← Speech-to-Text 
Smallest AI
Pulse
Measured 2026-07-03
* Conditional
WER inflated by inverse-text-normalization — spelled-out numbers score as errors.
WER · batch
5.1%
WER · stream
8.0%
WER · conversational
11.0%
The live socket runs `pulse`, not `pulse-pro`.
Finalize
178ms
p50–p90 · us-east4 · n=30
Time to first token
1.39s
p50–p90 · us-east4
Cost / min
~$0.005
Streaming Pulse. The vendor never publishes an exact rate, and its own pricing page contradicts this model page with ~$0.009/min.
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