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          "Pin `voxtral-mini-2602` if output must not change, since `-latest` aliases can move",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-voxtral-transcribe.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mistral-voxtral-transcribe.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Amazon Transcribe (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams already on AWS with audio in S3 and IAM in place, especially batch jobs at volume.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 95 against 53\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 85\n- Security \u0026 auth, 80 against 70\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- No incidents deducted, where Mistral Voxtral Transcribe loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: AWS may store and use audio to improve the service unless an organisation-wide AI services opt-out policy is set\n\n### Mistral Voxtral Transcribe (B)\n\nGood for: Suited to low-cost batch transcription with diarisation in the 13 supported languages, and to live captions or voice agents that can run without speaker labels.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 66 against 35\n\nWatch for: Audio rate limits are named (audio seconds a minute and a month) but the numbers are shown only in the Admin Panel\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Transcribe | Mistral Voxtral Transcribe | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 95 | 53 | Amazon Transcribe +42 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 85 | Amazon Transcribe +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 77 | Amazon Transcribe +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 80 | 70 | Amazon Transcribe +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Mistral Voxtral Transcribe +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 66 | Mistral Voxtral Transcribe +31 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 82 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **73.4 · BB** | **64.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Transcribe | Mistral Voxtral Transcribe |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Mistral AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://transcribe.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.mistral.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, websocket |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | Proprietary hosted service under Mistral's commercial terms. 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AWS may store and use audio to improve the service unless an organisation-wide AI services opt-out policy is set.\n\n**Mistral Voxtral Transcribe.** Batch transcription costs $0.003 a minute and takes one multipart call with a file, a URL or an uploaded file ID. Rate limit numbers are shown only in the console, and timestamps cannot be combined with a set language, nor diarisation with the realtime model.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon Transcribe\n\n1. Give every job a unique `TranscriptionJobName`. A retry with the same name fails with `ConflictException` rather than starting a second job\n2. Batch is a job. Poll `GetTranscriptionJob` or listen on EventBridge, then fetch the transcript URI\n3. Set `OutputBucketName`, because job records are deleted after 90 days\n4. Back off on `LimitExceededException`. It arrives as a 400, not a 429\n5. Set the organisation's AI services opt-out policy before sending customer audio\n\n### Mistral Voxtral Transcribe\n\n1. 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