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Saaras vs Ursa
Saaras or Ursa? 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 Ursa states: Text to speech, Dubbing
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
- Sarvam Vision 2.1: Pushing the Pareto frontier of document intelligence (2.1)
Sarvam Vision 2.1 adds structured extraction and Indic handwritten recognition.
- Introducing Saaras V4 (V4)
Introduced Saaras V4 for multilingual ASR.
- Everything we announced at Sarvam Epoch
Announced new models, Sarvam Inference, Indus agents, Sarvam Code, and more.
Ursa
Ursa is Speechmatics’ speech-to-text model family for transcribing live and recorded audio across languages, accents, and speakers.
Plans
Free
Free
- No credit card required
- $100 credit to get started
- For developers and early exploration
- Speech-to-Text: 55+ languages
- 2 concurrent real-time sessions
- Text-to-Speech
Pro
- from $0.129/hr
- $0.129/hr
- $0.24/hr
- $0.40/hr
- $0.24/hr
- $0.43/hr
- $0.16/hr
- $0.011/1k characters
- 55+ languages
- 50 concurrent real-time sessions
- 10 file jobs per second
- Multi-region cloud options
- Low-latency Text-to-Speech
- Online email support
Enterprise
Price on request
- All our features, including audio alignment
- No rate limits
- Privacy-first deployment options
- Custom models
- SaaS or On-premises deployment
- Prioritized service and support
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Text to speech — “Text-to-Speech” source
- Speech to text — “Real-time speech-to-text is here” source
- Dubbing — “Our AI model supports 55+ languages for transcription, with 69 pairs supported for AI translation.” source
- Many languages — “Transcribe 55+ languages with a single model, even when speakers switch between languages naturally throughout a conversation.” source
- API — “Speech-to-text API built for every language and accent” source