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    "notes": "Free $200 credit has no expiration. Hourly equivalent for Nova STT: ~$0.46/hour (PAYG) or ~$0.39/hour (Growth). Audio Intelligence (summarization, sentiment, topic detection) billed per 1K tokens: $0.0003 input / $0.0006 output (PAYG). Voice Agent API tiers vary by BYO components: Standard $0.075/min, BYO TTS $0.065/min, BYO LLM $0.056/min, BYO LLM+TTS $0.050/min, Advanced $0.163/min. Per-second billing, no rounding to nearest minute. Auto-reload default: $100 when balance drops to $10.",
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          "$200 free credit (no expiration)",
          "No credit card required",
          "Nova-3 STT at $0.0077/min (mono) or $0.0092/min (multi)",
          "Nova-1/2 STT at $0.0058/min",
          "Flux STT at $0.0077/min",
          "Aura-2 TTS at $0.030/1K characters",
          "Aura-1 TTS at $0.015/1K characters",
          "Voice Agent API from $0.050/min",
          "100 REST API concurrent connections",
          "150 WebSocket concurrent connections",
          "Smart formatting included",
          "Speaker diarization at $0.002/min add-on",
          "PII redaction at $0.002/min add-on",
          "True per-second billing"
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        "description": "Usage-based with $200 free credit (~43,000 minutes Nova transcription)"
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      {
        "name": "Growth",
        "price": 4000,
        "period": "year (minimum)",
        "features": [
          "Up to 20% discount vs Pay As You Go",
          "Nova-3 STT at $0.0065/min (mono) or $0.0078/min (multi)",
          "Nova-1/2 STT at $0.0047/min",
          "Flux STT at $0.0065/min",
          "Aura-2 TTS at $0.027/1K characters",
          "Aura-1 TTS at $0.0135/1K characters",
          "Voice Agent API from $0.041/min",
          "100 REST API concurrent connections",
          "225 WebSocket concurrent connections",
          "Pre-paid credits redeemed against usage",
          "Higher concurrency limits"
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        "description": "Pre-paid credits with up to 20% savings and higher concurrency",
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        "sourceQuote": "$4,000+ / year",
        "sourceReadAt": "2026-10-31T07:02:42.154Z"
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  "verdict": "Deepgram is the best-value speech AI platform for developers, and it is not close. The $200 free credit with no expiration gives you ~43,000 minutes of Nova transcription to build and test with, more generous than any competitor. Nova-3 at $0.0077/minute ($0.46/hour) delivers accuracy rivaling OpenAI Whisper at roughly half the cost, with real-time streaming, speaker diarization, and 30+ languages. The per-second billing is a genuine differentiator: competitors like AssemblyAI and AWS Transcribe round to the nearest second or 15-second increment, which inflates costs 5-15% on short audio clips. The Voice Agent API ($0.050-0.163/min depending on BYO components) positions Deepgram as a full voice AI stack, not just a transcription service. Main caveat: the older Enhanced and Base models are more expensive than Nova while being less accurate, always use Nova-3 or Flux unless you have a specific legacy reason.",
  "bestFor": "Developers building voice-enabled applications (meeting bots, call analytics, voice assistants) who need a reliable real-time STT API with sub-300ms latency | Call centers and sales teams processing thousands of hours of recordings monthly, Nova-3 at $0.46/hour is 50-70% cheaper than Google Speech-to-Text or AWS Transcribe for equivalent accuracy | Startups building voice agent products who want STT + TTS + voice agent orchestration from a single vendor with unified billing | Companies processing short audio clips (voicemails, IVR, voice messages) where per-second billing saves 5-15% vs competitors that round up",
  "hiddenCosts": [
    "Add-on features stack up: speaker diarization ($0.002/min) and PII redaction ($0.002/min) each add ~26% to the base Nova-3 price. A fully-featured transcription pipeline (Nova-3 + diarization + redaction + keyterm prompting) costs $0.0130/min vs $0.0077 base, a 69% premium.",
    "Multilingual Nova-3 costs 19% more than monolingual ($0.0092/min vs $0.0077/min). If your audio is consistently in one language, always use the monolingual model to save.",
    "The $200 free credit is not renewable, once spent, you are on metered billing.",
    "Whisper Cloud (self-hosted Whisper model via Deepgram) is limited to 5 concurrent connections on all plans. If you need Whisper specifically at scale, you may need to self-host.",
    "Growth plan requires a $4,000/year minimum commitment. Credits are pre-paid and redeemed against usage, if your usage drops, unused credits do not roll over (verify terms).",
    "Audio Intelligence (summarization, sentiment, topics) uses a separate per-token pricing model ($0.0003-0.0006/1K tokens) that is difficult to estimate in advance since token count depends on audio content length and complexity."
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