About

AssemblyAI provides speech-to-text, streaming speech-to-text, speech understanding, guardrails, and an LLM gateway for voice and audio applications. The platform exposes APIs for prerecorded transcription, real-time transcription, speaker diarization, language detection, keyterms prompting, custom formatting, sentiment analysis, summarization, entity detection, PII redaction, and related audio intelligence features.

The pricing page lists pay-as-you-go usage for the hosted API and a free offer of $50 in credits with no credit card required. Free users can start 5 new streaming sessions per minute, while pay-as-you-go accounts start with 100 new streams per minute. The service is aimed at developers building transcription, voice agents, contact center workflows, medical transcription, and other speech-processing applications.

  • Speech-to-text and streaming transcription APIs
  • Speaker diarization and speaker identification
  • Language detection and code-switching support
  • Sentiment, summaries, topics, and chapters
  • PII redaction and profanity filtering
  • $50 signup credits
  • 5 new streams per minute on free accounts

What's included in the free tier

  • $50 in free credits for AssemblyAI’s Speech-to-Text APIs.
  • Free users can start 5 new Universal-Streaming sessions per minute.
  • No credit card required to get started with the free offer.