Deepgram vs Defapi vs Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Deepgram
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Competitor 1
DDefapi
Competitor 2
Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Deepgram: ElevenLabs API93% OpenAI Realtime API90% Inworld AI89% Microsoft Azure AI Speech89% Cartesia83% Eden AI82% Hume EVI81% Fixie.ai81%
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Your tool Deepgram
deepgram.com
Deepgram is a voice AI platform that exposes speech-to-text, text-to-speech and conversational agents through APIs.
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Competitor DDefapi
defapi.org
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Competitor Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI
assemblyai.com
Speech-to-text API built for accuracy at scale
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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2.4Kvisits/mo
457.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 42.6%
▼ 12.0%
6-month growth
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-86.2%
-16.3%
Global rank web
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#4,650,820
#87,404
Avg. last 3 months
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4.8K
518.4K
Bounce rate lower is better
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36%
37%
Pages / visit
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1.4
4.0
Visit duration
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7s
3m 12s
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● Direct 91% · ● Referral 8%
DeepgramDefapiUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI
0157.2K314.4K471.5K628.7KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 568.9KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 565KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 595.5KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 506.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 547.2KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 590.1KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 628.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 577KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 520.4KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 457.8K1K10K100K1MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 568.9KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 565KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 595.5KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 506.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 547.2KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 590.1KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 628.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 577KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 520.4KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 457.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
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Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Pay As You Go CustomGrowth $4,000/yrEnterprise Custom
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $1/$6/per requestClaude Sonnet 4.6 $1.5/$7.5/per requestClaude Opus 4.6 $2.5/$12.5/per requestSora 2 Stable $0.175+/per request+2 more
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Universal-2 $0.15/moPay-as-you-go Universal-3.5 Pro $0.21/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioText
AudioImagesText
Audio
Output
AudioText
AudioImagesText
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeVoice & SpeechAI APIAI Text-to-Speech+2 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeVoice & SpeechAI APIAI Transcription
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
7
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3
APIs
Transcription
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API integrations
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Text to speech
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Voice agents
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API management
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Speech recognition
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API security
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Call transcriptions
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Podcast transcription
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Voice assistance
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