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AssemblyAI · #2 most active of 15 in Audio

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Transcription plus summarisation, topic detection and speaker labels for developers.

Current version

Universal-2

Entry cost

Pay as you go from $0.12/hr

Changes / 30d

0

Capabilities

  • Speaker diarization
  • Summarisation
  • Topic detection
  • PII redaction
  • LeMUR framework

Pricing

  • Free credits

    Free

  • Pay as you go

    $0.12 per hour

    Free

  • Enterprise

    custom

    Free

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Universal-2

    AssemblyAI

    disclosed

  • Claude

    Anthropic

    disclosed

Context window

n/a

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

yes

Stack signals

  • REST API
  • Streaming WebSocket
  • SDKs

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • version

    Universal-2 model rolled out as the default

    Universal-1Universal-2

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