AI Meeting Notes Cost Calculator
Estimate the cost to transcribe and summarize meetings.
With the default inputs, $0.2714 per meeting — Transcribe + summarize · $54.28/month. Enter your own numbers below to recompute instantly; the full step-by-step math is shown under the worked example.
Results update automatically as you type.
- Transcription
- $0.2700
- Summary (LLM)
- $0.00141
- Per meeting
- $0.2714
- Per month
- $54.28
AI meeting notes transcribe the audio then summarize it. Enter meeting length and monthly volume to estimate the cost per meeting and per month.
How this is calculated
Cost per meeting = transcription (minutes × STT rate) + summary (transcript tokens in + summary tokens out at the summary model's rates). Monthly = per-meeting × meetings per month. It's a two-step pipeline: transcribe the audio, then summarize the transcript.
Is this a good result? What to do next
Both steps are cheap individually, so cost is driven by meeting length and volume. A cheap transcription model plus a small summary model keeps per-meeting cost to cents; action-item extraction adds a little output.
Typical planning ranges
- Transcription
- ~$0.003–$0.006/min
- Summary
- small model, low output cost
- Per meeting
- typically cents
Ranges are typical planning figures to sanity-check your result, not authoritative benchmarks. Your numbers will vary with use case, volume, and vendor.
How to improve this number
- Use a cheap STT model and a small summary model.
- Summarize the transcript once, not the raw audio repeatedly.
- Trim summaries to the essentials.
Common mistakes
- Re-summarizing raw audio instead of the transcript.
- Using a premium model for a routine summary.
When to use a different approach
For captions/subtitles, use the video caption cost calculator. To cut long-context summary cost, use the summarization savings calculator.
Worked example (defaults)
With the default inputs above, here is the result:
- Transcription
- $0.2700
- Summary (LLM)
- $0.00141
- Per meeting
- $0.2714
- Per month
- $54.28
Sources & references
Frequently asked questions
What's included?+
Speech-to-text for the full meeting plus an LLM summary. Action-item extraction adds a little more output cost.
How can I cut cost?+
Use a cheap transcription model and a small summary model; summarize only the transcript, not raw audio repeatedly.
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