Speech models ranked by price.

Prices checked

3 rankings, the cheapest led by Scribe v2 at $0.11 per hour of audio, checked .

Every ranking

all speech models

9 models

Cheapest text-to-speech API

#1 today: TTS-1 at Azure AI Foundry, $15 per 1M characters.

6 models

Cheapest transcription API

#1 today: Scribe v2 at Vercel AI Gateway, $0.11 per hour of audio.

8 models

Biggest savings on speech models

#1 today: Eleven Multilingual v2 at Vercel AI Gateway, $40 per 1M characters.

How we count

Every list is ranked again every 3 days on the price of one stated job rather than on a rate card.

A price that buys something else is listed on the model's page and not ranked, and neither is a price below the lab's own with nothing published to account for it.