Deepgram vs AWS

Discover why developers are choosing Deepgram over AWS (Amazon Web Services) for their Voice AI needs.

Deliver results 4-8X faster than AWS - essential for real-time apps.
Deepgram significantly reduces errors - highly reliable w/ precise outputs.
Outstanding support, comprehensive API guides & documentation, and seamless deployment options beyond cloud limits.

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Why switch from Amazon Transcribe?

Build with enterprise-grade speech recognition that's faster, more accurate, and affordable. No compromises.

Flexible deployment
Choose from self-hosted (on-premise and VPC) or managed service options with seamless integrations for minimal disruption to your workflows.
Custom model training
Deepgram offers tailored ASR models optimized with customer-specific data, ideal for industries with specialized jargon, accents, or unique speech patterns.
Enterprise security
Protect customer data privacy and ensure regulatory compliance with HIPAA-compliant transcription.
Innovation leader in voice AI
Deepgram's deep learning models are optimized for speech data and trained on diverse datasets, delivering industry-leading performance in pre-recorded and real-time transcription.
Fast and accurate transcription
Deepgram's speech-to-text outshines Amazon Transcribe in both speed and accuracy, with domain-specific use case models (e.g. Nova-2 Medical) and custom training options that will give you a competitive edge.
Go beyond transcription
Build a dynamic full-stack voice agent with Deepgram's Voice AI platform, using speech-to-text, custom LLM, and text-to-speech models. Enjoy optimized performance and low latency with our open-source code.

Raising the bar for ASR performance

All the features. Better performance. Lower cost.

Word Error Rate7%
Speed29.8s
Cost$0.0043

Word Error Rate13.6%
Speed289.9s
Cost$0.024

Word Error Rate (WER) [%] Speed (Median Inference Time [Sec] Per Audio Hour). Lower is better.

23%more accurate than Amazon
10Xfaster than Amazon
5.6Xcheaper than Amazon

Speech-to-text

Power your products with world-class speech recognition. Everything developers need to build with confidence and ship faster. Unmatched performance guaranteed:

Accuracy: 30% lower word error rate (WER)
Speed: up to 40x faster inference time
Cost: 3-7x lower price

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Text-to-speech

Generate lightning fast, human-like voices for real-time AI and high throughput applications.

Quality: Human-like tone, rhythm, and emotion
Speed: less than 250 ms latency
Scale: Cost-efficient and optimized for high-throughput applications

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Voice agents

A unified voice-to-voice API that enables natural-sounding conversations between humans and machines. With one powerful API, create LLM-powered AI agents that listen, think, and speak with the same intelligence and emotive quality that a person can.

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Trusted by startups and enterprises

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“Twilio’s flexible orchestration capabilities and global communications infrastructure combined with speech recognition powered by Deepgram APIs deliver seamless, low-latency, and human-like AI agent experiences that are powering today’s Voice AI renaissance.”
Andy O'Dower
VP of Product Management, Twilio
"Our voice capabilities powered by Deepgram APIs deliver the accuracy, low latency, and quality our customers need to build reliable, real-time voice agents."
Nikhil Gupta
Founder and CTO, Vapi
“They don't just chase generic benchmarks; they tailor their models to deliver on the metrics that really matter to us.”
Josh Levin
Head of Product, Cresta