Transcribing 40 meeting hours a month: MAI intro price vs Sume STT

Transcribing 40 hours of meetings a month costs $21.60 on Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming at its $0.54-per-hour introductory price, and $24.00 on Sume speech-to-text at $0.01 per audio minute. The gap is $2.40 a month, and Microsoft says the intro price runs through the end of the year.

What to check

Microsoft's model is built for streaming and covers 60 languages per its announcement. Sume's speech-to-text takes up to 10 minutes of audio per request and is billed per second; see the Video Inspect docs and the rate card.

After the intro price

Microsoft has not been read here beyond the introductory price, so re-price after year end. Sume's rate is read from the catalog at request time, so check it before you quote a figure.

Recompute it in Python

Hourly price times hours, against per-minute price times minutes. The numbers are the ones in the table above.

hours = 40
print(round(hours * 0.54, 2), round(hours * 60 * 0.01, 2))