Assemblyai cuts flagship STT price 22% with Universal-3 Pro rebrand
What changed
New Whisper-Streaming model added at $0.30/hr. Supports 99+ languages. Includes Keyterms Prompting add-on ($0.04/hr) and Speaker Diarization add-on ($0.12/hr).
Multiple new LLM Gateway models added: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite ($0.10/$0.40 per 1m tokens), Claude 4.6 Sonnet ($3.00/$15.00), Claude 4.6 Opus ($5.00/$25.00), Claude 4.5 Opus ($5.00/$25.00), Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ($0.15/$1.20), Qwen3 32B ($0.15/$0.60), Kimi K2.5 ($0.60/$3.00 per 1m tokens).
Pre-recorded STT models restructured: 'Universal' renamed to 'Universal-2' (price unchanged at $0.15/hr); 'Slam-1 Beta' renamed to 'Universal-3 Pro Default' with price reduced from $0.27/hr to $0.21/hr. Universal-3 Pro is now the flagship model.
Before and after
Dec 29, 2025 vs Mar 30, 2026New Whisper-Streaming model added at $0.30/hr. Supports 99+ languages. Includes Keyterms Prompting add-on ($0.04/hr) and Speaker Diarization add-on ($0.12/hr).
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