Deepgram vs ElevenLabs Agents
Pricing and features, side by side. Checked October 14, 2026.
| Deepgram | ElevenLabs Agents | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Nova-3 streaming $0.0048/min ($0.29/hr); $200 free credit | Agents: $0.08 per minute |
| Billing | Pay as you go, billed per second | Usage-based |
| Best for | Low-latency speech-to-text for voice agents | Builders who want ElevenLabs' voices and speech models in one agent pipeline |
| Key features | Flux model with built-in turn detection | ElevenLabs speech models in one low-latency pipeline |
| Per-second billing, no rounding | 90+ languages on newest TTS models | |
| $200 free credit | HIPAA-eligible options with BAAs on Scribe Medical |
Both sell speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs for voice agents. Deepgram bills streaming STT per minute: Nova-3 at $0.0048/min (a limited-time promotional rate; regular $0.0077) and Flux, with built-in turn detection, at $0.0065/min. Its TTS is $0.030 per 1K characters for Aura-2 or $0.045 for Flux TTS, and new accounts get $200 in free credit. ElevenLabs bills Scribe v2 Realtime STT at $0.39/hour (about $0.0065/min) and batch Scribe v2 at $0.22/hour; its TTS is $0.04 per 1K characters for Flash / Turbo (~75 ms) and v4 Turbo (~100 ms), and $0.08 per 1K for v4.
Pick Deepgram if transcription is the main cost: Nova-3 streaming is cheaper per minute, Flux handles turn detection, and Aura-2 TTS costs less per character.
Pick ElevenLabs if the voice is what matters: voice cloning, 90+ languages on v4 Turbo, and the same vendor for agents, TTS and Scribe STT.
Sources: Deepgram · ElevenLabs Agents