| Transcribe (Whisper) | Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.005 / minute | cheaper than OpenAI Whisper |
| Transcribe (Deepgram Nova-3) | Deepgram passthrough | $0.012 / minute | undercuts AssemblyAI fully-loaded |
| + Audio intelligence add-ons | Llama 3.1 70B | +$0.003 / min / add-on | summary, key phrases, action items, chapters |
| Translate | Llama 3.1 70B | $5 / million chars | 4× cheaper than Google Translate |
| Text-to-speech (Aura 2) | Deepgram passthrough | $0.06 / 1k chars | matches ElevenLabs Flash |
| Text-to-speech (MeloTTS) | Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.015 / 1k chars | budget tier; matches OpenAI tts-1 |
| Embeddings | BGE family | $0.04 / million tokens | 2× OpenAI 3-small, with bundle |
| Rerank | BGE Reranker | $1 / 1k searches | half of Cohere Rerank |
| Sentiment | DistilBERT | $0.001 / call | $1 / 1k calls |
| Summarize | BART | $0.50 / million output chars | no comparable per-API pricing |
| Moderate FREE up to 1k/day | Llama Guard 3 | $0.50 / M tokens above quota | like OpenAI Moderation |
| Detect language | classifier | $0.0002 / call | $0.20 / 1k calls |