Fact · Transcription
0.01US dollars per minute
Amazon's pricing page gives a streaming transcription price of $0.01 per minute in its worked example for the US East (N. Virginia) region.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“Streaming transcription is priced at $0.01 per minute”
Amazon Transcribe pricing, Amazon Web Services, 2026, Streaming transcription example.
Open the original- What it measures
- The example assumes 200,000 stereo calls a month of about 10 minutes each, or 2 million minutes of audio, in US East (N. Virginia). The page says a two-channel conversation is billed for its total audio duration, not per channel.
- What it does not show
- It is one region and one example, not the full price list. Prices can differ by region and by tier, and the page says larger workloads may get volume discounts that it does not list.
In the data
A row of Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, as Amazon Transcribe streaming: 0.6 US dollars per hour of audio.
- Provider
- Amazon Web Services
- Product
- Amazon Transcribe
- Mode
- Streaming (real time)
- Tier
- 2 million minutes per month, US East (N. Virginia)
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- $0.01 per minute is $0.60 per hour.
Source
Used to calculate
- In the speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset, the 10 published figures for “Streaming (real time)” have a median of 0.46 US dollars per hour of audio, ranging from 0.12 to 1.02.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset holds 34 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset draws on 15 distinct sources.