Deepgram Aura
Deepgram's low-latency Aura-2 text-to-speech for voice agents, pay-as-you-go per character with an EU endpoint.
A flat per-character price with no subscription keeps budgeting simple: Aura-2 costs $30 per million characters pay-as-you-go, or $27 on the Growth plan with prepaid annual credits from $4,000/year, and the older Aura-1 is half that at $15. Unlike Cartesia, there is no monthly credit plan to size. The EU endpoint, generally available since January 2026, supports /v1/speak, and a $200 one-time credit covers evaluation.
- Headquarters
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- $200 one-time credit for new accounts.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- deepgram.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| 1M additional characters |
|---|
| $30 |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
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- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included characters / month (millions)
- 0
- 1M additional characters
- $30
Aura-2 pay-as-you-go $0.030 per 1k characters ($30/M); Growth plan (prepaid annual credits from $4,000/year) $0.027 per 1k. Previous Aura-1 $0.015 per 1k ($0.0135 Growth). Premium Flux TTS $0.045 per 1k ($0.0405 Growth), with matching bonus credits up to $500 through 31 December 2026. $200 free credit for new accounts. The EU endpoint api.eu.deepgram.com (generally available since January 2026) supports /v1/speak. Self-hosted deployment available on enterprise contracts. DPA with SCCs available on request per Deepgram's trust docs; BAAs for enterprise.
Managed alternatives
At 10M characters / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Deepgram Aura: $3,600/yr estimated.
- Kokoro-82M on DeepInfra: $74/yr estimated 路 $3,526/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Speechify API: $1,092/yr estimated 路 $2,508/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Murf API: $1,200/yr estimated 路 $2,400/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Azure AI Speech: $1,800/yr estimated 路 $1,800/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Fish Audio API: $1,800/yr estimated 路 $1,800/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you鈥檇 need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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