{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "inworld-stt", "name": "Inworld STT", "vendor": "Inworld AI", "vendorUrl": "https://inworld.ai", "kind": "model", "category": "speech-to-text", "summary": "Inworld's speech-to-text API runs its `inworld/inworld-stt-1` model in 30 languages over synchronous HTTP, bidirectional WebSocket streaming and asynchronous jobs, returning Voice Profile signals (age, emotion, pitch, accent) and turn detection alongside the transcript.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inworld-stt.json", "dns": "inworld-stt.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "http", "websocket" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@inworld/cli" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Every call sends `Authorization: Basic` with the Base64 `key_id:secret` credential from the Portal or the CLI. Keys belong to a workspace and are deleted to revoke. Browsers pass a one-time token in the `bearer_` WebSocket subprotocol rather than the URL.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$0.15 an hour of audio on the free On-Demand plan and $0.10 on the paid plans ($25 to $1,500 a month), billed per second. On-Demand includes up to 400 minutes free. Diarisation and Voice Profile are separate per-second add-ons. Asynchronous jobs need a payment method.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or pricing page (checked 2026-11-06). Plans and credits are bought in the Portal.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.inworld.ai/stt/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.inworld.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "speech.stt", "speech.streaming", "speech.batch", "speech.diarisation", "speech.languages" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage", "free-tier", "no-card", "closed-source", "llms-txt", "streaming", "batch", "mcp", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 900, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 41, "payments": 40, "reliability": 60, "schema": 54, "security": 63, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Inworld STT costs $0.10 to $0.15 an hour with 400 free minutes, and covers files, live streams and async jobs in 30 languages with Voice Profile signals. There is no machine-readable spec, no public STT changelog and no readable status history, and diarisation is still experimental.", "bestFor": "Low-cost live transcription for voice agents, with speaker traits.", "strengths": [ "$0.15 an hour on the free plan and $0.10 on paid plans, billed per second, with 400 free minutes", "Sync, WebSocket streaming and async jobs on one model, with turn detection and Voice Profile signals", "Browser tokens travel in a WebSocket subprotocol, not the URL", "Zero data retention keeps audio and transcripts in memory, and the docs include it from the Developer plan", "llms.txt, Markdown twins and a docs MCP server" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract", "The STT release notes path asks for a login, so changes to the model aren't publicly dated", "Status history couldn't be read, and an SLA exists only for Enterprise", "Speaker diarisation is experimental and async jobs run on a `v1alpha` operations route", "Docs and the STT product page disagree on which plans include zero data retention" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the Base64 credential as-is in `Authorization: Basic`; don't encode it again", "Wrap the first WebSocket message in `transcribeConfig`, because a malformed first frame closes the socket with 1005 and no error", "Use `POST /stt/v1/transcribe:async` for files over about 16 MB and collect the transcript within 7 days", "Retry 429 or gRPC code 8 with exponential backoff and jitter, and stay within the plan's streaming concurrency", "Stop sending audio when nobody speaks, since streams are billed for every second sent" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 41, "payments": 40, "reliability": 60, "schema": 54, "security": 63, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 75, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @inworld/cli", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add inworld -- inworld mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.stt", "tool": "https://letme.dev/inworld-stt" }, "sameCompany": [ "inworld-tts", "inworld-realtime", "inworld-voice-cloning" ], "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "STT-1, On-Demand", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.0025, "note": "$0.15 an hour" }, { "item": "STT-1, paid plans", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.00167, "note": "$0.10 an hour on Creator to Growth" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Theai, Inc. dba Inworld AI", "domain": "inworld.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://inworld.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://inworld.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.inworld.ai", "changelog": "https://docs.inworld.ai/release-notes/realtime", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (effective 11 June 2025) are an agreement with Theai, Inc. dba Inworld AI under California law, with courts in Santa Clara. The Privacy Notice (last updated 18 January 2026) names Theai, Inc.", "inworld.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security page links a vulnerability report form.", "status.inworld.ai runs the open-source issue-status app, which draws incidents from GitHub issues in inworld-ai/inworld-issue-status. Its history wasn't read, because GitHub's robots.txt couldn't be read from our environment.", "inworld.ai's robots.txt allows Claude agents on the paths read and sets `Content-Signal: ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=no`. docs.inworld.ai has no such signal.", "The domain's registration date wasn't established, because the RDAP lookup failed.", "firstReleased is left empty. No dated STT launch was found, and the STT release notes path asks for a Portal login." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt.json", "live": { "slug": "inworld-stt", "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@inworld/cli", "version": "1.5.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:35:05.474861108Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 290, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://inworld.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:11.794771951Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.inworld.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:47.741512787Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:11.794771951Z" } }, "answer": "Soniox Speech-to-Text scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against Inworld STT's 54.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Inworld STT leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "soniox-stt", "name": "Soniox Speech-to-Text", "vendor": "Soniox", "vendorUrl": "https://soniox.com", "kind": "model", "category": "speech-to-text", "summary": "One multilingual model family for 60+ languages, as a real-time WebSocket API (`stt-rt-v6`) and an async file API (`stt-async-v6`).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/soniox-stt.json", "dns": "soniox-stt.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/soniox/soniox-python", "license": "Apache-2.0 (Python SDK)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.soniox.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@soniox/node", "main": true }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "soniox", "main": true } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key per project, with permissions per service (real-time STT, async STT and files with read and write levels). Temporary API keys can be minted for browsers and mobile clients that stream straight to `wss://stt-rt.soniox.com`, and WebSocket clients send the key with the connection. Regional projects get their own keys and domains (EU, Japan, India).", "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).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or machine payment in the docs or pricing. Billed to a funded account (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 12, "npmWeekly": 22200, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.soniox.com/stt/get-started", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.soniox.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.soniox.com/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "speech.stt", "speech.streaming", "speech.batch", "speech.diarisation", "speech.languages", "speech.translation" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "python", "typescript", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "async-jobs", "streaming", "batch", "enterprise", "openapi" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 286, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 20, "reliability": 77, "schema": 85, "security": 87, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2 October 2026. Python SDK `soniox` 2.10.0, a 2.x minor, removed `api_key` on `RealtimeSTTConfig` and `RealtimeTTSConfig` (\"reading `config.api_key` now raises `AttributeError`\") and `build_payload()`, and made the key a required argument of the realtime session classes, with no deprecation in 2.9.0 or earlier. `soniox` is in the listing's packages, the same term as the other Soniox listings. Source: https://github.com/soniox/soniox-python/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md (-3)" ], "verdict": "About $0.10 an hour async and $0.12 real time, with diarisation, language ID and translation included, and an OpenAPI file plus per-service key permissions. The v6 models arrived on 3 November 2026 and v5 is removed on 15 December. No free credits for new accounts since October 2025, and a 2.x Python SDK minor removed public interfaces.", "bestFor": "Price-led multilingual transcription and translation, live or async, and for operators who want no training and no retention.", "strengths": [ "About $0.10 an hour async and $0.12 real time, with diarisation, language ID and translation included", "API keys carry per-service permissions, with read and write levels for async transcription and files", "Customer audio and transcripts are never used for training, and nothing is retained by default", "An OpenAPI 3.1.0 file and an errors reference with a fix for each error type", "Regional deployments in the US, EU, Japan and India" ], "weaknesses": [ "No free credits for new accounts since October 2025", "No AsyncAPI file for the real-time WebSocket", "Python SDK 2.10.0, a minor release, removed `api_key` and `build_payload()` on the realtime configs without deprecation", "10 concurrent streams and a fixed 300-minute cap per stream or file", "v5 models are removed on 15 December 2026, 42 days after the v6 release" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "Move to `stt-rt-v6` or `stt-async-v6` before 15 December 2026, when v5 requests start routing to v6", "Send the API key with the WebSocket connection, not in the start message, before 15 January 2027", "On a 429 `limit_exceeded`, read `message` for the limit hit; back off on 503 and resubmit failed async jobs, which aren't retried for you", "Split anything over 300 minutes. The cap is fixed" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 20, "reliability": 77, "schema": 85, "security": 87, "transparency": 70 }, "provenanceScore": 81, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "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}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.stt", "tool": "https://letme.dev/soniox-stt" }, "sameCompany": [ "soniox-tts", "soniox-voice-cloning" ], "area": "voice", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "stt-async-v5", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.0017, "note": "Soniox's estimate of $0.10 an hour, token-billed" }, { "item": "stt-rt-v5 streaming", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.002, "note": "Soniox's estimate of $0.12 an hour, token-billed" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Soniox Inc.", "domain": "soniox.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-03-23", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://soniox.com/policies/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://soniox.com/policies/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.soniox.com", "changelog": "https://docs.soniox.com/stt/models", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-04", "notes": [ "Terms and privacy policy last updated 2026-06-29 (per the 1 October check). The company address is Foster City, California", "The docs moved to docs.soniox.com. soniox.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 when the other Soniox listings were re-read on 2 and 4 November 2026." ], "score": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt.json", "live": { "slug": "soniox-stt", "probe": { "target": "https://api.soniox.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:34.535057103Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 352, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 271, "p95ms24h": 358, "samples24h": 238, "samples30d": 7920, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { 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No public STT changelog. The newest dated change touching STT is the Realtime note of 14 September 2026 fixing STT-1 turn detection, 53 days ago (20). The CLI, which carries the STT command and MCP tool, shipped 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 between 13 and 29 October, counted half as client releases, and no dated STT entries were found (5 of 20). Discord and support@inworld.ai, with no evidence of answers read (6 of 15). No official STT SDK; the CLI is current (5 of 15). CLI on npm under MIT, current, CI not read (5 of 10). Total 41.", "b": "Read on the model lines the other Soniox listings use (recency 30, dated releases 10, notice 10, support 15, issues 10, SDKs 15, health 10), where the 1 October note used the tool lines. `stt-rt-v6` and `stt-async-v6` released on 3 November 2026, with Python SDK 2.11.0 (agent text input on `RealtimeSTTConfig`) and soniox-js v2026.11.03 (\"Feat/v6 support\") the same day (30). Since 6 August, the releases that touch STT code are Python 2.9.0 (11 August, async STT and files), 2.10.0 (2 October, realtime STT authentication), 2.11.0, soniox-js v2026.10.12 (12 October, realtime STT authentication) and v2026.11.03, plus the v6 model entry (10). For notice, the v5 models are removed on 15 December 2026, 42 days after the notice, with requests routed to v6, and WebSocket `api_key` authentication ends on 15 January 2027 with a migration guide; v4 had 14 days (5). A community and support page, with no reply times read (5). SDK issues unread, github.com 403 (3). Current Python and Node SDKs (15). soniox-js runs CI (`.github/workflows/ci.yml`), the Python repository has tests and uv.lock but no CI workflow (7). 30+10+5+5+3+15+7 = 75." }, "scores": { "a": 41, "b": 75 } }, { "by": 31, "category": "schema", "leads": "soniox-stt", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable file. The usual spec paths redirect, and the reference pages are Markdown (0). llms.txt, Markdown twins and a docs MCP server (10). Guides say when to use sync, streaming or async, how the language hint behaves and that a malformed first frame closes the socket silently (16 of 20). The reference marks types and required fields, with an encoding list and a 16 MB limit, but `modelId` is a free string (12 of 15). Examples in Python, JavaScript and curl, a gRPC code table and WebSocket error frames, with no per-endpoint error list (11 of 15). Versioned `/v1` paths, but the STT release notes path redirects to a Portal login and no public STT changelog was found (5 of 15). Total 54.", "b": "docs.soniox.com/openapi.yaml, OpenAPI 3.1.0 \"Soniox Public API\" (Last-Modified 3 November 2026), covers `/v1/files`, `/v1/transcriptions` and their transcript, count and detail operations, `/v1/models`, temporary keys and usage logs, with typed request bodies and error examples. No AsyncAPI file for the WebSocket (25). llms.txt with Markdown pages (10). Guides state purpose and say when to use the real-time or async API (15). Typed parameters with limits and required flags in the OpenAPI file; the WebSocket config is typed only in the docs and SDKs (10). Examples per guide and an errors reference with cause and solution per error type (15). Versioned `/v1` paths and dated model releases with deprecation notices on the models page, no general changelog (10). 25+10+15+10+15+10 = 85." }, "scores": { "a": 54, "b": 85 } }, { "by": 24, "category": "security", "leads": "soniox-stt", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading of the checklist, with training and retention in place of the least-privilege and injection lines. Workspace API keys sent as Basic credentials, deleted to revoke, with separate keys per environment advised. The CLI mints read-only keys unless `--write` is given, but write toggles cover only the Voice and Router APIs, so no key is limited to one product. Browsers use short-lived tokens minted server side, via the `bearer_` WebSocket subprotocol, not the URL (25 of 30). The Terms (11 June 2025) say Inworld won't train generally available models on customers' non-public Materials, except feedback and flagged content, while the Privacy Notice (18 January 2026) lists training AI models among its uses, per the inworld-tts check of 4 November (12 of 20). Zero data retention keeps STT audio and transcripts in memory and out of logs, included on Developer ($300 a month) and above per the docs, while the STT page says Enterprise or a Growth add-on. Async results and audio go after 7 days, and no default period is given for logs (8 of 15). Usage is attributed per key and a Performance page shows errors and throttling (8 of 15). SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA claimed and a vulnerability report form, with no security.txt or bug bounty, per the 4 November reading (10 of 20). Total 63.", "b": "Model reading of the checklist, with training and retention in place of least-privilege and injection lines. \"Every API key in a project has a list of permissions\": real-time STT, async STT and Files with Read and Write levels, model listing, usage and temporary keys, with `permission_denied` for anything else, and temporary keys that are restricted and expire. Keys go in the WebSocket handshake rather than the URL (30). Customer audio and transcripts are never used for training, per the 1 October check (20). Audio and transcripts aren't retained by default, and async files and transcripts auto-delete after 30 days or on a delete call, per the 1 October check (15). Per-request usage logs with request IDs, duration, tokens and cost (10). SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and the Python SDK's SECURITY.md gives a disclosure route with no acknowledgement time, as soniox-tts. No security.txt (404) and no bug bounty (12). 30+20+15+10+12 = 87." }, "scores": { "a": 63, "b": 87 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "payments", "leads": "inworld-stt", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-hour prices for every plan published without a login (20). On-Demand includes up to 400 minutes of STT and lists no payment method, while async jobs need one (20). A person signs up in the Portal or through `inworld login` in a browser before a key exists (0). Total 40.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Token prices published without a login, with Soniox's own per-hour estimates (20). No free credits for new sign-ups since 2025-10-27 (0). A person signs up in a browser (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 40, "b": 20 } }, { "by": 17, "category": "reliability", "leads": "soniox-stt", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Hosted reading of the checklist. status.inworld.ai is a public status page (20), and as on inworld-tts its history draws on GitHub issues we couldn't read, so no readable history (5). Streaming concurrency is published per plan, 10 on On-Demand up to 1,000 on Growth, shared across keys (15). 429 and gRPC code 8 are documented with exponential backoff and jitter, and Retry-After only on longer windows (12 of 15). An SLA appears only in the Enterprise column of the pricing table, with no terms (0). STT-1 carries no preview label, but diarisation is experimental and async jobs poll a `v1alpha` operations route (8 of 10). 20 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 8 = 60.", "b": "Instatus page at status.soniox.com with per-region components and a paged history (20). Minor incidents only since 6 August, with 70 minutes of failed API key creation in the console on 24 August, failed new WebSocket connections to stt-rt.eu.soniox.com between 12:50 and 13:03 UTC on 25 August (existing connections unaffected), and 45 minutes of real-time overload in the Japan region on 8 September (\"some customers\", partial). October and November have no notices (20). Limits published with numbers, 100 requests a minute, 10 concurrent streams, a connection limit derived from them and a fixed 300-minute stream cap (15). The errors reference documents `limit_exceeded` as HTTP 429 on REST and the STT WebSocket with what to do for each limit, \"retry with exponential backoff\" for 503 `service_unavailable`, and resubmitting failed async jobs, which aren't auto-retried. No idempotency key, so safe-retry guidance without one (12), as soniox-tts. No SLA found (0). `stt-rt-v6` and `stt-async-v6` are active and the v5 models deprecated, with no preview label (10). 20+20+15+12+0+10 = 77." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 77 } }, { "by": 16, "category": "transparency", "leads": "soniox-stt", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service with clear terms naming Theai, Inc. dba Inworld AI (15). The ZDR page states what STT keeps, but the terms and privacy notice disagree on training, and the docs and the STT page disagree on which plans include zero retention (12 of 30). No dated STT deprecation or change notices are public (8 of 20). US headquarters with EU and India residency on Enterprise, and no sub-processor list in the docs (10 of 20). Total 45.", "b": "Closed service with clear terms, last updated 2026-06-29, and an Apache-2.0 Python SDK (15). The security page, limits page and pricing page agree on no training, no default retention and 30-day async deletion (25). Model retirements are dated and old names route to the new model (v5 to v6 on 15 December 2026), though the October 2025 retirement of the preview models was described as accelerated (15). A data residency page names region-specific domains for the US, EU, Japan and India, and no sub-processor list was found (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 76 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Inworld AI", "b": "Soniox", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.soniox.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, websocket", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0.0017 per minute of audio", "b": "$0.0017 per minute of audio", "name": "Price for speech-to-text" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Apache-2.0 (Python SDK)", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "0", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-29", "b": "2026-11-03", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-06-11", "b": "2026-06-29", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-01-18", "b": "2026-06-29", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "12 stars, 22k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Soniox Speech-to-Text scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against Inworld STT's 54.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Inworld STT leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Inworld STT or Soniox Speech-to-Text?" }, { "answer": "They cost about the same, $0.0017 per minute of audio for Inworld STT and $0.0017 per minute of audio for Soniox Speech-to-Text. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for speech-to-text, Inworld STT or Soniox Speech-to-Text?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Inworld STT and Soniox Speech-to-Text need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Inworld STT. Soniox Speech-to-Text has a hosted endpoint at https://api.soniox.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Inworld STT and Soniox Speech-to-Text without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "No incidents deducted, where Soniox Speech-to-Text loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Low-cost live transcription for voice agents, with speaker traits.", "slug": "inworld-stt", "watchFor": "No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 77 against 60", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 54", "Agent ergonomics, 70 against 56", "Security \u0026 auth, 87 against 63", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 41", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 60" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Price-led multilingual transcription and translation, live or async, and for operators who want no training and no retention.", 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rev-ai-stt-vs-soniox-stt" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smallest-pulse-stt-vs-soniox-stt.json", "title": "Smallest.ai Pulse STT vs Soniox Speech-to-Text", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smallest-pulse-stt-vs-soniox-stt" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/soniox-stt-vs-speechmatics-stt.json", "title": "Soniox Speech-to-Text vs Speechmatics Speech-to-Text", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/soniox-stt-vs-speechmatics-stt" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 17, "edge": "soniox-stt", "inworld-stt": 60, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "soniox-stt": 77, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 31, "edge": "soniox-stt", "inworld-stt": 54, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "soniox-stt": 85, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "soniox-stt", "inworld-stt": 56, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "soniox-stt": 70, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 24, "edge": "soniox-stt", "inworld-stt": 63, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "soniox-stt": 87, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "inworld-stt", "inworld-stt": 40, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "soniox-stt": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 34, "edge": "soniox-stt", "inworld-stt": 41, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "soniox-stt": 75, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "soniox-stt", "inworld-stt": 60, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "soniox-stt": 76, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Soniox Speech-to-Text scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against Inworld STT's 54.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Inworld STT leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do speech-to-text.", "tasks": [ { "a": "$0.10 to $0.15", "b": "$0.10 to $0.12", "cheaper": "", "task": "Transcribe a one-hour meeting", "what": "60 minutes of recorded audio" } ], "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "inworld-stt": "Inworld STT costs $0.10 to $0.15 an hour with 400 free minutes, and covers files, live streams and async jobs in 30 languages with Voice Profile signals. There is no machine-readable spec, no public STT changelog and no readable status history, and diarisation is still experimental.", "soniox-stt": "About $0.10 an hour async and $0.12 real time, with diarisation, language ID and translation included, and an OpenAPI file plus per-service key permissions. The v6 models arrived on 3 November 2026 and v5 is removed on 15 December. No free credits for new accounts since October 2025, and a 2.x Python SDK minor removed public interfaces." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-soniox-stt", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-soniox-stt.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-soniox-stt.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-soniox-stt.min.md" }, "markdown": "Soniox Speech-to-Text scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against Inworld STT's 54.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Inworld STT leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do speech-to-text.\n\n- Inworld STT: grade C, 54.7/100, rank #900 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inworld-stt.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inworld-stt.json\n- Soniox Speech-to-Text: grade B, 68.5/100, rank #286 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/soniox-stt.json\n- Best speech-to-text APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/speech-to-text/index.md\n- All 320 stt comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/speech-to-text/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Inworld STT (C)\n\nGood for: Low-cost live transcription for voice agents, with speaker traits.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where Soniox Speech-to-Text loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract\n\n### Soniox Speech-to-Text (B)\n\nGood for: Price-led multilingual transcription and translation, live or async, and for operators who want no training and no retention.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 77 against 60\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 56\n- Security \u0026 auth, 87 against 63\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 41\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No free credits for new accounts since October 2025\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Soniox Speech-to-Text +34\n\n- Inworld STT (41): Read as a model. No public STT changelog. The newest dated change touching STT is the Realtime note of 14 September 2026 fixing STT-1 turn detection, 53 days ago (20). The CLI, which carries the STT command and MCP tool, shipped 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 between 13 and 29 October, counted half as client releases, and no dated STT entries were found (5 of 20). Discord and support@inworld.ai, with no evidence of answers read (6 of 15). No official STT SDK; the CLI is current (5 of 15). CLI on npm under MIT, current, CI not read (5 of 10). Total 41.\n- Soniox Speech-to-Text (75): Read on the model lines the other Soniox listings use (recency 30, dated releases 10, notice 10, support 15, issues 10, SDKs 15, health 10), where the 1 October note used the tool lines. `stt-rt-v6` and `stt-async-v6` released on 3 November 2026, with Python SDK 2.11.0 (agent text input on `RealtimeSTTConfig`) and soniox-js v2026.11.03 (\"Feat/v6 support\") the same day (30). Since 6 August, the releases that touch STT code are Python 2.9.0 (11 August, async STT and files), 2.10.0 (2 October, realtime STT authentication), 2.11.0, soniox-js v2026.10.12 (12 October, realtime STT authentication) and v2026.11.03, plus the v6 model entry (10). For notice, the v5 models are removed on 15 December 2026, 42 days after the notice, with requests routed to v6, and WebSocket `api_key` authentication ends on 15 January 2027 with a migration guide; v4 had 14 days (5). A community and support page, with no reply times read (5). SDK issues unread, github.com 403 (3). Current Python and Node SDKs (15). soniox-js runs CI (`.github/workflows/ci.yml`), the Python repository has tests and uv.lock but no CI workflow (7). 30+10+5+5+3+15+7 = 75.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Soniox Speech-to-Text +31\n\n- Inworld STT (54): No OpenAPI or other machine-readable file. The usual spec paths redirect, and the reference pages are Markdown (0). llms.txt, Markdown twins and a docs MCP server (10). Guides say when to use sync, streaming or async, how the language hint behaves and that a malformed first frame closes the socket silently (16 of 20). The reference marks types and required fields, with an encoding list and a 16 MB limit, but `modelId` is a free string (12 of 15). Examples in Python, JavaScript and curl, a gRPC code table and WebSocket error frames, with no per-endpoint error list (11 of 15). Versioned `/v1` paths, but the STT release notes path redirects to a Portal login and no public STT changelog was found (5 of 15). Total 54.\n- Soniox Speech-to-Text (85): docs.soniox.com/openapi.yaml, OpenAPI 3.1.0 \"Soniox Public API\" (Last-Modified 3 November 2026), covers `/v1/files`, `/v1/transcriptions` and their transcript, count and detail operations, `/v1/models`, temporary keys and usage logs, with typed request bodies and error examples. No AsyncAPI file for the WebSocket (25). llms.txt with Markdown pages (10). Guides state purpose and say when to use the real-time or async API (15). Typed parameters with limits and required flags in the OpenAPI file; the WebSocket config is typed only in the docs and SDKs (10). Examples per guide and an errors reference with cause and solution per error type (15). Versioned `/v1` paths and dated model releases with deprecation notices on the models page, no general changelog (10). 25+10+15+10+15+10 = 85.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Soniox Speech-to-Text +24\n\n- Inworld STT (63): Model reading of the checklist, with training and retention in place of the least-privilege and injection lines. Workspace API keys sent as Basic credentials, deleted to revoke, with separate keys per environment advised. The CLI mints read-only keys unless `--write` is given, but write toggles cover only the Voice and Router APIs, so no key is limited to one product. Browsers use short-lived tokens minted server side, via the `bearer_` WebSocket subprotocol, not the URL (25 of 30). The Terms (11 June 2025) say Inworld won't train generally available models on customers' non-public Materials, except feedback and flagged content, while the Privacy Notice (18 January 2026) lists training AI models among its uses, per the inworld-tts check of 4 November (12 of 20). Zero data retention keeps STT audio and transcripts in memory and out of logs, included on Developer ($300 a month) and above per the docs, while the STT page says Enterprise or a Growth add-on. Async results and audio go after 7 days, and no default period is given for logs (8 of 15). Usage is attributed per key and a Performance page shows errors and throttling (8 of 15). SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA claimed and a vulnerability report form, with no security.txt or bug bounty, per the 4 November reading (10 of 20). Total 63.\n- Soniox Speech-to-Text (87): Model reading of the checklist, with training and retention in place of least-privilege and injection lines. \"Every API key in a project has a list of permissions\": real-time STT, async STT and Files with Read and Write levels, model listing, usage and temporary keys, with `permission_denied` for anything else, and temporary keys that are restricted and expire. Keys go in the WebSocket handshake rather than the URL (30). Customer audio and transcripts are never used for training, per the 1 October check (20). Audio and transcripts aren't retained by default, and async files and transcripts auto-delete after 30 days or on a delete call, per the 1 October check (15). Per-request usage logs with request IDs, duration, tokens and cost (10). SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and the Python SDK's SECURITY.md gives a disclosure route with no acknowledgement time, as soniox-tts. No security.txt (404) and no bug bounty (12). 30+20+15+10+12 = 87.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Inworld STT +20\n\n- Inworld STT (40): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-hour prices for every plan published without a login (20). On-Demand includes up to 400 minutes of STT and lists no payment method, while async jobs need one (20). A person signs up in the Portal or through `inworld login` in a browser before a key exists (0). Total 40.\n- Soniox Speech-to-Text (20): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Token prices published without a login, with Soniox's own per-hour estimates (20). No free credits for new sign-ups since 2025-10-27 (0). A person signs up in a browser (0).\n\n### Reliability: Soniox Speech-to-Text +17\n\n- Inworld STT (60): Hosted reading of the checklist. status.inworld.ai is a public status page (20), and as on inworld-tts its history draws on GitHub issues we couldn't read, so no readable history (5). Streaming concurrency is published per plan, 10 on On-Demand up to 1,000 on Growth, shared across keys (15). 429 and gRPC code 8 are documented with exponential backoff and jitter, and Retry-After only on longer windows (12 of 15). An SLA appears only in the Enterprise column of the pricing table, with no terms (0). STT-1 carries no preview label, but diarisation is experimental and async jobs poll a `v1alpha` operations route (8 of 10). 20 + 5 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 8 = 60.\n- Soniox Speech-to-Text (77): Instatus page at status.soniox.com with per-region components and a paged history (20). Minor incidents only since 6 August, with 70 minutes of failed API key creation in the console on 24 August, failed new WebSocket connections to stt-rt.eu.soniox.com between 12:50 and 13:03 UTC on 25 August (existing connections unaffected), and 45 minutes of real-time overload in the Japan region on 8 September (\"some customers\", partial). October and November have no notices (20). Limits published with numbers, 100 requests a minute, 10 concurrent streams, a connection limit derived from them and a fixed 300-minute stream cap (15). The errors reference documents `limit_exceeded` as HTTP 429 on REST and the STT WebSocket with what to do for each limit, \"retry with exponential backoff\" for 503 `service_unavailable`, and resubmitting failed async jobs, which aren't auto-retried. No idempotency key, so safe-retry guidance without one (12), as soniox-tts. No SLA found (0). `stt-rt-v6` and `stt-async-v6` are active and the v5 models deprecated, with no preview label (10). 20+20+15+12+0+10 = 77.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Soniox Speech-to-Text +16\n\n- Inworld STT (60): Closed service with clear terms naming Theai, Inc. dba Inworld AI (15). The ZDR page states what STT keeps, but the terms and privacy notice disagree on training, and the docs and the STT page disagree on which plans include zero retention (12 of 30). No dated STT deprecation or change notices are public (8 of 20). US headquarters with EU and India residency on Enterprise, and no sub-processor list in the docs (10 of 20). Total 45.\n- Soniox Speech-to-Text (76): Closed service with clear terms, last updated 2026-06-29, and an Apache-2.0 Python SDK (15). The security page, limits page and pricing page agree on no training, no default retention and 30-day async deletion (25). Model retirements are dated and old names route to the new model (v5 to v6 on 15 December 2026), though the October 2025 retirement of the preview models was described as accelerated (15). A data residency page names region-specific domains for the US, EU, Japan and India, and no sub-processor list was found (15).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Inworld STT | Soniox Speech-to-Text | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 77 | Soniox Speech-to-Text +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 85 | Soniox Speech-to-Text +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 70 | Soniox Speech-to-Text +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 87 | Soniox Speech-to-Text +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 20 | Inworld STT +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 41 | 75 | Soniox Speech-to-Text +34 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 76 | Soniox Speech-to-Text +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.7 · C** | **68.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Inworld STT | Soniox Speech-to-Text |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Inworld AI | Soniox |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.soniox.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, websocket | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for speech-to-text | $0.0017 per minute of audio | $0.0017 per minute of audio |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 (Python SDK) |\n| Tools exposed | 0 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-11-03 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-06-11 | 2026-06-29 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-01-18 | 2026-06-29 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | 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 | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 12 stars, 22k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## What the same task costs\n\n| Task | Inworld STT | Soniox Speech-to-Text |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Transcribe a one-hour meeting | $0.10 to $0.15 | $0.10 to $0.12 |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Inworld STT\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Soniox Speech-to-Text\n\n- +10.3 on 4 November 2026 (C to B): product, new evidence, negative event\n- -0.1 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Inworld STT.** Inworld STT costs $0.10 to $0.15 an hour with 400 free minutes, and covers files, live streams and async jobs in 30 languages with Voice Profile signals. There is no machine-readable spec, no public STT changelog and no readable status history, and diarisation is still experimental.\n\n**Soniox Speech-to-Text.** About $0.10 an hour async and $0.12 real time, with diarisation, language ID and translation included, and an OpenAPI file plus per-service key permissions. The v6 models arrived on 3 November 2026 and v5 is removed on 15 December. No free credits for new accounts since October 2025, and a 2.x Python SDK minor removed public interfaces.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Inworld STT\n\n1. Send the Base64 credential as-is in `Authorization: Basic`; don't encode it again\n2. Wrap the first WebSocket message in `transcribeConfig`, because a malformed first frame closes the socket with 1005 and no error\n3. Use `POST /stt/v1/transcribe:async` for files over about 16 MB and collect the transcript within 7 days\n4. Retry 429 or gRPC code 8 with exponential backoff and jitter, and stay within the plan's streaming concurrency\n5. Stop sending audio when nobody speaks, since streams are billed for every second sent\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. Move to `stt-rt-v6` or `stt-async-v6` before 15 December 2026, when v5 requests start routing to v6\n3. Send the API key with the WebSocket connection, not in the start message, before 15 January 2027\n4. On a 429 `limit_exceeded`, read `message` for the limit hit; back off on 503 and resubmit failed async jobs, which aren't retried for you\n5. Split anything over 300 minutes. The cap is fixed\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Inworld STT or Soniox Speech-to-Text?\n\nSoniox Speech-to-Text scores 68.5 (B) on agent readiness against Inworld STT's 54.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Inworld STT leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Which is cheaper for speech-to-text, Inworld STT or Soniox Speech-to-Text?\n\nThey cost about the same, $0.0017 per minute of audio for Inworld STT and $0.0017 per minute of audio for Soniox Speech-to-Text. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Inworld STT and Soniox Speech-to-Text need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Inworld STT and Soniox Speech-to-Text without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Inworld STT. Soniox Speech-to-Text has a hosted endpoint at https://api.soniox.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-soniox-stt.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inworld-stt-vs-soniox-stt.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"inworld-stt\", \"b\": \"soniox-stt\"}`. 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