← Back to the directoryListed price$0.0160 / minPay-as-you-go information Languages125+Approximate coverage StreamingYesReal-time transcription DiarizationYesSpeaker separation
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text.
Hyperscaler STT with the widest language coverage and Chirp foundation models.
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Google Cloud Speech-to-Text 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.
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text pricing, languages, and features
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- Company
- Listed price
- $0.0160 / minV2 Standard, first 500k min/month, real-time and batch; billed per second. A V2 Dynamic Batch tier is materially cheaper (documented ~75% lower) for up to 24-hour turnaround.
- Languages
- 125125+ is a product-page marketing figure; the docs enumerate 100+ locale/model combinations with no single stated total.
- Real-time streaming
- Yes
- Speaker diarization
- Yes
- Free tier or trial
- YesPerpetual: 60 minutes/month, resets monthly.
- Models
- Chirp 3, Chirp 2, Latest-long, Latest-short
Pricing, languages, streaming, and diarization verified against Google Cloud Speech-to-Text’s primary sources on 2026-08-27. Word error rate and latency are not yet measured.
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