Tools
Deepgram vs Vulavula
Deepgram or Vulavula? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Speech to text, Many languages, API
- Only Deepgram states: Text to speech
Deepgram
Deepgram provides APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice agents, and audio analysis.
Plans
Pay As You Go
Free
- Free $200 Credit then pay-as-you-go
- All endpoints in public models
- Speech-to-Text: Up to 50 REST / 150 WSS / 5 Whisper Cloud
- Text-to-Speech: Up to 45 REST + WSS
- Voice Agent: Up to 45 WSS
- Audio Intelligence: Up to 10 REST
Growth
- $4K+ / year
- Save up to 20% with pre-paid credits for the year
- All endpoints in public models
- Speech-to-Text: Up to 50 REST / 225 WSS / 5 Whisper Cloud
- Text-to-Speech: Up to 60 REST + WSS
- Voice Agent: Up to 60 WSS
- Audio Intelligence: Up to 10 REST
Enterprise
Price on request
- For businesses with large volumes, data or deployment requirements, or support needs
Prices checked 2026-09-26 by web search.
Capabilities
- Text to speech — “Text-to-speech built for live conversations.” source
- Speech to text — “Real-time transcription, production accuracy” source
- Many languages — “Nova models support 45+ languages” source
- API — “Deepgram unifies speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and LLM orchestration into a single API, reducing complexity, latency, and cost.” source
Latest updates
- Nova-3 Improved Models for Flemish, German (Switzerland), Lithuanian, and Portuguese
Released improved Nova-3 monolingual models for four existing languages, enhancing transcription quality for batch and streaming workloads.
- Nova-3 Improved Models for Danish, Estonian, Flemish, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Urdu, and Vietnamese
Released improved Nova-3 monolingual models for nine existing languages, enhancing transcription quality for batch and streaming workloads.
- Nova-3 Pharma: Speech-to-Text for Pharmaceutical Use Cases (English)
Released nova-3-pharma, a new Nova-3 model purpose-built for pharmaceutical vocabulary, with a focus on accurate drug-name recognition.
Vulavula
Vulavula provides multilingual speech-to-text, translation, and language analysis for contact centres and customer-service systems.
Plans
Dev Pass
- $9.99 / mo
- 1,000 API calls / month
- Transcribe & Translate
SMME Pass
- $39.99 / mo
- 10,000 API calls / month
- Transcribe & Translate
Enterprise Pass
Price on request
- 500,000+ API calls / month
- Transcribe & Translate
- Lower per-call cost
- No rate limits
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Speech to text — “High-accuracy speech-to-text with codeswitching support for multilingual contact centres.” source
- Many languages — “A lightweight, multilingual AI platform built for real-world conditions across the Global South.” source
- API — “Explore the possibilities with the Vulavula API.” source