← Back to the directoryListed price$0.0240 / minPay-as-you-go information Languages100+Approximate coverage StreamingYesReal-time transcription DiarizationYesSpeaker separation
Amazon Transcribe.
AWS-native transcription with tiered per-second pricing.
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Amazon Transcribe speech-to-text API overview
The four signals that usually narrow a speech-to-text shortlist first. Prices are the cheapest documented async tier; native billing units differ, so read the notes below.
Amazon Transcribe pricing, languages, and features
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- Company
- Amazon (AWS)
- Listed price
- $0.0240 / minBilled per second. $0.024/min is Standard batch Tier 1 (first 250k min/month, US East). Volume tiers fall to ~$0.0078/min at 5M+ minutes. Transcribe Medical is a separate product (~$0.075/min), not a tier of Standard.
- Languages
- 100100+ languages; the docs enumerate supported languages per API with no single marketing total.
- Real-time streaming
- Yes
- Speaker diarization
- Yes
- Free tier or trial
- Yes60 minutes/month for the first 12 months only. Not a perpetual free tier.
- Models
- Standard
Pricing, languages, streaming, and diarization verified against Amazon Transcribe’s primary sources on 2026-08-27. Word error rate and latency are not yet measured.
Official Amazon Transcribe website and API documentation
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