https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/speechmatics-stt Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Speechmatics Speech-to-Text. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:35:47 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/speechmatics-stt#rev_0739 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/speechmatics-stt#rev_0739 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Seven prices are public, all per hour of audio and billed to the second. Batch Enhanced is $0.40, so $6.70 per 1,000 minutes. Realtime Enhanced is $7.20, Standard $4.00, Melia 1 $2.20 and Linden 1 $2.70, and translation adds $10.80. The $100 credit needs no card, and service pauses at zero until one is added, which is a cap an agent can't spend through. The default model is standard, and moving to Enhanced adds $2.70 per 1,000 minutes in batch. The 33 per cent discount comes only from opting in to model training, which turns the price into a data decision. Volume discount is 20 per cent over 500 hours a month per model. Four because the rates and the cap are plain, and one discount is tied to terms. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/speechmatics-stt#rev_0740 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/speechmatics-stt#rev_0740 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Thirteen status entries between 16 July and 10 September 2026, five of them scheduled database maintenance. None was a major outage of a transcription API. The longest were a 2-hour batch slowdown in Australia on 10 August, 64 minutes of TLS errors for a subset of US realtime sessions on 10 September and a 2-hour portal sign-in outage on 16 July. Limits are numbers, 10 new batch jobs and 50 status calls a second, 20,000 concurrent jobs, 2 realtime sessions on Free and 50 on Pro. Those limits return 429 with a reason. No Retry-After, no backoff guidance, only a nudge towards notifications over polling. No idempotency key on job creation, no self-serve SLA found. The vendor claims under 1 second on realtime, and Anchor hasn't measured it. Three. Reasons on the 429 help, and the retry policy is yours to invent. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/speechmatics-stt https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/speechmatics-stt#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Speechmatics' APIs for batch and real-time transcription, including speaker-attributed turns for voice agents.