Best Deepgram Alternatives for Voice Assistants

28 AI tools that can replace Deepgram for talking to a voice assistant, ranked by how closely they match. The percentage is a match score, not a popularity score.

Replacing: Deepgram — Deepgram is a voice AI platform that exposes speech-to-text, text-to-speech and conversatiInput: text, audio · Output: text, audio
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Hume EVI, the Empathic Voice Interface, is a voice AI API for building agents that pick up on how a person sounds as well as what they say.
Input: text, audio · Output: text, audio
Free planFrom $3/moAPITeams
AI Voice Assistants Built for voice assistants
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Alexa+ comes free with your Prime membership
Input: text, audio · Output: text, images, audio
Free plan
AI Voice Assistants Built for voice assistants
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Your Apple TV remote can now control your Mac with AI voice commands
Input: audio · Output: text
From $20/mo
AI Voice Assistants Built for voice assistants
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gpt-realtime-2
Input: text, audio · Output: text, audio
Free planFrom $15.92/mo
AI Voice Assistants Built for voice assistants
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NPCs that actually think
Input: text, audio · Output: text, audio
Free planFrom $25/moAPI
AI Text-to-Speech Offers voice assistants alongside its core job

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At a glance: top Deepgram alternatives for Voice Assistants

ToolMatchInputOutputPricingFree planRatingCategory
Hume EVI 83% text, audio text, audio From $3/mo Yes — AI Voice Assistants
Alexa 73% text, audio text, images, audio Free Yes — AI Voice Assistants
GoatRemote 77% audio text From $20/mo No — AI Voice Assistants
Gpt Realtime 2 76% text, audio text, audio From $15.92/mo Yes — AI Voice Assistants
Inworld AI 64% text, audio text, audio From $25/mo Yes — AI Text-to-Speech
OpenAI Realtime API 65% text, images, audio text, audio — No — AI API

Frequently asked

What is the best Deepgram alternative for talking to a voice assistant?
Hume EVI (83% match) is the closest alternative to Deepgram for talking to a voice assistant: Hume EVI, the Empathic Voice Interface, is a voice AI API for building agents that pick up on how a person sounds as well as what they say. Alexa (73% match) and GoatRemote (77% match) come next.
Is there a free alternative to Deepgram for talking to a voice assistant?
Yes. 20 of the 28 ranked alternatives have a free plan or free tier, including Hume EVI, Alexa, Gpt Realtime 2.
How is the match percentage calculated?
It measures how much of Deepgram's job a tool can take over for talking to a voice assistant: shared core category, how many of the same use cases it covers and how similar its feature set is. Popularity and ratings never change the percentage; they only break ties in the order. Lists are recomputed nightly and reviewed by editors for the most-visited tools.

How this list is ranked

The match score measures how much of Deepgram's job each tool can take over when the goal is talking to a voice assistant: shared core category, how many of the same use cases it covers, and how similar its feature set is. Popularity and ratings do not change the score; they only break ties in the order.

Lists are recomputed nightly from the live catalog and reviewed by our editors for the most-visited tools. Sponsored placements are marked and sit outside the ranking.