Transcribe a 12-minute interview: 12 minutes costs $0.12 on Sume
Speech-to-text on Sume is $0.01 per audio minute, so a 12-minute interview (12 minutes) is $0.12. Video Inspect transcripts cost the same per minute.
Transcribing a 12-minute interview takes 12 audio minutes and costs $0.12 on Sume. The Sume STT 1.0 rate is $0.01 per audio minute after margin on a $0.008 provider list price, and the Video Inspect transcript SKU is priced at $0.01 per minute too.
Sume's video inspect docs (read 2026-10-06) say the default mode is sync and the handler waits at most 30 seconds, so for anything this long ask for async and poll the job.
What does a batch of these cost?
The price is linear in audio minutes.
| Files | Minutes each | Total minutes | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | $0.12 |
| 4 | 12 | 48 | $0.48 |
| 20 | 12 | 240 | $2.40 |
What should I plan for?
The estimate is for the transcript alone; captions, trims and renders are separate jobs.
- Long recordings run async: submit, then poll
GET /v1/jobs/{id}/resultor take a webhook. - The price is by audio minutes, not by words, so silence costs the same as speech.
- Check the live price in
GET /v1/catalog(sume/stt-1.0).
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