// Hacker Noon · 14 April 2026

How Deepgram and Modulate Benchmark Against Real-World Audio

Deepgram's Nova-3 claims 5.26% WER, but on AMI it hit 28.1%. Modulate came in at 14.9% on the same dataset. We break down results across AMI, VoxPopuli, and Earnings-22, compare batch and streaming costs, and show what features each API actually includes in base pricing.

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