Transcribe audio

Groq speech to text

Hosted Whisper speech-to-text API that transcribes audio files, or translates them to English, with OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

Billing

Pricing model: Pay as you go, invoiced monthly in arrears3
Free tier: Free tier exists with lower limits (25 MB max file size)1
Card required for free tier: Not published
Minimum spend: Not published
Billing period: Monthly; early invoices when cumulative usage reaches $1, $10, $100, $500 and $1,0003

Prices are per hour of audio as published, no conversion.

Model	$ per hour of audio	Notes
`whisper-large-v3`	$0.111	Transcription and translation
`whisper-large-v3-turbo`	$0.04	Transcription only

Source1Speech to text

Minimum billed length per request: 10 seconds1
Card to upgrade to Developer tier: Valid payment method needed (credit card, US bank account or SEPA debit)3

Read from Groq’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/groq-speech-to-text.md