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Pay 88% less for transcription with higher accuracy

Modulate's Transcription API is 10x lower cost than Deepgram. Trained on 500M hours or real-world, noisy data, Modulate’s API is more accurate across 3 independent benchmarks.

Best-in-class accuracy on real-world speech

88% less expensive ($0.03 / hr vs. $0.26 / hr)
Best-in-class accuracy on real-world speech (AMI Corpus and IHM)
Detects 20+ emotions and 20+ accents
Supports 70+ languages, PII redaction and more
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Transcription Accuracy (Word Error Rate)
Word Error Rate across benchmark datasets — lower is better
Word Error Rate
10
20
30%
7.5%
Modulate
velma-transcribe
15.7%
Deepgram
nova-3
Earnings-22
8.0%
Modulate
velma-transcribe
8.2%
Deepgram
nova-3
VoxPopuli
14.9%
Modulate
velma-transcribe
28.1%
Deepgram
nova-2
AMI Meeting Corpus
Transcription Cost ($/hr)
Cost per hour of audio transcribed
Cost per hour ($)
0.2$
0.4
0.6$
$0.03
Modulate
velma-transcribe
$0.26
Deepgram
nova-2
$0.31
Deepgram
nova-3
Batch Transcription
$0.06
Modulate
velma-transcribe
$0.35
Deepgram
nova-2
$0.55
Deepgram
nova-3
Streaming Transcription

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Modulate vs. Deepgram

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Feature
Batch Cost:
$0.03 / hour
$0.26 / hour (nova-2)
Streaming Cost:
$0.06 / hour
$0.31 / hour (nova-2)
Additional features:
All free
$0.12 / hour
Emotion Detection
20+ emotions
None
Accent detection
20+ accents
None
Language Support
57+ languages
50+ languages
PII / PHI redaction
Yes
Yes, $0.12/hr
Diarization
Yes
Yes, $0.12/hr
Streaming Support
Real-time streaming
Real-time streaming
Real-World Accuracy
14.9% WER on AMI Corpus
28.1% WER on AMI Corpus
Accuracy on Earnings-22
7.8% WER
15.7% WER
Training Data
500M+ hours of conversations
Primarily curated / structured datasets
Overlapping speakers
Handles naturally
Underperforms in complex multi-speaker audio

#1 Accuracy in independent
benchmarks

10x lower cost than leading competitors

Built for real production
workloads

Enterprise-ready performance

Drop-In API. No Friction.

Integrate in minutes, not weeks.

Simple REST API

Clean documentation

Works with your existing stack

Built for real-time and batch transcription

Transcription is Just the Beginning

Teams switching to Modulate experience unique features such as emotion detection, accent detection. Modulate also offers Deepfake Detection at 100x lower cost and Conversation Understanding

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