deepgram-cost-tuning

name	deepgram-cost-tuning
description	Optimize Deepgram costs and usage for budget-conscious deployments. Use when reducing transcription costs, implementing usage controls, or optimizing pricing tier utilization. Trigger: "deepgram cost", "reduce deepgram spending", "deepgram pricing", "deepgram budget", "optimize deepgram usage", "deepgram billing".
allowed-tools	Read, Write, Edit, Bash(ffmpeg:*)
version	1.0.0
license	MIT
author	Jeremy Longshore <[e-mail]>
compatible-with	claude-code, codex, openclaw
tags	["saas","deepgram","cost-optimization","billing"]

Deepgram Cost Tuning

Overview

Optimize Deepgram API costs through smart model selection, audio preprocessing to reduce billable minutes, usage monitoring via the Deepgram API, budget guardrails, and feature-aware cost estimation. Deepgram bills per audio minute processed.

Deepgram Pricing (2026)

Product	Model	Price/Minute	Notes
STT (Batch)	Nova-3	$0.0043	Best accuracy
STT (Batch)	Nova-2	$0.0043	Proven stable
STT (Streaming)	Nova-3	$0.0059	Real-time
STT (Streaming)	Nova-2	$0.0059	Real-time
STT (Batch)	Base	$0.0048	Fastest
STT (Batch)	Whisper	$0.0048	Multilingual
TTS	Aura-2	Pay-per-character	See TTS pricing
Intelligence	Summarize/Topics/Sentiment	Included with STT	No extra cost

Add-on costs:

• Diarization: +$0.0044/min
• Multichannel: billed per channel

Instructions

Step 1: Budget-Aware Transcription Service

import { createClient } from '@deepgram/sdk';

interface BudgetConfig {
  monthlyLimitUsd: number;
  warningThreshold: number;  // 0.0-1.0 (e.g., 0.8 = warn at 80%)
  costPerMinute: number;     // Base STT cost
}

class BudgetAwareTranscriber {
  private client: ReturnType< createClient>;
   : ;
   monthlySpendUsd = ;
   monthlyMinutes = ;

  () {
    . = (apiKey);
    . = config;
  }

   () {
    
     estimatedCost = .(options);
     projected = . + estimatedCost;

     (projected > ..) {
        (
         +
        
      );
    }

     (projected > .. * ..) {
      .(
         +
        
      );
    }

     { result, error } =  ....(
      source, options
    );
     (error)  error;

    
     duration = result.. / ;  
     actualCost = .(duration, options);
    . += duration;
    . += actualCost;

     result;
  }

   (: ):  {
    
     .(, options);
  }

   (: , : ):  {
     cost = minutes * ..;
     (options.) cost += minutes * ;  
     cost;
  }

  () {
     {
      : ..(),
      : ..(),
      : (.. - .).(),
      : ((. / ..) * ).(),
    };
  }
}


 transcriber =  (process..!, {
  : ,
  : ,
  : ,
});