Deepgram vs Yandex

Deepgram — Infrastructure · Private · $1.3B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Deepgram Speech-to-Text and Yandex SpeechKit do comparable work on speech to text and voice agent; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio and turn speech into text; Yandex's scale not recorded.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product type

4 of 5 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, speech to text, text to speech and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship API service.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldDeepgramYandex
Size$1.3B valuationnot disclosed
Employees—36,991
Founded20151997 18 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryInfrastructureApplication
Stack layerAPI serviceAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationSpeech to textText to speechVoice agent

Not verified for Yandex · 1

Summarization

Recorded for Deepgram. Yandex’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Deepgram · 14

Agentic codingCode generationCode reviewCustomer supportData analysisDocument extractionImage generationModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingKnowledge retrievalText generationTranslationSearch answers

Recorded for Yandex. Deepgram’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Deepgram

API service

Deepgram Audio IntelligenceAPI service

Language-understanding features layered on Deepgram's speech recognition — summarisation, topic and intent detection over conversational audio.

Deepgram Flux TTSAPI service

Deepgram's text-to-speech API, marketed on low latency (responses from about 80ms) and on being deployable in the customer's own environment as well as on Deepgram's cloud.

Deepgram Speech-to-TextAPI service

Speech-to-text API supporting 45+ languages with streaming and batch transcription, speaker identification and smart formatting, alongside companion text-to-speech and voice-agent APIs.

Deepgram Voice Agent APIAPI service

A single API for building real-time voice agents, combining Deepgram's speech-to-text and text-to-speech with LLM orchestration.

Yandex

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.

No counterpart

Yandex sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Deepgram yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

Platform

Yandex Cloud AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.