Is Scribe v2 or Chirp 3 more accurate?

Scribe v2 is more accurate, with a 9.2% word error rate versus 10.0% for Chirp 3, on our standardized benchmark.

Which is cheaper, Scribe v2 or Chirp 3?

Scribe v2 is cheaper at $0.0040/min versus $0.0107/min for Chirp 3.

Should you choose Scribe v2 or Chirp 3?

Choose Scribe v2 for accuracy, lower cost, and language coverage; choose Chirp 3 for speed.

Scribe v2 vs Chirp 3

Overview

30-day benchmark average

Overall score

0–100

78.2

45.0

Accuracy rank

of 35

#2

#4

Word error rate

WER

9.2%

10.0%

Character error rate

CER

7.2%

5.8%

Match error rate

MER

8.5%

9.7%

Word info lost

WIL

12.3%

14.1%

Languages

76

68

Cost vs. accuracy

overall WER vs price

Chirp 3

Scribe v2

field · 33 models

lower-left is better

Accuracy by category

WER · lower is better

code_switching

14.6%

17.1%

conversational

7.6%

4.7%

finance

7.6%

7.1%

Accuracy by accent

WER · English

african

21.5%

20.0%

australian

3.1%

16.9%

indian

9.5%

Speed & latency

p50 → p99

Processing speed

× realtime

0.2×

0.3×

Latency p50

3.4s

11.0s

Latency p90

4.0s

11.2s

Realtime / streaming

Streaming benchmark averages

Realtime rank

—

Realtime score

0–100

—

Time to first word

—

Final drain

—

Real-time factor

—

Flicker

—

Cadence

—

Reliability

Rolling 30 days

Uptime

100.00%

88.89%

Error rate

0.00%

11.11%

Pricing

billed per second

Rate

per minute

$0.0040

$0.0107

Billing granularity

per 1s

per 15s

1 hour of audio

$0.24

$0.64

100 hours

Capabilities

Feature support

Speaker diarization

Yes

Word-level timestamps

Yes

No

Code-switching

Yes

Coverage & deployment

Languages · formats · regions

Languages

76

68

Mode

Batch

Region

United States

Audio formats