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Amazon Transcribe Pricing Calculator
Estimate Standard, Medical, and Call Analytics per-minute transcription costs — with free tier and optional Toxicity Detection.
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us-east-1list rates, pricing as of 2026-10-17. Rates checked against the AWS Pricing API (us-east-1). Standard uses the batch rate ($0.006/min); streaming is $0.01/min. Call Analytics post-call is tiered ($0.030 / $0.0186 / $0.0138 / $0.0114 per minute); Toxicity Detection is tiered ($0.0036 / $0.00225 / $0.0015 / $0.0012). Speaker identification is included; PII redaction is a paid add-on not modeled here. Source: AWS public pricing.
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Contact center engineers, media and broadcast teams, healthcare IT architects, and compliance teams running voice-to-text workflows on AWS.
Why We Built This Tool
Transcribe costs scale with audio volume — Medical's $0.075/minute is 12.5× Standard batch at $0.006/minute, and Call Analytics adds post-call intelligence at $0.030/minute for the first 250K minutes.
What Problem It Solves
- Medical vs Standard cost gap. Medical transcription at $0.075/minute is 12.5× the Standard batch rate — meaningful only when clinical vocabulary accuracy is required.
- Toxicity Detection oversight. The add-on ($0.0036/min for the first 250K minutes) applies to every minute of input audio, not just flagged segments — budget it as a percentage of base cost.
- Call Analytics underestimation. Tiering down to $0.0114/minute looks cheap, but full recording archives for compliance can run millions of minutes per month.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Amazon Transcribe priced per minute or per file?
Amazon Transcribe bills per second of audio with a 15-second minimum per request, rounded up to the nearest second, then reported in minutes on your bill. This calculator uses minutes for simplicity — actual charges may vary slightly based on per-request rounding.
What does the Transcribe free tier include?
Standard Transcribe includes 60 minutes of transcription per month free for the first 12 months after your first Transcribe request. Medical and Call Analytics each have their own 60-minute monthly free tier for 12 months; this calculator applies the free tier to Standard only.
When should I use Medical Transcribe instead of Standard?
Use Medical Transcribe when clinical vocabulary accuracy is essential — physician dictation, clinical notes, or patient-provider conversations where misrecognizing a medication name has consequences. For general-purpose use cases, Standard batch at $0.006/minute delivers strong accuracy at a fraction of the cost.
Does speaker identification add to the Transcribe cost?
No. Speaker diarization (identifying different speakers in audio) and speaker identification are included in the Standard, Medical, and Call Analytics rates at no additional charge.
What is Toxicity Detection and how is it billed?
Toxicity Detection flags hate speech, profanity, sexual content, insults, threats, and harassment in transcripts. It is available as an add-on for Standard and Call Analytics transcription at $0.0036/minute of input audio for the first 250K minutes ($0.00225 next 750K, $0.0015 next 4M, $0.0012 beyond) — charged on all submitted minutes, not just those with detected content.
Is Call Analytics streaming priced differently from batch?
Call Analytics post-call transcription bills $0.030/minute for the first 250K minutes, $0.0186 for the next 750K, $0.0138 for the next 4M, and $0.0114 beyond — which is what this calculator models. In us-east-1, real-time Call Analytics streaming is metered separately (USE1-CallAnalyticsStreamingAudio) but at the same tiered per-minute rates.
