Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2 hits ASR leaderboard at $0.10/hour, far below rivals
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-03
Artificial Analysis added Microsoft's new MAI-Transcribe-2 speech-to-text model to its non-streaming ASR leaderboard; the model is available via Microsoft Foundry.
Pricing is the standout: $0.10 per hour (about $1.67 per 1,000 minutes), well below comparable high-accuracy rivals — ElevenLabs Scribe v2 ($3.67), Smallest AI Pulse Pro ($4), and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe ($5) per 1,000 minutes.
The AA-WER index averages word error rate across 8 hours of audio from three datasets (AA-AgentTalk 50%, VoxPopuli 25%, Earnings22 25%), covering accents, domain language, and tough acoustic conditions across 67 models.
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