Deepgram Restructures Voice Agent API Pricing to Per-Minute Model, Introducing New Tiers and Significant Cost Savings
What happened
Between the Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025 captures of Deepgram's pricing page, Pulse recorded 7 changes: Keyterm Prompting add-on price decreased from $0.0020/min to $0.0013/min (Pay As You Go, 35% decrease) and from $0.0017/min to $0.0012/min (Growth, 29% decrease); Text-to-speech concurrency limit increased from 5 to 15 for REST API + WSS API (applies to Pay As You Go and Growth plans); Flux model added to Speech-to-Text pricing with free promotional period through October; Nova-3 (English) model renamed to Nova-3 (Monolingual); Enterprise plan pricing changed from explicit 'starting at $15k' minimum to 'Custom Pricing'; Voice Agent API concurrency limit increased from 5 to 15 for WSS API (applies to Pay As You Go and Growth plans); Voice Agent API pricing restructured from hourly to per-minute with new tier structure: before had Standard ($4.50/hr) and Standard-Custom LLM ($3.90/hr), now includes Growth tier with Standard ($0.0800/min Pay As You Go, $0.0700/min Growth), Standard-BYO TTS ($0.0600/min, $0.0500/min), Custom-BYO LLM ($0.0700/min, $0.0600/min), Custom-BYO LLM+TTS ($0.0500/min, $0.0400/min), Advanced ($0.1600/min, $0.1500/min), and Advanced-BYO TTS ($0.1200/min, $0.1100/min). Pulse files it as a pricing change (price decrease, limit increase, feature added, plan renamed, price hidden, package change) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Sep 21, 2026) lists Growth at $333.33 and Pay As You Go at $0 per 1,000 input tokens (Audio Intelligence) + $0.01 per minute (STT Flux English pre-recorded).
Deepgram's previous recorded change was "Deepgram Raises Enterprise Plan Pricing by 50% to $15k+ Annually Amid New Model Launch and Feature Additions" (Q1 2025). Before that Pulse recorded "Deepgram Unveils New Pricing Structure: Growth Plan Now Open-Ended Starting at $4k+/Year, Enterprise Plan Minimum Set at $10k+/Year" (Q4 2024), "Deepgram Expands Aura TTS Growth Plan with Major Increase to 80 Concurrent WebSocket Connections" (Q3 2024) and "Deepgram Introduces Self-Service Rate Limit Requests for Aura TTS API in Pay As You Go and Growth Plans" (Q2 2024). Deepgram has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window Otter, OpenAI and Assemblyai also changed their AI & Machine Learning pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Pay As You Go, Growth · Price−35%$0.0020/min$0.0013/min
- Pay As You Go, Growth · Limit+200%515
- Speech-to-Text · FeatureAddedNo Flux modelFlux model
- — · PlanRenamedmodelNova-3
- Enterprise · Price visibilityChanged
Beforeexplicit 'starting at $15k' minimum
After'Custom Pricing'
- Pay As You Go, Growth · Limit+200%515
- Growth, Pay As You Go · PackagingAddedNo Growth tierGrowth tier
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go, Growth | Price | $0.0020/min | $0.0013/min | −35% |
| Pay As You Go, Growth | Limit | 5 | 15 | +200% |
| Speech-to-Text | Feature | No Flux model | Flux model | Added |
| — | Plan | model | Nova-3 | Renamed |
| Enterprise | Price visibility | explicit 'starting at $15k' minimum | 'Custom Pricing' | Changed |
| Pay As You Go, Growth | Limit | 5 | 15 | +200% |
| Growth, Pay As You Go | Packaging | No Growth tier | Growth tier | Added |
Values as written on Deepgram's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Deepgram's pricing page (deepgram.com) from Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where pay as you go, growth price reads $0.0020/min and then $0.0013/min.
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Deepgram, pricing history
Full history- Apr 3, 2026packagingDeepgram Cuts Voice Agent API Rates, Triples Concurrency Limits
- Feb 16, 2026packagingDeepgram triples concurrency limits across all API tiers
- Jan 11, 2026packagingDeepgram Introduces New Flux Model Pricing: $0.0077/min for Pay As You Go and $0.0065/min for Growth Plan After Free Promotional Period Ends
- Q3 2025packagingDeepgram Restructures Voice Agent API Pricing to Per-Minute Model, Introducing New Tiers and Significant Cost Savings · this change
- Q1 2025improvedDeepgram Raises Enterprise Plan Pricing by 50% to $15k+ Annually Amid New Model Launch and Feature Additions
- Q4 2024packagingDeepgram Unveils New Pricing Structure: Growth Plan Now Open-Ended Starting at $4k+/Year, Enterprise Plan Minimum Set at $10k+/Year
- Q3 2024improvedDeepgram Expands Aura TTS Growth Plan with Major Increase to 80 Concurrent WebSocket Connections
- Q2 2024improvedDeepgram Introduces Self-Service Rate Limit Requests for Aura TTS API in Pay As You Go and Growth Plans
- Q1 2024improvedDeepgram Launches Text-to-Speech Product Aura with Competitive Pricing at $0.0150/1k Characters for Pay As You Go
- Dec 2023improvedDeepgram Introduces New Redaction Feature for Audio Intelligence at $0.26/hr, Removing It from Included Speech-to-Text Services
Across AI & Machine Learning in the same window
All AI & Machine Learning changes- OtterJan 12Otter Decreases Pro Plan Price to $8.33/user/month and Increases Annual Billing Discount to 51%
- OpenAIJan 12OpenAI Announces Dramatic 87% Price Drop for Flagship Reasoning Model Outputs During Transition to o3
- AssemblyaiJan 11Assemblyai Reduces Streaming Speech-to-Text Pricing by 68% from $0.47/hr to $0.15/hr, Enhancing Accessibility for Users
Questions about this change
Did Deepgram raise prices in October 2025?
No — prices went down. Between Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025 Deepgram's pricing page showed 1 price cut: Pay As You Go, Growth: $0.0020/min → $0.0013/min (−35%).
What changed on Deepgram's pricing page between Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025?
Pay As You Go, Growth price: $0.0020/min → $0.0013/min (−35%); Pay As You Go, Growth limit: 5 → 15 (+200%); Speech-to-Text feature: No Flux model → Flux model, added; plan: model → Nova-3, renamed; Enterprise price visibility: explicit 'starting at $15k' minimum → 'Custom Pricing', changed; Pay As You Go, Growth limit: 5 → 15 (+200%); Growth, Pay As You Go packaging: No Growth tier → Growth tier, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Deepgram change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Deepgram in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Deepgram Raises Enterprise Plan Pricing by 50% to $15k+ Annually Amid New Model Launch and Feature Additions" in Q1 2025; Deepgram has been tracked since 2023-11-14.