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Field notes on voice infrastructure.
Quarterly pricing breakdowns. Public benchmarks on WER and RTF. Engineering notes from the team building the cheapest minute on the market.
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The cheapest speech-to-text API in 2026: a 12-provider breakdown
Orchard's batch tier runs at $0.00042/min — 7× cheaper than Deepgram, 14× cheaper than AssemblyAI, 57× cheaper than AWS Transcribe. Source-linked comparison across 12 providers.
Mateo Bustamante · Ramiro AlvarezJune 14, 20268 min read
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