How exactly pricing works?

[ilbrigz]

Is the per minute pricing calculation rounded up to per request when the transcribe time is less than a minute?

My Transcription usage says I have sent around 91 requests which totals to 12 mins transcribe. For those transactions I have used up around .25usd of my credits. It seems the credits used and the total minute of transcribed audio does not sum up.

[jkroll-deepgram]

Hi @ilbrigz, you can see the exact cost of a request either in the Deepgram Console (Usage -> Logs), or through the Usage API (response["details"]["usd"]). Also refer to our Pricing page. Cost varies depending on the model and tier you're using, as well as if you're using audio intelligence add-ons such as summarization, entity detection, redaction, and topic detection. Notably, the cost is not rounded up to the nearest minute - Deepgram bills per second of audio.

[ilbrigz]

Hello @jkroll-deepgram. Can you explain how the cost was calculated in the attached example request? The audio length was only 26sec but the calculated cost is already 0.00542 which is more than the supposed $0.0044/min stated in your pricing page.

[jkroll-deepgram]

Hi @ilbrigz, I looked into this request ID you provided. I see you're using the base tier of the general model, which is $0.0125/minute, or $0.00542 for 26 seconds. If you switch to the nova tier (add tier=nova to your request parameters), then the pricing is $0.0044/minute, and the same request would be $0.00191 for the 26 seconds.

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