# Pricing for our Speech API services | Speechmatics Source: https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing Simple plans, simple prices. Pick your preferred Speechmatics pricing plan. Trial, test & build with the most accurate Speech APIs via our portal now! From startups to enterprise - scalable pricing with the accuracy, support and control you need. Start with **$100 in credit**, no card required. - Free: - badge: $100 credit to get started - price: $100 free - features: - Speech-to-Text: - 55+ languages - [Speech-to-Text features](https://www.speechmatics.com#stt_features) - **$100 in credit** to get started - 2 concurrent real-time sessions - Multi-region cloud options - Text-to-Speech: - Low-latency (ideal for voice agents) - English - more languages coming soon - description: No credit card required - action_button: [Start for free](https://portal.speechmatics.com/signup/) - secondary_description: For developers and early exploration - Pro: - badge: 20% discount available - price: 0.129 - features: - Speech-to-Text: - 55+ languages - [Speech-to-Text features](https://www.speechmatics.com#stt_features) - **$100 in credit** to get started, add a card when you're ready - 50 concurrent real-time sessions - 10 file jobs per second - Multi-region cloud options - Text-to-Speech: - Sign up now to lock in lowest price - Low-latency (ideal for voice agents) - English - more languages coming soon - additions: Online email support - description: No commitment required - action_button: [Try Pro for free](https://portal.speechmatics.com/signup/) - secondary_description: For demanding projects and growing needs - Enterprise: - badge: Volume discounts - price: Discounted pricing that scales with your business - features: - Speech-to-Text: - 55+ languages - [All our features, including audio alignment](https://www.speechmatics.com#stt_features) - No rate limits - Privacy-first deployment options - Multi-region cloud options - Custom models - Text-to-Speech: - SaaS or On-premises deployment - Lowest-latency, highest privacy with STT & TTS in your environment - Highest concurrency - Custom voice development - Custom language development - additions: Best discounts available, Prioritized service and support, Early features access - description: Get in touch - action_button: [Book a demo](https://www.speechmatics.com/speak-to-sales) - secondary_description: Unlimited scale, with flexible deployments ## Built-in value, whatever your needs. ### Enterprise-grade security ready Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with compliance-ready infrastructure built for peace of mind. ### Superior language coverage Transcribe in 55+ languages and dialects, with the market leading accuracy across the board - reaching over 4 billion people. ### Powerful customization and control Fine-tune transcription with custom vocabularies, formatting rules, and flexible deployment options to fit your workflow. ### Dedicated Enterprise support team Deliver the best outcomes with the expert guidance from your dedicated Customer Success Manager and Solutions Engineer. ## FAQs ### What is the model-training discount programme? It's an opt-in programme that takes 33% off Speech to Text rates. By opting in, you grant permission for your audio and transcripts to be used to help improve our models; however, opting in does not guarantee that your data will be used for training. We may, at our discretion, store and use some, all, or none of the data you've made available. The discount applies regardless of whether your data is ultimately stored and used. The programme is off by default, can be reversed at any time, and applies only to future usage from the point of opt-in or subsequent opt-out. It doesn't apply to Text to Speech. ### Do you offer volume discounts? Volume discounts are automatically applied on any billable usage above 500 hours for each type of Speech-To-Text in a given month. For example, if you use 800 hours of Real-time enhanced accuracy and 400 hours of Real-time standard accuracy, you will be billed as follows: - 500 hours Real-time enhanced accuracy at base rate - 300 hours Real-time enhanced accuracy at 20% discount - 400 hours Real-time standard accuracy at base rate Additional discounts are available starting from 24,000 hours usage per year. Speak to us to find out more! - [Speak to sales](https://www.speechmatics.com/speak-to-sales) ### How does billing work? We bill Pro tier customers on the 1st of each month for the previous months usage. Costs are billed to the second, based on the cost per hour. Billing for Enterprise customers is on a custom basis. ### Can I sign up for free? Yes, absolutely! Sign up and you'll get $100 in credit to try our award-winning technology — no card required. When you've used your credit, simply add your credit card details in your account settings to keep going. ### How do credits work? Credits are how usage is priced under our new model. 1 credit equals $1, so your credit balance maps directly to the numbers on your invoice. New accounts start with $100 in credit, no card required. Once it's used, add a card in your account settings to switch to pay-as-you-go: usage from then on is billed at the standard rate shown in the pricing table above. Without a card on file, service access pauses once your credit balance reaches zero — adding one keeps you running without interruption. Turn on Model Training in your account settings for a discount on usage while it's active. ### What transcription models does Speechmatics offer? We offer three proprietary transcription models, available to all customers: - **Enhanced:** when accuracy matters most, our Enhanced model delivers our highest accuracy across all our languages. - **Standard:** when you need strong accuracy but file turnaround time or cost control are the priorities. Note that Standard does not provide turnaround time benefits when using Realtime speech-to-text. - **Melia 1:** when your audio contains more than one language, our Melia 1 model transcribes multilingual speech in a single transcript, including speakers who switch language mid-conversation, with no need to select a language. It matches Standard on accuracy and is available for Batch transcription. Different models suit different jobs, so you can always choose the right one for the task at hand. ### What languages do you support? Our AI model supports [55+ languages](https://www.speechmatics.com/languages) for transcription, with 69 pairs supported for AI translation. #### Transcription [Arabic](https://www.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/arabic) - [Bashkir](https://www.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/bashkir) - Basque - Belarusian - [Bengali](https://www.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/bengali) - Bulgarian - Cantonese - Catalan - Croatian - Czech - Danish - Dutch - English - Esperanto - Estonian - Finnish - French - Galician - German - Greek - [Hebrew](https://www.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/hebrew) - Hindi - Hungarian - Indonesian - Interlingua - Irish - Italian - Japanese - Korean - Latvian - Lithuanian - Malay - Maltese - Mandarin (Traditional - & - Simplified) - Marathi - Mongolian - Norwegian - [Persian ](https://www.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/persian)- Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Slovak - Slovenian - Spanish - Swahili - Swedish - [Tamil](https://www.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/tamil) - Thai - Turkish - Ukrainian - Urdu - Uyghur - Vietnamese - Welsh #### Translation Bulgarian - Catalan - Croatian - Czech - Danish - Dutch - English - Estonian - Finnish - French - Galician - German - Greek - Hindi - Hungarian - Indonesian - Italian - Japanese - Korean - Latvian - Lithuanian - Malay - Mandarin (Traditional - & - Simplified) - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Slovak - Slovenian - Spanish - Swedish - Turkish - Ukrainian - Vietnamese - Bokmål > Nynorsk #### Multilingual [Arabic](https://www.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/arabic) - Spanish - Mandarin - Malay - Tamil ### How is my data handled and kept secure? We're certified to SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, GDPR and HIPAA. Full details and additional documents (such as our DPA and Sub-BAA) are available in the Trust Centre. If you have not opted in to the model training discount programme, Realtime audio is never stored, and Batch data auto-deletes after 7 days or sooner via the API, and your data is never used to improve our models. ### How can I talk to someone? Please feel free to email us at hello@speechmatics.com - we're here to help!