Fact · Transcription
0.46US dollars per hour of audio
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.
Calculated from 10 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 10 figures for this group.
- How it is calculated
- Median of 10 values (0.12, 0.15, 0.39, 0.39, 0.45, 0.46, 0.47, 0.55, 0.6, 1.02) = 0.46.
- 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 Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime model at $0.45 per hour of audio on pay as you go.
- AssemblyAI lists its Universal-Streaming model for English-only realtime transcription at $0.15 per hour of audio on pay as you go.
- 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.
- Deepgram lists Flux English streaming at a regular price of $0.0065 per minute in the Growth tier, which is $0.39 per hour of audio.
- Deepgram lists Flux English streaming at a regular price of $0.0077 per minute on pay as you go, which is $0.462 per hour of audio.
- Deepgram lists Nova-3 Multilingual streaming at a regular price of $0.0078 per minute in the Growth tier, which is $0.468 per hour of audio.
- Deepgram lists Nova-3 Multilingual streaming at a regular price of $0.0092 per minute on pay as you go, which is $0.552 per hour of audio.
- ElevenLabs lists its Scribe v2 Realtime model at $0.39 per hour of audio.
- OpenAI's price list gives gpt-realtime-whisper, for live transcription, at $0.017 per minute.
- Soniox's pricing page lists its Speech-to-Text API for real-time streaming at $0.12 per hour of audio.