--- title: Speech-to-Text Pricing | Telnyx canonical: https://telnyx.com/pricing/speech-to-text --- # Speech-to-Text Pricing | Telnyx AI # Speech-to-Text Pricing From $0.0015 a minute. Fourteen engines, one endpoint. Realtime and batch transcription on owned GPUs. [SIGN UP FOR FREE](https://telnyx.com/sign-up)[GET VOLUME RATE](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) from $0.0015per min $0platform fee $0support · HIPAA 5 minto first call 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 | $0.005 per minute | | Deepgram Nova 3 STT | $0.005 per minute | | Deepgram Flux STT | $0.005 per minute | | Google STT | $0.017 per minute | | Azure STT | $0.027 per minute | | AssemblyAI STT | $0.005 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. Compare ## 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 ## Commit more, pay less per unit. Nothing is gated. PAY AS YOU GO $0 Standard rates. Card on file. Automatic tier discounts as usage crosses thresholds, no contract needed. [START BUILDING](https://telnyx.com/sign-up) VOLUME RATE Custom Committed volume on this product, priced on your forecast. Share the numbers and get a rate, no plan required. [GET A VOLUME RATE](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) ENTERPRISE $5,000/ mo Monthly minimum spend. Dedicated infrastructure and IPs, private interconnect, in region GPUs, unlimited rate limits. [CONTACT SALES](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) Usually bought with ## What people add next. See the whole composition on voice ai agent ↗ * [Phone NumbersLocal, toll free, and international numbers from one API, one inventory.$1.00 / NUMBER/MO · RATES ↗](https://telnyx.com/pricing/numbers) * [Voice APITwo lines on the bill: the API and the SIP trunk it rides.$0.002 / MIN · RATES ↗](https://telnyx.com/pricing/voice-api) * [Voice AI AgentsOrchestration, speech to text, and text to speech in one rate.$0.05 / MIN · RATES ↗](https://telnyx.com/pricing/voice-ai-agents) * [Text to SpeechTelnyx voices on owned GPUs from three millionths of a dollar a character, plus partner engines at metered rates.FROM $0.000003 / CHAR · RATES ↗](https://telnyx.com/pricing/text-to-speech) ## Live in five minutes. No sales gate in front of the API. Card on file, provisioned by API. 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