Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI vs Modulate vs WhisperAPI

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

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Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI
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Modulate
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WhisperAPI
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI: Deepgram92% Speechmatics | AI Voice Agents90% Google Cloud Speech-to-Text80% OpenAI Whisper API78% Eden AI78% Soniox77% MacWhisper77% TurboScribe76%
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Your tool Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI
assemblyai.com
Speech-to-text API built for accuracy at scale
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Competitor Modulate
modulate.ai
Voice-native AI sounds impressive—until you learn most vendors transcribe audio to text first, then analyze
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Competitor WhisperAPI
whisper-api.com
WhisperAPI lets you upload 10GB video files
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
457.8Kvisits/mo
89.1Kvisits/mo
27.3Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 12.0%
▲ 48.6%
▲ 10.3%
6-month growth
-16.3%
-35.9%
+41.8%
Global rank web
#87,404
#468,492
#1,130,497
Avg. last 3 months
518.4K
70.8K
25.6K
Bounce rate lower is better
37%
51%
40%
Pages / visit
4.0
1.7
1.7
Visit duration
3m 12s
23s
14s
Traffic sources
● Direct 91% · ● Referral 8%
● Direct 70% · ● Referral 29%
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Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAIModulateWhisperAPI
0157.2K314.4K471.5K628.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 568.9KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 565KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 595.5KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 506.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 547.2KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 590.1KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 628.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 577KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 520.4KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 457.8KModulate · 249.3KModulate · 24.9KModulate · 274.9KModulate · 138.9KModulate · 34.5KModulate · 68.6KModulate · 63.4KModulate · 59.9KModulate · 89.1KWhisperAPI · 17.8KWhisperAPI · 25.7KWhisperAPI · 26.6KWhisperAPI · 19.2KWhisperAPI · 23.8KWhisperAPI · 25.8KWhisperAPI · 24.8KWhisperAPI · 24.7KWhisperAPI · 27.3K10K100K1MUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 568.9KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 565KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 595.5KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 506.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 547.2KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 590.1KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 628.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 577KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 520.4KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 457.8KModulate · 249.3KModulate · 24.9KModulate · 274.9KModulate · 138.9KModulate · 34.5KModulate · 68.6KModulate · 63.4KModulate · 59.9KModulate · 89.1KWhisperAPI · 17.8KWhisperAPI · 25.7KWhisperAPI · 26.6KWhisperAPI · 19.2KWhisperAPI · 23.8KWhisperAPI · 25.8KWhisperAPI · 24.8KWhisperAPI · 24.7KWhisperAPI · 27.3KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
$30,000per month
$10per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Universal-2 $0.15/moPay-as-you-go Universal-3.5 Pro $0.21/mo
Pay-As-You-Go CustomStarter $30,000/yrGrowth $180,000/yrEnterprise $450,000/yr
Free Trial FreePay-As-You-Go (40 credits) $10Pay-As-You-Go (100 credits) $20Pay-As-You-Go (200 credits) $30+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
Audio
Audio
AudioVideo
Output
Text
DataText
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Intermediate
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeVoice & SpeechAI APIAI Transcription
Productivity & OfficeVoice & SpeechAI MonitorAI Transcription
Voice & SpeechWriting & ContentAI Subtitle GeneratorAI Transcription
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
3
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5
Transcription
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Podcast transcription
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Audio video transcription
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Content moderation
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Fraud detection
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Video transcription
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Deepfake detection
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Scam detection
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AI system monitoring
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Customer support
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Prompts
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