One rate. Everything included.
One rate card for everyone, in the app and through the API. Diarization, speaker naming, summaries, translation into any language, voices, broadcasting and sharing are included in every plan.
Pay as you go
$0
Top up credit
as needed
as needed
- $5 one-time signup credit, no card required
- 1 concurrent session
- Every feature included
- Self-serve help from the docs
Premium
$40
per month
Billed annually
- $50 of credit every month+$10 bonus
- 5 concurrent sessions
- Mostly warm server start
- Email support
Enterprise
custom pricing
- Custom credit and volume rates
- Unlimited concurrent sessions
- Dedicated engine pool, always warm
- Account manager and custom SLA
$0Top up credit as needed No card required | $40 per month Billed annually | custom pricing |
PricingThe same rates in every plan, in the app and through the API. Billed per minute.
| Included credits | $5 one-time signup credit, no card required | $50 of credit every month(333 file hours or 100 live hours) | Custom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Files | $0.15 per hour | $0.15 per hour | Volume rates |
| Live | $0.50 per hour | $0.50 per hour | Volume rates |
| When credit runs out | Stops immediately | Grace period | Grace period |
| No extra cost for translations, summaries, voices, broadcasting and sharing |
CapacityMore capacity and faster starts on higher plans.
| Start-up speed | Mostly cold | Mostly warm | Always warm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concurrent transcriptions | 1 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Max file upload size | 2 GB | 5 GB | Custom |
| Max live recording length | 5 hours | 10 hours | 24 hours |
| Dedicated engine pool |
RetentionHow long each part of a transcription is kept on file. You can delete anything sooner.
| Source audio | 7 days | Unlimited | Unlimited |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voices | 7 days | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Transcriptions | 30 days | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Support
| Documentation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Email support | |||
| Account manager | |||
| Custom SLA |
DevelopersThe API does everything the Dashboard does, from your own code. Included in every plan, billed at the same rate.
| API access | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server | |||
| SDKs (TypeScript, Python) | |||
| API rate limit | 10 transcriptions per hour | 60 transcriptions per hour | Custom |
VocalStack compared
Per hour of audio, list prices from each vendor’s pricing page, checked October 2026. “Loaded” is what an hour costs once you add the things VocalStack includes: diarization, speaker naming, summary and translation into one language.
Cheapest loaded rate for files.
Cheapest full-featured live rate, and the only one with live translation under $1 an hour.
The only row with every column filled: 100 languages, speaker naming, voices and cloning, broadcasting and sharing, all included.
Includedat no charge+$add-oncaveat, hover for detailsnot offered
| Model and base price | Features, per audio hour | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider / model | Audience | Voice | Speakers | Post Processing | |||||||||
| Translation | Broadcasting | TTS | Cloning | Diarization | Labeling | Summary | Paragraphs | Titles | |||||
| VocalStack Live Transcription | High | 100 | $0.50 | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | $0.50 |
| AssemblyAI Universal-Streaming | Low | 6 | $0.15 | +$0.12 | $0.27 | ||||||||
| AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime | High | 32 | $0.45 | +$0.12 | ~+$0.02 | $0.59 | |||||||
| Deepgram Nova-3 monolingual streaming | Medium | 63 | $0.46 | +$0.27 | +$0.12 | $0.58 | |||||||
| Deepgram Nova-3 multilingual streaming | Medium | 10 | $0.55 | +$0.27 | +$0.12 | $0.67 | |||||||
| OpenAI gpt-live-transcribe | Medium | — | $1.02 | +$2.04 | +$0.135 | $1.02 | |||||||
| Gladia Solaria-1 Realtime (Starter) | Low | 100 | $0.75 | Included | Included | Included | $0.75 | ||||||
| Speechmatics Linden 1 | High | 55 | $0.30 | +$0.65 | +$0.099 | Included | $0.95 | ||||||
| Speechmatics Standard realtime | Low | 55 | $0.45 | +$0.65 | +$0.099 | Included | $1.10 | ||||||
| Speechmatics Enhanced realtime | Medium | 55 | $0.80 | +$0.65 | +$0.099 | Included | $1.45 | ||||||
| Google Chirp 3 streaming | Medium | 111 | $0.96 | +$0.27 | $0.96 | ||||||||
| AWS Transcribe streaming | Medium | 99 | $0.60 | $0.036–0.90 | Included | $0.60 | |||||||
- Translation is charged per language: each language a transcript is translated into adds the rate again. Several languages are allowed per request.
- Text-to-speech prices per hour assume about 9,000 characters per spoken hour.
- Quality is rated against the 2026 field from independent benchmarks (Artificial Analysis, Pipecat, Coval, OpenTranscription, Speko) and vendor-published figures. Hover a rating for the evidence.
- Prices are list prices from each vendor’s pricing page as of October 2026; promotional and volume rates are noted where published. Verify on the vendor’s page before relying on them.
- Google offers a cheaper dynamic batch tier for files at $0.18 an hour ($0.003 a minute) when turnaround time is flexible; the table shows the standard rate.
- No other vendor in the table hosts a public live broadcast page or a shareable transcript page; they provide APIs to build one.
Billing
- Billed per minute of audio.
- Credit is prepaid; top up in $10, $25 or $50. Premium credit renews monthly and does not roll over.
- Example: a 30-minute file costs $0.075; a 2-hour live event costs $1.00, whatever languages the audience reads it in.
- Translations, summaries, speaker naming, voices, broadcasting and sharing never add to the bill.