# Deepgram — API Agent Score

> Score: 79/100 (Grade: B) | Domain: deepgram.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

Deepgram scored 79/100 (B), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 79/100 (B)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 94/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 59/100 (D)
- Agent Discovery: 91/100 (A+)
- Agent Understanding: 78/100 (B)
- Agent Usability: 74/100 (B)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Auth declared & discoverable — authentication documented in the docs site at https://developers.deepgram.com/developer-tools/cli/authentication. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [pass] Schema coverage & depth — 1791/1793 (100%) public params are fully typed (no any/**kwargs). Analyzer reports not all methods have a derivable input schema. Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 83%.
- [warn] Machine-readable, versioned contract — info.version="1.0.0" set but no versioning scheme (URL / header / media type) detected. Investigated: spec 75%, docs 50%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — No credential-shaped strings detected in spec. Investigated: spec 100%, wellknown 0%.
- [pass] Example coverage — Code samples present on 1/20 pages across 2 language(s); broader multi-language coverage missing. Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, spec 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Code samples in docs — Code samples present on 1/20 pages across 2 language(s); broader multi-language coverage missing. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Description completeness — 95% of operations + parameters have substantive descriptions. Investigated: spec 100%, sdk 76%.
- [pass] Changelog published — changelog documented in the docs site at https://developers.deepgram.com/changelog. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, sdk 100%.
- [fail] Self-service developer portal — No signup page detected across conventional paths (/signup, /sign-up, /register, /get-started, /console/signup, /dashboard/signup, /try, /try-free, /free, /free-trial, /start, /start-free). Investigated: docs 0%.
- [fail] Quickstart present — No quickstart/getting-started page found at the conventional paths. Investigated: docs 0%.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — All 1 pages are publicly accessible. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (llmstxt/developers_deepgram_llms_txt, 4248 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, cli 100%, sdk 92%, mcp 0%, wellknown 0%.
- [warn] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — llms.txt covers 0/1 sitemap doc pages (0%); 1 missing. Investigated: docs 75%, sdk 0%.
- [warn] Crawlable / AEO — Sitemap lastmod coverage 57% or newest entry older than 90 days. Investigated: wellknown 75%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — Only 1 distinct 4xx/5xx codes documented (plus 0 "default" catch-all responses). Investigated: docs 100%, spec 50%, sdk 0%.
- [pass] Operation purpose clarity — 100% of operations have a clear summary + operationId an agent can select on. Investigated: spec 100%.
- [warn] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — 2 of 4 endpoints have aggressive caching or missing cache headers. Investigated: docs 90%.
- [warn] Description consistency across surfaces — Mean pairwise description similarity across 2 surfaces (docs, sdk) is 3% (threshold 35% for full credit).
- [fail] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%.
- [fail] Docs structured data — Neither JSON-LD nor OpenGraph/meta tags detected across 3 assessed pages (3 JS-rendered). Investigated: docs 0%.

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Idempotency documented — Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [pass] Rate-limit signaling — rate-limit behavior documented in the docs site at https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/working-with-concurrency-rate-limits. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [pass] Sandbox separation — Sandbox environments are exposed (sandbox). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Pagination documented & consistent — 2 list endpoint(s) exist but no pagination params found. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Runnable collection with test scripts — No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%.

## Executive Summary

Deepgram's API program shows genuine strengths in API design, discovery, and crawlability — partners and agents can find and read the contract reliably. The most urgent gaps are in agent understanding and partner onboarding: there is no structured machine-readable context layer (AGENTS.md, structured docs data) to guide AI agents, and the absence of a self-service developer portal with a quickstart means partners face unnecessary friction before their first successful call. Closing these two areas should be the immediate priority to unlock both human and AI-driven partner adoption at scale.