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Universal-3.5 Pro and Universal-2 transcribe submitted recordings through POST /v2/transcript, billed on audio duration.

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Background for the family or other versions. These sources are counted separately from evidence for this release.

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Model selection — pre-recorded

Family & other versions

Recorded-audio selectors and fallback between Universal-3.5 Pro and Universal-2.

Evidence & scope

Original checked · Oct 6, 2026

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AssemblyAI pricing

Family & other versions

Recorded 3.5/2 audio-hour prices and realtime 3.6 session-hour base price, with extra feature tariffs.

Evidence & scope

Original checked · Oct 6, 2026

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Billing and Pricing

Family & other versions

Recorded audio seconds and streaming WebSocket-open session duration are billed separately.

Evidence & scope

Original checked · Oct 6, 2026

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Model family catalog2

Current models

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  • Universal-3.5 ProAvailableAPI
    Model ID
    universal-3-5-pro
    Released
    Not stated
    Availability
    Available
    Input
    Audio
    Output
    Text
    Deployment / access
    API
    Capabilities
    Transcription · Multilingual

    First-party endpoint pricing

    USD / audio hour
    Input
    0.21

    Async POST /v2/transcript; submitted audio duration, prorated to seconds; paid add-ons extra.

    Pre-recorded model: speech_models=[universal-3-5-pro] on POST /v2/transcript, USD 0.21/audio-hour. The same selector string is reused for a separate Streaming endpoint, with different billing. 18 languages; default fallback uses Universal-2.

  • Universal-2AvailableAPI
    Model ID
    universal-2
    Released
    Not stated
    Availability
    Available
    Input
    Audio
    Output
    Text
    Deployment / access
    API
    Capabilities
    Transcription · Multilingual

    First-party endpoint pricing

    USD / audio hour
    Input
    0.15

    Async POST /v2/transcript; submitted audio duration, prorated to seconds; paid add-ons extra.

    Pre-recorded model: speech_models=[universal-2] on POST /v2/transcript, USD 0.15/audio-hour; 99 languages.