Google Cloud Speech-to-Text Pricing Change — February 2026
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Google Cloud Speech-to-Text lowers top-tier pricing 100.0% to $0 in February 2026

On February 4, 2026, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text lowered its top plan from $0.07/minute to $0 (100.0% lower).

Before & after

Before
$0.07
Range: Free – $0.07
Standard (Real-Time)Dynamic BatchEnterprise (Custom Pricing)
After
Free
Range: Free – Free
FreeStandardProfessional
Top-tier change -100% $0.07 → Free/minute

Current price (live)

Today's range
Free – Free/minute
Plans
3
Last verified
Mar 28, 2026
See Google Cloud Speech-to-Text pricing →

How we detected this

This change was flagged by our agent-driven pricing pipeline on February 4, 2026. We continuously re-extract each product's public pricing page and compare against our last verified snapshot; when we detect a real price movement, a second validation layer confirms the change before it's published here. See our methodology for more.

Source

cloud.google.com Official Google Cloud Speech-to-Text pricing page

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