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| Sarvam AI Saaras Realtime STT Sarvam AI | Mistral Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime Mistral AI | Voxist ASR (via OVHcloud / Scaleway marketplaces) Voxist | |
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| Category | Speech-to-text | Speech-to-text | Speech-to-text |
| Status | GA | GA | GA |
| Est. per minute | $0.0059 - 0.0088 | $0.006 | $0.0063 - 0.016 |
| How that was worked out | INR 30-45/hr converted at about INR 85 per USD (third-party FX note, July 2026); currency risk applies. | Flat announced rate; not confirmed on a live pricing table in this pass. | Licence EUR 0.35-0.88/hr (~$0.006-0.016/min at ~1.1 USD/EUR) before GPU compute. Low confidence. |
| Pricing model | per-hour | per-minute | per-hour |
| Free tier | INR 100 credits for new users. | Not stated. | None stated. |
| Connects by | WebSocket | WebSocket | WebSocket, REST |
| Audio in | encoding and sample_rate parameters on the realtime channel (values not captured). | AudioFormat(encoding='pcm_s16le', sample_rate=16000) in docs examples; mic example sends 480 ms chunks. | WAV, mono only; examples use 16 kHz. |
| Audio out | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Languages | Indian languages plus English (exact list not captured). | 13 languages (vendor). | Not listed on the billing page (examples show en and French output). |
| Latency (vendor claim) | Not captured. | Vendor claim: configurable latency down to sub-200 ms; press reports ~1-2% error rate at 480 ms delay (secondary source). | Not captured. |
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| Compliance | Not re-verified. | Not re-verified. Self-hosting keeps audio fully in your infrastructure. | Runs in your own cloud project; certifications not checked. |
| Self-hostable | No | Yes | Yes |
| Last checked | 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-10 |
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| $/hour | $0.35 | $0.36 | - |
| Bills silence | - | - | - |
| Free tier | Yes | - | - |
| Free credit $ | - | - | - |
| Live speakers | - | No | No |
| Turn detect | - | - | - |
| Keyterms | - | - | - |
| PII redact | - | - | - |
| Partials | - | Yes | - |
| Mixed langs | - | - | - |
| 8 kHz phone | - | - | No |
| Latency ms | - | 200 | - |
| Languages | - | 13 | - |
| Max session min | - | - | - |
| Concurrency | - | - | - |
| WebRTC | No | No | No |
| WebSocket | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| gRPC | No | No | No |
| HIPAA | - | - | - |
| SOC 2 | - | - | - |
| EU data | - | - | Yes |
| Self-host | No | Yes | Yes |
| Open weights | No | Yes | No |
| High warnings | 0 | 0 | 0 |