Fact · Transcription
0.21US dollars per hour of audio
In the speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset, the 22 published figures for “Batch (recorded audio)” have a median of 0.21 US dollars per hour of audio, ranging from 0.04 to 6.
Calculated from 22 data points on October 19, 2026
- What it measures
- Each figure is one row of the dataset: a published measurement for a stated group, traced to its source. The median is the middle value of the 22 figures for this group.
- How it is calculated
- Median of 22 values (0.04, 0.05, 0.09, 0.1, 0.11, 0.15, 0.18, 0.18, 0.18, 0.2, 0.21, 0.22, 0.22, 0.26, 0.3, 0.3, 0.31, 0.36, 0.36, 0.36, 1.2, 6) = 0.21.
- What it does not show
- Prices change often and many providers bill per second, with free tiers and volume discounts that a single figure leaves out.
A statistic of the dataset Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, calculated by code from its published rows.
Calculated from
- AssemblyAI lists its Sync Speech-to-Text API, which transcribes one clip of up to 2 minutes per request using Universal-3.5 Pro, at $0.30 per hour of audio on pay as you go.
- AssemblyAI lists its Universal-2 speech-to-text model at $0.15 per hour of audio on pay as you go.
- AssemblyAI lists its Universal-3.5 Pro model at $0.21 per hour of audio on pay as you go.
- Amazon's pricing page gives a batch transcription price of $0.006 per minute in its worked example for the US East (N. Virginia) region.
- Deepgram lists its Nova-3 Monolingual model for pre-recorded audio at $0.0036 per minute in the Growth tier, which is $0.216 per hour of audio.
- Deepgram lists its Nova-3 Monolingual model for pre-recorded audio at $0.0043 per minute on pay as you go, which is $0.258 per hour of audio.
- Deepgram lists its Nova-3 Multilingual model for pre-recorded audio at $0.0052 per minute on pay as you go, which is $0.312 per hour of audio.
- ElevenLabs lists its Scribe v2 Medical speech-to-text model, fine-tuned for clinical audio, at $0.22 per hour of audio.
- Fireworks AI's audio transcription launch post lists serverless Whisper-v3-large at $0.0015 per audio minute in its async transcription table.
- Fireworks AI's audio transcription launch post lists serverless Whisper-v3-large-turbo at $0.0009 per audio minute in its async transcription table.
- Google lists dynamic batch recognition for standard models at $0.003 per minute, with lower rates in the same row.
- GoTranscript's rate page for automated transcription lists its AI transcription at $0.02 per minute in the subscription column, next to a euro price for pay as you go.
- Groq's speech-to-text documentation lists whisper-large-v3 at a cost of $0.111 per hour of audio.
- Groq's speech-to-text documentation lists whisper-large-v3-turbo at a cost of $0.04 per hour of audio.
- Mistral's announcement of Voxtral Transcribe 2 gives the price of Voxtral, its batch transcription model, as $0.003 per minute.
- OpenAI's API price list shows its gpt-4o-mini-transcribe model at $0.003 per minute.
- OpenAI's API price list shows its gpt-4o-transcribe model at $0.006 per minute, an estimated transcription cost.
- OpenAI's whisper-1 model page gives its transcription cost as $0.006 per minute.
- Rev lists its Reverb foreign language transcription on Rev AI at $0.30 per hour of audio on pay as you go, for Spanish, French, Chinese, Portuguese and 53 more languages.
- Rev lists its Reverb transcription for English on Rev AI at $0.20 per hour of audio on pay as you go.
- Soniox's pricing page lists its Speech-to-Text API for async file transcription at $0.10 per hour of audio.
- Speechnotes lists its pay-as-you-go transcription at $0.10 per minute, with no subscription.