Deepgram $200 Free Speech API Credits
Source: https://deepgram.com/pricing
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+ 1 Deepgram gives every new user $200 in free credits for their speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice agent, and audio intelligence APIs. No credit card required. Credits never expire. At pay-as-you-go rates, that's roughly 25,000+ minutes of transcription or 6.6M+ characters of text-to-speech.
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+ 5 1. Go to console.deepgram.com and click Sign Up.
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+ 6 2. Create an account with email, Google, or GitHub.
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+ 7 3. You'll immediately receive $200 in free credits -- no credit card needed.
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+ 8 4. Navigate to API Keys in your dashboard and create a key.
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5. Start making API calls to https://api.deepgram.com/v1/ with your key.
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+ 10 6. Credits never expire, so take your time experimenting.
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+ 12 Caveat: If you later add a payment method with auto-reload enabled, the default is $100 reload when balance drops below $10. Disable auto-reload if you only want to use free credits.
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+ 17 ModelBest ForPrice/min (PAYG)
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+ 18 FluxFastest, real-time streaming$0.0077
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+ 19 Nova-3 MonolingualBest English accuracy$0.0077
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+ 20 Nova-3 Multilingual40+ languages$0.0092
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+ 21 Nova-2Legacy, still solid$0.0058
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+ 22 Nova-1Budget option$0.0058
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+ 23 EnhancedOlder, higher quality$0.0165
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+ 24 BaseCheapest legacy model$0.0145
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+ 27 ModelPrice/1K chars (PAYG)
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+ 28 Aura-2$0.030
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+ 29 Aura-1$0.015
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+ 32 TierPrice/min
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+ 33 Full-stack (Deepgram LLM + TTS)$0.08 - $0.16
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+ 34 Bring-your-own LLM + TTS$0.04
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+ 37 FeaturePrice/min
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+ 38 Speaker Diarization$0.0020
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+ 39 Redaction (PII)$0.0020
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+ 40 Keyterm Prompting$0.0013
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+ 41 Smart FormattingIncluded
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+ 45 ResourceLimit
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+ 46 Free credits$200
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+ 47 Credit expiryNever
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+ 48 STT concurrency (REST)100
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+ 49 STT concurrency (WebSocket)150
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+ 50 TTS concurrency45
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+ 51 Voice Agent concurrency45
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+ 52 Whisper Cloud concurrency5
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+ 53 Billing granularityPer-second (no rounding)
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+ 57 • Credits go far: At Nova-3 rates ($0.0077/min), $200 = ~25,974 minutes (~433 hours) of transcription. With Nova-2 ($0.0058/min), it's ~34,483 minutes (~575 hours).
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+ 58 • True per-second billing: Unlike competitors that round to the nearest minute, Deepgram bills per-second. A 10-second clip costs what it should.
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+ 59 • Multichannel pricing: Each audio channel is billed separately. Stereo = 2x the single-channel rate.
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+ 60 • WebSocket streaming: Real-time transcription via WebSocket is the same price as REST -- no streaming surcharge.
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+ 61 • Auto-reload gotcha: When you add a payment method, auto-reload defaults to ON ($100 when balance < $10). Turn it off in settings if you want to stay on free credits only.
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+ 62 • Refund policy: Unused purchased credits (not free credits) can be refunded within 30 days.
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+ 63 • SDKs available: Official SDKs for Python, Node.js, Go, .NET, and Rust.
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+ 65 Sources:
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+ 66 • https://deepgram.com/pricing
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+ 67 • https://deepgram.com/learn/speech-to-text-api-pricing-breakdown-2025
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+ 68 • https://brasstranscripts.com/blog/deepgram-pricing-per-minute-2025-real-time-vs-batch
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