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Catalog · 43 models · 15 providers

Transcription models.

Every speech-to-text model worth using, one rate card.

Price Range

$0.0007

$0.075

Compliance

Capabilities

Best For:

1 active

2

Total models

100

Languages

$0.0022

Cheapest /min

17.2%

Best WER

2 models

filtered from 43

Ink-2

Cartesia

Realtime
United States

Cartesia's newest streaming STT — lowest WER of any streaming model, native turn detection, and robust on alphanumerics like phone numbers, emails, and UUIDs. English only for now.

$0.0065/min

TTFW (P50)

1554 ms

Speed Factor

0.1x

Billing

per 1s

Retention

No retention

1 languages

(view all)

streamingendpointingturn detection+1
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Ink-Whisper

Cartesia

Batch & Realtime
United States

Whisper rearchitected for real-time and batch voice AI — fastest TTCT, 99-language coverage

$0.0022/min

WER

17.20%

CER

11.58%

Speed Factor

0.1x

Uptime

100.0%

Billing

per 1s

Retention

No retention

100 languages

(view all)

Word Timestampsdynamic chunking
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All model comparisons

Every head-to-head we index, grouped by model.

Chirp 3

vs Voxtral Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 Turbovs Whisper Large V3 (Groq)vs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

Nova-3

vs Chirp 3vs Voxtral Mini Transcribevs Gladia Solaria-3vs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Scribe v2vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 Turbovs Whisper Large V3 (Groq)vs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

Gladia Solaria-3

vs Chirp 3vs Voxtral Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 Turbovs Whisper Large V3 (Groq)vs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

Amazon Transcribe

vs Chirp 3vs Voxtral Mini Transcribevs Nova-3vs Gladia Solaria-3vs Nova-2vs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Scribe v2vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 Turbovs Whisper Large V3 (Groq)vs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

Nova-2

vs Chirp 3vs Voxtral Mini Transcribevs Nova-3vs Gladia Solaria-3vs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Scribe v2vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 Turbovs Whisper Large V3 (Groq)vs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

Scribe v2

vs Chirp 3vs Voxtral Mini Transcribevs Gladia Solaria-3vs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 Turbovs Whisper Large V3 (Groq)vs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

Qwen3 ASR Flash

vs Chirp 3vs Voxtral Mini Transcribevs Nova-3vs Gladia Solaria-3vs Amazon Transcribevs Nova-2vs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Scribe v2vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 Turbovs Whisper Large V3 (Groq)vs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

Voxtral Mini Transcribe

vs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Mini Transcribevs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

Whisper Large V3 Turbo

vs Voxtral Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Mini Transcribevs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

Whisper Large V3 (Groq)

vs Voxtral Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Mini Transcribevs Whisper Large V3 Turbovs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)

vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs Speechmatics Standard

GPT-4o Mini Transcribe

vs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs GPT-4o Transcribe Diarizevs Speechmatics Standard

GPT-4o Transcribe Diarize

vs Whisper Large V3 (OpenAI)vs Soniox STT (Async)vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs Speechmatics Standard

Soniox STT (Async)

vs Speechmatics Enhancedvs Speechmatics Standard

Speechmatics Enhanced

vs Speechmatics Standard

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