Speechmatics
speechmatics.com · 2 records in Compute, Inference · JSON
Records 2
- caveatSpeechmatics (Compute)
Computefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-23
- trialSpeechmatics (Inference)
Inferencefree tieridentity emailcardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
Speechmatics (Compute)
Compute- Free allowance
- 'Start with $100 in free credits, no card required', with the page data carrying 'signupCredits: 100' and a footnote 'No card required'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-ratethe 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...
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| 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 |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| 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. |
| Egress | not stated |
| 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 note | 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 |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 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
| facets | {"class": "credit-large-enough-for-real-workload","free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field
Speechmatics (Inference)
Inference- Free allowance
- USD 100 credit grant at signup on the Free plan, no card required; one credit is worth one US dollar, and one balance covers Speech to Text, add-ons and Text to Speech.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailcard required, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaUSD 100 credit grant at signup, one-time; Melia 1 pre-recorded base rate USD 0.24 per hour
- Evidence
- documented12 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | USD 100 credit grant at signup on the Free plan, no card required; one credit is worth one US dollar, and one balance covers Speech to Text, add-ons and Text to Speech. One-time, not a monthly allowance. Melia 1 pre-recorded base rate is USD 0.24 per hour. unit credits; metered on unstated; models on the pricing page: Melia 1 (multilingual, 56 languages), Enhanced, Standard, Oak 1 (clinical language) and Linden 1 (voice agents), in batch (REST) and real-time (WebSocket) modes. unverified: whether the grant expires, because no vendor page read states a validity period; unverified: the rate for Text to Speech, which the pricing page names without a number |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | volume-quota the one-time USD 100 credit is the ceiling for batch work; the 2 concurrent real-time sessions cap is a second wall for live audio |
| Identity | email no payment card on the Free plan ('no payment card required'); signup is an email with a password or a Google or GitHub account, and an email signup must verify the address by a link; unverified: whether a phone number is asked |
| Egress | not published |
| Interface | rest Batch REST API and real-time WebSocket API; an API key is created in the web portal; Python and JavaScript batch libraries |
| Tooling | Python and JavaScript libraries, or raw HTTP and WebSocket with an API key created in the portal |
| Composes with | the credit pays for batch transcription of recorded audio, which a free CI runner can post file by file; pair it with a free object store for the audio. The discounted headline rate on the pricing page needs a Pro plan with model training and a top-tier annual commitment, so a Free account pays the base rate. |
| Reliability | the Free plan runs on the granted credit only; adding a payment card moves the account to Pro, where usage beyond the granted credits is charged to the card |
| Evidence note | documented the credit, the card-free Free plan, the signup methods and the real-time and batch limits are quoted from vendor pages; the credit's expiry and the text-to-speech rate are unverified. |
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Evidence 12
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-11-03 | www.speechmatics.com/pricing | USD 100 free credit with no card |
| 2026-11-03 | www.speechmatics.com/pricing | the Melia 1 pre-recorded base rate is USD 0.24 per hour |
| 2026-11-03 | www.speechmatics.com/pricing | one credit balance covers speech-to-text, add-ons and text-to-speech |
| 2026-11-03 | www.speechmatics.com/pricing | Melia 1 is a 56-language multilingual model |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.speechmatics.com/administration/plans.md | the Free plan is a USD 100 credit grant with no payment card |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.speechmatics.com/administration/plans.md | one credit is one US dollar and new sign-ups receive USD 100 |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.speechmatics.com/administration/accounts.md | signup is by email and password or Google or GitHub |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.speechmatics.com/administration/accounts.md | an email signup verifies the address by a link |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/realtime/limits.md | the Free plan allows 2 concurrent real-time sessions |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/batch/limits.md | the batch API rate guidance is 10 new jobs per second |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/batch/limits.md | the batch API has a backstop of 20,000 concurrent jobs |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.speechmatics.com/speech-to-text/batch/quickstart.md | an API key is created in the portal |
Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer