Deepgram Aura-2
Deepgram Aura-2 is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Deepgram Aura
- Released
- 2025-04-01
- Architecture
- neural
- Specialization
- audio
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use with conditions
- Training
- pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Deepgram API
About
Aura-2 is Deepgram's enterprise-grade text-to-speech model, released April 2025. Delivers sub-200ms time-to-first-byte (TTFB) with domain-specific pronunciation for drug names, legal terms, alphanumeric identifiers, dates, and currency. Outperformed ElevenLabs, Cartesia, OpenAI, Azure, Google, and PlayHT in enterprise voice preference testing. Offers 43+ English voices and multilingual support (Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese). Priced at $0.030/1K characters ($30/1M chars). Available as cloud, VPC, and on-premises. API ID format: aura-2-[voice]-[lang] (e.g. aura-2-thalia-en).
Deepgram Aura-2 is a proprietary model in the Deepgram Aura family. The structured metadata tracks audio. This page tracks provider routes through Deepgram API. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Deepgram Aura-2 yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deepgram API | $30.00 | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
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Migration checks
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API versions
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Cheapest of 1 route · Deepgram API