Giggy vs Deepgram

Text to speech: what you pay

ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Deepgram, Google, Amazon and Azure checked November 11, 2026; Fish and Inworld October 20; Cartesia and MiniMax October 13.

Speech to text: what you pay

All recorded-audio prices checked November 11, 2026 on each provider's pricing page or official price API. ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Deepgram, Google, Amazon, Azure and AssemblyAI checked November 11, 2026; Speechmatics October 8; Soniox token-based estimate October 20.

Speech to text

For recorded audio, Giggy Fast costs $0.04 per hour; Deepgram lists Nova-3 pre-recorded at $0.258 per hour, or $0.312 for multilingual. For live audio, Giggy Streaming costs $0.08 per hour against $0.462 for Nova-3 English streaming and $0.468 for Flux Multilingual.

On the Pipecat English benchmark, Nova-3 English streaming recorded a 1.37% semantic word error rate and Giggy recorded 1.85%. On FLEURS, Giggy covers all 12 tested languages, while Flux Multilingual has no result for Arabic, Vietnamese or Chinese.

Text to speech

Giggy Fast costs $5 per million characters and Streaming $10. Deepgram lists Aura-2 at $30 pay as you go. In the Coval tts-v1 snapshot, Giggy Streaming recorded a 5.02% word error rate and Aura-2 recorded 5.8%.

Where Deepgram may suit you better

Deepgram offers a bundled voice agent API, on-premises deployment and enterprise volume plans, and it leads on English recognition accuracy in the Pipecat benchmark. Giggy is the better fit when cost per hour and per character drives your decision, or when you need speech in 240+ languages.