Nova-3 Realtime

by Deepgram

Nova-3 is Deepgram's most advanced speech-to-text model, built to transcribe difficult real-world audio accurately in both streaming and batch modes. Deepgram describes it as the first voice AI model to offer real-time multilingual transcription, following speakers who switch between English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian and Dutch in a single conversation. It also supports many languages individually, including Hindi. On Deepgram's numbers, Nova-3 reaches a median word error rate of 6.84% on streaming audio, a 54.2% reduction against the next competitor at 14.92%, and 5.26% on batch audio. Keyterm prompting lets developers boost up to 100 domain-specific terms at request time without retraining; Deepgram cites a veterinary customer that saw a 625% improvement in keyterm recognition. It fits live captioning, voice agents, contact centers, drive-thru ordering, emergency response and medical or legal transcription, anywhere low latency and accurate handling of jargon, names and numbers matter.

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Key info

Input
Output
Features
Pricing
$0.003 / min
Billing
Per minute
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Pricing

Usage-based pricing, billed by the minute, not by token.

VariantPrice
Input$0.003 / min

Available routes

Nova-3 Realtime runs on 4 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingPrice
AustraliaNo$0.003 / min
IndiaNo$0.003 / min
IndiaNo$0.003 / min
USNo$0.003 / min

Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=slng%3Aau%2Fdeepgram%2Frealtime%3Anova-3-en

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Nova-3 Realtime has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

SLNG โ€” Australia๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. AU; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Not cached
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

SLNG โ€” India๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. IN; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Not cached
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

SLNG โ€” India๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. IN; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Not cached
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

SLNG โ€” United States๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Not cached
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Get started

Call Nova-3 Realtime through the Opper gateway with one API key. Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs.

Nova-3 Realtime is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "slng:au/deepgram/realtime:nova-3-en",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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