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DEEPGRAM ALTERNATIVE

Like Deepgram, but OpenAI-compatible.

Transcribe audio with Whisper Large v3 or Voxtral through the OpenAI audio endpoint, with chat, image, video and TTS on the same key.

Hand this to your agent

Add a Runcrate model to this project: run curl -fsSL"https://runcrate.ai/agents.md?intent=build"and follow it.

Your agent asks for an API key. Create a key

Works inClaude CodeCodexOpenCodeClineRoo CodeKilo CodeCursor
ModelsWhisper, Voxtral
Endpoint/v1/audio/transcriptions
BillingPer minute of audio

Comparison

Runcrate and Deepgram, side by side.

FeatureRuncrateDeepgram
ASR modelsWhisper Large v3, VoxtralNova-3, Flux, Whisper
Streaming transcriptionChunked HTTP requestsWebSocket-native
Per-minute priceWhisper Turbo: $0.00021 per minute$0.0043/min (Nova-3, pre-recorded)
API formatOpenAI-compatibleCustom Deepgram API
Other modalities (chat, image)YesVoice only

Deepgram figures from Deepgram pricing (Pay As You Go), captured 2026-10-19. Runcrate prices are live.

Prices

What it costs on Runcrate. Billed prices, as charged.

NameMakerPriceDetail
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek$0.273 in, $0.399 out per 1M tokensReasoning, code, 128K ctx
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-ProDeepSeek$1.37 in, $2.73 out per 1M tokensReasoning and code, 1M ctx
meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-InstructMeta$0.105 in, $0.315 out per 1M tokensOpen weights, multilingual
Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507Alibaba$0.0945 in, $0.578 out per 1M tokensMultilingual, 256K ctx
openai/whisper-large-v3OpenAI$0.000473 per minuteSpeech to text, 99 languages
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Why switch

Why teams move to Runcrate. One account for models and GPUs.

  • Open models, one API key

    Chat, code, image, video, audio and vision models behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, billed per token, per image or per second of output.

  • OpenAI-compatible

    Point the OpenAI SDK at api.runcrate.ai/v1 and the requests your agent already makes keep working. No custom client library.

  • GPUs on the same account

    When an API call is not enough, start an H100 or H200 instance from the same balance and dashboard. Launch 8 or more GPUs yourself, or ask us for a custom quote.

  • One balance, billed as used

    Inference bills each request at its listed price. Instances bill by the second on most GPUs and by the minute on a few. No minimums, no contract.

Get started

Try it in one request.

Your agent writes and runs it. The same key works for every model and every GPU.

Docs
Transcribe meeting.mp3 with Whisper on Runcrate and save the text to meeting.txt. Runs curl https://api.runcrate.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer rc_live_YOUR_API_KEY" \ -F file=@meeting.mp3 \ -F model="openai/whisper-large-v3".

FAQ

Common questions.