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AssemblyAI builds AI systems that can understand human speech with superhuman abilities. Starting building with $50 in usage credits during your 90-day free trial. Cancel any time. After your trial ends, you will automatically be enrolled into an AssemblyAI pay-as-you-go plan. Request a private offer for discounted pricing based on your usage profile.
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Overview
AssemblyAI offers Speech AI models via an API that product teams and developers can use to build powerful AI solutions based on voice data. Thousands of developers build on AssemblyAI's Speech AI models every day to run Speech-to-Text on multilingual speech, and harness the power of Large Language Models to extract the full value from that voice data - including answering questions from voice data, generating content, and extracting metadata in seconds. AssemblyAI offers two of the world's most powerful and accurate async transcription models, as well as real-time transcription with ultra high accuracy, low latency, and built-in turn detection.
AssemblyAI gives you access to state-of-the-art Speech AI models and capabilities for real-world use cases with unlimited concurrency and no upfront contract commitment, so you can build smarter applications in a fraction of the time. Models and features include:
- Speech recognition
- Keyterms prompting for streaming
- Auto language detection
- Translation
- Speaker diarization and identification
- Auto punctuation and casing
- Custom formatting
- Custom spelling
- Custom vocabulary
- Guardrails, including Content Moderation, PII Redaction, and Profanity Filtering
- Filler word filtering
- Summarization
- Sentiment analysis
- Auto highlights
- Topic detection (IAB classification)
- Entity detection
- Auto chapters
- Dual channel transcription
- Export SRT or VTT caption files
In addition, LLM Gateway allows you to connect speech-to-text outputs directly to your preferred leading LLM provider through a single, unified API for tasks like output fine-tuning, summarization, question & answer, and AI coaching feedback.
Our Speech AI products support 33 different audio and video file types and 99+ languages. Our models are used by thousands of breakthrough startups and dozens of global enterprises for mission-critical workloads.
Highlights
- Unparalleled Human-Level Accuracy: Our multilingual speech recognition AI models deliver industry-leading performance with the lowest word error rates on the market, outperforming competitors by over 60% when recognizing challenging content like rare words and proper nouns. Trusted by more than 3,000 innovative companies, including Zoom, our platform provides the foundation for mission-critical speech applications at scale.
- Built for enterprise-grade performance, our APIs deliver unmatched scalability for high-concurrency applications. Security is embedded with SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS, and GDPR compliance. For healthcare applications, AssemblyAI offers Business Associate Agreements (BAAs). Choose flexible hosting options in both US and EU regions.
- Comprehensive Speech Understanding Suite and Guardrails: Our advanced models summarize conversations, identify speakers through diarization, analyze sentiment, moderate content, automatically redact PII, and much more, all in a single platform. Our LLM Gateway seamlessly connects spoken data with your preferred large language models, enabling unlimited possibilities for voice-powered applications in one unified platform.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/unit |
|---|---|---|
Universal-2 | Fast, intelligent async transcription with exceptional accuracy and unlimited concurrency | $0.15 |
SLAM-1 (deprecated) | Highest accuracy transcription powered by LLM intelligence | $0.27 |
Universal Streaming | Fast, accurate real-time transcription. Built-in turn detection and unlimited concurrency | $0.15 |
Keyterms Prompting (Universal Streaming) | Improve recognition accuracy for specific words and phrases | $0.04 |
Speaker Identification | Identify speakers by their actual names and roles | $0.02 |
Translation | Automatically convert your transcribed audio content from one language to another | $0.06 |
Custom Formatting | Ensure consistency through automatic, standardized formatting | $0.03 |
Entity Detection | Identify entities like person and company names, email addresses, dates, and locations | $0.08 |
Sentiment Analysis | Detect the sentiment of each sentence of speech spoken in your audio files | $0.02 |
Auto Chapters | Automatically generate a summary over time for audio and video files | $0.08 |
Dimensions summary
You pay only for what you use, with no upfront commitment. Pricing splits into core transcription models and optional add-ons that stack on top. Async models, streaming models, a single-call Sync API, and a Voice Agent API each carry their own base rate. Async work bills per audio hour; streaming bills per session duration; the Voice Agent API bills per minute. Speech understanding, guardrails, prompting, diarization, and Medical Mode are separate per-hour add-ons layered onto a base model. LLM Gateway bills per million input and output tokens, with the rate set by the chosen model.
