Whisper API vs Deepgram
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Whisper API
OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text
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Deepgram
Real-time speech-to-text platform
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.3 / 10 | 8 / 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 | 2022 | 2015 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | Whisper is OpenAI's automatic speech-recognition model, available both as open-source weights and as a hosted API. It delivers excellent multilingual transcription and translation accuracy across noisy real-world audio,... |
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... |
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