Transcribing 40 meeting hours a month: MAI intro price vs Sume STT
40 hours of audio a month costs $21.60 on MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming's $0.54 intro price and $24.00 on Sume STT at one cent a minute.

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.
| Hours per month | MAI-Transcribe ($0.54/h) | Sume STT ($0.60/h) |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | $5.40 | $6.00 |
| 40 | $21.60 | $24.00 |
| 100 | $54.00 | $60.00 |
| 400 | $216.00 | $240.00 |
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))Sources
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