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# Deepgram Nova-3 (incl. Medical / Pharma)

Deepgram, Nova family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2025-02-12.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deepgram API | `nova-3` | https://api.deepgram.com/v1/listen (REST) / wss://api.deepgram.com/v1/listen | https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/models-languages-overview |
| Deepgram API | `nova-3-medical` |  |  |
| Deepgram API | `nova-3-pharma` |  |  |

## Pricing

- Per minute: $0.0048
- Unit as published: per minute streaming monolingual PAYG; multilingual $0.0058; pre-recorded $0.0043 mono / $0.0052 multi
- Source: https://deepgram.com/pricing
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: audio
- Output: text
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 103. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- After it from Deepgram: Deepgram Aura-2 (2025-04-15) https://postcutoff.com/m/deepgram-aura-2/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- Keyterm prompting, 90+ languages (found after launch): Nova-3 general supports 90+ languages incl. multilingual code-switching mode; languages added continuously through 2026 (e.g. Kazakh 2026-09-03, Assamese/Mongolian/Pashto 2026-08-27). Source: https://developers.deepgram.com/changelog
- Domain variants (found after launch): nova-3-medical (upgraded batch model May 2026) and nova-3-pharma (English pharmaceutical model, 2026-09-17). Source: https://developers.deepgram.com/changelog

## Notes

Release date 2025-02-12 from Deepgram's Nova-3 launch (not re-checked today). Previous gen nova-2 and variants still served. Deepgram also hosts Whisper (whisper-large, $0.0048/min).

Deepgram's general-purpose transcription model (batch + streaming).

Sources: https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/models-languages-overview , https://deepgram.com/pricing , https://developers.deepgram.com/changelog

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/deepgram-nova-3/