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 (≈15 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.
OpenAI gpt-4o-transcribe + Claude Sonnet 5. Top accuracy and polish quality.
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| Provider | Model | Price / min | Price / hour | Languages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherpa (Offline) | SenseVoice Small / Zipformer / FireRedASR2 | Free 🔒 | Free | EN/CN/JP/KR/方言 | 100% LOCAL |
| SiliconFlow | FunAudioLLM/SenseVoiceSmall | Free ✨ | Free | 50+ | FREE ⭐ |
| SiliconFlow | TeleAI/TeleSpeechASR | Free ✨ | Free | CN focused | FREE |
| iFlytek (讯飞) | iat / xfime-mianqie | Free 500/day | ~$0.002 | CN + 23 dialects | CN BEST |
| Groq | whisper-large-v3-turbo | $0.0007 | $0.04 | 57+ | FASTEST ⭐ |
| Groq | whisper-large-v3 | $0.0019 | $0.111 | 57+ | Higher accuracy |
| OpenRouter | openai/whisper-large-v3 | $0.0015 | $0.09 | 57+ | ⭐ Default |
| OpenRouter | qwen/qwen3-asr-flash-2026-02-10 | $0.0021 | $0.126 | 11 · strong Chinese | |
| Qwen | qwen3-asr-flash | ~$0.0028 | ~$0.17 | 30+ auto-detect | ⭐ Default |
| Qwen | qwen3-asr-flash-realtime | — | — | 30+ streaming | Pricing unverifiable 2026-07 |
| Qwen | paraformer-realtime-v2 | ~$0.0014 | ~$0.08 | 30+ | Legacy |
| Qwen | fun-asr | — | — | Multilingual | Pricing unverifiable 2026-07 |
| Together AI | whisper-large-v3 | $0.0015 | $0.09 | 57+ | ⭐ Default |
| Together AI | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | $0.0015 | $0.09 | EN/EU only | No Chinese |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-mini-transcribe | $0.003 | $0.18 | 57+ | ⭐ 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 | $0.0077 | $0.46 | 36+ (zh mono only) | TOP ACCURACY ⭐ |
| Deepgram | Nova-3 Medical | — | — | Medical domain | See deepgram.com/pricing |
| Deepgram | Nova-2 | $0.0058 | $0.35 | 36+ | Legacy |
| Volcengine | Doubao 录音文件识别 | — | $0.118 | 13+ | Not yet integrated (TOS-bucket upload) |
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| Provider | Model | Input $/M tokens | Output $/M tokens | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ollama (Local) | qwen3:8b · qwen3.5:9b · llama3.1:8b · deepseek-r1:8b | Free 🖥️ | Free | Varies | 100% LOCAL |
| MLX Server (Local) | Qwen3.5-9B · Llama 3.3 70B · Mistral Small 24B | Free 🖥️ | Free | Varies | APPLE SILICON |
| SiliconFlow | Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B | Free ✨ | Free | 256K | FREE |
| SiliconFlow | Qwen/Qwen3-8B | Free ✨ | Free | 32K | FREE |
| Zhipu | glm-4.7-flash | Free ✨ | Free | 203K | FREE ⭐ |
| Cerebras | gpt-oss-120b | Free ✨ | Free (rate-limited) | 128K | FREE ⭐ ~3000 tok/s |
| Groq | openai/gpt-oss-120b | $0.15 | $0.60 | 128K | ⭐ Default |
| Groq | openai/gpt-oss-20b | $0.075 | $0.30 | 128K | |
| Groq | llama-3.1-8b-instant | $0.05 | $0.08 | 128K | FASTEST |
| Groq | qwen/qwen3-32b | $0.29 | $0.59 | 128K | Reasoning · Preview |
| Groq | llama-3.3-70b-versatile | $0.59 | $0.79 | 128K | |
| DeepSeek | deepseek-v4-flash | $0.14 | $0.28 | 1M | VALUE ⭐ |
| DeepSeek | deepseek-v4-pro | $0.435 | $0.87 | 1M | |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.4-nano | $0.20 | $1.25 | 400K | CHEAPEST |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.4-mini | $0.75 | $4.50 | 400K | ⭐ Default |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-luna | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1M | New gen · fast |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-sol | $5.00 | $30.00 | — | FRONTIER |
| Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1M | CHEAPEST |
| Gemini | gemini-3.1-flash-lite | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1M | New gen |
| Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1M | ⭐ Default |
| Gemini | gemini-3.5-flash | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1M | New gen · fast frontier |
| Gemini | gemini-2.5-pro | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1M (2× >200K) | FLAGSHIP |
| Claude | claude-haiku-4-5 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K | Fast tier |
| Claude | claude-sonnet-5 | $2.00 * | $10.00 * | 1M | PREMIUM ⭐ * intro price to 2026-08-31, then $3/$15 |
| Claude | claude-opus-4-8 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K | Most capable |
| Kimi (Moonshot) | kimi-k2.5 | $0.60 | $3.00 | 200K | Cheaper · final availability 2026-08-31 |
| Kimi (Moonshot) | kimi-k2.6 | $0.95 | $4.00 | 200K | ⭐ Default |
| MiniMax | MiniMax-M3 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 197K | ⭐ Default · only thinking-off model |
| MiniMax | MiniMax-M2.7 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 197K | Thinking always on |
| MiniMax | MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed | $0.60 | $2.40 | 197K | FAST thinking on |
| Volcengine | doubao-seed-1-8 | from $0.11 | from $0.28 | 32K | ⭐ Default |
| Volcengine | doubao-seed-1-6-flash | from $0.02 | from $0.21 | — | Cheapest, fastest |
| Volcengine | doubao-seed-2-1-turbo | $0.42 | $2.08 | — | New gen · balanced |
| Volcengine | doubao-seed-2-1-pro | $0.83 | $4.17 | — | FLAGSHIP |
| Qwen | qwen3.7-plus | from $0.40 | from $1.60 | 1M | ⭐ Default · tiered |
| Qwen | qwen3.7-max | $2.50 | $7.50 | — | FRONTIER replaces 3.6-max-preview |
| Qwen | qwen3.6-flash | from $0.25 | from $1.50 | — | VALUE |
| 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/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct | ~$0.57 | ~$0.57 | 128K | |
| Zhipu | glm-5.2 | — | — | 1M | Newest — see bigmodel.cn/pricing |
| Zhipu | glm-5.1 | $0.45 | $0.80 | 200K | FLAGSHIP |
| Zhipu | glm-4.6 | $0.60 | $2.20 | 200K | |
| xAI (Grok) | grok-4.3 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M | ⭐ Default |
| xAI (Grok) | grok-4.5 | $2.00 | $6.00 | <200K | Flagship · thinking on |
| Cerebras | zai-glm-4.7 | — | — | — | Preview — see cerebras.ai/pricing |
| Cerebras | gemma-4-31b | — | — | — | Preview |
| Baidu Qianfan | ernie-4.5-turbo-128k | $0.11 | $0.44 | 128K | ⭐ Default · ¥0.8/¥3.2 |
| Together AI | LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B | $0.03 | $0.12 | — | CHEAPEST PAID |
| Together AI | Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B | $0.17 | $0.25 | 32K | Cheap & fast |
| Together AI | Qwen/Qwen3.7-Plus | $0.32 | $1.28 | 1M | New Qwen gen |
| Together AI | meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo | $1.04 | $1.04 | 128K | ⭐ Default |
| Together AI | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro | $1.74 | $3.48 | 512K | Reasoning flagship |
| OpenRouter | 400+ models (aggregator) | Pass-through | Pass-through | Varies | One key, many models |