Nova-3
Built for streaming rather than batch, with the low latency and concurrency handling that live captioning and voice agents need. Deepgram also sells a managed Voice Agent API on top, which bundles the LLM and TTS legs and prices per conversation minute rather than per transcription minute.
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nova-3 Price
$0.0043
/ audio min
Context
—
not token-based
Max output
—
varies
Pricing caveat: Batch pay-as-you-go rate for the monolingual model. Streaming is higher and quoted between $0.0048 and $0.0077/min depending on plan and source; multilingual adds roughly 20%. Confirm your tier in the console.
Where Nova-3 fits
- Live captioning
- Voice agents and IVR
- Real-time meeting transcription
- Call-centre analytics
Specifications
- API model ID
- nova-3
- Provider
- Deepgram
- Model family
- Nova
- Released
- February 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Context window
- —
- Max output
- —
- Native reasoning
- No
- Relative latency
- low
- Input modalities
- audio
- Output modalities
- text
- Open weights
- No
- Cached input
- —
- Batch discount
- —
Frequently asked
How much does Nova-3 cost?
Nova-3 is billed at $0.0043 / audio min.
What is Nova-3's context window?
Context limits for Nova-3 depend on the input format rather than a token count.
Is Nova-3 a reasoning model?
No. Nova-3 answers directly without a native thinking phase, which keeps latency and cost predictable.
What is Nova-3 best for?
Real-time streaming transcription. Built for streaming rather than batch, with the low latency and concurrency handling that live captioning and voice agents need. Deepgram also sells a managed Voice Agent API on top, which bundles the LLM and TTS legs and prices per conversation minute rather than per transcription minute.