Google Cloud Speech-to-Text vs WhisperAPI vs Sonix

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
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WhisperAPI
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Sonix
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Google Cloud Speech-to-Text: OpenAI Whisper API86% Happy Scribe86% TurboScribe85% Maestra82% NeatScribe82% Riverside Transcription82% Turbo Transcription AI82% MacWhisper81%
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Your tool Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
cloud.google.com
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is a speech recognition API that turns audio into written text.
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Competitor WhisperAPI
whisper-api.com
WhisperAPI lets you upload 10GB video files
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Competitor Sonix
sonix.ai
Sonix is transcription software that turns audio and video recordings into text with timestamps and speaker labels.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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27.3Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▲ 10.3%
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6-month growth
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+41.8%
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Global rank web
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#1,130,497
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Avg. last 3 months
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25.6K
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Bounce rate lower is better
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40%
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Pages / visit
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1.7
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Visit duration
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14s
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Google Cloud Speech-to-TextWhisperAPISonix
06.8K13.6K20.4K27.3KWhisperAPI · 17.8KWhisperAPI · 25.7KWhisperAPI · 26.6KWhisperAPI · 19.2KWhisperAPI · 23.8KWhisperAPI · 25.8KWhisperAPI · 24.8KWhisperAPI · 24.7KWhisperAPI · 27.3K10K100KWhisperAPI · 17.8KWhisperAPI · 25.7KWhisperAPI · 26.6KWhisperAPI · 19.2KWhisperAPI · 23.8KWhisperAPI · 25.8KWhisperAPI · 24.8KWhisperAPI · 24.7KWhisperAPI · 27.3KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
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Freemium
Free Trial
Starting price
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$10per month · free tier available
$25per month
Free tier
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API access
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Free Trial FreePay-As-You-Go (40 credits) $10Pay-As-You-Go (100 credits) $20Pay-As-You-Go (200 credits) $30+1 more
Pay As You Go $10Core $25/moAdvanced $50/moPro $80/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioVideo
AudioVideo
AudioDocumentsVideo
Output
Text
Text
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Voice & SpeechWriting & ContentAI Subtitle GeneratorAI Transcription
Voice & SpeechWriting & ContentAI Subtitle GeneratorAI Transcription
Education & LearningVoice & SpeechWriting & ContentAI Subtitle Generator+2 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Transcription
APIs
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Audio video transcription
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Multilingual subtitle creation
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Speech recognition
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Video transcription
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Call transcriptions
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Caption videos
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Live captions
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Meeting transcription
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Translations
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Video captions
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Video subtitles
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Developer tools
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Meeting summaries
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Podcast transcription
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Sentiment analysis
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Summarizing
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Voice commands
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Prompts
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