ANALYSIS VERDICT
Deepgram leads on autonomy (73 vs 72), while LiveKit starts at $0/mo. Select LiveKit for industry standard for ultra-low latency multimodal streaming; consider Deepgram if you prioritize industry-benchmark nova-3 speech recognition accuracy.
| Metric / Feature | LiveKit Visit livekit.io ↗ | Deepgram Visit deepgram.com ↗ |
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| Autonomy Score (AES) | 72/100 Core 87 · -15 setup | 73/100 Core 83 · -10 setup |
| Value-to-Cost Ratio | 7.52 | 5.89 |
| Starting Price | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Pricing Model | freemium | freemium |
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Pricing tier comparison
LiveKit tiers
Build
$0 /month
- 1,000 agent session minutes included
- 5,000 WebRTC minutes included
- 1 free US local phone number (50 inbound mins included)
- Agent deployment, observability, and simulations
- Global edge network & community support
Ship
$50 /month
- 5,000 agent session minutes included (then $0.01/min)
- 150,000 WebRTC minutes included (then $0.0005/min)
- Team collaboration
- Custom voices
- Instant rollback to a previous agent deployment
- Email support
Scale
$500 /month
- 50,000 agent session minutes included (then $0.01/min)
- 1.5M WebRTC minutes included (then $0.0004/min)
- Role-based access
- Metrics export APIs & region pinning
- Private links
- Security reports (SOC 2 Type II) & HIPAA compliance
- Inference discounts
Enterprise
Custom /custom
- Volume pricing, including inference
- Shared Slack channel
- SSO
- Support SLA
Deepgram tiers
Pay as you go
$0 /month
- Free $200 credit, then pay-as-you-go
- No minimums, no expiration, no credit card required
- Speech-to-text from $0.0077/min (Flux STT / Nova-3)
- Text-to-speech from $0.0150/1k characters (Aura-1)
- Voice Agent API from $0.075/min
- Up to 150 concurrent streaming STT connections
Growth
$4,000 /year
- $4,000+ / year pre-paid credits against usage
- Save up to 20% across STT, TTS, and Voice Agent
- Up to 225 concurrent streaming connections
- Volume discounts
Enterprise
Custom /custom
- Custom volume commitments & discounted rates
- Self-hosted VPC / on-prem container deployment
- HIPAA BAA & enterprise SLA
- Custom concurrency & named account team
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