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Speech-to-text API

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text

Speech to text over gRPC and REST for recorded and live audio (V1 and V2 APIs), billed per minute of audio in one-second increments.

Provider
Google Cloud
Plans recorded
4
Checked
2026-10-17
Pricing page
cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing

Plans

Values that apply to one plan. "Not stated" means the official pages do not say; it is not an estimate.

PlanPriceIncludedExtra usageConcurrencyRate limitBuy
V2 API Standard recognition (pay as you go)Pay as you go
Real-time streaming speech: Not stated2
Transcription of recorded audio: Not stated3
$960 per 1,000 audio hours45
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$960 per 1,000 extra46
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Not recorded
 Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page
V2 API Dynamic Batch (pay as you go)Pay as you go
Transcription of recorded audio: Yes7
Real-time streaming speech: Not stated8
$180 per 1,000 audio hours910
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$180 per 1,000 extra911
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Not recorded
 Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page
V1 API (no data logging, pay as you go)Pay as you go
Real-time streaming speech: Not stated12
Transcription of recorded audio: Not stated13
$1,440 per 1,000 audio hours1415
$1.44 free usage every month1416
$1,440 per 1,000 extra1417
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 Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page
Streaming recognition (rate not separated)Pay as you goPrice not published · not in search
Real-time streaming speech: Yes1819
Not stated20
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 Pricing pageChoose the plan on the page

Applies to every plan

Recorded for the product or the provider; a plan-level value or a listed exception replaces it.

Data storage or processing region (all products)
Not stated1

Collection notes

Three priced plans of the pay-as-you-go prices of the pricing page and an unpriced streaming plan. V2 Standard recognition is priced per minute in four monthly volume steps; the plan records the first step ($0.016 a minute for the first 500,000 minutes a month, about 8,333 audio hours), so the cost of a month beyond that is an upper bound (the later steps are $0.01, $0.008 and $0.004). V2 Dynamic Batch is $0.003 a minute. The V1 API plan is the default without data logging: the first 60 minutes a month are free, then $0.024 a minute ($0.016 with data logging opted in, which is not the recorded price). The pricing page has no separate streaming row, so no plan states a streaming price. Authentication is by Google Cloud credentials (Application Default Credentials, gcloud, service accounts); no API key sentence and no Speech-to-Text MCP server page were found.

Sources and notes

Each number points to the provider's own sentence, as it appears on the page on the date shown.

  1. The pages read for pricing and the V1 guides state no data storage or processing region choice for the plans recorded.

  2. The pricing page prices recognition requests without a separate row for live audio, so the price for streaming is not stated.

  3. The pricing page prices recognition requests without separating recorded from live audio.

  4. Recognition (sku:3099-B70F-0949) Standard 0 minute to 500,000 minute $0.016 / 1 minute, per 1 month / account 500,000 minute to 1,000,000 minute $0.01 / 1 minute, per 1 month / account 1,000,000 minute to 2,000,000 minute $0.008 / 1 minute, per 1 month / account 2,000,000 minute and above $0.004 / 1 minute, per 1 month / account

    cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing · official pricing · read 2026-10-17

  5. How the value follows from the source: $0.016 per audio minute x 60 = $0.96 per audio hour, so $960 per 1,000 audio hours (the first monthly step).

  6. How the value follows from the source: $0.016 per audio minute x 60 x 1,000.

  7. The Speech-to-Text V2 API has an option to use dynamic batch.

    cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing · official pricing · read 2026-10-17

  8. Dynamic Batch is the lower-urgency recorded-audio option; no sentence on the pages read states whether it serves live audio.

  9. Dynamic Batch Recognition (sku:7700-6778-EF8E) Standard¹ $0.003 / 1 minute, per 1 month

    cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing · official pricing · read 2026-10-17

  10. How the value follows from the source: $0.003 per audio minute x 60 = $0.18 per audio hour, so $180 per 1,000 audio hours.

  11. How the value follows from the source: $0.003 per audio minute x 60 x 1,000.

  12. The pricing page has no separate row for live audio, so whether this price covers streaming is not stated.

  13. The pricing page does not separate recorded from live audio in this row.

  14. Speech Recognition (without data logging) sku:60AE-2FE3-C3D8 Standard¹ 0 minute to 60 minute $0.00 (Free) / 1 minute, per 1 month / account 60 minute and above $0.024 / 1 minute, per 1 month / account

    cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing · official pricing · read 2026-10-17

  15. How the value follows from the source: $0.024 per audio minute x 60 = $1.44 per audio hour, so $1,440 per 1,000 audio hours, after the free 60 minutes a month.

  16. How the value follows from the source: 60 free audio minutes a month at $0.024 a minute is $1.44.

  17. How the value follows from the source: $0.024 per audio minute x 60 x 1,000.

  18. Streaming speech recognition lets you stream audio to Cloud Speech-to-Text and receive a stream speech recognition results in real time as the audio is processed.

    docs.cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/v1/transcribe-streaming-audio · official docs · read 2026-10-17

  19. Streaming is available over gRPC only.

  20. The pricing page has no separate row for live audio, so no streaming rate is stated.

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