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Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 vs MAI-Transcribe-2 (preview)

Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 1 task where both are listed: they share a tier in 1.

Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0

xAI's speech-to-text model behind its STT API, with batch and streaming modes in 38+ languages.

Vendor: xAI
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
Released: 18 Sep 2026
API price: $0.0017 per minute of audio (Batch $0.10 per hour of audio divided by 60; streaming is $0.20 per hour.)
License: proprietary
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0

MAI-Transcribe-2 (preview)

Microsoft AI's in-house speech recognition models for 60 languages, offered through Microsoft Foundry and Azure Speech.

Vendor: Microsoft AI
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
Released: 3 Sep 2026
API price: $0.0017 per minute of audio (Launch rate $0.10 per hour of audio (introductory through 2026-12-31 per secondary reports) divided by 60.)
License: proprietary
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to MAI-Transcribe-2 (preview)

Task by task

Task	Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0	MAI-Transcribe-2 (preview)	Higher tier
Transcription Models	S2.3% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming) · Cloud	S2% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming) · Cloud	Same tier

A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.

Same benchmark, both results

Benchmark	Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0	MAI-Transcribe-2 (preview)	Snapshot
Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER Streaming AA-WER Streaming index: word error rate of final streaming transcripts across AA's agent-talk set plus VoxPopuli and Earnings-22 subsets, lower is better	2.7% Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 (Streaming)	2.5% MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming	19 Oct 2026
Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming) AA-WER v2: word error rate across AA's own test set plus cleaned VoxPopuli and Earnings-22 subsets (non-streaming), lower is better	2.3% Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0	2% MAI-Transcribe-2	18 Oct 2026