Transcribe audio
Amazon Transcribe
AWS speech-to-text service that transcribes audio files from S3 or live streams into JSON transcripts with timestamps.
Billing
- Pricing model
- Pay as you go, billed monthly per second of transcribed audio3
- Free tier
- 60 audio minutes a month for the first 12 months; not applied to content redaction or custom language models1
- Card required for free tier
- Not published
- Minimum spend
- Not published
- Billing period
- Monthly; usage charged in 1-second increments with no minimum duration3
Prices
US East (N. Virginia) rates from the AWS price list. Per hour = per-second price x 3,600: batch $0.0001 x 3,600 = $0.36; streaming $0.0001667 x 3,600 = $0.60. The pricing page lists the same $0.006 and $0.01 per minute. No volume tiers for these two.
| Mode | $ per hour of audio | $ per minute | $ per second |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard batch (S3 files) | $0.36 | $0.006 | $0.0001 |
| Standard streaming | $0.60 | $0.01 | $0.0001667 |
Source2AWS price list, Amazon Transcribe, us-east-1
Other charges
US East (N. Virginia), first tier (first 250,000 minutes a month); lower tiers cost less. Hourly = per-second x 3,600.
| Item | $ per hour of audio | $ per minute | $ per second |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content redaction, batch and streaming (added to standard) | $0.144 | $0.0024 | $0.00004 |
| Toxicity detection (added) | $0.216 | $0.0036 | $0.00006 |
| Custom language model, batch (added) | $0.36 | $0.006 | $0.0001 |
| Call Analytics, post-call and real-time | $1.80 | $0.03 | $0.0005 |
| Medical, batch and streaming | $4.50 | $0.075 | $0.00125 |
Source2AWS price list, Amazon Transcribe, us-east-1
Read from Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/transcribe-audio/amazon-transcribe.md