What's free
$50 in free credits on signup (no credit card) — speech-to-text
- Credit card
- not required
- Phone verification
- not confirmed
- Commercial use
- not confirmed
Free limits
Numeric limits are not recorded in structured form for this provider.
In the provider's words
Default for new accounts: 75 API requests/minute and 2,000/hour; 4 concurrent real-time ASR requests; OFF-LINE transcription up to 4 hours of audio per hour (queue of 10 jobs)
The catch
No credit card required to start — an explicit $50 platform credit on signup; afterwards cloud STT is billed at $0.00020/second of audio (6-second minimum per request). Commercial terms not stated on the pricing page. Native STT REST API. The former /pricing URL now redirects to /developers.
Free models: not listed yet.
Get started
This is a first-party API, not OpenAI-compatible, so there is no drop-in base URL. The endpoint, the key and a working example are in the official docs.
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Change history
How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-31) — generated from the git history of providers.json.
- 2026-10-08 Updated rate limits, the catch
- 2026-08-14 Updated rate limits
- 2026-07-31 Added to the hub