Speech-to-text, compared.
What you actually pay to transcribe 1,000 minutes of audio - PyAI Hear next to the major providers. We don't grade our own accuracy; for that, we point you to an independent benchmark below.
Price per 1,000 minutes (USD)
Lower is better. PyAI in teal.
PyAI pricing from our rate card. Competitor figures: normalized $/1,000-min estimates from Artificial Analysis, as of June 2026 - verify before relying on them.
We don’t grade ourselves.
Word-error-rate is best measured by a neutral third party on shared datasets. For an independent accuracy, speed, and price leaderboard across every provider, see Artificial Analysis.
View the ASR leaderboardWhy teams pick Hear
- Telephony-native - tuned for 8 kHz call audio
- Streaming partials + fast finals from one socket
- Async batch at half price ($0.0015/min)
- OpenAI-compatible - change two lines
- One stack with Speak (TTS) and Omni (realtime agents)
The numbers
| Provider / model | Price / 1,000 min | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whisper v3 Turbo (Groq) | $0.67 | Commodity Whisper host | Artificial Analysis |
| PyAI Hear (batch)PyAI | $1.50 | Async -50% tier | PyAI rate card |
| PyAI HearPyAI | $3.00 | Realtime streaming | PyAI rate card |
| AssemblyAI Universal-3 Pro | $3.50 | - | Artificial Analysis |
| ElevenLabs Scribe v2 | $3.67 | - | Artificial Analysis |
| Deepgram Nova-3 | $4.30 | - | Artificial Analysis |
| OpenAI GPT-4o Transcribe | $6.00 | - | Artificial Analysis |
| Google Gemini 2.5 Flash | $6.66 | - | Artificial Analysis |
Methodology: prices are the cost to transcribe 1,000 minutes of audio. PyAI Hear is $0.003/min streaming ($3.00) and $0.0015/min batch ($1.50). Competitor prices are Artificial Analysis’s normalized estimates (which fold in different billing models) as of June 2026; providers change pricing often, so confirm with each before deciding. Accuracy (WER) and speed are independent - see the linked leaderboard.
Telephony-grade transcription, honestly priced.
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