Is Avoma or Deepgram cheaper?

Avoma starts at $19 per seat per month (Startup, billed annually) (14 days trial). Deepgram starts at $0.0043 per minute (Nova-3 pre-recorded monolingual), with $200 in free credits (free plan available).

Avoma vs Deepgram

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Editorial assessment

Deepgram compared with Avoma

Avoma is the full meeting lifecycle platform with scorecards, semantic trackers, dialer capture, and a revenue intelligence module, from $19 a seat plus $29 modules. Deepgram is the speech layer a vendor like that licenses or replicates. The only reason to compare them is the build-versus-buy question, and for a sales team without engineers the honest answer is buy Avoma.

Choose Avoma if

Sales and customer success teams between roughly 5 and 100 seats that want real methodology-based call scoring, competitor and objection tracking, and deal risk alerts, and would rather assemble those from priced modules than sign an enterprise contract to get them.

Choose Deepgram if

Engineering teams building voice agents, call analysis, or transcription features into their own software, and technically capable small companies with volume, latency, or data residency requirements that packaged per-seat tools cannot meet.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Avoma	Deepgram
Category	Call Coaching	Call Coaching
Starting price	$19 per seat per month (Startup, billed annually) (14 days trial)	$0.0043 per minute (Nova-3 pre-recorded monolingual), with $200 in free credits (free plan available)
Pricing model	Per-seat base subscription in three tiers with seat ceilings, plus separately priced per-seat add-on modules for conversation intelligence, revenue intelligence, and lead routing. Viewers and collaborators are free.	Usage-based pay-as-you-go priced per minute of audio by model, with most transcript-quality features included and analysis add-ons charged per minute or per thousand tokens. An annual Growth commitment buys prepaid discounts. No seats.
Free plan	No	The $200 credit funds free usage across models; there is no perpetual free tier beyond the credit.
Free trial	14 days on the Organization plan with all add-ons enabled, no credit card required	$200 in free credits on signup with no credit card required
Best for	Sales and customer success teams between roughly 5 and 100 seats that want real methodology-based call scoring, competitor and objection tracking, and deal risk alerts, and would rather assemble those from priced modules than sign an enterprise contract to get them.	Engineering teams building voice agents, call analysis, or transcription features into their own software, and technically capable small companies with volume, latency, or data residency requirements that packaged per-seat tools cannot meet.
Setup time	A day for capture, a week for the coaching layer. Calendar, conferencing, and CRM connections take under an hour; building scorecards that reflect your actual sales process and tuning trackers so they do not fire constantly is the work that takes real time.	Under an hour to a first transcript with the free credit and an API key. Months to anything a non-engineer would call a product, since storage, playback, search, scoring, and reporting are all yours to write.
Learning curve	Moderate to high for admins because of the product's breadth, low for reps. The scorecard builder and tracker configuration are the two places where an unprepared buyer stalls, and using a stock MEDDICC or SPICED template as a starting point is the shortcut.	Low for a developer; the API surface is small and the documentation is good. Not applicable to anyone else, because there is no interface to learn.
Platforms	Web app, Chrome extension, Mobile access, Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams bots, Dialer integrations	REST API for pre-recorded audio, Streaming websocket API, Client SDKs, Self-hosted deployment, Text to speech API
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA (Enterprise tier)	SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA support, Self-hosted deployment for stricter requirements
Founded	2017	2015
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California, United States	San Francisco, California, United States
Ownership	Venture-backed	Venture-backed

Strengths and limitations

Avoma

Strengths

Real custom scorecards built on named methodologies (MEDDICC, SPICED, BANT) with automated scoring across 100 percent of calls, which is genuine coaching infrastructure rather than AI commentary.
Smart trackers detect phrases semantically instead of by literal keyword, so competitor and churn signals surface even when a prospect uses different words.
Full talk-pattern analytics including talk-to-listen ratio, longest monologue, filler words, and patience, compared against top performers rather than reported in isolation.
Dialer integrations bring phone calls into the same archive as video meetings, which most competitors in this price band simply cannot do.

Limitations

The headline $19 price is misleading as a conversation intelligence number; the coaching features that define the category cost $29 more per seat on top of a base tier.
Seat ceilings on Startup (25) and Organization (100) create forced upgrades as you grow, and Enterprise carries a 10-seat minimum with annual billing only.
The 14-day trial runs with all add-ons enabled, which sets expectations against a configuration most buyers will not purchase.
No free plan at all, unlike Grain, Sybill, and Fathom, so evaluation is time-boxed rather than open-ended.

