Patchboard
Pricing

One rate, two ways to pay it

$0.09 per minute all-in on Patchboard infrastructure across speech-to-text, LLM and text-to-speech, or 5% on top of a provider's published rate when routed.

$100 in signup credit applies to every account
Router
+5%
on the provider's rate
  • Speech-to-text, LLM, TTS: The provider's published rate
  • Routing: Measured selection and pre-response failover
  • Access: Public preview
  • Support: Email
  • SLA: None during preview
  • Commitment: None
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Most flexible
Patchboard infra
$0.09
per minute
  • Speech-to-text, LLM, TTS: Included
  • Routing: Measured selection and pre-response failover
  • Access: Public preview
  • Support: Email
  • SLA: None during preview
  • Commitment: None
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Enterprise
Custom
locked for the term
  • Speech-to-text, LLM, TTS: Included
  • Routing: Plus deployment reviews
  • Access: By contract
  • Support: Dedicated
  • SLA: In the contract
  • Commitment: Committed monthly minimum
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Choose the pricing path

Pick the service boundary first. Router adds managed routing to your provider spend, Patchboard infrastructure bundles the three voice-model legs into one per-minute rate, and Enterprise covers committed usage and custom operating requirements. Signup credit is applied before paid usage.

What it meansRouterPatchboard infraEnterprise
Speech-to-text, LLM, TTSThe provider's published rateIncludedIncluded
RoutingMeasured selection and pre-response failoverMeasured selection and pre-response failoverPlus deployment reviews
AccessPublic previewPublic previewBy contract
SupportEmailEmailDedicated
SLANone during previewNone during previewIn the contract
CommitmentNoneNoneCommitted monthly minimum
What the 5% is 5% of

Provider list rates, from the boards Patchboard routes on

Routed, you pay the rate of whichever model Router selects, plus 5%. On Patchboard infrastructure you pay $0.09 a minute for all three legs instead, and none of these apply.

Speech-to-text
$ / minute of audio · 16 models priced
Lowest
$0.0010
Velma 2
Highest
$0.0170
GPT Live Transcribe

Velma 2: published streaming rate, $0.06/hr — batch is $0.03/hr, not a measurement. GPT Live Transcribe: gpt-live-transcribe, the streaming path this row is recommended for.

LLM
$ / M output tokens · 13 models priced
Lowest
$0.26
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Highest
$12.00
gpt-5.6-terra
Text-to-speech
$ / M characters · 22 models priced
Lowest
~$4.0
Maya 2 Native
Highest
$100.0
speech-2.8-hd

Rates as transcribed from benchmarks.patchboard.online. A tilde is the board’s own: the vendor publishes no exact rate.