Amazon Transcribe pricing
With Amazon Transcribe, you pay-as-you-go based on the seconds of audio transcribed per month. It’s easy to get started with the Amazon Transcribe Free Tier. Upon signup, start analyzing up to 60 audio minutes monthly, free for the first 12 months.
Free tier
As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon Transcribe for free. The Amazon Transcribe Free Tier is available to you for 12 months, starting from the date on which you create your first transcription request. Your usage for the free tier is calculated each month across all AWS Regions except the AWS GovCloud Region and automatically applied to your bill; unused monthly usage will not roll over. When your free usage expires or if your application use exceeds the free usage tier, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.
Standard pricing
Pricing examples
| Example | Audio Length | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Social media video | ~ 10 seconds | $0.006* |
| Radio commercial | ~ 15 seconds |
$0.006 |
| Video trailer | ~ 2 minutes, 30 seconds | $0.060 |
| Recorded webinar | ~ 30 minutes | $0.720 |
Amazon Transcribe Medical pricing
With Transcribe Medical, you pay-as-you-go based on the seconds of audio transcribed per month. It’s easy to get started with the Transcribe Medical Free Tier. Upon signup, start analyzing up to 60 minutes of audio monthly, free for the first 12 months.
Free tier
The Transcribe Medical free tier is available to you for 12 months, starting from the date on which you create your first transcription. When your free usage expires, or if your application use exceeds the free usage tier, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.
Standard pricing
Pricing examples
Example |
Length |
Cost |
Pre-patient visit conversation between physicians, clinic managers, nurses, and others |
15 minutes |
$1.125 |
Physician dictated audio note |
30 minutes |
$2.250 |
Telemedicine conversational audio |
45 minutes |
$3.375 |
Medical consultation over a phone call |
60 minutes |
$4.500 |
Clinical trial reporting about medicines |
75 minutes |
$5.625 |
Clinician-patient conversation |
90 minutes |
$6.750 |
Automatic Content Redaction pricing
You can choose to enable Automatic Content Redaction for your transcription jobs. The additional charges that you pay are based on the seconds of audio transcribed per month where Automatic Content Redaction is enabled.
Automatic Content Redaction add-on pricing
Pricing example
| Example | Audio length | Transcription cost | Content redaction cost | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer care call recording | ~ 10 minutes | $0.240 | $0.024 | $0.264 |
Custom Language Model pricing
You can build your own Custom Language Models (CLM) by training Transcribe’s standard models with your domain specific text. Once you have a CLM, you can choose which transcription jobs should utilize your CLM. You will only incur an additional CLM charge for the transcription jobs where a custom language model is applied.
Pricing
Pricing example
| Example | Audio Length | Transcription cost | Custom Language Model add-on cost | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer call recording | ~ 10 audio minutes | $0.240 | $0.060 | $0.300 |
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