Head-to-head
AssemblyAI vs Groq
Groq leads: the AI models rank it above its rival on 1 of the 1 leaderboard they share. Based on how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Grok rank both across the leaderboard they share — re-polled weekly, reasoning shown verbatim.
| Leaderboard | AssemblyAI | Groq |
|---|---|---|
| Best cheap speech-to-text API | #3 / 10 | #1 / 10 |
Why the models rank AssemblyAI — on best cheap speech-to-text api
“At $0.21/hour, it pairs strong messy-speech and entity accuracy with prompting, custom spelling, language detection, formatting, and word timestamps; worth the small premium for transcript usability.”
Why the models rank Groq — on best cheap speech-to-text api
“Cheapest hosted transcription that's still genuinely accurate — roughly $0.04/hour (~$0.0007/min) for OpenAI's Whisper large-v3-turbo weights served on Groq's LPUs, with faster-than-real-time turnaround measured in seconds; for the typical developer batch-transcribing podcasts, calls, or user audio, nothing hosted comes close on price-per-accurate-minute”
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