Speech-to-Text Pricing

From $0.0015 a minute. Fourteen engines, one endpoint. Realtime and batch transcription on owned GPUs.

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EXAMPLE OF MONTHLY COST

$150Per month

100,000 AUDIO MINUTES · PARAKEET

Transcription100,000 × $0.0015: $150

Published rates, pay as you go, before volume tiers. Carrier passthrough and taxes vary by destination.

Rates

What's on the card.

Each row is a line on your invoice. Nothing is bundled into another primitive's rate and nothing turns on unless you call it.

Speech-to-text pricing

Model	Pricing
Telnyx STT	$0.015 per minute
Deepgram Nova 2 STT	$0.0074 per minute
Deepgram Nova 3 STT	$0.0074 per minute
Deepgram Flux STT	$0.0074 per minute
Google STT	$0.017 per minute
Azure STT	$0.027 per minute
AssemblyAI STT	$0.007 per minute
Grok (xAI) STT	$0.0033 per minute
Parakeet STT	$0.0015 per minute
Soniox STT	$0.002 per minute
Speechmatics STT	$0.0035 per minute
Humain STT	$0.007 per minute
Basira STT	$0.007 per minute
Cohere Arabic STT	$0.0015 per minute

Machine readable: GET /v2/public/pricing. Rates may vary by destination and volume tier. Machine readable: GET /v2/public/pricing?primitive=stt.

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The same unit, list to list.

Public rate cards, side by side. The difference is structural: the carrier, the network, and the API are one company, so there is no markup on someone else's rate.

VENDOR	LIST RATE	BASIS
Deepgram direct	$0.0077	per min, Nova, pay as you go
AssemblyAI direct	$0.0062	per min
Telnyx	from $0.0015	per min, Nova, pay as you go

Competitor figures from public rate cards, Aug 2026. Volume and committed pricing on both sides changes the picture; ask us to run your numbers.

VOLUME

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PAY AS YOU GO

Standard rates. Card on file. Automatic tier discounts as usage crosses thresholds, no contract needed.

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COMMITTED

from $500/ mo

Discounted rates across everything you use, not one product. Named account manager, priority support, higher limits.

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ENTERPRISE

from $5,000/ mo

Dedicated infrastructure and IPs, private interconnect, in region GPUs, unlimited rate limits.

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