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Deepgram vs ElevenLabs

Discover why developers are choosing Deepgram Aura-2 over ElevenLabs for their Voice AI needs.

  • Enterprise-Grade Architecture: Low latency, real-time streaming, scalable deployments.

  • Unified STT + TTS Pipeline: Faster response times, reduced integration effort.

  • Flexible Deployment & Control: Supports cloud, VPC, or on-prem; dynamic routing, runtime orchestration.

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Why Switch from ElevenLabs?

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

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Flexible Deployment & Control

Supports cloud, VPC, or on-prem; dynamic routing and runtime orchestration for minimal disruption to your workflows.

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Unified STT + TTS Pipeline

Deepgram Aura-2 seamlessly integrates STT and TTS for faster response times and reduced integration effort.

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Enterprise-Grade Architecture
Built on the Deepgram Enterprise Runtime, delivering low latency, real-time streaming, and scalable deployments suitable for regulated industries.

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Continuously Improving Accuracy

Leverages STT insights to adapt TTS pronunciation over time, ensuring highly reliable outputs

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Superior Pricing Model

Enjoy flat pricing at $0.030 / 1,000 characters with no hidden costs or add-on fees.

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Go Beyond Transcription

Utilize Deepgram’s platform to build full-stack voice agents, optimizing performance while maintaining low latency.

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

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

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.

Want to Hear What Enterprise-Ready Sounds Like?

Aura-2 is the first TTS model built from the ground up for real-time enterprise use. From healthcare to finance, it delivers human-like speech with the precision, speed, and flexibility your workflows demand.

Fill out the form to find out what the leading text-to-speech API can do for you.