# Amazon Transcribe vs Groq Speech-to-Text (slim)

> Amazon Transcribe scores 73.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Groq Speech-to-Text's 71.8 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Groq Speech-to-Text leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do speech stt. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes…

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Amazon Transcribe scores 73.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Groq Speech-to-Text's 71.8 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Groq Speech-to-Text leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do speech stt.

- Amazon Transcribe: BB 73.4, rank #86 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-transcribe.min.md
- Groq Speech-to-Text: BB 71.8, rank #113 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.min.md
- Amazon Transcribe, good for Teams already on AWS with audio in S3 and IAM in place, especially batch jobs at volume. Ahead on Reliability, 95 against 90; Schema & documentation, 90 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 75.
- Groq Speech-to-Text, good for Suited to cheap, fast transcription of recorded files in many languages, and to agents that already hold a Groq key or use an OpenAI-compatible client. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 68 against 35. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Amazon Transcribe | Groq Speech-to-Text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 95 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 80 | 79 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 35 | 68 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 85 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon Transcribe | Groq Speech-to-Text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Groq |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://transcribe.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.groq.com/openai/v1` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | Proprietary hosted service under the Groq Services Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0 and the Whisper weights are published by OpenAI on Hugging Face |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-08-26 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-06-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2025-11-12 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 185 stars, 506k npm/wk, 201k PyPI/wk | 621 stars |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |