Vowrite is free and open source. You bring your own API keys (BYOK) and only pay your chosen providers directly. Here's what they cost.
Based on ~30 minutes of voice input per day (â15 STT hours + 300K Polish tokens / month)
SiliconFlow SenseVoice STT + Zhipu glm-4.7-flash Polish. Zero cost, unlimited usage.
Groq whisper-large-v3-turbo + DeepSeek V4-flash Polish. Excellent quality at pennies.
OpenAI mini-transcribe + gpt-5.4-mini. Reliable mainstream choice.
Deepgram Nova-3 + Claude Sonnet 4-6. Top accuracy and polish quality.
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| Provider | Model | Price / min | Price / hour | Languages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherpa (Offline) | SenseVoice Small / Zipformer / FireRedASR2 | Free đ | Free | EN/CN/JP/KR/æšč¨ | 100% LOCAL |
| SiliconFlow | FunAudioLLM/SenseVoiceSmall | Free ⨠| Free | 50+ | FREE |
| SiliconFlow | TeleAI/TeleSpeechASR | Free ⨠| Free | CN focused | FREE |
| iFlytek (čŽ¯éŖ) | iat / xfime-mianqie | Free 500/day | ~$0.002 | CN + 23 dialects | CN BEST |
| Groq | whisper-large-v3 | $0.0005 | $0.03 | 57+ | CHEAPEST |
| Groq | whisper-large-v3-turbo | $0.0007 | $0.04 | 57+ | FASTEST |
| Qwen | paraformer-realtime-v2 | ~$0.0014 | ~$0.08 | 30+ | VALUE |
| Qwen | qwen3-asr-flash | ~$0.0028 | ~$0.17 | 30+ auto-detect | |
| Together AI | whisper-large-v3 | $0.0015 | $0.09 | 57+ | |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-mini-transcribe | $0.003 | $0.18 | 57+ | â Default |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-transcribe | $0.006 | $0.36 | 57+ | ACCURATE |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize | $0.006 | $0.36 | 57+ | Speaker labels |
| OpenAI | whisper-1 | $0.006 | $0.36 | 57+ | Legacy |
| Deepgram | Nova-3 (batch) | $0.0043 | $0.26 | 36+ | |
| Deepgram | Nova-3 (streaming) | $0.0077 | $0.46 | 36+ | TOP ACCURACY |
| Deepgram | Nova-3 (multi-channel) | $0.0052 | $0.31 | 36+ | |
| Deepgram | Nova-2 | $0.0058 | $0.35 | 36+ | Legacy |
| Volcengine | Seed-ASR (Doubao) | Pending | Pending | 13+ | F-063 (TOS or WS) |
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| Provider | Model | Input $/M tokens | Output $/M tokens | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ollama (Local) | qwen3:8b ¡ llama3.1:8b ¡ deepseek-r1:8b ¡ gemma3:4b | Free đĨī¸ | Free | Varies | 100% LOCAL |
| MLX Server (Local) | Qwen3.5-9B ¡ Llama 3.3 70B ¡ Mistral Small 24B | Free đĨī¸ | Free | Varies | APPLE SILICON |
| Zhipu | glm-4.7-flash | Free ⨠| Free | 203K | FREE |
| Zhipu | glm-4.5-air | ~$0.20 | ~$0.30 | 128K | Lightweight |
| Zhipu | glm-4.6 | $0.60 | $2.20 | 200K | |
| Zhipu | glm-5 | $1.00 | $3.00 | 200K | |
| Zhipu | glm-5.1 | $0.45 | $0.80 | 200K | FLAGSHIP |
| Groq | llama-3.1-8b-instant | $0.05 | $0.08 | 128K | FASTEST |
| Groq | openai/gpt-oss-20b | $0.10 | $0.50 | 128K | |
| Groq | openai/gpt-oss-120b | $0.15 | $0.60 | 128K | â Default |
| Groq | qwen/qwen3-32b | $0.29 | $0.39 | 128K | Reasoning preview |
| Groq | llama-3.3-70b-versatile | $0.59 | $0.79 | 128K | |
| DeepSeek | deepseek-v4-flash | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1M | VALUE â |
| DeepSeek | deepseek-v4-pro | $0.435 * | $0.87 * | 1M | * 75% off till 2026-05-31 |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.4-nano | $0.20 | $1.25 | 400K | CHEAPEST |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-mini | $0.15 | $0.60 | 128K | Legacy fallback |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.4-mini | $0.75 | $4.50 | 400K | â Default |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.5 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 400K | FRONTIER |
| Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1M | FREE TIER |
| Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1M | â Default |
| Gemini | gemini-2.5-pro | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1M (2Ã >200K) | FLAGSHIP |
| Claude | claude-haiku-4-5 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K | Fast tier |
| Claude | claude-sonnet-4-6 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M | PREMIUM â |
| Claude | claude-opus-4-7 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K | Most capable |
| Kimi (Moonshot) | kimi-k2.5 | $0.60 | $2.50 | 128K | Previous flagship |
| Kimi (Moonshot) | kimi-k2.6 | $0.60 | $2.50 | 200K | â Latest |
| Kimi (Moonshot) | kimi-k2-thinking-turbo | $0.60 | $2.50 | 200K | Reasoning |
| MiniMax | MiniMax-M2.5 | $0.15 | $1.15 | 197K | |
| MiniMax | MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed | $0.30 | $2.40 | 197K | FAST |
| MiniMax | MiniMax-M2.7 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 197K | â Latest |
| Volcengine | doubao-seed-1-6 | ~$0.11 | ~$1.13 | 256K | |
| Volcengine | doubao-seed-1-8 | ~$0.11 | ~$0.28 | 32K (cheap) | â Default |
| Volcengine | doubao-seed-2-0-pro | $0.47 | $2.37 | 256K | FLAGSHIP |
| Qwen | qwen-turbo-latest | ~$0.05 | ~$0.20 | 128K | Cheap stable |
| Qwen | qwen3.6-flash | ~$0.06 | ~$0.50 | 128K | VALUE |
| Qwen | qwen3.6-plus | $0.33 | $1.95 | 1M | â Default |
| Qwen | qwen3.6-max-preview | $1.04 | $6.24 | 1M | FRONTIER |
| SiliconFlow | Qwen/Qwen3-8B | Free ⨠| Free | 32K | FREE |
| SiliconFlow | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 | ~$0.014 | ~$0.028 | 164K | CHEAPEST |
| SiliconFlow | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus | ~$0.28 | ~$0.42 | 164K | |
| SiliconFlow | zai-org/GLM-4.6 | ~$0.42 | ~$0.84 | 200K | |
| SiliconFlow | Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B | ~$0.41 | ~$0.83 | 128K | MoE 235B |
| SiliconFlow | Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct | ~$0.57 | ~$0.57 | 128K | |
| Together AI | Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B | $0.20 | $0.20 | 32K | Cheap & fast |
| Together AI | meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo | $0.88 | $0.88 | 128K | Balanced |
| Together AI | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro | ~$1.50 | ~$3.00 | 512K | Reasoning flagship |
| OpenRouter | 300+ models (aggregator) | Pass-through | Pass-through | Varies | One key, many models |