Modal vs Deepgram

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Modal compared with Deepgram
Detail	Modal	Deepgram
What it does	The platform for production AI	Enterprise Voice AI platform for Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and Voice Agents
Stage	Not given	Established
Founded	Not given	2015
Based in	US	US
Pricing model	Paid	Freemium
Pricing	Starter plan is free with $30/month compute credits. Team plan is $250/month plus compute. Enterprise plan is custom. Compute is billed per second for CPU, GPU, and memory with no charges for idle time.	Flux STT Streaming: $0.0065/min (Pay As You Go), $0.0057/min (Growth); Flux Multilingual Streaming: $0.0078/min (Pay As You Go), $0.0068/min (Growth); Nova-3 Monolingual Streaming: $0.0048/min (Pay As You Go), $0.0042/min (Growth); Nova-3 Multilingual Streaming: $0.0058/min (Pay As You Go), $0.0050/
Key features	Serve LLMs, image, video, and audio models Isolated environments for coding agents and RL rollouts Fine-tune and train models on GPUs Autoscale compute from zero to thousands of GPUs Distributed storage for models and weights Global capacity across 20+ clouds Serverless functions with HTTPS endpoints Out-of-the-box observability and logs	Flux STT with turn detection and interruption handling Nova-3 multilingual speech recognition in 50+ languages Ultra-low latency under 300 milliseconds Keyterm prompting with up to 90% higher keyword recall Flux TTS with latency as low as 80ms Speaker diarization and multi-speaker audio detection Smart formatting with automatic punctuation and capitalization Automatic redaction of sensitive information Custom models for edge-case scenarios Flexible deployment options: cloud, in-VPC, or self-hosted
What makes it different	Custom infrastructure built for AI including container runtime, storage, and scheduler Sub-second container startup times for GPU workloads Pay only by the second with no idle charges Programmatically create millions of concurrent sandboxes	Conversation-aware speech platform with native turn-taking detection and interruption handling Unified single API combining STT, TTS, and LLM orchestration to reduce complexity and latency Flux TTS that thinks before speaking to maintain tone and expression across conversations Enterprise-grade accuracy with custom vocabulary injection and industry-tuned models Foundational AI company with research-driven innovation and continuous model improvements
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	81 +1 (up) since last check	81 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	33	23
Citation Flow (Majestic)	53	51
Referring domains (Majestic)	6174	7761

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