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
SiliconFlow STT + Zhipu glm-4-flash Polish. Zero cost, unlimited usage.
Groq Whisper STT + DeepSeek Polish. Excellent quality at pennies.
OpenAI mini-transcribe + gpt-4o-mini. Reliable mainstream choice.
Deepgram Nova-3 + Claude Sonnet. Top accuracy and polish quality.
Transcribe your voice to raw text
| Provider | Model | Price / min | Price / hour | Languages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SiliconFlow | SenseVoiceSmall | Free ✨ | Free | 50+ | FREE |
| Groq | whisper-large-v3 | $0.0005 | $0.03 | 57+ | CHEAPEST |
| Groq | whisper-large-v3-turbo | $0.0007 | $0.04 | 57+ | FASTEST |
| Together AI | whisper-large-v3 | $0.0015 | $0.09 | 57+ | |
| Volcengine | Seed-ASR 2.0 (file) | ~$0.0018 | ~$0.11 | 13+ | |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-mini-transcribe | $0.003 | $0.18 | 57+ | |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-transcribe | $0.006 | $0.36 | 57+ | ACCURATE |
| OpenAI | whisper-1 | $0.006 | $0.36 | 57+ | |
| Deepgram | Nova-2 | $0.0058 | $0.35 | 36+ | |
| Deepgram | Nova-3 (Mono) | $0.0077 | $0.46 | 36+ | TOP ACCURACY |
| Deepgram | Nova-3 (Multi) | $0.0092 | $0.55 | 45+ | |
| Volcengine | Seed-ASR 2.0 (stream) | ~$0.010 | ~$0.62 | 13+ | |
| Ollama | whisper (local) | Free 🖥️ | Free | 57+ | Local GPU |
Clean up and refine your transcribed text
| Provider | Model | Input $/M tokens | Output $/M tokens | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhipu | glm-4-flash | Free ✨ | Free | 128K | FREE |
| Groq | llama-3.1-8b-instant | $0.05 | $0.08 | 128K | FASTEST |
| Qwen | qwen3.5-flash | ~$0.03 | ~$0.14 | 128K | CHEAP |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-mini | $0.15 | $0.60 | 128K | ⭐ Recommended |
| Gemini | gemini-2.0-flash | $0.10 | $0.40 | 1M | FREE TIER |
| DeepSeek | deepseek-chat (V3.2) | $0.28 | $0.42 | 164K | VALUE |
| Volcengine | doubao-seed-2.0-mini | ~$0.03 | ~$0.28 | 32K | |
| Groq | llama-3.3-70b-versatile | $0.59 | $0.79 | 128K | |
| Kimi | kimi-k2.5 | $0.60 | $3.00 | 128K | |
| MiniMax | MiniMax-Text-02 | $0.26 | $1.00 | 197K | |
| Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1M | |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K | PREMIUM |
| Claude | claude-sonnet-4-5 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200K | PREMIUM |
| Claude | claude-haiku-3-5 | $0.80 | $4.00 | 200K | |
| Zhipu | glm-4-plus | ~$0.69 | ~$0.69 | 128K | |
| SiliconFlow | Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct | ~$0.57 | ~$0.57 | 128K | |
| Ollama / MLX | Local models | Free 🖥️ | Free | Varies | Local hardware |