Fact · Transcription
0US dollars per hour of audio
On its features page, Hearing Buddy lists unlimited live captions at $0, with no meters, no session caps and no credit card needed.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“Free, forever $0 Unlimited live captions No meters, no session caps, no credit card”
Features: Hearing Buddy, Krager Labs LLC, 2026, Features page, Free, forever plan.
Open the original- What it measures
- The features page sets a free plan ("Free, forever") against the paid Buddy+ plan. The free plan's live captions are unlimited, so the price is $0 per hour of audio. The page gives no time unit, and no per-hour figure is needed: $0 holds for any length of audio. Buddy+ is a separate subscription that adds live translation and audio boost, so its price is not counted here.
- What it does not show
- The price applies to live captions in the app. The page is marketing copy, and the price shown at purchase in the App Store is the one that applies to Buddy+. The free plan may change, so read the page again before relying on it.
In the data
A row of Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, as Hearing Buddy, live captions: 0 US dollars per hour of audio.
- Provider
- Krager Labs LLC
- Product
- Hearing Buddy
- Mode
- Streaming (real time)
- Tier
- Free, forever
- As of
- 2026-10
Source
Used to calculate
- In the speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset, the 48 published figures for “Streaming (real time)” have a median of 0.36 US dollars per hour of audio, ranging from 0 to 4.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset holds 191 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset draws on 74 distinct sources.