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Deepgram Voice Agent API
Deepgram Voice Agent API is listed under model-provider realtime APIs. Its first listed price, in its own words: Standard: $0.075/min (Pay As You Go), $0.068/min (Growth) (per minute of websocket connection time). Telephony stated on its pages: bring your own carrier. Read from the vendor's own pages on October 19, 2026.
Last verified: 2026-10-19
Read from developers.deepgram.com, deepgram.com. Docs - Pricing - Deepgram speech models - Compare every voice agent platform
Status
- Status, as stated
Current
“Deepgram's Voice Agent API handles the full speech pipeline (listening, thinking, and speaking) so you can focus on what your agent does, not how it hears or talks.”
developers.deepgram.com - Last verified
Changes recorded: none. None stated.
How Deepgram Voice Agent API charges
Every price line Deepgram Voice Agent API states, in its own words and units, with what it says the price includes and the quote. Nothing is converted.
| Price, in the vendor's words | Unit | Includes, as stated | Quote and source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard: $0.075/min (Pay As You Go), $0.068/min (Growth) | per minute of websocket connection time | See the Voice Agent API billing note | “Tier · Pay As You Go · Growth; Standard · $0.075/min i calculated based on websocket connection time. · $0.068/min i calculated based on websocket connection time.” |
| Voice Agent API billing (FAQ) | note | Billed on conversation duration; includes STT, LLM processing and TTS orchestration (stated) | “The Voice Agent API is billed based on the duration of the conversation. It includes the orchestration of Speech-to-Text (listening), LLM processing (thinking), and Text-to-Speech (speaking).” |
| Standard - BYO TTS: $0.065/min (PAYG), $0.051/min (Growth)inferredInferred: Columns from table layout: the prices sit under the Pay As You Go and Growth columns of the Voice Agent table; the row does not repeat the column names. | per minute of websocket connection time | Excludes TTS (bring your own) | “Standard - BYO TTS · $0.065/min i calculated based on websocket connection time. · $0.051/min i calculated based on websocket connection time.” |
| Custom - BYO LLM: $0.059/min (PAYG)inferredInferred: Column from table layout: the price sits under the Pay As You Go column of the Voice Agent table; the row does not repeat the column name. | per minute of websocket connection time | Excludes LLM (bring your own) | “Custom - BYO LLM · $0.059/min i calculated based on websocket connection time.” |
| Custom - BYO LLM + TTS: $0.050/min (PAYG), $0.041/min (Growth)inferredInferred: Columns from table layout: the prices sit under the Pay As You Go and Growth columns of the Voice Agent table; the row does not repeat the column names. | per minute of websocket connection time | Excludes LLM and TTS | “Custom - BYO LLM + TTS · $0.050/min i calculated based on websocket connection time. · $0.041/min i calculated based on websocket connection time.” |
| Advanced: $0.163/min (PAYG), $0.146/min (Growth)inferredInferred: Columns from table layout: the prices sit under the Pay As You Go and Growth columns of the Voice Agent table; the row does not repeat the column names. | per minute of websocket connection time | Not stated | “Advanced · $0.163/min i calculated based on websocket connection time. · $0.146/min i calculated based on websocket connection time.” |
- Free tier or credits
$200 free credit for new accounts
“Every new account receives $200 in free credit”
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Telephony
- Phone numbers
- Not stated
No phone numbers offered on cited pages.
- SIP
- Not stated
Not stated on the Voice Agent overview.
- Bring your own carrier
Connect to phone networks for inbound and outbound calls (telephony guide)
“Connect voice agents to phone networks for inbound and outbound calls.”
developers.deepgram.com
Models, tools and calls
- Bring your own models
Bring your own LLM and/or TTS tiers
“If you "Bring Your Own" LLM (e.g., GPT-4), you only pay Deepgram for the audio components and orchestration, often resulting in lower costs.”
deepgram.com Configurable STT models, LLM providers, TTS voices
“Set up speech-to-text models, LLM providers, TTS voices, endpointing, and audio formats for your voice agent.”
developers.deepgram.com - Function calling and tools
Function calling mid-conversation
“Let your agent call external APIs and tools mid-conversation.”
developers.deepgram.com - Transfer and handoff
Multi-agent handoff (agent to agent)
“Build systems where multiple specialized agents hand off conversations based on context, intent, or domain expertise.”
developers.deepgram.com - Recording and transcripts
- Not stated
Not stated on cited pages.
- Languages
- Not stated
Not stated for the Voice Agent API on cited pages.
Self-hosting, license, compliance and scale
- Self-hosting
- Not stated
Not stated for the Voice Agent API on cited pages.
- License
- Not stated
Proprietary API.
- Compliance
- Not stated
Not stated on cited pages.
- Concurrency
- Not stated
Pricing FAQ gives a Pay-As-You-Go example (100 concurrent streams) not specific to the Voice Agent API.
- SDKs
Python, JavaScript, C#, Go
“Step-by-step guide to creating your first voice agent with Python, JavaScript, C#, or Go using the server-side SDKs and WebSocket API.”
developers.deepgram.com
Vendor-stated latency
Latency as Deepgram Voice Agent API states it about itself. Vendor-stated, not measured.
- Vendor-stated
- Not stated
"without delays" wording only; no figure.
Dataset note
Billed on conversation duration (websocket connection time). Speech model facts (Flux, Nova-3, Aura-2) live in the speech directory.
FAQ
How much does Deepgram Voice Agent API cost?
In Deepgram Voice Agent API's own terms: Standard: $0.075/min (Pay As You Go), $0.068/min (Growth) (per minute of websocket connection time); Voice Agent API billing (FAQ) (note); Standard - BYO TTS: $0.065/min (PAYG), $0.051/min (Growth) (per minute of websocket connection time); Custom - BYO LLM: $0.059/min (PAYG) (per minute of websocket connection time); Custom - BYO LLM + TTS: $0.050/min (PAYG), $0.041/min (Growth) (per minute of websocket connection time); Advanced: $0.163/min (PAYG), $0.146/min (Growth) (per minute of websocket connection time). As read on October 19, 2026; prices are not converted.
Does Deepgram Voice Agent API connect to phone calls?
Per its own pages: Your own carrier: Connect to phone networks for inbound and outbound calls (telephony guide).
Can I self-host Deepgram Voice Agent API?
Not stated. Not stated for the Voice Agent API on cited pages. License: not stated. Proprietary API.
Sources
- Source: developers.deepgram.com/docs/voice-agent
- Source: deepgram.com/pricing
Last verified from each vendor's own pricing pages, docs and license files; every quote was string-matched against the page that day. This is not a benchmark. Prices are shown in the vendor's own unit and change without notice, so check the linked source before you commit.
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