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AssemblyAI pricing

What AssemblyAI charges today, what has changed, and what public buyers have paid.

publishes pricing last captured 2026-10-10 on the record since 2019-09-22 17 captures

As of 2026-10-10

Current pricing

AssemblyAI publishes pricing at www.assemblyai.com/pricing (as of PriceTape's capture on 2026-10-10).

What its pricing page says

ModelsPay as you goCustom
Universal-3.5 Pro The most accurate async speech-to-text model that transcribes every conversation exactly as it's heard – works across 18 languages, with native code switching and our most accurate speaker diarization yet.$0.21 /hrGet custom rate limits, enhanced concurrency, and enterprise-grade flexibility tailored to your AI workloads. CONTACT US
Universal-2 Our highly accurate speech-to-text model trained on over 12.5 million hours of audio data. Supports 99 languages. Exceptional accuracy at a lower price.$0.15 /hr

Quoted from the page as captured on 2026-10-10.

Source: www.assemblyai.com/pricing · captured 2026-10-10

Dated changes

What changed

One change, in full

Raises entry rate to $0.15/hr; adds HIPAA listing

observed between 2025-03-21 and 2026-01-29

Before — captured 2025-03-21

Entry STT rate $0.12/hr (Nano)

Streaming STT rate $0.47/hr

Free pre-recorded quota ~416 hrs

Free streaming quota Not disclosed on page

HIPAA listing Not listed

Self-hosted deployment Custom tier · "Coming soon" (On-prem, VPC)

Custom/Enterprise tier detail Itemized feature list on pricing page

LLM add-on LeMUR · Anthropic Claude models only

Speech Understanding catalog Entity/Topic/Sentiment/etc. only

After — captured 2026-01-29

Entry STT rate $0.15/hr (Universal)

Streaming STT rate $0.15/hr

Free pre-recorded quota 185 hrs

Free streaming quota 333 hrs · 5 new streams/min

HIPAA listing Listed ("HIPAA Compliance")

Self-hosted deployment Pay-as-you-go tier · listed as included (On-prem, EU, VPC)

Custom/Enterprise tier detail Generic paragraph + "Talk to our team" CTA, no itemized list

LLM add-on LLM Gateway · OpenAI, Google and Anthropic models with per-token pricing

Speech Understanding catalog Adds Speaker Identification, Translation, Custom Formatting (marked "New")

observed 2026-01-29 pricing page pricepackagingcompliance from an archived copy on the record since 2026-10-06

Every change

2024-05-25

observed between 2022-11-29 and 2024-05-25

Adds Free Tier, Swaps Flat Per-Second Rate for $0.12–$0.37/hr Tiers

observed 2024-05-25 pricing page pricepackagingtrial / access from an archived copy on the record since 2026-10-06

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