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Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 API Price & Benchmarks

Discover pricing, benchmarks, and speaker diarization details for Mistral's latest speech API.

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TL;DR

Mistral prices Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 batch transcription at $0.0035 per minute. Realtime transcription costs $0.008 per minute. Released on October 20, 2026, the model hits a FLEURS multilingual word error rate of approximately 4.5 percent. It features a 32,768 token context window and segment-level timestamps.

API Pricing

Batch transcription costs $0.0035 per minute of audio. Realtime transcription costs $0.008 per minute. The batch endpoint provides asynchronous transcription for recorded audio.

Batch Versus Realtime

Batch mode operates via an offline transcription endpoint for asynchronous tasks. Realtime mode handles live applications requiring low latency, though it incurs higher costs.

Transcription ModePrice, $/minPrimary Use Case
Batch transcription0.0035Asynchronous recorded audio
Realtime transcription0.0080Low-latency live streams

FLEURS Benchmark Results

The model achieves a FLEURS multilingual transcription score of approximately 4.5 percent word error rate. It runs via API-only access with unpublished weights.

English Diarization Performance

English diarization hits an error score of approximately 18.6 percent cpWER, according to data from ai-tldr.dev. Microsoft AI Transcribe 2 sits at approximately 20.3 percent cpWER. Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 scores approximately 18.4 percent cpWER.

Key Feature Updates

Released on October 20, 2026, Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 introduces a context window of 32,768 tokens. This space is shared between audio and custom vocabulary lists. Word-level timestamps were removed in favor of native segment-level timestamp support.

Methodology

Facts are compiled from the vendor's own announcement and documentation, linked below, at the time of writing; where the vendor hasn't published a number it is marked as such. GPUniq prices, when the model is already available here, come from our live catalog.

Sources

  1. 1.Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 - Mistral Docs — Mistral (accessed )
  2. 2.Voxtral 3: Voice Agent SDK & Speech Models in 50+ Languages — Mistral (accessed )
  3. 3.Audio | Mistral Docs — Mistral (accessed )
  4. 4.Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 Context, Specs & Sources — BenchLM (accessed )
  5. 5.Voxtral Transcribe 3 — Mistral’s Speech-to-Text Models | AI/TLDR — AI/TLDR (accessed )

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