Lokutor vs Deepgram.
Deepgram is a speech-recognition company that also sells a voice agent, with tiers that let you bring your own language model or voice. Lokutor is a single integrated agent on one bill, with Iberian languages and an on-device option.
Published prices and features.
| Lokutor | Deepgram | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per minute | about 5.2¢ a minute | 7.5¢ Standard pay as you go (6.8¢ on its Growth tier); 16.3¢ Advanced |
| What the minute covers | Speech recognition and voice in the platform minute; the language model billed by the token | Standard includes all three; cheaper tiers drop the voice or the model for you to bring |
| Free to try | $5 of credit, no card | $200 of free credit |
| Self-hosting | On-premise and on-device, quoted separately | Self-hosted deployment and a dedicated EU endpoint |
| Bring your own pieces | One integrated pipeline; an agent can use your own language-model key, and then pays no tokens | Tiers from 5¢ a minute for speech recognition alone |
Deepgram's figures are from its own pricing page, read 12 October 2026; prices change, so check it. Lokutor's are on our pricing page (4.2¢ a minute for the platform plus the language model by the token, about 1¢ at a typical prompt; prepaid, billed per second). This compares published prices and features only. We have not benchmarked Deepgram's audio quality or latency, and we are not claiming to beat it on either.
It depends what you need.
Choose Deepgram if
- You only need speech recognition, or want to bring your own language model and voice.
- You want $200 of credit to experiment with before committing.
- You need its self-hosted deployment today.
Choose Lokutor if
- You want the whole agent, recognition, model and voice, on one bill.
- Your users speak Spanish, Catalan, Galician or Basque.
- You want the option to run the stack in your own infrastructure or on a device.
Common questions.
Is Lokutor an alternative to Deepgram?
Yes. Deepgram's pricing page lists 7.5¢ (6.8¢ on Growth) a minute (Voice Agent Standard, with recognition, language model and voice. Cheaper tiers if you bring your own model or voice.), read 12 October 2026. Lokutor is about 5.2¢ a minute: 4.2¢ a minute for the platform plus the language model by the token, about 1¢ at a typical prompt; prepaid, billed per second. Lokutor also runs on-premise or on-device, and speaks Catalan, Galician and Basque. Compare what each minute includes before comparing totals; we have not benchmarked Deepgram's audio quality or latency.
How does Lokutor’s price compare with the Deepgram Voice Agent API?
Deepgram’s pricing page lists its Standard Voice Agent at 7.5¢ a minute pay as you go and 6.8¢ on its Growth tier, with speech recognition, language model and voice included (read 12 October 2026). Lokutor works out at about 5.2¢ a minute at a typical prompt: 4.2¢ for the platform, with speech recognition and the voice inside it, plus the language model by the token.
Should I use Lokutor or Deepgram for speech-to-text only?
If you only need transcription, Deepgram sells it on its own and that is its core product. Lokutor is built around the whole agent; its speech-to-text API is also sold on its own, at $0.0014 a minute of audio, billed per second.
Can I try Lokutor before paying?
Yes. New accounts get $5 of credit when they confirm their email, about 95 minutes of conversation, with no card. You can build an agent, give it a voice and talk to it in the browser in a few minutes.
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