Speech-to-text API pricing, per minute
Per-minute list prices from the official pages, converted only where the provider quotes hours. Read 2026-10-08. Accuracy is not part of this table.
Per-minute price, cheapest first
| Provider | Model | USD per minute | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speakvora | speech to text | $0.0015 | this site |
| ElevenLabs | Scribe v2 ($0.22 per hour) | $0.0037 | source |
| Deepgram | Nova-3 monolingual pre-recorded (promotional) | $0.0043 | source |
| Deepgram | Nova-3 monolingual streaming (promotional) | $0.0048 | source |
| OpenAI | whisper | $0.0060 | source |
| ElevenLabs | Scribe v2 Realtime ($0.39 per hour) | $0.0065 | source |
| Cartesia | Ink on Scale ($0.39 per hour) | $0.0065 | source |
| Deepgram | Nova-3 monolingual, regular price listed | $0.0077 | source |
Deepgram shows its Nova-3 prices as promotional with a higher regular price ($0.0077 monolingual, $0.0092 multilingual on the page read). Cartesia's own unit is 3 credits per second; the page gives $0.39 per hour on Scale.
Monthly cost for three workloads
| Workload | Minutes a month | Speakvora | Deepgram Nova-3 (promo) | OpenAI whisper | ElevenLabs Scribe v2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voicemail transcription | 5,000 | $7.50 | $21.50 | $30.00 | $18.33 |
| Call recording | 20,000 | $30.00 | $86.00 | $120 | $73.33 |
| Meeting archive | 100,000 | $150 | $430 | $600 | $367 |
Method: minutes × per-minute list price. Free allowances and minimums are ignored. Speakvora bills per second of audio; the others may round differently.
What the price does not tell you
- Accuracy: we have not published a benchmark and neither does this page. Test on 100 of your own recordings.
- Features: Speakvora has no word timestamps or speaker labels yet and takes up to 4.5 MB per request; send longer audio in pieces.
- Live transcription: Speakvora offers a WebSocket with automatic end-of-speech detection. In our 2026-10-08 production run a 4 second clip took 0.67 s and a 15 second clip 0.90 s (method).
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