Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI vs Defapi vs Deepgram

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

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Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI
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Competitor 1
DDefapi
Competitor 2
Deepgram
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI: Speechmatics | AI Voice Agents90% Google Cloud Speech-to-Text80% WhisperAPI80% OpenAI Whisper API78% Eden AI78% MacWhisper77% TurboScribe76% TranscribeToText.AI74%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI
assemblyai.com
Speech-to-text API built for accuracy at scale
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Competitor DDefapi
defapi.org
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Competitor 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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
457.8Kvisits/mo
2.4Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 12.0%
▼ 42.6%
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6-month growth
-16.3%
-86.2%
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Global rank web
#87,404
#4,650,820
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Avg. last 3 months
518.4K
4.8K
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Bounce rate lower is better
37%
36%
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Pages / visit
4.0
1.4
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Visit duration
3m 12s
7s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 91% · ● Referral 8%
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Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAIDefapiDeepgram
0157.2K314.4K471.5K628.7KUniversal-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 · 457.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4K1K10K100K1MUniversal-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 · 457.8KDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
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Free tier
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Universal-2 $0.15/moPay-as-you-go Universal-3.5 Pro $0.21/mo
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
Pay As You Go CustomGrowth $4,000/yrEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Audio
AudioImagesText
AudioText
Output
Text
AudioImagesText
AudioText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeVoice & SpeechAI APIAI Transcription
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeVoice & SpeechAI APIAI Text-to-Speech+2 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
3
4
7
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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Prompts
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