Best for Speech & Voice

All models2314Chat & Knowledge563Coding383Agents & Tool Use543Writing & Language361Vision & Documents397Image Generation & Editing184Video Generation148Speech & Voice358Embeddings & Retrieval688Decision models118Music & Sound29
Text to speech136Speech to text151Realtime55Translation8Voice changers4
ModelArena EloLanguagesPer audio minutePrice coversPriceReleased
ZZoom Scribe V2 ProZoom
3
en$0.003 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.003 / minute
Azure Speech 07 2026Microsoft
3
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OSpeech v3.1OtterAI
3
en, es, fr +3——
rResonant 1reson8
3
—$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
rResonant 1 Flashreson8
3
——subscription credits and EUR overage; base fee and concurrency depend on plan; no universal USD per-minute rate verifiedApr 2026
sASR K1sophea
3
en, el——
MMultilingualModulate
3
en, es, fr +53$0.001 / minbatch audio transcription; optional enrichment add-ons billed separately$0.001 / minute
Scribe v2ElevenLabs
3
en, es, fr +97$0.004 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.004 / minuteJan 2026
EARK ASR 0.6BEdge0Open
3
en, es, fr +16——May 2026
CCohere Transcribe 03 2026CohereLabsOpen
3
en, es, fr +10——Mar 2026
EARK ASR 3BEdge0Open
3
en, es, fr +16——Jun 2026
Voxtral Small 24B 2507MistralOpen
3
en, es, fr +5$0.003 / min—$0.003 / minuteJul 2025
AUniversal 3.5 ProAssemblyAI
3
en, es, fr +15$0.004 / minUniversal-3.5 Pro$0.004 / minuteJul 2026
Qwen 3 ASR 1.7B HfAlibaba (Qwen)Open
4
en, es, fr +25——Jun 2026
SSmallest AI PulseSmallest.ai
4
en, es, fr +19$0.005 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.005 / minuteFeb 2026
sSymphonysprag
4
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Canary Qwen 2.5B, NVIDIANVIDIAOpen
4
en$0.001 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.001 / minuteJul 2025
dDistil Large v3.5distil-whisperOpen
4
en——Dec 2024
GPT Transcribe, OpenAIOpenAI
4
en, es, fr +2$0.004 / mintranscribed input audio duration$0.004 / minuteJul 2026
GSolaria 3Gladia
4
———$0.16 / € / hourJun 2026
TThewhisper Large v3 TurboTheStageAIOpen
4
en, es, fr +24——Oct 2025
ZZoom Scribe v1Zoom
4
———
OMOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpenMOSS-TeamOpen
4
en, zh——May 2026
Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2, NVIDIANVIDIAOpen
4
en——May 2025
Whisper Large v3OpenAIOpen
4
en, es, fr +86$0.004 / min/ large-v3$0.001 / minuteSep 2022
BHiggs Audio v3 SttBoson AIOpen
4
en——Mar 2026
Granite Speech 4.1 2BIBMOpen
4
en, es, fr +3——Apr 2026
Parakeet TDT 0.6B V3, TogetheraiNVIDIAOpen
4
en, es, fr +21$0.002 / minExact native tariff; see source for billing scope.$0.002 / minuteAug 2025
Muse Voice TranscribeMeta
4
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Qwen 3 ASR 0.6B HfAlibaba (Qwen)Open
4
en, es, fr +25——Jun 2026
Granite Speech 4.1 2B NarIBMOpen
4
en, es, fr +2——Mar 2026
Granite Speech 5.0 470M Turboctc NcIBMOpen
4
en——Aug 2026
Azure Speech 06 2026Microsoft
4
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Granite Speech 3.3 8BIBMOpen
4
en, es, fr +2——Apr 2025
Nemotron Speech Streaming En 0.6BNVIDIAOpen
4
———Dec 2025
Phi 4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoftOpen
4
en, es, fr +20——$0.05 / 1M billed tokensFeb 2025
HHojo ASR v1HojoAIOpen
5
en, zh——May 2026
VibeVoice ASR HFMicrosoftOpen
5
en, es, fr +45——Mar 2026
Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboctcIBMOpen
5
en——Aug 2026
Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAIOpen
5
en, es, fr +86$0.001 / min/ v3 Turbo$0.001 / minuteOct 2024
Granite Speech 3.3 2BIBMOpen
5
en, es, fr +2——Apr 2025
Granite 4.0 1B SpeechIBMOpen
5
en, es, fr +3——Feb 2026
OmniASR LLM 7B v2Meta
5
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Voxtral Mini 3B 2507MistralOpen
5
en, es, fr +5$0.001 / min—$0.001 / minuteJul 2025
FPhonon 2FermionResearchOpen
5
en——Sep 2026
Canary 1B v2NVIDIAOpen
5
en, es, fr +21——Aug 2025
Parakeet Ctc 1.1BNVIDIAOpen
5
en——Dec 2023
FFun ASR Nano 2512 HfFunAudioLLMOpen
5
en, zh, ja——May 2026
sZipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M (fast-gpu-asr, transducer_modified_beam_search)soundsgoodaiOpen
6
en——Jul 2026
EAudio8 ASR 0.1BEdge0Open
6
en, fr, de +3——Jul 2026
Gemma 4 E4B ItGoogleOpen
6
———$0.02 / 1M billed tokensMar 2026
eOwsm Ctc v4 1BespnetOpen
7
———Jan 2025
OmniASR CTC 7B v2Meta
7
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Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6BNVIDIAOpen
7
en, es, fr +31——May 2026
Gemma 4 E2B ItGoogleOpen
8
———Mar 2026
aNiagara 84M Batch.enabr-aiOpen
9
en——Sep 2026
Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602MistralOpen
9
en, es, fr +10——Jan 2026
aNiagara 38M Batch.enabr-aiOpen
10
en——Feb 2026
aNiagara 19M Batch.enabr-aiOpen
13
en——Nov 2025
aNiagara 9M Batch.enabr-aiOpen
17
en——Sep 2026