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AI Meeting Notes Cost Calculator

Estimate the cost to transcribe and summarize meetings.

Quick answer

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.

Result
$0.2714 per meeting
Transcribe + summarize · $54.28/month
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:

Result
$0.2714 per meeting
Transcribe + summarize · $54.28/month
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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