Speechmatics

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Speechmatics Compute

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www.speechmatics.com/pricing · inference API · compute/speechmatics · JSON · compare

Free tier	'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; one-time-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email 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.
Limits	request-rate 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 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 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.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	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.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
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.
Evidence rung	documented 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
Checked	2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:request-rate 416.0 hours

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-23	www.speechmatics.com/pricing	quoted: 'Start with $100 in free credits, no card required', with the page data carrying 'signupCredits: 100' and the footnote 'No card required'
2026-10-23	www.speechmatics.com/pricing	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%'

More fields (1)

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  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.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