Best for Speech & Voice

All models2314Chat & Knowledge563Coding383Agents & Tool Use543Writing & Language361Vision & Documents397Image Generation & Editing184Video Generation148Speech & Voice358Embeddings & Retrieval688Decision models118Music & Sound29
Text to speech136Speech to text151Realtime55Translation8Voice changers4
ModelAA Speech to TextLanguagesSpeaker diarizationPer audio minutePrice coversPriceReleased
Fun Realtime ASR PreviewAlibaba (Qwen)
1.7
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MAI Transcribe 2Microsoft
2
en, es, fr +57Yes$0.002 / minMAI-Transcribe-2$0.002 / minuteSep 2026
Voxtral Small Transcribe 3Mistral
2.1
—Yes$0.004 / min—$0.004 / minuteOct 2026
Scribe v2ElevenLabs
2.2
en, es, fr +97Yes$0.004 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.004 / minuteJan 2026
Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3Mistral
2.2
—Yes$0.004 / min—$0.004 / minuteOct 2026
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0xAI
2.3
en, es, fr +35Yes$0.002 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.002 / minuteSep 2026
MAI Transcribe 1.5Microsoft
2.4
en, es, fr +40—$0.006 / minMAI-Transcribe-1.5$0.006 / minuteJun 2026
StepAudio 3 ASRStepFun
2.5
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Gemini 3.5 TranscribeGoogle
2.6
en-GB, en-IN, en-US +80Yes$0.005 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.005 / minuteAug 2026
Voxtral SmallMistral
2.8
——$0.004 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.004 / minuteJul 2025
ZZoom Scribe V2 ProZoom
2.8
enYes$0.003 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.003 / minute
AUniversal 3.5 ProAssemblyAI
3
en, es, fr +15Yes$0.004 / minUniversal-3.5 Pro$0.004 / minuteJul 2026
AUniversal 3 ProAssemblyAI
3.1
——$0.004 / minUniversal-3 Pro$0.004 / minute
GSolaria-3Gladia
3.2
en, es, fr +2—$0.01 / minGladia$0.01 / minuteJun 2026
GPT Transcribe, OpenAIOpenAI
3.3
en, es, fr +2—$0.004 / mintranscribed input audio duration$0.004 / minuteJul 2026
SSmallest AI PulseSmallest.ai
3.3
en, es, fr +19Yes$0.005 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.005 / minuteFeb 2026
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview (Minimal)Google
3.4
——$0.006 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.006 / minute
SSmallest AI Pulse ProSmallest.ai
3.4
en—$0.004 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.004 / minuteJan 2026
rResonant 1reson8
3.4
——$0.004 / minsubscription credits and EUR overage; base fee and concurrency depend on plan; no universal USD per-minute rate verified$0.004 / minuteApr 2026
Qwen3.5 Omni PlusAlibaba (Qwen)
3.5unstated
en, es, fr +67———$44 / 1M output audio tokensMar 2026
Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2Mistral
3.6
en, es, fr +9—$0.003 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.003 / minute
SSoniox v5 AsyncSoniox
3.8
en, es, fr +57Yes$0.002 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.002 / minuteJun 2026
AUniversal, AssemblyAIAssemblyAI
3.8
—Yes$0.003 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.003 / minuteOct 2024
IInworld STT 1Inworld
3.9
en, es, fr +27Yes$0.003 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.003 / minute
GPT-4o TranscribeOpenAI
4
——$0.006 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.006 / minuteMar 2025
SSpeechmatics EnhancedSpeechmatics
4
en, es, fr +53Yes$0.013 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.013 / minuteMar 2023
Amazon TranscribeAmazon
4.1
en-AU, en-GB, en-IN +110Yes$0.006 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.006 / minuteNov 2023
GSolaria-1Gladia
4.1
——$0.01 / minGladia$0.01 / minuteApr 2025
Whisper Large v2OpenAIOpen
4.1
en, es, fr +86—$0.006 / min/ large-v2$0.006 / minuteDec 2022
MModulate STT Batch English VFastModulate
4.2
——$0 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0 / minute
Canary Qwen 2.5B, NVIDIANVIDIAOpen
4.3
en—$0.001 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.001 / minuteJul 2025
Chirp 3, GoogleGoogle
4.3
——$0.016 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.016 / minuteMar 2025
GPT-4o Mini TranscribeOpenAI
4.5unstated
——$0.003 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.003 / minuteMar 2025
Parakeet TDT 0.6B V3, TogetheraiNVIDIAOpen
4.5
en, es, fr +21—$0.002 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.002 / minuteAug 2025
Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAIOpen
4.6
en, es, fr +86—$0.001 / min/ v3 Turbo$0.001 / minuteOct 2024
Transcribe 03 2026Cohere
4.6
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StepAudio 2.5 ASRStepFun
4.7
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Wizper Large v3OpenAIOpen
4.7
en, es, fr +86—$0.001 / min/ large-v3$0.001 / minuteNov 2023
ANova 2 ProAmazon Bedrock
4.9
——$0.003 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.003 / minute
SSpeechmatics MeliaSpeechmatics
4.9
——$0.004 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.004 / minute
DNova-2, TelnyxDeepgram
5.1
——$0.007 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.007 / minute
SSpeechmatics StandardSpeechmatics
5.1
——$0.007 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.007 / minuteMar 2023
DNova 3Deepgram
5.2
——$0.004 / minNova-3$0.004 / minute
Parakeet RNNT 1.1BNVIDIAOpen
5.4
en—$0.002 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.002 / minuteDec 2023
Large v3OpenAIOpen
5.7
en, es, fr +86—$0.001 / minIncredibly Fast Whisper / large-v3$0.001 / minuteNov 2023
RRev AIRev AI
5.9
——$0.003 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.003 / minuteJan 2022
Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2, NVIDIANVIDIAOpen
6.4
en———May 2025
GGradium Speech-to-TextGradium
6.8
——$0.013 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.013 / minuteDec 2025
Whisper Large v3OpenAIOpen
10.1
en, es, fr +86—$0.004 / min/ large-v3$0.001 / minuteSep 2022
Qwen3.5 Omni FlashAlibaba (Qwen)
13.5unstated
————$11.90 / 1M output audio tokensMar 2026
ChirpGoogle
31.2
——$0.016 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.016 / minute