Fact · Voice and AI
0.28US dollars per hour of dictation
A cleanup pass over one hour of dictated text, using Claude Opus 5.5 prices, costs about 0.28 US dollars.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
- What it measures
- Same assumptions as the Haiku estimate. The larger model costs about 40 times more per hour than Haiku at these prices.
- How it is calculated
- 150 words per minute x 60 = 9,000 words; assumed 1.3 tokens per word (an assumption) = 11,700 tokens in and 11,700 out; 11,700 x 4 / 1,000,000 + 11,700 x 20 / 1,000,000 = 0.28 dollars