Is Speechmatics cheaper than Transcribsi?
Per hour of audio, yes: $0.12 an hour for Melia 1. Our Pro plan is $10 a month with no minute limit, so the two numbers are not comparable until you know how much audio a month you actually send.
Alternative
A Speechmatics alternative for transcription
Speechmatics starts at $0.12 an hour for the Melia 1 model and gives $100 of credit without a card. Transcribsi gives 3 files a day for free and $10 a month with no minute limit. Read on 24 October 2026.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
Speechmatics starts at $0.12 an hour for the general-purpose Melia 1 model and gives $100 of credit without a card. Transcribsi charges $10 a month with no minute limit of audio, gives 3 files a day for free, and takes one file of up to 30 minutes on the free plan.
Transcribsi and Speechmatics side by side
TTranscribsiThat's us
SSpeechmatics
What it is
a transcription service for files: a REST API, an MCP server and plugins for Claude and ChatGPT
an enterprise speech engine: pre-recorded and real-time models, a voice agent API, text-to-speech and real-time translation, with on-premises and on-device deployment
How the price is counted
a subscription: $10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year) with no minute limit of audio, or $20 a month paid monthly
per hour of audio: $0.12 for the general-purpose Melia 1, $0.23 for Standard, $0.38 for Enhanced and $0.15 for the medical Oak 1; a volume discount of up to 25% and a 33% model-training discount
Free plan
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
$100 of credit on an account with no card required
One file
up to 30 minutes per file on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
no file limit is named; the numbers on the page are 50 concurrent real-time sessions and 10 pre-recorded files a second
Transcription languages
99+ languages, set by you or detected
56 for the Melia 1 model, which switches language mid-sentence; the feature table of the same page says 55+ languages
Export formats
6
TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV, and DOCX on Pro
not named on the pricing page
Live and streaming audio
not offered: we take a file that is already finished
a real-time API with 50 concurrent sessions on self-serve and 2 on the free plan; Enterprise sessions adjust to demand
API and machine-readable access
a REST API under /v1 and an MCP server with 4 tools, from the Pro plan
REST and real-time APIs, a voice agent API, and a public comparison page against AssemblyAI, AWS, Deepgram, Gladia, Google, Microsoft Azure, Soniox, ElevenLabs and OpenAI
Meeting bot, calls and hardware
none: no bot joins your meeting and we sell no recorder of our own
none on the pricing page; note-taking and meeting assistants are named as a use case
What we do not sell
no translation, no summaries, no chapters, no text-to-speech, no on-premises deployment
translation at $0.49 an hour, chapters at $0.30, topics at $0.15, summaries at $0.09, sentiment at $0.09, entity detection and PII redaction on request, and text-to-speech at $0.011 a 1,000 characters
Where the audio goes
our own engine outside the United States; a file that is entirely in English may go to a third-party cloud provider in the United States when that fallback is on
on-premises and on-device deployment; the pricing page names no data residency policy
The case
A procurement page and a simple one
The Speechmatics page is built for a procurement meeting: self-serve against enterprise, a model table, an add-on with a rate next to it, and a volume discount in the small print. Everything on it is real, and every line of it is a decision to make. Ours is one decision: send the file, get the transcript, export it in one of six formats.
How to move a file to this service
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Find the model you would actually buy
Melia 1 is $0.12 an hour and covers 56 languages, switching mid-sentence. Enhanced is $0.38 and is the accuracy option. Our engine is $10 a month with no minute limit, and it does not ask which model you want.
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Read what the free credit is
A hundred dollars of credit and no card, then pay as you go. The same page names a 25% volume discount and 33% off for model training. Ours is 3 files a day, every day, without a card.
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Check whether the audio may stay home
Speechmatics offers on-premises and on-device deployment, and its feature table lists a custom dictionary and smart formatting. We run one engine in the cloud and publish no deployment options.
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Add up the extras
Translation is $0.49 an hour, chapters $0.30, topics $0.15, summaries and sentiment $0.09 each. We sell none of them, and the transcript you get is the transcript you keep.
Tips
Procurement pages hide the unit.
A model is a choice you make twice.
Ask where the audio is allowed to stay.
Count the add-ons before the base price.
Questions this page answers
How much does the Speechmatics free plan give?
$100 of credit on an account that needs no card, and then pay-as-you-go. The page does not name a monthly free allowance. Ours gives 3 files a day of up to 30 minutes.
Which languages does Speechmatics support?
The Melia 1 model transcribes 56 languages and switches language mid-sentence; the feature table of the same page says 55+ languages. We publish two for recognition: 99+ languages.
Can Speechmatics run inside my own network?
Yes, the page lists on-premises and on-device deployment among its questions. We have no such option: the file goes to our engine, and a purely English file may be passed to a third-party cloud provider in the United States.
Does Speechmatics export to SRT or VTT?
The pricing page does not name export formats. We publish six: TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT and CSV on every plan, and DOCX on Pro.
Sources
- SSpeechmatics — pricingspeechmatics.com · checked 24 October 2026
- TTranscribsi — pricingtranscrib.si · checked 24 October 2026
- TTranscribsi — termstranscrib.si · checked 24 October 2026
- TTranscribsi — privacytranscrib.si · checked 24 October 2026
- TTranscribsi — llms.txttranscrib.si · checked 24 October 2026
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Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps