing page read October 8, 2026. Prices change, so confirm at the source: https://deepgram.com/pricing.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Deepgram?
On list price per character, yes. Speakvora's catalog voices are $3 per million characters and your own voice is $6. That is a cost comparison only; the models, languages and voices differ, and we do not claim equal quality. Deepgram is strongest as a speech-recognition company with a text-to-speech and agent layer. For transcription its listed per-minute rates are higher than Speakvora's $0.0015, but Deepgram offers a wider set of models and languages and stre
What does Deepgram do that Speakvora does not?
Deepgram offers: Text to speech (Aura-1 and Aura-2); Speech to text with pre-recorded and streaming modes; A voice agent API billed per connection minute. Speakvora is smaller, with fewer models and languages.
Can I pay once instead of per character?
For lines that repeat, yes. Speakvora sells ready-made voice bundles you buy once (audio from $14, or $214 to $399 with a local agent) and play offline with no per-play fee. If you generate a line once and keep the file, per-character pricing is already very cheap, and we say so on the comparison pages.