Deepgram Restructures Voice Agent API Pricing to Per-Minute Model, Introducing New Tiers and Significant Cost Savings
What changed
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)
Before and after
Jul 4, 2025 vs Oct 5, 2025Keyterm 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)
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