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Deepgram vs OpenAI Whisper

Deepgram is listed under Speech-to-text, OpenAI Whisper under Speech-to-text. Shared focus: stt. Each name links to the product's own site.

DeepgramOpenAI Whisper
CategorySpeech-to-textSpeech-to-text
PricingFreemiumOpen source
Public codeNoYes
Tagsstt, streaming, api, call-transcriptionstt, whisper, multilingual, open-weights
Websitedeepgram.comgithub.com

What Deepgram does

Deepgram provides speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs for batch and realtime audio. Its Nova models are built for low latency and are used in call transcription and voice agents.

What OpenAI Whisper does

Whisper is OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model, trained on a large set of multilingual audio. It transcribes and translates speech and is the base for many other tools.

Other options

See all Speech-to-text, or alternatives to Deepgram and OpenAI Whisper.