Alternatives
Self-hosted alternatives to Deepgram
Projects in the registry that can run on your own hardware and serve at least one of the same use cases as Deepgram.
- Source
- Registry relations over fetched repository records — the evidence sits on each repository page
- Verified
- Evidence not verified
- Confidence
- High
01How this list was built
- Compared against
- Deepgram
- Delivery
- SaaS products
- Shared use cases
- Call transcription, Voice agent, Meeting transcription
- Selection rule
- open source, or self-hostable, and shares a use case
- Candidates found
- 5
02Alternatives
faster-whisper
Libraries
Reimplementation of Whisper on CTranslate2 with substantially lower memory use and faster inference, including int8 execution on CPU. The usual engine behind self-hosted transcription.
- Repository
- SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 2
Shares: Meeting transcription · Call transcription · Voice agent
LiveKit Agents
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Framework for real-time voice and video agents on LiveKit’s WebRTC infrastructure, with turn detection, interruption handling and pluggable speech and model providers.
- Repository
- livekit/agents
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Voice agent · Call transcription
LocalAI
Model servers
Drop-in OpenAI-compatible API server that runs text, embedding, image and audio models locally across several back ends, including CPU-only deployments.
- Repository
- mudler/LocalAI
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Meeting transcription
Pipecat
Frameworks
Open-source framework for real-time voice and multimodal agents, composing speech-to-text, model and speech synthesis services into a streaming pipeline with barge-in support.
- Repository
- pipecat-ai/pipecat
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Voice agent
WhisperX
Libraries
Whisper-based transcription pipeline adding word-level timestamps, forced alignment and speaker diarisation. Runs locally on GPU for batch transcription of recordings.
- Repository
- m-bain/whisperX
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Meeting transcription · Call transcription
03Repository facts
| Repository | Stars | Health |
|---|---|---|
| SYSTRAN/faster-whisper | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| livekit/agents | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| mudler/LocalAI | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| pipecat-ai/pipecat | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| m-bain/whisperX | — | Health not measuredunknown |
04Ask about your own case
Which alternative is right depends on how many people will use it, what the data is and what you can operate. Ask and the answer is researched for your organisation.