Read on each vendor’s own page · 12 September 2026
The number on the pricing page is the least useful part. What decides your bill is how a tool charges — and this category has four different answers to that, which is why comparing the headline figures side by side tells you almost nothing.
The clearest symptom : the word “free” means four different things on this list. Free forever on your own machine. Free with no word cap. Free up to a weekly cap. And a one-off allowance that never comes back. They are all labelled the same way.
Spokenly
On-device models cost nothing, with no usage limit and no account. Their paid tier is shown at $8.33 a month, billed $99.99 a year, and it adds cloud models on top.
Pick it when : You work offline, or you would rather never send audio anywhere. This is the only model on the list where the free option is the whole product rather than a sample of it.
Superwhisper
A one-off licence at $249.99, alongside $8.49 a month or $84.99 a year. Its free tier has no word cap.
Pick it when : You already know you will still be dictating in three years. Below that, the yearly subscription stays cheaper — and it does not commit you to a tool whose place in your habits is unproven.
Wispr Flow, Willow
Wispr Flow: free for 2,000 words a week, then $15 per user a month, or $12 paid yearly; their team tier starts at $23, or $18 yearly. Willow: a free tier too, then $15 or $12 paid yearly, with a business tier at $35 or $28.
Pick it when : You are buying for more than yourself, or you want the vendor to keep shipping. It is also the model that costs the most if your usage is occasional.
Aqua Voice
1,000 words free — once, not per month — then $10 a month, or $8 paid yearly. Their top tier is $30, or $24 yearly.
Pick it when : You want to try before deciding. Worth knowing the allowance does not come back: this is a trial wearing the word “free”.
SpeakApp charges in euros, and its free plan is a tier, not a trial : every feature is there, and what the paid plans lift is how much of it you use in a month. The grid lives on our pricing page — in French, like most of this site for now.
We do not restate it here. A price written on a second page is a second place to be wrong the day it changes.
Each vendor’s pricing page was opened on 12 September 2026. Where a page hides one side of a monthly/yearly switch, that side is not guessed here — Spokenly’s monthly figure is behind their toggle and is therefore absent from this page rather than calculated. Superwhisper is the exception worth naming : their pricing page returns an error and their grid only renders in a browser, so their figures come from our own reading of it on 11 September, recorded on the French page linked below.
Nothing is converted into euros, and no accuracy ranking is published : every figure of that kind in this category comes from a benchmark its own vendor designed. Reconfirm any price with the vendor before buying — this page can go stale without knowing it, which is what the date is for.