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Using Deepgram Nova-2 on Deepgram API

Implementation guide · Deepgram Nova · Deepgram

Serverless

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Deepgram API and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Deepgram API SDK or REST API to call nova-2 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.004/min. See full pricing.

Code Examples

See Deepgram API documentation for integration details.

About Deepgram API

Deepgram's API provides hosted speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice-agent audio models, including Nova, Flux, and Aura model families.

Pricing on Deepgram API

TypeRate
Audio minute$0.004/min

Capabilities

MultimodalAudio

About Deepgram Nova-2

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.

Model Specs

Released2023-09-19
Architectureneural

Provider

Deepgram API

Deepgram

San Francisco, California, United States