Every option in the catalog for when you need to turn audio into accurate text, often offline — 9 speech and transcription engines, 9 of them free or freemium, with the pricing tier printed on every row.
Flocci AI Tools lists 9 of them, ordered free tiers first: NVIDIA Parakeet, OpenAI Whisper, WhisperX, AssemblyAI and Deepgram. Every one of them is free or has a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.
3 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: NVIDIA Parakeet, OpenAI Whisper and WhisperX. The remaining 6 are freemium, trial or paid, and each is labelled with its exact tier so nothing surprises you at sign-up.
Free tools first, then freemium, then trial, then paid, and alphabetically inside each tier. Nobody pays to appear higher: Flocci AI Tools carries no ads, no sponsored slots and no paid listings, so the order reflects price and nothing else.
| Tool | Pricing | Type | Listed for |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Parakeet | Free | Speech & Transcription Engines | Tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with 6.05% average WER at 0.6B params |
| OpenAI Whisper | Free | Speech & Transcription Engines | Open-source speech-to-text, run locally free |
| WhisperX | Free | Speech & Transcription Engines | 70x real-time transcription speed via batched inference on top of Whisper |
| AssemblyAI | Freemium | Speech & Transcription Engines | Speech-to-text with audio intelligence |
| Deepgram | Freemium | Speech & Transcription Engines | Fast, accurate speech-to-text API |
| ElevenLabs Scribe | Freemium | Speech & Transcription Engines | Scribe v2 Realtime transcribes in under 150ms latency |
| Mistral Voxtral | Freemium | Speech & Transcription Engines | Apache 2.0 open-weight models (24B and 3B) downloadable from Hugging Face |
| Soniox | Freemium | Speech & Transcription Engines | Real-time speech-to-text priced well under typical competitor rates |
| Speechmatics | Freemium | Speech & Transcription Engines | Free starting credit with no card required, 56+ language support |