Deepgram Nova-3
Deepgram Nova-3 is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Deepgram Nova
- Released
- 2025-02-12
- Architecture
- Audio / Speech
- Specialization
- speech-recognition
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Deepgram API
About
Nova-3 is Deepgram's current-generation speech-to-text model, released February 12, 2025. Achieves 6.84% median WER streaming and 5.26% batch — a ~54% improvement over competitors. Supports real-time multilingual transcription across 31 languages with self-serve keyterm prompting (up to 100 terms) and real-time redaction (up to 50 entity types). Also includes nova-3-medical specialization. Streaming: $0.0048/min (mono), $0.0058/min (multilingual); pre-recorded: $0.0077/min (mono). API ID: nova-3.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
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 | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
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-3nova-3-generalnova-3-medicalRankings & picks(1)
Cheapest of 1 route · Deepgram API