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 2026-07-03. Pricing MCP was permission-blocked; values use AWS public us-east-1 list prices. Speaker identification and content redaction are included at no extra charge. Source: AWS public pricing.
Who This Tool Is For
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 linearly with audio volume — Medical's $0.075/minute is 3× Standard's $0.024/minute, and Call Analytics unlocks post-call intelligence at the lowest rate.
What Problem It Solves
- Medical vs Standard cost gap. Medical transcription at $0.075/minute is 3× the Standard rate — meaningful only when clinical vocabulary accuracy is required.
- Toxicity Detection oversight. The add-on ($0.014/min) applies to every minute of input audio, not just flagged segments — budget it as a percentage of base cost.
- Call Analytics underestimation. The $0.0176/minute rate 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. The free tier applies to Standard transcription only — Medical and Call Analytics are not covered.
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 at $0.024/minute delivers strong accuracy at one-third 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 $0.014/minute of input audio — charged on all submitted minutes, not just those with detected content.
Is Call Analytics streaming priced differently from batch?
Call Analytics batch (post-call) transcription bills at $0.0176/minute, which is what this calculator models. Call Analytics real-time streaming is a separate offering with its own pricing — check the AWS Transcribe pricing page for real-time Call Analytics rates if that is your use case.