# Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) vs Groq Speech-to-Text (slim)

> Groq Speech-to-Text scores 71.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux)'s 70.3 (BB), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do speech stt.…

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Groq Speech-to-Text scores 71.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux)'s 70.3 (BB), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do speech stt.

- Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux): BB 70.3, rank #150 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepgram-stt.min.md
- Groq Speech-to-Text: BB 71.8, rank #113 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.min.md
- Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux), good for Live voice agents that want turn detection in the STT model, and for cheap English batch. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 95 against 58; Maintenance & community, 80 against 68. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Groq Speech-to-Text, good for Suited to cheap, fast transcription of recorded files in many languages, and to agents that already hold a Groq key or use an OpenAI-compatible client. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 65; Security & auth, 79 against 65; Transparency & trust, 85 against 72.

| Category | Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) | Groq Speech-to-Text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 95 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 79 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 68 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 85 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Deepgram Speech-to-Text (Nova-3, Flux) | Groq Speech-to-Text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Deepgram | Groq |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.deepgram.com/v1` | `https://api.groq.com/openai/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | Proprietary hosted service under the Groq Services Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0 and the Whisper weights are published by OpenAI on Hugging Face |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-08-26 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-06 | 2026-06-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-10-26 | 2025-11-12 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 468 stars, 1.1M npm/wk, 805k PyPI/wk | 621 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |