Salad vs Deepgram
Salad Transcription API is 4.1% more accurate than Deepgram at 38.4% less cost for batch transcription, with translation, summaries, sentiment, and captions included in one price. Same public benchmark, same methodology.
Better accuracy than Deepgram.
Salad Transcription API scored 95.1% accuracy for English against 91.0% for Deepgram, measured on the CommonVoice 5.1 dataset replicating Assembly AI's published benchmark. Read the benchmark.
Lower cost than Deepgram.
Save 38.4% on transcription by switching from Deepgram. Salad's price is the pay-as-you-go volume tier of $0.16 per audio hour; Deepgram's is its published batch rate at the time of the benchmark.
One price. More features.
Features Deepgram sells separately, or doesn't offer, are included with every Salad transcription.
| Feature | Salad | Deepgram |
|---|---|---|
| Translation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio transcription | ✓ | ✓ |
| Video transcription | ✓ | ✗ |
| Multilingual transcription | ✓ | ✓ |
| Summarization | ✓ | ✗ |
| Speaker identification | ✓ | ✓ |
| SRT output | ✓ | ✗ |
| Transcribe multiple files | ✓ | ✗ |
| Text sentiment analysis | ✓ | ✗ |
| Text classification | ✓ | ✗ |
| Custom LLM prompt | ✓ | ✗ |
| Custom vocabulary | ✓ | ✓ |
| Max file size | 3 GB | 2 GB |
"A freaking nuclear reactor for adding transcription to your own services. If you need to transcribe-enable your workflows, then Salad is the best I've found."
Dr. Joseph Sweeney · Analyst & Advisor, IRBS"A game-changer for SaaS entrepreneurs and a launchpad for innovation & business growth. Despite its low cost, the transcriptions are remarkably fast and accurate."
Danny McCoy · EntrepreneurSwitching from Deepgram.
How do I switch from Deepgram?
Follow the migration guide. Most teams finish in a day. The one-time integration cost is typically repaid within weeks at the price difference above.
How does Salad have the lowest price?
Other APIs rent expensive data-center GPUs. Salad's transcription runs on the Community Cloud's consumer GPUs, the lowest-cost compute in the market, and tiered pricing passes volume savings through.
How does Salad keep accuracy high?
Audio enhancement in pre-processing, Whisper Large v3 class recognition, LLM post-processing, and a knowledge base for custom vocabulary and context. Diarization and accent handling are built in.
How is my data handled?
Files are processed in isolated environments on SOC 2 Type I compliant infrastructure with end-to-end encryption, data sanitization, and access controls. Enterprise customers can also self-host.