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Ultra-low-cost multilingual STT + real-time translation API

Among the 43 speech-to-text tools we track, Soniox has the 20th-widest language coverage.

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What we know about Soniox

This is our verified profile of Soniox, a speech-to-text apis platform - ultra-low-cost multilingual STT + real-time translation API. Every fact about Soniox below carries the source it came from and the day we checked it.

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

On capabilities, Soniox 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 Soniox's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

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

Soniox ranks the 20th-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 Soniox 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 Soniox fact sheet below.

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Fact sheet

Pricing
Pricing facts
Batch price per audio minute0.002 $/audio-minJul 20
Streaming price per audio minute0.002 $/audio-minJul 20
Pricing modelusageJul 20
Free tier quotaNone - free credits discontinued 2025-10Jul 20
Published volume discountsEnterprise/committed-use discounts - contact salesJul 20
Concurrency on base plan10 concurrent websocket sessions; 100 requests/minJul 20
Capabilities
Capabilities facts
WER (third-party benchmark)3.81 % WERJul 20
WER (vendor-claimed)~1.25 % WERJul 20
Streaming latency (vendor-claimed)~249 msJul 20
Languages supported60 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✗ NoJul 20
Build experience
Build experience facts
Official SDKsPython, Node.js, Web JS, React, React NativeJul 20
Max file size / duration300 min per file; 10 GB total file storageJul 20
Supported audio formatsaacJul 20
Websocket streaming API✓ YesJul 20

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