Handy Review

What we know about Handy

This is our verified profile of Handy, a speech-to-text apis platform - private local-first open-source dictation. Every fact about Handy below carries the source it came from and the day we checked it.

Handy 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 Handy quote, it is the fastest way for us to close that gap.

On capabilities, Handy covers language auto-detection, custom vocabulary / keyterm boosting, speech translation, self-host / on-prem option, and ai formatting / edit features, and does not offer word-level timestamps, entity detection, and sentiment analysis. Each of those is verified against Handy's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

For compliance, with Handy: SOC 2 Type II is not reported. If you are in a regulated space, confirm the current posture with Handy before you commit, since these change plan by plan.

Handy ranks the 12th-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 29 verified facts for Handy 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 Handy fact sheet below.

Reviewed by vsref Editorial·facts verified Jul 20, 2026·Methodology →