AssemblyAI vs Deepgram vs Recall.ai vs Tactiq
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
AssemblyAI
Speech-to-text and audio intelligence API
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Deepgram
Real-time speech-to-text platform
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Recall.ai
Unified API for meeting recording and transcription
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Tactiq
Browser-based meeting transcripts without a bot in the call
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | $200 free credit (one-time, no credit card required, no expiration) on the Pay As You Go plan | — | — |
| Paid from | — | Pay-as-you-go from $0.0048/min (Nova-3 Monolingual streaming) | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 200,000+ developers | — | — |
| Founded | 2017 | 2015 | 2021 | 2019 |
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| Verdict | AssemblyAI is a developer-focused speech AI platform delivering accurate transcription plus audio-intelligence features like speaker diarization, summarisation, sentiment, topic detection, and PII redaction through a cle... |
Deepgram is the specialist pick for latency-sensitive voice applications. Nova-3 streams transcription from $0.0048/min with sub-300ms latency, and the Flux model (multilingual since April 2026) builds end-of-turn detect... |
Recall.ai is an infrastructure API that lets developers send recording and transcription bots into Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other platforms through a single unified interface, plus a desktop recording SDK.... |
No bot visibly joins the call — that's the whole differentiator, and it's a good one. Tactiq runs as a browser extension that reads a call's native captions, so Google Meet, Zoom and Teams get live transcripts and AI sum... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.