Assemblyai Announces Major Price Cuts: Sentiment Analysis and Key Phrases Drop by 83%, Auto Chapters by 73%, and More
What changed
LeMUR Default input pricing decreased from $0.017/1K tokens to $0.015/1K tokens (12% decrease)
Entity Detection decreased from $0.15/hour to $0.08/hour (47% decrease)
Content Moderation decreased from $0.25/hour to $0.15/hour (40% decrease)
Sentiment Analysis decreased from $0.12/hour to $0.02/hour (83% decrease)
LeMUR Basic output pricing decreased from $0.008/1K tokens to $0.005/1K tokens (38% decrease)
LeMUR Default output pricing decreased from $0.049/1K tokens to $0.043/1K tokens (12% decrease)
Topic Detection decreased from $0.20/hour to $0.15/hour (25% decrease)
Committed usage reservation discount reduced from 75% to 50%
Key Phrases decreased from $0.06/hour to $0.01/hour (83% decrease)
Speech-to-Text pricing changed from per-second ($0.0001805/second = $0.65/hour) to per-hour billing ($0.37/hour), reducing effective cost by 43%
Auto Chapters decreased from $0.30/hour to $0.08/hour (73% decrease)
PII Redaction decreased from $0.20/hour to $0.08/hour (60% decrease)
LeMUR Basic input pricing decreased from $0.004/1K tokens to $0.002/1K tokens (50% decrease)
Summarization decreased from $0.06/hour to $0.03/hour (50% decrease)
EU Data Residency compliance added to Enterprise plan
LeMUR Claude 2.1 model added with input pricing $0.015/1K tokens and output pricing $0.043/1K tokens
Before and after
Jan 1, 2024 vs Apr 1, 2024LeMUR Default input pricing decreased from $0.017/1K tokens to $0.015/1K tokens (12% decrease)
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