SpeechifyAI vs Deepgram

Deepgram's Voice Agent API bundles STT, LLM, and TTS at $0.075/min — strong, low-level infrastructure. SpeechifyAI is a complete platform at a lower all-in rate (from $0.07/min, LLM included), billed on talk time rather than connection time, with deterministic workflows, tool calling, telephony, and compliance built in — and 60 free minutes a month.

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SpeechifyAI

Deepgram

SpeechifyAI at a glance

$0.07/min

all-in — LLM included

60

free minutes every month

Tool calling

+ webhooks

SOC 2

Type II certified

SpeechifyAI vs Deepgram, capability by capability
Capability	SpeechifyAI	Deepgram
Pricing	From $0.07/min all-in — LLM included · 60 free min/mo	$0.075/min bundled (BYO LLM/TTS lowers it to ~$0.05)
What's included	LLM + STT + TTS + orchestration in one rate, telephony-ready	STT + LLM + TTS; telephony separate
Billing	Per second of talk time	Billed on websocket-open time (idle counts)
Free tier	60 min/mo, commercial use	$200 one-time credit
Workflow editor	Visual + code, deterministic	Build-your-own (infra + SDK)
Integrations	Tool calling + webhooks	Build-your-own
Telephony	Included / bring-your-own carrier	Bring your own (LiveKit, etc.)
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II	SOC 2 Type II

What will an agent cost at your volume?

SpeechifyAI is one per-minute rate with the LLM included. Most competitors quote a platform fee, then bill the LLM and telephony on top. Drag your monthly minutes and switch the competitor to see the difference. Rates are from each vendor's public pricing.

Your monthly volume

6,000 minutes / mo

≈ 1,200 calls at ~5 min each

500 min50,000 min

SpeechifyAI · all-in one bill

$420 /mo

$0.07/min · everything included

LLM
Speech-to-text
Text-to-speech
Telephony orchestration

One line item. No passthrough, no token math.

ElevenLabs · platform fee + extras

$480 /mo +

$0.08/min platform fee

Rates vary by usage, region, and contract.

Compare against

SpeechifyAI at the $0.07/min Pro rate, LLM included; Scale drops to $0.068 and Enterprise to $0.06. Competitor "+" items are billed separately on top of the platform fee, so a competitor's true all-in is higher than its headline rate.

Pre-computed scenarios

Monthly volume	SpeechifyAI, all-in ($0.07/min)	Deepgram bundled ($0.075/min)	You save
1,000 min · ≈200 calls	$70/mo	from $75/mo	$5/mo +
6,000 min · ≈1,200 calls	$420/mo	from $450/mo	$30/mo +
20,000 min · ≈4,000 calls	$1,400/mo	from $1,500/mo	$100/mo +

The "+" marks the LLM and telephony Deepgram bills separately on top of the platform fee — so the true saving is larger than the platform-fee gap shown.

SpeechifyAI vs Deepgram, in plain English

Skip the integration quarter

Deepgram is excellent at low-level speech infrastructure. The Voice Agent API at $0.075 a minute bundles STT, LLM orchestration, and TTS, with bring-your-own models lowering the rate further. The implicit cost is the work between that infrastructure and a real production agent: telephony, evals, integrations, a workflow editor, and compliance plumbing, which adds up to a quarter or two of engineering for a small team. SpeechifyAI ships that production layer at $0.07 a minute on Pro so the integration work does not show up on the team's roadmap.

Pay only when the call is alive

Deepgram bills on websocket-open time, so the seconds when nobody is talking count against the rate. SpeechifyAI bills per second of talk time, so hold music, transfer waits, and the long silences while a caller looks something up stay free of charge, which makes the bill noticeably lower on agents that handle escalations or genuine pauses. Tool calling, webhooks, the workflow editor, and SOC 2 Type II are first-class on every plan instead of primitives you assemble on top of the infrastructure.

The verdict

SpeechifyAI ships a complete production voice-agent platform on one rate from $0.07 a minute, billed on talk time instead of websocket-open time, with the LLM, deterministic workflows, tool calling, telephony, and SOC 2 Type II compliance already in the platform fee.

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