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0.003US dollars per minute
Mistral's announcement of Voxtral Transcribe 2 gives the price of Voxtral, its batch transcription model, as $0.003 per minute.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“and $0.003/min, Voxtral offers the best price-performance of any transcription API”
Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound, Mistral AI, Mistral AI, 2026, Benchmark section, paragraph on Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2.
Open the original- What it measures
- The announcement introduces Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch transcription. The price is given next to its word error rate on the FLEURS benchmark, in the same paragraph. Realtime pricing is not stated on this page.
- What it does not show
- A launch price from a February 4, 2026 announcement, read on 2026-10-19. It is not a volume tier, and the page does not say whether it is a list price for the API or a promotional rate. The Mistral pricing page says speech models are priced per minute but gives no figure, so the price may have changed.
In the data
A row of Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, as Mistral Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2: 0.18 US dollars per hour of audio.
- Provider
- Mistral AI
- Product
- Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2
- Mode
- Batch (recorded audio)
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- $0.003 per minute is $0.18 per hour.
Source
Used to calculate
- 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.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset holds 34 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset draws on 15 distinct sources.