Fact · Transcription
$0.21US dollars per hour of audio
Shunya Labs' pricing page lists Horizon Universal batch transcription at $0.0035 per minute in its Volume column, which is $0.21 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, Volume 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 second price in the Horizon Universal row is the Volume rate. The page says its rates are for batch transcription.
- What it does not show
- The page labels this column Volume but gives no minute threshold for it, so the tier is not defined beyond the label. Batch rate only; realtime streaming rates are quoted on request.
In the data
A row of Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, as Shunya Horizon Universal, volume: 0.21 US dollars per hour of audio.
- Provider
- Shunya Labs
- Product
- Horizon Universal
- Mode
- Batch (recorded audio)
- Tier
- Volume
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- $0.0035 per minute times 60 is $0.21 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.