Changed since our last check
- Commercial use: now Partly. It was Yes when we checked on .
- Pronunciation fixes: now Yes. It was Partly when we checked on .
- Who owns the audio: now Partly. It was Yes when we checked on .
- Free plan or trial: now Partly. It was Yes when we checked on .
- Contract and cancelling: now Yes. It was Partly when we checked on .
Deepgram Aura price and terms
Terms
- Free plan
- YesYes$200 starting credit
The terms in full
no expiration and no credit card required.
- Sign up without sales
- YesYes
For AI agents
- API
- Yes
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What we checked on Deepgram Aura
Promotion and regular price
The listed Aura-1 entry rate is a pay-as-you-go usage rate, while the separate credit is free onboarding value.
On the page: Rates by product, Text-to-speech table, Aura-1 row
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What the price counts
Aura text-to-speech usage is billed by every thousand characters in the submitted input text.
Billed per 1,000 characters of input text.
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Voices that use more
Pay-as-you-go rates differ by model: Flux text to speech is $0.0450, Aura-2 $0.030, and Aura-1 $0.0150 per 1,000 characters.
Flux TTS $0.0450 /1k characters Aura-2 $0.030 /1k characters Aura-1 $0.0150 /1k characters
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Past your allowance
Pay-as-you-go uses published model rates after free credit, while Growth overages add ten percent weekly.
Exceeding your credits bills at your Growth rate plus 10%, charged weekly on Mondays for the prior week.
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Unused credits
The initial credit has no expiration, but terms say credits expire when an account or subscription ends.
Credits expire upon the closing or termination of your Account or cancellation or termination of your subscription
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Commercial use
The terms permit integration into an independent application, but prohibit standalone resale and impose output-use restrictions.Was Yes before our last check.
you may integrate our Services into your own platform, website, application, or other product or service
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Stock voices
Aura-2 has more than sixty documented voices across seven languages, with voice and accent details in its library.
Deepgram offers 60+ voices across seven languages with Aura 2.
Languages
Aura supports English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Italian, and Japanese, with listed English and Spanish accents.
English (en) - American, British, Australian, Irish, Filipino accents
Emotion, pace and emphasis
Aura-2 supports pace and pronunciation adjustments, but its documented controls do not support inserted pauses.
Aura-2 does not support pause control.
Pronunciation fixes
Aura-2 accepts inline pronunciation overrides for words, with documented limits and support for English and Spanish.Was Partly before our last check.
Aura-2 pronunciation control is generally available
Audio you get
The API can return MP3, WAV-based linear audio, Opus, FLAC, AAC, and telephony encodings.
Linear16, MuLaw, ALaw, MP3, Opus, FLAC, AAC
Your voice trains their models
Deepgram may use customer content to improve models, but APIs can exclude each request through a documented parameter.
For our APIs, you may opt out of model training on a per-request basis
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API
The product is the API: one WebSocket at /v1/agent/converse, with official SDKs for JavaScript, .NET, Python, Go and Java, all marked GA.
You open one WebSocket connection, send audio in, and receive audio out. Deepgram runs the full speech loop — speech-to-text, LLM orchestration, and…
API price
Public pay-as-you-go rates list each Aura model's charge per thousand input characters.
On the page: Rates by product, Text-to-speech table, Aura-1 row
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Platforms
web — Deepgram delivers text-to-speech through a web API, with cloud, private-cloud, and on-premises deployment options.
Run in the cloud, your private cloud, or on-prem.
Works inside
Deepgram documents direct use with LiveKit and a Twilio guide for streaming generated speech into calls.
Deepgram is available in LiveKit Agents through two paths
AI labelling
The terms require legally required notices and prohibit presenting generated audio as human-created, but they do not describe automatic file labels or checking.
You will not misrepresent, directly or indirectly, that any audio Output was created by a human and will provide all legally required notices that…
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Who owns the audio
Customers retain rights they possess in output, but Deepgram receives broad reuse rights and output is not exclusive.Was Yes before our last check.
We do not claim ownership of Your Content. As between you and us, you retain any right, title, and interest you possess in Your Content.
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Free plan or trial
There is no standing $0 plan: signup needs no credit card and brings a one-off $200 credit with no expiration, after which Voice Agent API minutes bill per websocket minute.Was Yes before our last check.
Pay As You Go. No minimums. No expiration. No credit card required.
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Still sold
Aura models have active public pay-as-you-go rates, and Deepgram invites new accounts to begin with free credit.
Free $200 credit then pay-as-you-go
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Sign up without a sales call
Anyone can create a free account with credit, then use documented API keys and direct usage pricing.
Signup is free and includes $200 in credit.
Contract and cancelling
Pay-as-you-go reloads by credit threshold, Growth renews annually, and account settings handle cancellation.Was Partly before our last check.
To cancel your subscription to the Subscription Services, you must use the appropriate functionalities of our Services in your account settings.
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Support
Technical support is available by email, community help uses Discord or discussions, and email replies arrive on business days.
We answer on business days. Weekend and holiday mail is waiting for us the next morning we're in.
Deepgram Aura alternatives
All 9 alternatives6 more alternatives
All 9 publish a price.
- VoicemakerFree, then $5 a monthCredit-metered AI text-to-speech studio with 2,000+ voices, voice cloning, speech-to-speech and SRT export.
- HeyGenFree, then $29 a monthAI avatar video, voice cloning and video translation into 175+ languages with lip sync.
- TopMediaiFrom $35.99 a monthAI studio for text to speech, voice cloning and video dubbing on one shared credit balance.
- TTSMakerFree, then $13.99 a monthBrowser text-to-speech studio with 600+ voices, a free weekly quota and character-metered paid plans.
Sources and changes
Last changed
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- deepgram.com/pricing
- deepgram.com/terms
- developers.deepgram.com/docs/livekit-integration
- developers.deepgram.com/reference/speak/v-2/audio/generate
- developers.deepgram.com/docs/tts-models
- developers.deepgram.com/docs/tts-voice-controls
- deepgram.com/product/text-to-speech
- developers.deepgram.com/docs/tts-media-output-settings
- developers.deepgram.com/docs/voice-agent-architecture
- developers.deepgram.com/guides/fundamentals/make-your-first-api-request
- developers.deepgram.com/support
- developers.deepgram.com/support
- developers.deepgram.com/trust-security/your-data
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- Dubbing features, free tier, license terms
- Dubbing features, free tier, license terms, plans
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