AssemblyAI Pricing
assemblyai.com · Speech & Transcription · refreshed 2026-05-03www.assemblyai.com/pricing
Pricing built for innovation, not contract negotiation — $0.21/hr, no contracts, no minimums, no credit card required
$0.21/hr Universal-3 Pro STT; $0.15/hr Universal-Streaming; $4.50/hr Voice Agent
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Contact sales
Plans & what each tier includes
Synthesized from AssemblyAI's public pricing page on 2026-05-03. Tier names normalized to a starter / team / business / enterprise pattern; the actual AssemblyAI pricing page is the source of truth for in-tier features.Free
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forever$50 credit, no credit card
Access to AssemblyAI's speech & transcription surface
Standard per-unit pricing applies once free quota is consumed
Full public API documentation available
Enterprise
Contact sales
customCustom pricing negotiated with the AssemblyAI sales team
Dedicated account manager and SLA commitments
Volume discounts on per-unit costs
Procurement-friendly: invoicing, NDAs, security questionnaires
What AssemblyAI charges
AssemblyAI operates in the speech & transcription space. The published pricing page lists 2 tiers, including a free tier, with per-unit pricing of $0.21/hr Universal-3 Pro STT; $0.15/hr Universal-Streaming; $4.50/hr Voice Agent. The pricing page positions plans as: "Pricing built for innovation, not contract negotiation — $0.21/hr, no contracts, no minimums, no credit card required".
For the deeper analysis — score, simulation, pros & cons for AI agents, and the one-line fix that would lift this listing into the Verified band — see the agent-readiness scorecard.AssemblyAI pricing FAQ
AssemblyAI offers a free tier ($50 credit, no credit card). Paid pricing is sales-led — the live pricing page does not list a self-serve paid plan as of 2026-05-03.
Yes — AssemblyAI publishes a free tier: $50 credit, no credit card. This makes it possible to evaluate AssemblyAI without committing budget.
AssemblyAI's public pricing page lists the following per-unit pricing: $0.21/hr Universal-3 Pro STT; $0.15/hr Universal-Streaming; $4.50/hr Voice Agent. This is the rate captured by xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS Index on 2026-05-03 and is the basis for the agent-readiness score on the linked scorecard.
AssemblyAI's pricing page positions itself as: "Pricing built for innovation, not contract negotiation — $0.21/hr, no contracts, no minimums, no credit card required". Per-unit pricing of $0.21/hr Universal-3 Pro STT; $0.15/hr Universal-Streaming; $4.50/hr Voice Agent is published. For the strict definition of agent-buyable PPU — a per-task purchase that an AI agent can complete without an annual commitment — see the agent-readiness scorecard.
Partially. 1 AssemblyAI tier is self-serve via card checkout; 1 tier requires contacting sales.
Yes — AssemblyAI's API documentation is publicly accessible at https://www.assemblyai.com/docs. An AI agent or developer can inspect the integration surface without authentication.
xpay scored AssemblyAI 74 / 100 on its Agent-Ready SaaS Index, which places it in the Approaching Agent-Ready band. Based on public pricing signals, xpay verified that AssemblyAI publishes per-hour rates across STT, streaming, voice agent, and per-hour speech-understanding add-ons, with a $50 no-credit-card starting balance and a fully public docs site. The pricing page itself behaves like an API rate card, which is unusually well-suited to autonomous agent procurement. For the full 6-step purchase simulation and the one-line fix that would lift this listing into the next band, see the linked scorecard.
In the Speech & Transcription category, xpay's Agent-Ready Index lists multiple alternatives ranked by their ability to support AI agent purchase. Visit the agent-readiness scorecard for AssemblyAI to compare with 3 nearest peers, or browse the full Speech & Transcription category from the index.
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Can an AI agent buy from AssemblyAI?
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/ 100 in xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS IndexBased on public pricing signals, xpay verified that AssemblyAI publishes per-hour rates across STT, streaming, voice agent, and per-hour speech-understanding add-ons, with a $50 no-credit-card startin…
See the full scorecardIncludes the 6-step agent purchase simulation, score breakdown across 7 dimensions, and the one-line fix that would lift AssemblyAI into the Agent-Ready Verified band.At a glance
$50 credit, no credit card
Free
$0.21/hr Universal-3 Pro STT; $0.15/hr Universal-Streaming; $4.50/hr Voice Agent
1 tier
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Public docs
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AssemblyAI pricing summary derived from a live read of https://www.assemblyai.com/pricing on 2026-05-03. For the agent-readiness assessment — including the 6-step purchase simulation and a per-dimension scorecard — see xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS Index entry for AssemblyAI.