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Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Review

Hyperscaler STT API with Chirp foundation models and enterprise compliance

Among the 43 speech-to-text tools we track, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text has the 2nd-widest language coverage - a fit for multilingual and localization projects.

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What we know about Google Cloud Speech-to-Text

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is a speech-to-text apis platform: hyperscaler STT API with Chirp foundation models and enterprise compliance. This profile tracks every Google Cloud Speech-to-Text fact we have verified, each linked to a primary source and dated.

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text does not publish a public per-minute rate we have been able to verify, so the price figure here stays blank until we can confirm one. We would rather show nothing than a guessed number; if you have a current Google Cloud Speech-to-Text quote, it is the fastest way for us to close that gap.

On capabilities, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text covers language auto-detection, word-level timestamps, custom vocabulary / keyterm boosting, speech translation, soc 2 type ii, and gdpr / eu data residency, and does not offer entity detection, sentiment analysis, and summarization endpoint. Each of those is verified against Google Cloud Speech-to-Text's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

For compliance, with Google Cloud Speech-to-Text: SOC 2 Type II is in place. If you are in a regulated space, confirm the current posture with Google Cloud Speech-to-Text before you commit, since these change plan by plan.

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text ranks the 2nd-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 25 verified facts for Google Cloud Speech-to-Text 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 Google Cloud Speech-to-Text fact sheet below.

Reviewed by vsref Editorialfacts verified Jul 20, 2026Methodology →

Fact sheet

Pricing
Pricing facts
Batch price per audio minute0.016 $/audio-minJul 20
Streaming price per audio minute0.016 $/audio-minJul 20
Pricing modelusageJul 20
Free tier quota60 min/mo (V1 API) + $300 new-customer creditJul 20
Published volume discountsV2: $0.01 at 500k+, $0.008 at 1M+, $0.004 at 2M+ min/moJul 20
Concurrency on base plan300 concurrent streaming sessions per region (V2)Jul 20
Capabilities
Capabilities facts
WER (third-party benchmark)4.32 % WERJul 20
Languages supported~125 languagesJul 20
Language auto-detection✓ YesJul 20
Speaker diarization✓ IncludedJul 20
PII redaction✗ Not availableJul 20
Word-level timestamps✓ YesJul 20
Custom vocabulary / keyterm boosting✓ YesJul 20
Entity detection✗ NoJul 20
Sentiment analysis✗ NoJul 20
Summarization endpoint✗ NoJul 20
Speech translation✓ YesJul 20
Compliance & trust
Compliance & trust facts
HIPAA BAA available✓ YesJul 20
SOC 2 Type II✓ YesJul 20
GDPR / EU data residency✓ YesJul 20
Self-host / on-prem option✓ YesJul 20
Build experience
Build experience facts
Official SDKsC#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, RubyJul 20
Max file size / durationBatch 8h/file; sync 1 min or 10MB; stream 5 minJul 20
Supported audio formatsFLAC, LINEAR16, MULAW, AMR, AMR_WB, OGG/WEBM Opus, MP3Jul 20
Websocket streaming API✗ NoJul 20

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