# Deepgram Voice Agent API pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Pay As You Go). Among the 13 ai voice agents we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** deepgram.com
**Free tier:** No
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** Twilio, SIP trunking, OpenAI, Anthropic, LiveKit, Pipecat
**Best for:** Healthcare and regulated teams that can sign an Enterprise contract, which is the only tier where Deepgram signs a BAA; Developers who want one vendor for speech-in and speech-out instead of stitching STT and TTS; Teams with an existing LLM contract who want BYO-LLM at a discount; EU-resident workloads that need a dedicated in-region endpoint

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pay As You Go | $0 | — | per_minute | No platform fee and no minimum; $200 free starter credit, no card required. Voice Agent connection time is metered per minute. Regular rates with the promotional rate through 2026-09-12 in brackets: Standard $0.075/min ($0.056), Standard BYO-TTS $0.065/min, Custom BYO-LLM $0.065/min ($0.050), Custom BYO-LLM+TTS $0.050/min, Advanced $0.163/min ($0.122), Advanced BYO-TTS $0.122/min. The regular Standard rate is what is stored. Telephony is not included. No BAA is available at this tier — Deepgram signs BAAs for Enterprise customers only. | deepgram.com |
| Growth | usage-priced | −20% | per_minute | No month-to-month price is published. Deepgram sells this as a prepaid annual commitment stated on the page as '$4K+ / year', which is a commitment and not a subscription fee, so monthlyUsd is null by design. Saves up to 20% versus pay-as-you-go. Regular rates with promotional rates through 2026-09-12 in brackets: Standard $0.068/min ($0.051), Standard BYO-TTS $0.051/min, Custom BYO-LLM $0.059/min ($0.041), Custom BYO-LLM+TTS $0.041/min, Advanced $0.146/min ($0.110), Advanced BYO-TTS $0.110/min. Credits are prepaid, so unused commitment is the buyer's risk. Still no BAA at this tier. | deepgram.com |
| Enterprise | quote-only | — | custom | Quote-only, so monthlyUsd is null. Adds self-hosted and on-prem deployment, regional data residency and isolated runtimes — the route for buyers who cannot send audio to a shared cloud. This is also the ONLY tier at which Deepgram signs a BAA for ePHI, making it the mandatory path for any PHI workload. | deepgram.com |

## Price changes

No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.

**Key features:** Single bundled STT + TTS + orchestration pipeline, which removes the LLM pass-through markup other platforms add; BYO-TTS and BYO-LLM tiers priced separately, so teams already committed to another voice or model vendor still get the orchestration layer; Deepest published compliance detail in this set: SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 certified, GDPR compliant with a dedicated EU endpoint at api.eu.deepgram.com, CCPA, PCI with yearly reviews, and HIPAA with BAAs for Enterprise customers only; Self-hosted and isolated-runtime deployment available for regulated workloads.

**Plan limits:** BAAs are signed for ENTERPRISE customers only — the page's wording is explicit, so Pay As You Go and Growth buyers cannot carry ePHI regardless of Deepgram's HIPAA posture; The advertised $0.056/min Standard rate expires 2026-09-12 and reverts to $0.075/min, a 34% increase that a buyer budgeting off the headline will be caught by; Flux TTS is free inside Voice Agent only through 2026-09-12; No forever-free plan: the $200 credit is one-time starter credit, not a recurring allowance; Telephony and PSTN are not bundled — bring Twilio or a SIP carrier; Growth requires a $4K+/year prepaid commitment with no monthly equivalent offered.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-09-10
Provenance: Re-verified against deepgram.com/pricing on 2026-09-10. The draft's central correction holds: the headline $0.056/min Standard rate is promotional through 2026-09-12 and the regular rate is $0.075/min, which is what overagePerMin stores. The Growth plan's '$4K+ / year' commitment was confirmed verbatim, so monthlyUsd stays null. ONE MATERIAL CORRECTION: the draft implied a BAA is obtainable on self-serve pricing. The page states verbatim 'We sign Business Associate Agreements (BAA) for Enterprise customers handling electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI)' — BAAs are Enterprise-only, and the limits and bestFor text have been rewritten accordingly. Two rate lines the draft omitted were added: 'Custom - BYO LLM + TTS' and 'Advanced - BYO TTS'. GDPR was confirmed with a named EU endpoint.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/ai-voice-agents/deepgram-voice-agent/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Deepgram Voice Agent API's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-09-10 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/ai-voice-agents/deepgram-voice-agent/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl