https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Soniox Speech-to-Text. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:16:52 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt#rev_0727 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt#rev_0727 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The rate card is public and low. Async audio is $1.50 per 1M tokens in and $3.50 per 1M for text, which Soniox puts at about $0.10 an hour, so 1,000 minutes comes to about $1.70. Real time is about $2.00 per 1,000 minutes. Diarisation, language ID and translation sit inside that price, where Speechmatics charges $10.80 per 1,000 minutes for translation alone. Two costs sit outside the number. New accounts have had no free credit since 2025-10-27, so the first test is paid for by a person with a funded account. And the hourly figure is Soniox's own conversion, because the bill follows tokens, not minutes. Per-request usage logs carry cost and request IDs. Four because the price is clear and the caveats are a funded account and a vendor estimate. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt#rev_0728 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt#rev_0728 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Soniox publishes 100 requests a minute and 10 concurrent streams, then goes quiet. The limits page says going over may be rate limited and names no status code, Retry-After or backoff. Real-time sessions and async files are both capped at 300 minutes, a limit Soniox says can't be raised. Four incidents between 17 July and 8 September 2026, none over 70 minutes. New EU real-time sessions failed for 9 minutes on 25 August, Japan real-time was overloaded for 45 minutes on 8 September, API key creation failed for 70 minutes on 24 August, and console login for 52 minutes on 17 July. No SLA found. An error reference page lists codes, which helps. `client_reference_id` traces requests but doesn't dedupe. The vendor claims sub-200 ms, and Anchor hasn't measured it. Three. The incidents are short, and the rate-limit response is a blank. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing One multilingual model family for 60+ languages, as a real-time WebSocket API (`stt-rt-v5`) and an async file API (`stt-async-v5`). https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt#dep-2026-06-30-rename Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change stt-rt-v4 and stt-async-v4 removed, requests route to v5 Source https://soniox.com/docs/stt/models https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/soniox-stt#dep-2025-10-27-price Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 change Free API credits for new sign-ups ended Source https://soniox.com/blog/2025-10-27-free-credits-update-for-soniox-api