Fact · Transcription
0.42US dollars per hour of audio
Tingdong sells a top-up of 1000 credits for $6.99, valid 90 days, for members and credit pack holders. Subtitles use 1 credit per minute, so the top-up works out to about $0.42 per hour of live subtitles.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 23, 2026
In the source's own words
“Top-up for members and pack holders ... valid 90 days $6.99”
Tingdong: Live Captions & Real-Time Translation for Mac & Windows, Tingdong, Tingdong, 2026, Home page, pricing section, credit top-up card.
Open the original- What it measures
- The top-up is bought inside the app and is added to the current account. It is spent after the monthly credits of a membership or Pro plan.
- What it does not show
- The top-up is only offered to members and pack holders, so it is not a price for a new customer. The subtitle price includes translation into the subtitle language. Read aloud costs 8 credits a minute and is left out. The per-hour figure is converted: $6.99 divided by 1000 minutes is $0.00699 per minute, times 60 is $0.4194 per hour.
In the data
A row of Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, as Tingdong 1000-credit top-up: 0.42 US dollars per hour of audio.
- Provider
- Tingdong
- Product
- Live subtitles and translation (Mac and Windows)
- Mode
- Streaming (real time)
- Tier
- Top-up, 1000 credits, valid 90 days, members and pack holders
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- $6.99 for 1000 credits at 1 credit per minute is $0.00699 per minute; times 60 is $0.4194 per hour, shown as 0.42
Source
Used to calculate
- In the speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset, the 41 published figures for “Streaming (real time)” have a median of 0.36 US dollars per hour of audio, ranging from 0 to 2.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset holds 132 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset draws on 48 distinct sources.