Mistral Voxtral pricing
Voxtral is Mistral’s speech model family, covering transcription, text to speech and a voice agent API. Several earlier Voxtral models were released with open weights, which makes self-hosting an option for teams that need it.
Transcription is priced per minute, with a smaller and a larger model plus a streaming variant. Text to speech is priced per million characters, and the voice agent is billed per minute of conversation.
The newest models are in public preview, so prices and availability may change. Check the pricing page before building around them, and note that the EU endpoint is a separate option from the default one.
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Every month I transcribe of audio.
AssemblyAI and Mistral Voxtral tie for cheapest, at $3.50 a month. Azure would cost 4.8 times as much.
Estimated monthly bill for 1,000 minutes, lowest first. 7 of 7 providers fit.
- 1AssemblyAIUniversal-3.5 Pro (pre-recorded), $0.21/hr$3.50 per monthLowest priceVisit AssemblyAI
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.
- 1Mistral VoxtralThis pageVoxtral Mini Transcribe 3, $0.0035/min$3.50 per monthLowest priceVisit Voxtral
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.
- 3ElevenLabsScribe v2 (and v2 Medical), $0.22/hr$3.67 per month+$0.17, 4.8% moreVisit ElevenLabs
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.
- 4DeepgramNova-3 (pre-recorded), $0.0043/min$4.30 per month+$0.80, 22.9% moreVisit Deepgram
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.
- 5OpenAIGPT Transcribe, $0.0045/min$4.50 per month+$1.00, 28.6% moreVisit OpenAI
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.
- 6Google CloudSpeech-to-Text V2 Standard (incl. Chirp), $0.016/min$16.00 per month+$12.50, 357.1% moreVisit Google Cloud
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).
- 7AzureStandard real-time transcription, $1/hr$16.67 per month+$13.17, 376.2% moreVisit Azure
Usage $16.67 Monthly total $16.67 Works out to $0.0167 per minute.
Priced in the "Above 0" tier; every unit is billed at that tier's rate.
- Prices updated 2026-10-30.
- 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
Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 pricingNew
Speech to text. Offline (file) transcription with speaker diarization, segment timestamps and custom vocabulary. Default speech-to-text model.
| Monthly usage | Price per minute |
|---|---|
| Any volume | $0.0035 |
Flat $0.0035 per audio minute; diarization is not priced separately on the page. Public Preview since 2026-10-20.
Source: docs.mistral.ai
Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 pricingNew
Speech to text. Higher-quality offline transcription from the larger Voxtral model, for recorded files.
| Monthly usage | Price per minute |
|---|---|
| Any volume | $0.004 |
Flat $0.004 per audio minute. Public Preview since 2026-10-20.
Source: docs.mistral.ai
Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 pricingNew
Speech to text. Streaming transcription of live audio with configurable latency and turn detection. One-way speech-to-text, not a conversational agent.
| Monthly usage | Price per minute |
|---|---|
| Any volume | $0.008 |
Flat $0.008 per audio minute. Public Preview since 2026-10-20.
Source: docs.mistral.ai
Voxtral TTS 3 pricingNew
Text to speech. Text-to-speech with preset voices, zero-shot voice cloning, streaming and contextual delivery.
| Monthly usage | Price per 1M characters |
|---|---|
| Any volume | $13.00 |
Flat $13 per million characters. Public Preview since 2026-10-20.
Source: docs.mistral.ai
Voice Agents API (Mistral Small 4) pricingNew
Realtime voice. Managed two-way voice agent pipeline (microphone capture, speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech, playback) with telephony, browser and custom-audio interfaces, running Mistral Small 4.
| Audio in | $0.04 per minute |
|---|---|
| Audio out | $0 per minute |
$0.04 per minute of conversation as one combined price (audio_in carries it, audio_out is 0). The page does not say whether this covers speech-to-text, text-to-speech and LLM usage or only some of them. Public Preview since 2026-10-20.
Source: docs.mistral.ai
Voice Agents API (larger models) pricingNew
Realtime voice. The same managed voice agent pipeline when run on Mistral's larger models; the pricing page does not name which models this covers.
| Audio in | $0.08 per minute |
|---|---|
| Audio out | $0 per minute |
$0.08 per minute of conversation as one combined price. The page labels this tier only as 'Larger models'. Public Preview since 2026-10-20.
Source: docs.mistral.ai
Features
| Feature | Mistral Voxtral |
|---|---|
| Speaker labels | Yes |
| Languages | 13 |
| Self-hosting | Yes |
| EU data residency | No |
| Realtime voice | Yes |
Frequently asked questions
- How much does Mistral Voxtral speech-to-text cost per month for 1,000 minutes?
- About $3.50 a month using $0.0035/min (prices updated 2026-10-30). Free-tier credits are not subtracted.
- How much does Mistral Voxtral text-to-speech cost per month for 1,000,000 characters?
- About $13.00 a month using $13/1M chars (prices updated 2026-10-30). Free-tier credits are not subtracted.
- How much does Mistral Voxtral voice agent cost per month for 1,000 minutes?
- About $40.00 a month using $0.04/min audio in + out (prices updated 2026-10-30). Free-tier credits are not subtracted.
- Where does the Mistral Voxtral 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.