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            "tagline": "Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice agent APIs for developers",
            "summary": "Deepgram sells speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice agent APIs for developers. Pricing is per minute of audio for each model, and new accounts receive a $200 starter credit.",
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                "Real-time models for voice agents",
                "Per-minute pricing listed by model",
                "$200 starter credit to try the API"
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                "Developer product with no end-user app",
                "Prices differ by model and add-on"
            ],
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            "overview": "Deepgram sells speech APIs for transcription, speech synthesis and real-time voice agents. Its speech-to-text models include Nova-3 and Flux, which the pricing page presents for general use and for conversational voice agents, with add-ons and custom speech-to-text models listed separately.\n\nThe pricing page lists per-minute prices for each model, with current and regular prices shown, and a starter credit of $200 for trying the API. Usage is then billed pay as you go. Deepgram suits developers building voice features into software, and it has no end-user app for dictation or meeting notes."
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            "tagline": "Transcription and captions, with an investigations platform for legal teams",
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                "Homepage focus has moved to legal investigations",
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            "overview": "Rev sells transcription and captioning, with AI and human-verified options for audio and video. Its homepage now leads with an investigative and legal transcription platform that turns digital evidence into findings, which is a narrower focus than general meeting notes or dictation.\n\nThe site lists pricing from free plans up to $59.99 per seat a month for the investigative platform. Pay-as-you-go AI transcription starts at $0.25 a minute, and human transcription at $1.99 a minute. Teams with higher security needs are directed to a sales conversation. For plain transcripts, the per-minute options are the more direct route."
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        "Rev has a free plan or free version; Deepgram does not.",
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