Deepgram Nova-2

Newer version available: Deepgram Nova-3

Released
2023-09-19
Last refreshed
2026-10-17
Status
Researched 3d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodalVisionAudio
Specifications
Released
2023-09-19
Architecture
Audio / Speech
Specialization
speech-recognition
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Pretrained
Created by

AI-powered speech recognition and text-to-speech platform.

San Francisco, USA
Founded 2014
Website
Pricing
Audio / min
$0.0043/min

List rate of 1 route · Deepgram API

About

Nova-2 is Deepgram's previous-generation flagship speech-to-text model, released September 2023. Delivers ~36% WER improvement over Whisper Large across tested domains (8.4% median WER), with improved entity recognition, punctuation, and capitalization. Supports 36+ languages and 10 domain-specific variants (general, meeting, phonecall, voicemail, finance, conversationalai, video, medical, drivethru, automotive). Batch: $0.0043/min; streaming: $0.0077/min. API ID: nova-2.

Providers(1)

Compare published per-minute API pricing across 1 tracked provider route.

ProviderAudio / minRoute
Deepgram API$0.0043/min
Serverless

Capabilities

MultimodalAudio

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

nova-2nova-2-general