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Streaming bills on the WebSocket session duration, meaning the time the connection stays open, not the audio sent. Idle time between calls counts. Close connections immediately when a call ends to avoid charges for open, unused sessions.
Add-ons stack additively on the base model's per-hour rate. If you run a base model with Medical Mode and Speaker Diarization, each per-hour charge adds to the base rate for a combined hourly total on the same audio.
Multichannel audio bills per channel. A one-hour stereo file with two channels counts as two billable hours. Each channel is transcribed independently. Confirm channel count in advance, since more channels multiply your billed hours.
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Customer reviews
Kodam S.
Easy, Reliable Transcription API That Saves Time
Reviewed on Aug 17, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about AssemblyAI is how easy and dependable it is to use. The transcription quality is accurate, the API is straightforward to work with, and the features are genuinely useful. It also saves me time and makes it simpler to build applications that handle audio and speech.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing I don’t like about AssemblyAI is that some of the more advanced features can take a bit of time to fully understand and get set up properly. Pricing can also become a concern as usage grows, since costs may add up when I start using it more heavily.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves the problem of turning audio and speech into accurate, useful text without me having to build the entire speech-to-text system myself. It saves me a lot of development time and makes it easier to work with recordings, transcripts, and voice data.
Atharva S.
Accurate Speech-to-Text and Rich Speech Intelligence with a Developer-Friendly API
Reviewed on Aug 17, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about AssemblyAI is its highly accurate speech-to-text capabilities combined with a comprehensive set of AI speech understanding features. Beyond transcription, it offers speaker diarization, summarization, sentiment analysis, topic detection, entity extraction, content moderation, and real-time streaming through a simple developer-friendly API. I also appreciate its excellent documentation, fast processing speeds, multilingual support, and seamless integration into applications. Overall, AssemblyAI significantly simplifies building voice-enabled products, reduces development time, and delivers reliable speech intelligence for production applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
One area where AssemblyAI could improve is providing more advanced built-in workflow orchestration, observability, and cost management tools for large-scale production deployments. While the transcription accuracy and speech intelligence capabilities are excellent, debugging complex pipelines and optimizing API usage across high-volume applications can require additional external tooling. I'd also like to see more customizable post-processing pipelines, richer analytics dashboards, and expanded integrations with enterprise platforms. Overall, the experience has been very positive, but enhanced observability, stronger cost visibility, and more advanced workflow management would make AssemblyAI even more valuable for production AI applications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
AssemblyAI solves the challenge of converting unstructured audio into accurate, actionable data through AI-powered speech recognition and speech understanding. Instead of manually transcribing recordings or building complex speech processing pipelines, developers can use a single API to generate high-quality transcripts, speaker labels, summaries, sentiment analysis, topic detection, entity extraction, and other insights from audio and video content. This reduces development time, improves accuracy, accelerates product delivery, and enables teams to build voice-enabled applications more efficiently. As a result, it has streamlined audio processing workflows, increased developer productivity, and made it much easier to extract meaningful insights from spoken conversations at scale.
Jagadis P.
Accurate Multilingual Speech-to-Text That Boosts Customer Support and Analysis
Reviewed on Aug 14, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Our company deals in more than 35+ countries and multiple languages, so it becomes very important for us for speech to text in language converted values and that helps our customer support to perform well. It also helps us to put speech into well structured data set which helps us in doing various analysis and improve our offerings.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its a good product but it comes with some drawbacks like vendor dependent setup, if any changes happens at their level, we also need to improve our setup and that creates a huge problem if it is not managed well. Cost also in terms of hours + LLM processing is huge, and with huge operations it is super expensive tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using this at almost all voice related support on all our sales channels and that is eliminating a lot of basic queries to be responded and with that 40% of responses are already automated and good customer feedback on same. We are able to also record the senitments of customer and their feedback and that helps us to forecast our demands as well.
aman g.
AssemblyAI Makes Speech and Audio Projects Easy and Time-Saving
Reviewed on Aug 14, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like that AssemblyAI is easy to use and works well for speech and audio. It saves time and makes things easier to build and manage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the setup can be a little difficult, especially in the beginning. Also, some features could be more simple and easier to understand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
AssemblyAI helps us handle speech and audio data without doing everything manually. It saves time, makes the work faster, and helps us build things more easily.
Viraj K.
Developer-Friendly Platform Focused on Real-World Applications
Reviewed on Aug 13, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Developer friendly platform,focus on real world application
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike about there complex onboarding
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solve my speech automation problem and it helpful for me