Transcribe audio
Speechmatics
Speech-to-text API that transcribes recorded files and live audio streams into text with timings and speaker labels.
Billing
- Pricing model
- Pay as you go, credit packs or subscription; credits at $1 each, billed per second2
- Free tier
- $100 credit grant for new sign-ups3
- Card required for free tier
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- Minimum spend
- Not published
- Billing period
- Monthly; usage beyond granted credits is charged on the first of the next month3
- Credit expiry
- Sign-up bonus, credit-pack and annual subscription credits last 12 months; monthly subscription credits last 2 months2
Prices
Rates as listed per hour of audio; billed to the exact second. Linden 1 realtime shows two prices on the page, $0.20 and $0.15, and the page does not say which applies.
| Model | Pre-recorded ($/hour) | Real-time ($/hour) |
|---|---|---|
| Melia 1 (multilingual) | $0.12 | $0.20 |
| Enhanced | $0.38 | $0.40 |
| Standard | $0.23 | $0.23 |
| Oak 1 (medical) | $0.15 | $0.23 |
| Linden 1 (voice agents) | Not offered | $0.20 and $0.15 both shown |
Source1Pricing
Plans
| Plan | Details |
|---|---|
| Free | $100 credit grant, no card; 2 concurrent realtime sessions; API access pauses when credits run out |
| Pro | Pay as you go on a card; 50 concurrent realtime sessions; volume and model-training discounts |
| Enterprise | Contract billing; custom limits; on-prem and on-device deployment |
Source3Plans
Other charges
- Model-training discount
- 33% off speech-to-text rates if you allow audio and transcripts to be used to improve models1
- Volume discount
- Up to 25% off, applied automatically above 500 hours a month per product type3
- Add-ons, pre-recorded
- Translation $0.49/hr; Chapters $0.30/hr; Topics $0.15/hr; Summaries $0.09/hr; Sentiment $0.09/hr1
- Text to speech
- $0.011 per 1,000 characters1
Read from Speechmatics’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/speechmatics.md