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The headline 'from $...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":9},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"speechmatics","provider":"Speechmatics","url":"https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing","category":"inference API","free_tier":{"stated":"'Start with $100 in free credits, no card required', with the page data carrying 'signupCredits: 100' and a footnote 'No card required'. The headline 'from $0.121/hr' is two discounts stacked: the tooltip says 'Melia 1 Pre-recorded base rate: $0.24, model training: -33%, top-tier annual commitment: -25%'. At the base Melia-1 pre-recorded rate of USD 0.24 an hour, 100 / 0.24 = 416 hours of batch transcription; at the Melia-1 real-time base of USD 0.40 an hour, 250 hours.","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"one-time-credit"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"a free CI runner plus USD 100 of batch transcription covers 416 hours of audio at the base rate, which is a podcast or lecture archive transcribed once. What breaks: the discount is paid for with training data or an annual commitment, and the enhanced-accuracy model at USD 0.75 an hour cuts the same credit to 133 hours.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"the credit is large and the discount ladder is the trap: the advertised USD 0.121 an hour requires opting into model training and a top-tier annual commitment, so a free account pays the USD 0.24 base rate and gets 416 hours rather than 826.","source":"https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing"}],"limits_note":"the credit is large and the discount ladder is the trap: the advertised USD 0.121 an hour requires opting into model training and a top-tier annual commitment, so a free account pays the USD 0.24 base rate and gets 416 hours rather than 826.","binding":"request-rate","binding_note":"the credit is large and the discount ladder is the trap: the advertised USD 0.121 an hour requires opting into model training and a top-tier annual commitment, so a free account pays the USD 0.24 base rate and gets 416 hours rather than 826.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"an account on an email alone, and the pricing page states 'Start with $100 in free credits, no card required' with the page data carrying 'signupCredits: 100' and a 'No card required' footnote. No card is taken, so no hold exists and no debit or prepaid question arises.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"quoted: 'Start with $100 in free credits, no card required', with the page data carrying 'signupCredits: 100' and the footnote 'No card required'"},{"url":"https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"quoted rate: 'Speech to Text from $0.121/hr', with the tooltip stating 'Melia 1 Pre-recorded base rate: $0.24, model training: -33%, top-tier annual commitment: -25%'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T11:10:48.000Z","notes":"These are inference credits, not general compute. The gap between the headline USD 0.121 and the base USD 0.24 is the finding: a free account has no commitment to discount, so the honest number is 416 hours. Not established: expiry of the USD 100; the pricing page does not state one. Training opt-in is a technical setting on the account, recorded here as a rate condition and not as advice.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"credit-large-enough-for-real-workload","free_tier_kind":"one-time-credit","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}},"confidence_note":"the pricing page was read on 2026-10-23 and states the USD 100, the no-card rule and the stacked discounts behind the headline rate"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":416,"unit":"hours","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":416,"unit":"hours","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}