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Transcription (speech-to-text) APIs, without the pricing-page scavenger hunt.

Speech-to-text is priced per audio minute — and the spread is huge: batch Whisper hosting runs ~10× cheaper than premium diarization-grade models.

All comparisons→Transcription (speech-to-text) APIs
Lowest priceGroq Whisper

$0.0007 / audio minute

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Lowest latencyGroq Whisper

3.0s typical

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Highest qualityElevenLabs Scribe

91 / 100 score

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Price spread10×

cheapest to highest

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Side-by-sidePrices verified in the open catalog
Provider List price / audio minute Via Route Tools Quality Typical latency
01Groq Whisper $0.0007 $0.0008 80 3.0s
02Deepgram Nova $0.0043 $0.0052 88 4.0s
03ElevenLabs Scribe $0.0067 $0.0080 91 8.0s
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