Soniox is listed under Speech & Transcription Engines, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Real-time speech-to-text priced well under typical competitor rates. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at soniox.com.
Soniox is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
Soniox does 3 things the catalog singles out: Real-time speech-to-text priced well under typical competitor rates; combines transcription + translation in one streaming api call; diarization and speech translation bundled at no extra cost.
NVIDIA Parakeet is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Speech & Transcription Engines sub-category and is free. OpenAI Whisper, WhisperX and AssemblyAI also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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