# Pricing transcribed from the provider's own page — see provenance. Numbers are quoted, not derived.
generated: '2026-10-07'
method: searched
source: https://www.assemblyai.com/pricing
sources:
- https://www.assemblyai.com/pricing
provenance:
  tool: all/0-working/economics/harvest_pricing.py
  run: 20261007T104522
  grounding: every price_text was found verbatim in the fetched page text
audience: developer-api
pricing_basis: usage-other
delivery:
  delivery: managed
  method: page
  read: '2026-10-07'
  managed_tier: Universal-2
published: true
note: Pay-as-you-go per-hour-of-audio pricing across STT, speech understanding, guardrails add-ons, plus
  per-token LLM Gateway rates; enterprise is Contact us. In-region (US/EU) LLM pricing stated as 10% higher.
plan_count: 9
currency: USD
plans:
- name: Universal-3.5 Pro (pre-recorded)
  price_text: $0.21 /hr
  price: 0.21
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: hour of audio
- name: Universal-2 (pre-recorded)
  price_text: $0.15 /hr
  price: 0.15
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: hour of audio
- name: Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime
  price_text: $0.45 /hr
  price: 0.45
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: hour of audio
- name: Sync API
  price_text: $0.30 /hr
  price: 0.3
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: hour of audio
  included_quota: Keyterms Prompting and Conversation Context included
- name: Voice Agent API
  price_text: $4.50/hr ($0.075/min)
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: hour of connected conversation time
  included_quota: All features included; billed per second
- name: Dictation API
  price_text: $0.62 /hr
  price: 0.62
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: hour
  included_quota: Keyterms Prompting, Prompting, Output Instruction included
- name: Custom / Enterprise
  price_text: Contact us
  period: none
  included_quota: Custom rate limits, enhanced concurrency
- name: GPT-5 Nano (LLM Gateway)
  price_text: $0.05 / 1M
  price: 0.05
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: 1M input tokens
- name: GPT-6 Astra (LLM Gateway)
  price_text: $10.00 / 1M
  price: 10
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: 1M input tokens
rate_limit_statements:
- On the free plan, you can open up to 5 new streaming connections per minute.
- On the pay-as-you-go plan, your starting limit is 100 sessions per minute — anytime you are utilizing
  70% or more of your current limit, the number of new streams able to be opened over the next minute
  will automatically increase by 10%.
- The free tier includes up to 185 hours of pre-recorded transcription and up to 333 hours of streaming
  transcription.
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
  - hybrid
  - metered
  units:
  - compute
  - token
  plans:
  - name: Universal-3.5 Pro (pre-recorded)
    access: other
    model: hybrid
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - compute
    periods:
    - other
  - name: Universal-2 (pre-recorded)
    access: other
    model: hybrid
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - compute
    periods:
    - other
  - name: Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime
    access: other
    model: hybrid
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - compute
    periods:
    - other
  - name: Sync API
    access: other
    model: hybrid
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - compute
    periods:
    - other
  - name: Voice Agent API
    access: other
    model: metered
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - compute
    periods:
    - other
  - name: Dictation API
    access: other
    model: hybrid
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - compute
    periods:
    - other
  - name: Custom / Enterprise
    access: other
    model: unstated
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods:
    - none
  - name: GPT-5 Nano (LLM Gateway)
    access: other
    model: hybrid
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - token
    periods:
    - other
  - name: GPT-6 Astra (LLM Gateway)
    access: other
    model: hybrid
    model_how: derived
    units:
    - token
    periods:
    - other