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HyperWhisper supports four transcription tiers out of the box via HyperWhisper Cloud, plus bring-your-own-key (BYOK) for direct provider access and fully offline local models.

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HyperWhisper Cloud at a glance

HyperWhisper Cloud is built-in — no API key, no separate account. Pick a tier based on whether you care more about speed, balance, or accuracy. All four are pay-as-you-go with no markup; you pay what the underlying provider charges.

Highest — ElevenLabs Scribe v2

Our top-accuracy tier. Best results on accents, noisy environments, and technical vocabulary.~$0.59 / hour · 9.83 credits/min

High

Deepgram Nova-3~$0.33 / hour 5.5 credits/minStrong English accuracy, low latency, custom vocabulary.

Medium

Grok STT (xAI)$0.10 / hour 1.67 credits/minSolid multilingual accuracy at a low per-minute cost.

Fast

Groq Whisper Large v3~$0.11 / hour 1.85 credits/minSub-second latency. Great for English and major European languages.
Credits are billed at 1 credit = $0.001 USD. A Pro license includes 5,000 credits up front, and top-ups are available in $5 / $10 / $20 bundles.

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You only pay for actual speech

HyperWhisper Cloud detects silence and blank audio automatically. If a recording contains no detectable speech, you are charged 0 credits — we don’t bill for dead air at the start of a clip, pauses between thoughts, or an accidentally-triggered empty recording. In practice, across a typical working day of push-to-talk dictation, you’re only billed for the minutes you actually spoke.

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Accuracy by language

For English, any tier works. For the best HyperWhisper Cloud quality, use Highest (ElevenLabs Scribe v2) — the top accuracy tier, especially on accents, noisy audio, and technical vocabulary. Most users find High (Deepgram Nova-3) is plenty for everyday dictation, and the Medium / Fast tiers (xAI Grok, Groq Whisper) are great when cost and latency matter more than the last few percent of accuracy.
xAI does not publish a per-language WER table for Grok STT. We avoid mixing older third-party benchmark numbers with this tier because they do not measure the same provider.

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Cost examples

At 1 credit = $0.001 USD, here’s what each tier costs at typical usage levels. Remember: only actual speech is billed, so “30 min/day” means 30 minutes of talking, not 30 minutes of the app being open. Monthly at 30 min/day: ~$9 Highest / ~$5 High / ~$1.50 Medium / ~$1.80 Fast. A one-time $5 top-up covers roughly 8 hours of speech on the Highest tier or ~50 hours on the Medium tier.

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Alternatives

If you already have API credits or want to use your own free tier (Deepgram $200, AssemblyAI $50), plug in a key via API Keys. You pay the provider directly at their published rate.HyperWhisper also supports Mistral and Google Gemini for BYOK. See API Keys for setup.
When you bring your own key, opting your audio out of model training is your responsibility — every provider has its own dashboard setting. See Data Privacy & Model Training for a copy-pasteable LLM prompt that finds the current opt-out for any provider.

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Boost accuracy on any provider

  • Custom vocabulary — add domain terms (product names, frameworks, jargon, colleagues’ names). Biggest single improvement for technical or professional use.
  • Low-noise environment — every model degrades with background noise. See Best Practices.
  • Natural pace — overly fast or overly slow speech both hurt accuracy.
When using Deepgram Nova-3 with custom vocabulary, set the language explicitly (not auto) — the keyterm parameter is only active in monolingual mode on Nova-3.

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FAQ

Does HyperWhisper Cloud mark up the underlying provider cost? No. You pay the same per-minute rate as if you held the provider’s API key directly. What happens if my chosen tier is temporarily unavailable? HyperWhisper Cloud automatically falls back to another provider in the chain, so transcription still succeeds. You’re billed at the actual provider that handled the request. Which tier should I use for the highest quality? Highest (ElevenLabs Scribe v2) is the top HyperWhisper Cloud tier — best accuracy on accents, noisy audio, and technical vocabulary. High (Deepgram Nova-3) is a strong, lower-cost default for most everyday dictation.