| 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 |