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6.30US dollars per month

The same 2,520 monthly minutes cost about 6.30 US dollars a month on AssemblyAI's Universal-2 model at 0.15 dollars per hour.

Checked against its source on October 17, 2026

What it measures: Illustrative heavy user. Speaker labels and other add-ons cost extra on the same page.
How it is calculated: 0.15 dollars per hour / 60 = 0.0025 dollars per minute; 2,520 x 0.0025 = 6.30 dollars

Calculated from

AssemblyAI lists its Universal-2 speech-to-text model at $0.15 per hour of audio on pay as you go.

Used to calculate

For the illustrative heavy user who dictates 42 hours a month, an always-on GPU server costs about 9.14 US dollars for each hour of dictated audio.

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The same heavy user costs about 6.30 dollars a month at AssemblyAI's Universal-2 rate | Yap