... upfront. GPT-4 tiles a 1024 1024 image into ~765 tokens before it reads your prompt. Send 10 images in a conversation, and your "cheap" chat call isn't cheap anymore. GPT-4o Realtime charges $100/1M audio input tokens vs $5/1M for text. Same model. 20 difference depending on how you send data. Batch API discounts give you 50% off on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google but only if your architecture is deliberately designed around it. Most aren't. Agentic loops ... ... that trigger web searches can quietly run up to $10 $35 per 1,000 calls, depending on the provider. One pipeline can fire dozens. STT providers round audio duration differently. AWS rounds up to 15 seconds. Deepgram

... folks We've been shipping a steady stream of improvements to Layercode, based on your feedback. Here's what's new: Deepgram Flux improvements Fixed the 60-second silence disconnect bug that was interrupting some longer pauses. Deepgram

... excited to announce a major upgrade to Layercode: support for Deepgram Flux: the world's first transcription system built specifically for voice agents. What is Deepgram

... soon. Comment from Ankit Gordhandas(@agordhandas): @ankitgordhandas   @rajiv_ayyangar  even better! If the person on the other end starts responding in Spanish, it switches to Spanish. Comment from Nour Almasri(@almasri_no786): Just gave Deepgram a spin and wpw Feels like the voice AI equivalent of having super-hearing. Transcription is crazy fast and impressively sharp even picked up my half-mumbled test phrases Loving how dev-friendly it is, but now I m wondering how well does ...