Amazon Transcribe Review

AWS-native STT API with deep AWS ecosystem integration and compliance coverage

Among the 43 speech-to-text tools we track, Amazon Transcribe has the 3rd-widest language coverage - a fit for multilingual and localization projects.

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What we know about Amazon Transcribe

This is our verified profile of Amazon Transcribe, a speech-to-text apis platform - aWS-native STT API with deep AWS ecosystem integration and compliance coverage. Every fact about Amazon Transcribe below carries the source it came from and the day we checked it.

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On capabilities, Amazon Transcribe covers language auto-detection, word-level timestamps, custom vocabulary / keyterm boosting, sentiment analysis, summarization endpoint, and soc 2 type ii, and does not offer entity detection, speech translation, and self-host / on-prem option. Each of those is verified against Amazon Transcribe's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

For compliance, with Amazon Transcribe: SOC 2 Type II is in place. If you are in a regulated space, confirm the current posture with Amazon Transcribe before you commit, since these change plan by plan.

Amazon Transcribe ranks the 3rd-widest language coverage of the 43 speech-to-text tools we track, so where it lands for you depends on which of those matters more.

In total we track 27 verified facts for Amazon Transcribe today, each linking the primary source it came from so you can check our work - and vendor claims we have not measured ourselves are labeled as such on the Amazon Transcribe fact sheet below.

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Pricing

Pricing facts
Batch price per audio minute	0.006 $/audio-min	Jul 20
Streaming price per audio minute	0.01 $/audio-min	Jul 20
Pricing model	usage	Jul 20
Free tier quota	60 min/mo for 12 months	Jul 20
Published volume discounts	Add-on tiers: PII $0.0024/min T1 to $0.00078/min at 5M+ min	Jul 20
Concurrency on base plan	25 concurrent streams; 250 concurrent batch jobs (default)	Jul 20

Capabilities

Capabilities facts
WER (third-party benchmark)	4.12 % WER	Jul 20
Languages supported	113 languages	Jul 20
Language auto-detection	✓ Yes	Jul 20
Speaker diarization	✓ Included	Jul 20
PII redaction	◑ Paid add-on	Jul 20
PII redaction add-on price per minute	0.002 $/audio-min	Jul 20
Word-level timestamps	✓ Yes	Jul 20
Custom vocabulary / keyterm boosting	✓ Yes	Jul 20
Entity detection	✗ No	Jul 20
Sentiment analysis	✓ Yes	Jul 20
Summarization endpoint	✓ Yes	Jul 20
Speech translation	✗ No	Jul 20
Priced audio-intelligence add-ons	PII redaction, toxicity, Call Analytics, summarization, CLM	Jul 20

Compliance & trust

Compliance & trust facts
HIPAA BAA available	✓ Yes	Jul 20
SOC 2 Type II	✓ Yes	Jul 20
GDPR / EU data residency	✓ Yes	Jul 20
Self-host / on-prem option	✗ No	Jul 20

Build experience

Build experience facts
Official SDKs	Python, JS, Java, .NET, Go, Ruby, PHP, C++, Rust, CLI	Jul 20
Max file size / duration	2 GB and 28,800 s (8 h) max per batch file	Jul 20
Supported audio formats	Batch: AMR, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, Ogg, WAV, WebM	Jul 20
Websocket streaming API	✓ Yes	Jul 20

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Amazon Transcribe head-to-head

Amazon Transcribe vs Google Cloud Speech-to-Text →won 4 · lost 0 · tied 1

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Amazon Transcribe vs Deepgram →won 0 · lost 3 · tied 1

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