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title: "Pricing"
description: "$0.09 per minute all-in on Speko infrastructure across speech-to-text, LLM and text-to-speech, or 5% on top of a provider's published rate when routed. $10 in credits on signup."
canonical: "https://speko.ai/pricing"
last-updated: "2026-09-08"
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# Pricing

$0.09 per minute all-in on Speko infrastructure across speech-to-text, LLM and text-to-speech, or 5% on top of a provider's published rate when routed.

$10 in signup credit applies to every account.

|  | Router | Speko infra | Enterprise |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | +5% on the provider's rate | $0.09 per minute | Custom locked for the term |
| Speech-to-text, LLM, TTS | The provider's published rate | Included | Included |
| Routing | Measured selection and pre-response failover | Measured selection and pre-response failover | Plus deployment reviews |
| Access | Public preview | Public preview | By contract |
| Support | Email | Email | Dedicated |
| SLA | None during preview | None during preview | In the contract |
| Commitment | None | None | Committed monthly minimum |
|  | [Get API key](https://platform.speko.ai/sign-in) | [Get API key](https://platform.speko.ai/sign-in) | [team@speko.ai](mailto:team@speko.ai) |

## Choose the pricing path

Pick the service boundary first. Router adds managed routing to your provider spend, Speko infrastructure bundles the three voice-model legs into one per-minute rate, and Enterprise covers committed usage and custom operating requirements. Signup credit is applied before paid usage.

- ### Signup credit
  
  $10 in signup credit applies to every account.
- ### Router
  
  +5% on the provider's rate. Speech-to-text, LLM, TTS: The provider's published rate. Routing: Measured selection and pre-response failover. Access: Public preview. Support: Email. SLA: None during preview. Commitment: None.
- ### Speko infra
  
  $0.09 per minute. Speech-to-text, LLM, TTS: Included. Routing: Measured selection and pre-response failover. Access: Public preview. Support: Email. SLA: None during preview. Commitment: None.
- ### Enterprise
  
  Custom locked for the term. Speech-to-text, LLM, TTS: Included. Routing: Plus deployment reviews. Access: By contract. Support: Dedicated. SLA: In the contract. Commitment: Committed monthly minimum.

## What each feature row means

These are the boundaries used in the plan matrix. They separate the model bill, routing behavior, availability, support, service level, and commercial commitment so an automated buyer can compare like with like.

- ### Speech-to-text, LLM, TTS
  
  Router: The provider's published rate. Speko infrastructure: Included. Enterprise: Included.
- ### Routing
  
  Router: Measured selection and pre-response failover. Speko infrastructure: Measured selection and pre-response failover. Enterprise: Plus deployment reviews.
- ### Access
  
  Router: Public preview. Speko infrastructure: Public preview. Enterprise: By contract.
- ### Support
  
  Router: Email. Speko infrastructure: Email. Enterprise: Dedicated.
- ### SLA
  
  Router: None during preview. Speko infrastructure: None during preview. Enterprise: In the contract.
- ### Commitment
  
  Router: None. Speko infrastructure: None. Enterprise: Committed monthly minimum.

## What the 5% is 5% of

Provider list rates, from the boards Speko routes on. Routed, you pay the rate of whichever model Router selects, plus 5%. On Speko infrastructure you pay $0.09 a minute for all three legs instead, and none of these apply.

### Speech-to-text

$ / minute of audio · 29 models priced

Lowest $0.0008

Velma 2

Highest $0.0170

GPT Realtime Whisper

Velma 2: Published streaming rate for English Fast, $0.05/hr. Batch is $0.025/hr. The $0.06/hr this row used to carry is the MULTILINGUAL row, a different product from the one this id names. Not a measurement.

GPT Realtime Whisper: Billed by audio duration at $0.017/minute, not by token (developers.openai.com model page, read 2026-09-21). Same rate as gpt-live-transcribe.

### LLM

$ / M output tokens · 19 models priced

Lowest $0.26

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

Highest $14.00

gpt-5.2

### Text-to-speech

$ / M characters · 35 models priced

Lowest $5.0

Qwen3-TTS

Highest $100.0

speech-2.8-hd

Rates as transcribed from [benchmarks.speko.ai](https://benchmarks.speko.ai). A tilde is the board’s own: the vendor publishes no exact rate.