AssemblyAI launches Voice Agent API and restructures pricing into six product tabs
AssemblyAI added a Voice Agent API at .50/hr (/bin/bash.075/min), broke Guardrails out as a priced family, and reorganized its pricing page into six product tabs while keeping async rates flat.
Pricing page grouped async (/bin/bash.15//bin/bash.21/hr), streaming (incl. Whisper-Streaming /bin/bash.30/hr) and Speech Understanding add-ons; no standalone Voice Agent product.
Six product tabs: Pre-recorded STT, Realtime STT, Voice Agent (.50/hr / /bin/bash.075/min), Speech Understanding, Guardrails, LLM Gateway. Realtime swaps Whisper-Streaming for Universal-Streaming Multilingual (/bin/bash.15/hr); Medical Mode and Keyterms/Prompting add-ons added; async unchanged.
AssemblyAI reorganized its pricing page into six product tabs and shipped a standalone Voice Agent API priced at .50/hr (/bin/bash.075/min) — a proprietary end-to-end voice stack built on its Realtime Speech-to-Text API.
Base async transcription rates are unchanged (Universal-2 /bin/bash.15/hr, Universal-3.5 Pro /bin/bash.21/hr). The realtime lineup dropped Whisper-Streaming and added Universal-Streaming Multilingual (/bin/bash.15/hr) alongside Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime (/bin/bash.45/hr). Guardrails is now a distinct priced family (Profanity Filtering /bin/bash.01/hr, PII Audio Redaction /bin/bash.05/hr, PII Text Redaction /bin/bash.08/hr, Content Moderation /bin/bash.15/hr), and pre-recorded add-ons gained Medical Mode (/bin/bash.15/hr) and Keyterms Prompting / Prompting (/bin/bash.05/hr). The LLM Gateway now surfaces explicit per-model token rates (e.g. GPT-5.5 /0 per 1M, Claude 4.8 Opus /5 per 1M).
Pricing page restructured into six product tabs (Pre-recorded STT, Realtime STT, Voice Agent, Speech Understanding, Guardrails, LLM Gateway). New Voice Agent API listed at $4.50/hr ($0.075/min). Async unchanged ($0.15 Universal-2, $0.21 Universal-3.5 Pro). Realtime lineup swapped Whisper-Streaming for Universal-Streaming Multilingual ($0.15/hr) alongside Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime ($0.45/hr). Guardrails broken out as a priced family (Profanity Filtering $0.01/hr → Content Moderation $0.15/hr); Medical Mode ($0.15/hr) and Keyterms/Prompting ($0.05/hr) added as pre-recorded add-ons.