Deepgram vs Twelve Labs
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Deepgram
Real-time speech-to-text platform
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Twelve Labs
API that indexes video by what happens in it, not filenames
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | 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 | 2015 | — |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
Twelve Labs is the sharpest dedicated video-understanding API on the market right now, and the money agrees: a $100M Series B closed July 1, 2026, co-led by NEA and Naver Ventures with Amazon, Radical Ventures and Korea... |
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