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          "A reused `TranscriptionJobName` fails with `ConflictException`, so a retried submission can't create a second job",
          "IAM policies can limit a credential to single actions and resources",
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          "Set `OutputBucketName`, because job records are deleted after 90 days",
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          "Set the organisation's AI services opt-out policy before sending customer audio"
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      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Token-based pay-as-you-go. Async audio input $1.50 per 1M tokens and text in or out $3.50 per 1M, real-time $2.00 and $4.00. Soniox puts this at about $0.10 an hour async and $0.12 an hour real-time, with diarisation, language ID and translation included. New sign-ups have had no free credits since 2025-10-27 (https://soniox.com/pricing).",
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          "About $0.10 an hour async and $0.12 real time, with diarisation, language ID and translation included",
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          "SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022",
          "Regional deployments in the US, EU, Japan and India",
          "Per-request usage logs with cost and request IDs"
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          "No free credits for new accounts since October 2025",
          "No OpenAPI or AsyncAPI file",
          "No documented status code, Retry-After or backoff for rate limits",
          "10 concurrent streams and a fixed 300-minute cap per stream or file",
          "No STT changelog entry since June 2026"
        ],
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          "Pass `audio_url` for public files and skip the upload step. Delete uploaded files or they count against the 10 GB quota for 30 days",
          "Use the `context` field for names and domain terms",
          "Buffer audio while the WebSocket connects, then flush it after the config message",
          "Split anything over 300 minutes. The cap is fixed",
          "Set `client_reference_id` so failed or duplicate requests can be traced in the usage log"
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          "schema": 60,
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        "provenanceScore": 86
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        "http": "curl https://api.soniox.com/v1/transcriptions -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SONIOX_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"model\":\"stt-async-v5\",\"audio_url\":\"https://soniox.com/media/examples/coffee_shop.mp3\",\"enable_speaker_diarization\":true}'"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/soniox-stt.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Amazon Transcribe for reliability (+30), schema \u0026 documentation (+30), agent ergonomics (+10), security \u0026 auth (+10), maintenance \u0026 community (+5), transparency \u0026 trust (+7).\n\nPick Soniox Speech-to-Text for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Transcribe | Soniox Speech-to-Text | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 95 | 65 | Amazon Transcribe +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 60 | Amazon Transcribe +30 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 70 | Amazon Transcribe +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 80 | 70 | Amazon Transcribe +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 30 | Amazon Transcribe +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 78 | Amazon Transcribe +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **73.6 · BB** | **58.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Transcribe | Soniox Speech-to-Text |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Soniox |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://transcribe.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.soniox.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | Apache-2.0 (Python SDK) |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-08-11 |\n| Popularity | 185 stars, 506k npm/wk, 201k PyPI/wk | 12 stars, 22k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon Transcribe.** $0.006 a minute batch and $0.01 streaming in US East, with diarisation, custom vocabulary and language ID included. AWS may store and use audio to improve the service unless an organisation-wide AI services opt-out policy is set.\n\n**Soniox Speech-to-Text.** About $0.10 an hour async and $0.12 real time, with diarisation, language ID and translation included. No free credits for new accounts since October 2025.\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### Soniox Speech-to-Text\n\n1. Pass `audio_url` for public files and skip the upload step. Delete uploaded files or they count against the 10 GB quota for 30 days\n2. Use the `context` field for names and domain terms\n3. Buffer audio while the WebSocket connects, then flush it after the config message\n4. Split anything over 300 minutes. The cap is fixed\n5. 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