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AssemblyAI vs Saaras

AssemblyAI or Saaras? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In inglese

In short

  • Both: Speech to text, Many languages, API
  • Only AssemblyAI states: Text to speech

AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI provides APIs for transcribing, understanding, and building applications with spoken audio.

Plans

Free tier

Free

  • Up to 185 hours of pre-recorded transcription
  • Up to 333 hours of streaming transcription

Pre-recorded Speech-to-Text API — Universal-3.5 Pro

  • $0.21 /hr
  • Most accurate async speech-to-text model
  • Works across 18 languages
  • Native code switching

Pre-recorded Speech-to-Text API — Universal-2

  • $0.15 /hr
  • Supports 99 languages
  • Trained on over 12.5 million hours of audio data

Pre-recorded Speech-to-Text API — Custom

Price on request

  • Custom rate limits
  • Enhanced concurrency
  • Enterprise-grade flexibility

Realtime Speech-to-Text API — Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime

  • $0.45 /hr
  • Supports 18 languages
  • Context carryover and conversation memory
  • Self-correcting speaker labels and voice isolation

Realtime Speech-to-Text API — Universal-Streaming

  • $0.15 /hr
  • English-only transcription
  • Purpose-built for production voice applications

Realtime Speech-to-Text API — Universal-Streaming Multilingu

  • $0.15 /hr
  • Supports English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, and Italian

Realtime Speech-to-Text API — Custom

Price on request

  • Custom rate limits
  • Enhanced concurrency
  • Enterprise-grade flexibility

Sync Speech-to-Text API — Sync API

  • $0.45 /hr
  • Process up to 2 minutes per request
  • Results in ~134 ms (p50)
  • Per-word timing and confidence across 18 languages

Sync Speech-to-Text API — Custom

Price on request

  • Custom rate limits
  • Enhanced concurrency
  • Enterprise-grade flexibility

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Text to speech — “Low-latency speech generation built for realtime conversation.” source
  • Speech to text — “Transcribes recorded audio and video asynchronously across 99 languages, with support on speaker diarization, PII redaction, and more features.” source
  • Many languages — “Transcribes recorded audio and video asynchronously across 99 languages, with support on speaker diarization, PII redaction, and more features.” source
  • API — “Build directly against the raw HTTP and WebSocket API for full control over requests and responses.” source

Security

  • SOC 2 Type II — “We maintain a SOC 2 Type 2 report covering security, availability, and confidentiality, audited annually by an independent firm.” source
  • SOC 2 — “We maintain a SOC 2 Type 2 report covering security, availability, and confidentiality, audited annually by an independent firm.” source
  • Not trained on your data — “Your data is never used to train or improve our models when you opt out.” source

Latest updates

About AssemblyAI

Saaras

Saaras is Sarvam AI's speech-to-text model for transcribing, translating, and processing speech in Indian languages.

Plans

Starter (Pay as you go)

  • ₹3.00 per 1,000 characters (Text to speech, Real-time)
  • ₹3.00 per 1,000 characters (Text to speech, Streaming)
  • ₹30.00 per hour (Speech to text, Real-time)
  • ₹30.00 per hour (Speech to text, Streaming)
  • ₹30.00 per hour (Speech to text, Batch)
  • ₹45.00 per hour (Speech to text, Batch with diarization)
  • ₹128.10 per 1M tokens (GLM 5.2, input)
  • ₹23.79 per 1M tokens (GLM 5.2, cached input)
  • ₹402.60 per 1M tokens (GLM 5.2, output)
  • ₹36.60 per 1M tokens (Gemma-4 31B, input)
  • ₹13.73 per 1M tokens (Gemma-4 31B, cached input)
  • ₹91.50 per 1M tokens (Gemma-4 31B, output)
  • ₹29.28 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B, input)
  • ₹10.98 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B, cached input)
  • ₹73.20 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B, output)
  • ₹29.28 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Chat, input)
  • ₹10.98 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Chat, cached input)
  • ₹73.20 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Chat, output)
  • ₹29.28 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Conversations, input)
  • ₹10.98 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Conversations, cached input)
  • ₹73.20 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Conversations, output)
  • ₹0.005 per character (Translate & transliterate, Pay as you go)
  • ₹0.50 per page (Digitisation API)
  • ₹1.00 per page (Extraction API)
  • ₹1.67 per second (Dubbing API, Pay as you go)
  • ₹0.005 (Translate & transliterate, Starter)
  • ₹1.67 (Dubbing API, Starter)
  • Start with free credits, then add exactly what you need
  • Universal credits across supported APIs
  • Credits never expire
  • No monthly commitment

Enterprise

Price on request

  • Tailored limits, throughput, pricing, and support
  • Higher rate limits on every API
  • Custom concurrency & throughput
  • Volume discounts on credits
  • Dedicated support & SLAs

Pro

  • ₹0.005 per character (Translate & transliterate, Pro)
  • ₹1.67 per second (Dubbing API, Pro)

    Growth

    • ₹0.0045 per character (Translate & transliterate, Growth)
    • ₹1.25 per second (Dubbing API, Growth)

      Business

      • ₹0.004 per character (Translate & transliterate, Business)
      • ₹1.20 per second (Dubbing API, Business)

        Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

        Capabilities

        • Speech to text — “From the same audio input, it can produce five transcript modes: verbatim, normalized, code-mixed, transliterated, and translated.” source
        • Many languages — “Saaras V4 achieved SOTA performance on all 22 Indian languages and reaffirms our commitment to even the most low-resource Indian languages” source
        • API — “Integrate Saaras v4 into your application with a simple API key from the Sarvam AI dashboard” source

        Security

        • SOC 2 Type II — “Complete data residency in India. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified.” source
        • SOC 2 — “Complete data residency in India. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified.” source
        • ISO 27001 — “We're ISO 27001:2022 certified and hold SOC 2 Type II.” source
        • Not trained on your data — “Customer data is never used to train models for other customers” source

        Latest updates

        About Saaras