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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/groq-speech-to-text.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Google Cloud Speech-to-Text (BB)\n\nGood for: Google Cloud teams with audio already in Cloud Storage who want no training and no retention by default.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 58\n- Security \u0026 auth, 95 against 79\n\nWatch for: No release note since 2025-11-13\n\n### Groq Speech-to-Text (BB)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 85\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 70\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 68 against 25\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No streaming or realtime endpoint and no diarisation in the reviewed documentation\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Google Cloud Speech-to-Text | Groq Speech-to-Text | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 90 | Groq Speech-to-Text +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 58 | Google Cloud Speech-to-Text +22 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 75 | Groq Speech-to-Text +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 95 | 79 | Google Cloud Speech-to-Text +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Groq Speech-to-Text +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 25 | 68 | Groq Speech-to-Text +43 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 85 | Google Cloud Speech-to-Text +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **70.2 · BB** | **71.8 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Google Cloud Speech-to-Text | Groq Speech-to-Text |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Google Cloud | Groq |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://speech.googleapis.com/v2` | `https://api.groq.com/openai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-08-26 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | 2026-06-22 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2025-11-12 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 713k npm/wk, 3.7M PyPI/wk | 621 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Google Cloud Speech-to-Text.** Audio isn't stored or used for training unless the project opts in to data logging. No release note since 2025-11-13.\n\n**Groq Speech-to-Text.** Whisper Large v3 Turbo costs $0.04 an audio hour and Whisper Large v3 $0.111, with a no-card free plan and zero data retention as a self-serve setting. There is no streaming endpoint, no diarisation and no subtitle output, and uploads stop at 25 MB on the free plan and 100 MB on the Developer plan.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Google Cloud Speech-to-Text\n\n1. Call Chirp 3 on the `us` or `eu` endpoint. It isn't listed for the `global` location\n2. Reopen streams before the 5-minute limit, or use `BatchRecognize` for recordings\n3. Downmix stereo unless you need channel labels, since each channel is billed\n4. Set dynamic batch on offline jobs to cut the price from $0.016 to $0.003 a minute\n5. Back off on `RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED`. The Speech docs don't give a retry interval\n\n### Groq Speech-to-Text\n\n1. Send `whisper-large-v3-turbo` for transcription and `whisper-large-v3` for translation to English. 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