Deepgram vs ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is built for batch use cases - Deepgram is built for real-time use cases.
Deepgram streaming STT is #1. ElevenLabs does not offer streaming STT.
Deepgram Aura-2 is #1 for enterprise use cases, and 40% less expensive than ElevenLabs
Deepgram offers an enterprise-grade Voice Agent API, powered by Deepgram Enterprise Runtime.
Deepgram is available as on-premises or cloud APIs
Speech to Text
Power your products with world-class speech recognition. Everything developers need to build with confidence and ship faster. Unmatched performance guaranteed:
• The most accurate speech to text model in the world
• Batch and streaming STT
• Available via on-premises and cloud APIs
Text To Speech
In blinded evals, users prefer Deepgram to ElevenLabs for enterprise use cases 62% to 38%
• Deepgram Aura-2 is built for real-time use cases
• Deepgram Aura-2 is priced 40% lower than ElevenLabs Flash
• Deepgram Aura-2 is the leading choice for enterprise use cases
Conversational Voice AI Agents
Deepgram Voice Agent API is the industry's only offering that delivers the single API experience developers love combined with the full controllability enterprises need. No need to stitch together STT, TTS and LLM orchestration. No black box limitations. Performs at the latency of human speech. Priced at $4.50 per hour.
