# Google Cloud Speech-to-Text plans, limits and prices 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 - Kinds: Speech-to-text API - Plans recorded: 4 - Checked: 2026-10-17 - Page for people: https://plans.intoperson.com/p/google-stt-api ## Plans Values that apply to one plan. "Not stated" means the official pages do not say; it is not an estimate. ### V2 API Standard recognition (pay as you go) Plan id: `google-stt-v2-standard` · Pay as you go - Price: $960 per 1,000 audio hours [1][2] - Included: Not recorded - Extra usage: $960 per 1,000 extra [1][3] - Concurrency: Not recorded - Rate limit: Not recorded - Real-time streaming speech: Not stated [4] - Transcription of recorded audio: Not stated [5] - Visit: [Pricing page](https://plans.intoperson.com/go/google-stt-v2-standard) (choose the plan on the page) ### V2 API Dynamic Batch (pay as you go) Plan id: `google-stt-v2-dynamic-batch` · Pay as you go - Price: $180 per 1,000 audio hours [6][7] - Included: Not recorded - Extra usage: $180 per 1,000 extra [6][8] - Concurrency: Not recorded - Rate limit: Not recorded - Transcription of recorded audio: Yes [9] - Real-time streaming speech: Not stated [10] - Visit: [Pricing page](https://plans.intoperson.com/go/google-stt-v2-dynamic-batch) (choose the plan on the page) ### V1 API (no data logging, pay as you go) Plan id: `google-stt-v1` · Pay as you go - Price: $1,440 per 1,000 audio hours [11][12] - Included: $1.44 free usage every month [11][13] - Extra usage: $1,440 per 1,000 extra [11][14] - Concurrency: Not recorded - Rate limit: Not recorded - Real-time streaming speech: Not stated [15] - Transcription of recorded audio: Not stated [16] - Visit: [Pricing page](https://plans.intoperson.com/go/google-stt-v1) (choose the plan on the page) ### Streaming recognition (rate not separated) Plan id: `google-stt-streaming` · Pay as you go · Price not published · not in search - Price: Not stated [17] - Included: Not recorded - Extra usage: Not recorded - Concurrency: Not recorded - Rate limit: Not recorded - Real-time streaming speech: Yes [18][19] - Visit: [Pricing page](https://plans.intoperson.com/go/google-stt-streaming) (choose 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 stated [20] ## 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. [cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > 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 2. 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). 3. How the value follows from the source: $0.016 per audio minute x 60 x 1,000. 4. The pricing page prices recognition requests without a separate row for live audio, so the price for streaming is not stated. 5. The pricing page prices recognition requests without separating recorded from live audio. 6. [cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > Dynamic Batch Recognition (sku:7700-6778-EF8E) Standard¹ $0.003 / 1 minute, per 1 month 7. 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. 8. How the value follows from the source: $0.003 per audio minute x 60 x 1,000. 9. [cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > The Speech-to-Text V2 API has an option to use dynamic batch. 10. Dynamic Batch is the lower-urgency recorded-audio option; no sentence on the pages read states whether it serves live audio. 11. [cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing](https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-17 > 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 12. 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. 13. How the value follows from the source: 60 free audio minutes a month at $0.024 a minute is $1.44. 14. How the value follows from the source: $0.024 per audio minute x 60 x 1,000. 15. The pricing page has no separate row for live audio, so whether this price covers streaming is not stated. 16. The pricing page does not separate recorded from live audio in this row. 17. The pricing page has no separate row for live audio, so no streaming rate is stated. 18. [docs.cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/v1/transcribe-streaming-audio](https://docs.cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/v1/transcribe-streaming-audio) · official docs · read 2026-10-17 > 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. 19. Streaming is available over gRPC only. 20. The pages read for pricing and the V1 guides state no data storage or processing region choice for the plans recorded. Check these plans against a workload: https://plans.intoperson.com/guide.md describes the inputs; the REST form is GET https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/products/google-stt-api.