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Universal-3 API pricing

assemblyai/universal-3

Transcription. Universal-3 by AssemblyAI, routed through INFRO on a AssemblyAI account you connect — alongside every other provider you run. AssemblyAI bills you for it directly, on that account and at your own rate. INFRO adds routing, failover, request logs, cost attribution and policy around it, and takes no part of what you pay AssemblyAI.

Pricing

Per audio hourUSD · updated 2026-10-05

AssemblyAI rate

$0.27

per audio hour, billed to you by AssemblyAI

INFRO adds

$0

0% markup on model spend

Calling Universal-3

POST /v1/audio/speech
import os
from infro import Infro

client = Infro(api_key=os.environ["INFRO_API_KEY"])

transcript = client.audio.transcriptions.create(
    model="assemblyai/universal-3",
    file=open("meeting.mp3", "rb"),
)

What this modality supports

  • Text to speech
  • Music generation
  • Transcription
  • Diarization

Text-to-speech with streaming playback, full-track music generation, and transcription with timestamps and diarization. Billed per character generated, per track, and per hour transcribed.

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