Deepgram

Strengths

Among the lowest published per-minute transcription rates in the market, with speaker diarization included on pre-recorded audio rather than billed separately.
A $200 free credit with no credit card, funding roughly 775 hours of transcription, which makes evaluation effectively free at small-business volumes.
Sub-300 millisecond streaming latency and the Flux conversational model with turn detection, which is why voice agent builders choose it over general transcription APIs.
Self-hosted deployment, the only option on this list for organizations that genuinely cannot send audio to a hosted vendor.

Limitations

No product interface whatsoever: no library, no dashboard, no scorecards, no coaching workflow, no deal view, no CRM integration.
The audio intelligence layer is thinner than AssemblyAI's, with no auto chapters or audio-level PII redaction, and no built-in LLM gateway for custom scoring, so you bring your own model.
Audio intelligence billed per thousand tokens rather than per minute makes cost harder to forecast than the clean per-minute transcription rates suggest.
Flux, the model that makes conversational products work, covers only about ten languages against Nova-3's fifty-plus.

Pricing compared

Avoma

Per-seat base subscription in three tiers with seat ceilings, plus separately priced per-seat add-on modules for conversation intelligence, revenue intelligence, and lead routing. Viewers and collaborators are free.

Startup$19
Organization$24
Enterprise$39

Avoma is the best unbundling in this category. The list of things it does at the top configuration reads like an enterprise revenue platform, and the entry point is $19. What you are really buying is the ability to pay for exactly the layer you need: a team that wants scorecards and trackers pays about $53 a seat, which is roughly a third of what Jiminny quotes and a small fraction of Gong. The honest counterweight is that $53 to $82 per seat is not cheap in absolute terms for a five-person team, and the base tier on its own is a note taker competing against products that cost half as much. Avoma's value is highest for the buyer who genuinely wants scorecards, trackers, deal risk, and CRM field write-back, and worst for the buyer who wanted a cheap notetaker and will end up paying module prices for features they never configure.

Deepgram

Usage-based pay-as-you-go priced per minute of audio by model, with most transcript-quality features included and analysis add-ons charged per minute or per thousand tokens. An annual Growth commitment buys prepaid discounts. No seats.

Pay-As-You-Go$200 credit, then per-minute rates
Growth$4,000+
Multilingual and conversational models$0.0052 to $0.0078
Add-ons and text to speech$0.0013 to $0.045
Enterprise and self-hostedCustom

Deepgram is the cheapest credible speech engine on this list per minute of audio, and the inclusion of diarization on pre-recorded transcription plus a $200 starting credit makes the effective entry cost near zero. For anyone building software, that is exceptional value. For anyone comparing it against a packaged tool as a way to save money, the arithmetic is a trap: you would be spending weeks of engineering to replace a $29 seat, and the resulting thing would have no library, no scorecards, and no dashboard. Judge it as infrastructure and it is excellent. Judge it as a conversation intelligence product and it scores zero, because it is not one.

Editorial verdict on each

Avoma

Category Leader

Avoma is what happens when someone takes the Gong feature list and prices it in pieces. Custom MEDDICC scorecards, automated scoring across every call, semantic competitor trackers, patience and monologue metrics, deal risk alerts, forecasting, and CRM field write-back are all here, and a ten-person sales team can buy them with a credit card. That is a genuinely important thing to exist in this category. The catch is that the $19 headline is a note taker; the product this category is named after starts at about $53 a seat and reaches $82 with forecasting, and the seat ceilings will force a tier change as you grow. Buy Avoma if you have a sales methodology you actually intend to enforce, a manager who will build scorecards, and a CRM worth writing back to. If you just want calls recorded and clips shared, buy something cheaper and come back when you have a coaching problem worth $53 a head.

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Deepgram

Deepgram is the price and latency leader among independent speech APIs, and the only option on this list that can run inside your own network. Diarization included on pre-recorded audio, $200 in starting credits, sub-300 millisecond streaming, keyterm prompting that actually fixes product-name recall, and a $1.3B-valuation balance sheet behind it make it a safe and cheap foundation for anything you are building. Understand the boundary before you buy: this is JSON, not a product. No dashboard, no library, no scorecards, no CRM. Choose it when you are building voice or call analysis into software, when volume makes per-seat pricing absurd, or when the audio genuinely cannot leave your network. If you are a sales manager with a coaching problem and no engineers, buy a packaged tool instead and do not let the half-cent-a-minute price tag start an argument.

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Avoma profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Deepgram last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.