Amazon Transcribe pricing
With Amazon Transcribe, you pay-as-you-go based on the seconds of audio transcribed per month. It’s easy to get started with the Amazon Transcribe Free Tier. Upon signup, start analyzing up to 60 audio minutes monthly, free for the first 12 months.
Free tier
As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon Transcribe for free. The Amazon Transcribe Free Tier is available to you for 12 months, starting from the date on which you create your first transcription request. Your usage for the free tier is calculated each month across all AWS Regions except the AWS GovCloud Region and automatically applied to your bill; unused monthly usage will not roll over. When your free usage expires or if your application use exceeds the free usage tier, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.
Standard pricing
Pricing examples*
Call transcription example
Let’s assume that you want to use Amazon Transcribe to process 200,000 calls per month and the average call is about 10 minutes each. This equals 2 million minutes of audio per month in the US East (N. Virginia) region. In US East (N. Virginia), Tier 1 (T1) pricing of $0.024/minute applies to the first 250,000 minutes of transcriptions. Tier 2 pricing of $0.015/minute (38% discount to T1 pricing) applies to the next 750,000 minutes. Tier 3 pricing of $0.0102/minute (58% discount to T1 pricing) applies to the next 4,000,000 minutes. Since your usage volume crosses three different pricing tiers, your monthly charges will be as follows.
Calculation of monthly charge:
Total monthly call minutes transcribed in US East (N. Virginia) = 2 million minutes
Total cost = [T1 minutes * T1 price/min] + [T2 minutes * T2 price/min] + [T3 minutes * T3 price/min]
Total cost = [250,000 minutes * $0.024] + [750,000 minutes * $0.015] + [(2,000,000 - 750,000 – 250,000) minutes * $0.0102]
Total cost = [$6,000] + [$11,250] + [$10,200] = $27,450
Video subtitling example
Let’s assume you want to subtitle 5,000 hours of live streaming content with Amazon Transcribe. In US East (N. Virginia), Tier 1 (T1) pricing of $0.024/minute applies to the first 250,000 minutes of transcriptions. Tier 2 pricing of $0.015/minute (38% discount to T1 pricing) applies to the next 750,000 minutes. Since your usage volume crosses two different pricing tiers, your monthly charges will be as follows.
Calculation of charge:
Total monthly audio minutes transcribed = 300,000 minutes
Total cost = [T1 minutes * T1 price/min] + [T2 minutes * T2 price/min]
Total cost = [250,000 minutes * $0.024] + [50,000 minutes * $0.015] =
Total cost = [$6,000] + [$750] = $6,750
* These calculations assumes that the usage volume excludes the Free Tier.
Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics pricing
Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics is an API for producing rich call transcripts, redacting sensitive customer information, and extracting actionable conversation insights. With Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics, you pay-as-you-go and are billed monthly based on the tiered pricing shown below. You can apply the specific discount rate for your region based on the following examples for the US East (N. Virginia region). Usage is billed in one-second increments, with a minimum per request charge of 15 seconds. This pricing includes features such as custom vocabularies and vocabulary filtering. Additional charges apply for custom language models.
Free tier
As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics for free. Upon sign-up, start analyzing up to 60 minutes of call audio monthly, free for the first 12 months. Your usage for the free tier is calculated each month across all AWS Regions except the AWS GovCloud Region and automatically applied to your bill; unused monthly usage will not roll over. Restrictions apply; see offer terms for more details.
Pricing example
Let’s assume that you want to use Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics to process 200,000 calls per month and the average call is about 10 minutes each. This equals 2 million minutes of audio per month in the US East (N. Virginia) region. In US East (N. Virginia), Tier 1 (T1) pricing of $0.0300/minute applies to the first 250,000 minutes of transcriptions. Tier 2 pricing of $0.0186/minute (38% discount to T1 pricing) applies to the next 750,000 minutes. Tier 3 pricing of $0.0138/minute (54% discount to T1 pricing) applies to the next 4,000,000 minutes. Since your usage volume crosses three different pricing tiers, your monthly charges will be as follows.
Calculation of monthly charge:
Total monthly call minutes analyzed in US East (N. Virginia) = 2 million minutes
Total cost = [T1 minutes * T1 price/min] + [T2 minutes * T2 price/min] + [T3 minutes * T3 price/min]
Total cost = [250,000 minutes * $0.0300] + [750,000 minutes * $0.0186] + [(2,000,000 - 750,000 - 250,000) minutes * $0.0138]
Total cost = [$7,500] + [$13,950] + [$13,800] = $35,250
Amazon Transcribe Medical pricing
With Transcribe Medical, you pay-as-you-go based on the seconds of audio transcribed per month. It’s easy to get started with the Transcribe Medical Free Tier. Upon signup, start analyzing up to 60 minutes of audio monthly, free for the first 12 months.
Free tier
The Transcribe Medical free tier is available to you for 12 months, starting from the date on which you create your first transcription. When your free usage expires, or if your application use exceeds the free usage tier, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.
Standard pricing
Pricing examples
Example |
Length |
Cost |
Pre-patient visit conversation between physicians, clinic managers, nurses, and others |
15 minutes |
$1.125 |
Physician dictated audio note |
30 minutes |
$2.250 |
Telemedicine conversational audio |
45 minutes |
$3.375 |
Medical consultation over a phone call |
60 minutes |
$4.500 |
Clinical trial reporting about medicines |
75 minutes |
$5.625 |
Clinician-patient conversation |
90 minutes |
$6.750 |
Automatic Content Redaction pricing
You can choose to enable Automatic Content Redaction for your transcription jobs. The additional charges that you pay are based on the seconds of audio transcribed per month where Automatic Content Redaction is enabled.
Automatic Content Redaction add-on pricing
Pricing example
| Example | Audio length | Transcription cost | Content redaction cost | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer care call recording | ~ 10 minutes | $0.240 | $0.024 | $0.264 |
Custom Language Model pricing
You can build your own Custom Language Models (CLM) by training Transcribe’s standard models with your domain specific text. Once you have a CLM, you can choose which transcription jobs should utilize your CLM. You will only incur an additional CLM charge for the transcription jobs where a custom language model is applied.
Pricing
Pricing example
| Example | Audio Length | Transcription cost | Custom Language Model add-on cost | Total cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer call recording | ~ 10 audio minutes | $0.240 | $0.060 | $0.300 |
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