Model pricing

Compare speech API prices.

455 language models, 37 video models, 55 image models, 100 embedding and rerank models, 58 speech models and 2,990 offers from the AI labs, clouds and hosts: what each costs, who sells it cheapest and how it ranks on LMArena. Enter your usage to see a monthly estimate.

As of Oct 19, 2026, the cheapest speech-to-text API is Whisper at $0.0005 per minute from Cloudflare Workers AI; OpenAI's whisper-1 costs $0.006. The cheapest text-to-speech API is Amazon Polly Standard at $4.00 per million characters from Amazon Polly.

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Est. per month = minutes of audio × price per minute, at the cheapest seller that prices by time. Sellers that price tokens only are shown as listed and left out of the estimate, since the tokens a minute of audio uses are not published.

34 transcription models · prices per minute from the cheapest seller; open a row for every seller

About this data

Prices come from LiteLLM's model cost map, with more sellers from models.dev (both MIT licence), checked Oct 19, 2026. Providers change prices without notice; confirm on their pricing page before you rely on a number. Arena scores: LMArena text leaderboard of 2026-10-15 (CC BY 4.0). Provider logos: Lobe Icons.