Fact · Transcription
$0.234US dollars per hour of audio
Shunya Labs' pricing page lists Horizon Universal batch transcription at $0.0039 per minute on pay as you go, which is $0.234 per hour of audio.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 21, 2026
In the source's own words
“Pay as you go Volume ... Horizon Universal Supports 204+ languages $0.0039 ₹0.37 / min $0.0035 ₹0.33 / min”
STT, TTS, Voice Agents & Audio AI Pricing | Shunya Labs, Shunya Labs, 2026, Speech to text table, Pay as you go column.
Open the original- What it measures
- The speech-to-text table is headed 'Billed per minute of audio processed', with a Pay as you go column and a Volume column. The first price in the Horizon Universal row is the pay as you go rate. The page says its rates are for batch transcription.
- What it does not show
- Batch rate only. The page says realtime streaming rates are quoted on request. The free $5 credit is not a price for transcription and is not used here.
In the data
A row of Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, as Shunya Horizon Universal, PAYG: 0.23 US dollars per hour of audio.
- Provider
- Shunya Labs
- Product
- Horizon Universal
- Mode
- Batch (recorded audio)
- Tier
- Pay as you go
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- $0.0039 per minute times 60 is $0.234 per hour of audio.
Source
Used to calculate
- In the speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset, the 79 published figures for “Batch (recorded audio)” have a median of 0.27 US dollars per hour of audio, ranging from 0 to 15.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset holds 117 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset draws on 43 distinct sources.