Sarvam pricing
Sarvam is an Indian AI company whose speech models concentrate on Indian languages. Its Bulbul text-to-speech family, Speech to Text API and Samvaad voice agents are aimed at teams building for customers in India, where general-purpose providers can be weaker.
Bulbul V4 Flash is the newest voice model, built for low latency in real-time use, and it is the voice compared here. Sarvam also lists Bulbul v3 at a separate rate. Samvaad voice agents are sold at one per-minute rate that includes the models behind the agent; telephony is charged separately.
Sarvam publishes its prices in Indian rupees, excluding GST, so the figures on this site are converted to US dollars at the rate on the methodology page. What you pay will follow the exchange rate, and GST applies on top for customers in India.
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Every month I transcribe of audio.
NVIDIA Nemotron (DeepInfra) is the cheapest, at $2.00 a month. Google Cloud would cost 8.0 times as much.
Estimated monthly bill for 1,000 minutes, lowest first. 9 of 10 providers fit.
- 1NVIDIA Nemotron (DeepInfra)Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, $0.002/min$2.00 per monthLowest priceVisit NVIDIA Nemotron (DeepInfra) (opens in a new tab)
Usage $2.00 Monthly total $2.00 Works out to $0.002 per minute.
Priced in the "Above 0" tier; every unit is billed at that tier's rate.
- 2AzureStandard batch transcription, $0.18/hr$3.00 per month+$1.00, 50.0% moreVisit Azure (opens in a new tab)
Usage $3.00 Monthly total $3.00 Works out to $0.003 per minute.
Priced in the "Above 0" tier; every unit is billed at that tier's rate.
- 3AssemblyAIUniversal-3.5 Pro (pre-recorded), $0.21/hr$3.50 per month+$1.50, 75.0% moreVisit AssemblyAI (opens in a new tab)
Usage $3.50 Monthly total $3.50 Works out to $0.0035 per minute.
Priced in the "Above 0" tier; every unit is billed at that tier's rate.
- 3Mistral VoxtralVoxtral Mini Transcribe 3, $0.0035/min$3.50 per month+$1.50, 75.0% moreVisit Voxtral (opens in a new tab)
Usage $3.50 Monthly total $3.50 Works out to $0.0035 per minute.
Priced in the "Above 0" tier; every unit is billed at that tier's rate.
- 5ElevenLabsScribe v2 (and v2 Medical), $0.22/hr$3.67 per month+$1.67, 83.3% moreVisit ElevenLabs (opens in a new tab)
Usage $3.67 Monthly total $3.67 Works out to $0.00367 per minute.
Priced in the "Above 0" tier; every unit is billed at that tier's rate.
- 6DeepgramNova-3 (pre-recorded), $0.0043/min$4.30 per month+$2.30, 115.0% moreVisit Deepgram (opens in a new tab)
Usage $4.30 Monthly total $4.30 Works out to $0.0043 per minute.
Priced in the "Above 0" tier; every unit is billed at that tier's rate.
- 7OpenAIGPT Transcribe, $0.0045/min$4.50 per month+$2.50, 125.0% moreVisit OpenAI (opens in a new tab)
Usage $4.50 Monthly total $4.50 Works out to $0.0045 per minute.
Priced in the "Above 0" tier; every unit is billed at that tier's rate.
- 8SarvamThis pageSpeech to Text (batch), $0.00515/min$5.15 per month+$3.15, 157.7% moreEstimateVisit Sarvam (opens in a new tab)
Usage $5.15 Monthly total $5.15 Works out to $0.00515 per minute. Converted to USD.
Priced in the "Above 0" tier; every unit is billed at that tier's rate.
Converted at 1 INR = 0.010518 USD (2026-10-31).
- 9Google CloudSpeech-to-Text V2 Standard (incl. Chirp), $0.016/min$16.00 per month+$14.00, 700.0% moreVisit Google Cloud (opens in a new tab)
Usage $16.00 Monthly total $16.00 Works out to $0.016 per minute.
Tiers are graduated: each band of usage is billed at its own rate (reached: Up to 500000).
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- Prices updated 2026-10-30.
- Compared on transcription of recorded files (pre-recorded or batch). Live streaming is billed differently and costs more at some providers.
- Priced in the "Above 0" tier; every unit is billed at that tier's rate.
- Free-tier credits are not subtracted.
- How we calculate this
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Pricing by model
Bulbul V4 Flash pricingNew
Text to speech. Low-latency text to speech for Indian languages, with 83 voices across 11 languages.
| Monthly usage | Price per 1K characters |
|---|---|
| Any volume | INR 2.00 |
Standard rate ₹2 per 1,000 characters (the launch post says ₹20 per 10,000). Sarvam’s pricing pages currently show ₹1, a limited-time promotional rate reported to run through 2026-11-12; the end date comes from Sarvam’s post on X as reported by RuntimeWire, not from the pricing page. Pro, Growth and Business plans are cheaper and not modelled. Rates are the same for REST, HTTP streaming and WebSocket. Excludes GST.
Source: www.sarvam.ai
Bulbul v3 pricing
Text to speech. The previous Bulbul text-to-speech generation.
| Monthly usage | Price per 1K characters |
|---|---|
| Any volume | INR 3.00 |
Pay as you go, ₹3 per 1,000 characters, for real-time, streaming and WebSocket use. Excludes GST.
Source: www.sarvam.ai
Speech to Text (batch) pricing
Speech to text. Batch transcription of recorded audio, with speaker labels as a paid option.
| Monthly usage | Price per minute |
|---|---|
| Any volume | INR 0.49 |
Pay as you go, ₹0.49 per minute, billed per second; real-time and streaming are the same price. Pro, Growth and Business plans are cheaper and not modelled. Excludes GST.
Source: www.sarvam.ai
Samvaad Voice Agents pricing
Realtime voice. Managed voice agents with the speech, language and voice models included in one per-minute rate.
| Audio in | INR 3.50 per minute |
|---|---|
| Audio out | INR 0 per minute |
| Concurrent calls included | 4 |
Pay as you go, ₹3.50 per minute, the end-to-end rate covering the speech, language and voice models (carried by audio_in). Calls round up to whole 60-second pulses. Telephony is extra unless you bring your own. Pay as you go allows 4 concurrent calls; higher limits come with paid plans at ₹3.25 to ₹3.00 per minute, which are not modelled. Excludes GST.
Source: www.sarvam.ai
Features
| Feature | Sarvam |
|---|---|
| Speaker labels | Extra cost |
| Languages | 11 |
| Self-hosting | No |
| EU data residency | No |
| Realtime voice | Yes |
Frequently asked questions
- How much does Sarvam speech-to-text cost per month for 1,000 minutes?
- About $5.15 a month using $0.00515/min (prices updated 2026-10-30). Free-tier credits are not subtracted.
- How much does Sarvam text-to-speech cost per month for 1,000,000 characters?
- About $21.04 a month using $0.021/1K chars (prices updated 2026-10-30). Free-tier credits are not subtracted.
- How much does Sarvam voice agent cost per month for 1,000 minutes?
- About $36.81 a month using $0.0368/min audio in + out (prices updated 2026-10-30). Free-tier credits are not subtracted.
- Where does the Sarvam pricing on this page come from?
- From the provider’s own public pricing page, last checked on 2026-10-30. The methodology page lists every source and rule.