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Google API pricing

Google has 2 ranked offerings on Syftly. Prices below are per-unit list prices from dated public sources — token- or credit-priced plans are flagged, and a missing price is shown as missing, never guessed.

Google Gemini 3 Flash · Transcription

Transcription price$1.92 per 1000 min *

* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so it is excluded from cheapest-rankings.

Source: Artificial Analysis — Speech to Text; Google Gemini API pricing 2026-08-20 · ranking updated 2026-08-20

Cheapest comparable transcription alternative: AssemblyAI Universal-3 Pro ($3.5 per 1000 min) — compare them.

Full ranking: Transcription

Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS · Text-to-speech

Text-to-speech price$12 per 1M chars *

* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so it is excluded from cheapest-rankings.

Source: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing ($1/1M text input + $20/1M audio output, Preview status); Artificial Analysis Speech Arena provider-voice leaderboard (Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS 1212 ELO, rank 5) 2026-08-20 · ranking updated 2026-08-20

Cheapest comparable text-to-speech alternative: Deepgram Aura-2 ($30 per 1M chars) — compare them.

Full ranking: Text-to-speech