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MAI-Transcribe-2 (preview) vs Scribe v2

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

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)

Scribe v2

ElevenLabs' speech-to-text model family, with batch (Scribe v2) and realtime variants.

Vendor
ElevenLabs
Weights
Closed: API and apps only
Released
9 Jan 2026
API price
$0.0037 per minute of audio (Artificial Analysis lists $3.67 per 1,000 minutes (Scribe v2, provider ElevenLabs); divided by 1,000.)
License
proprietary
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Scribe v2

Task by task

TaskMAI-Transcribe-2 (preview)Scribe v2Higher tier
Transcription
Models
S2% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming) · CloudS2.2% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming) · CloudSame 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

BenchmarkMAI-Transcribe-2 (preview)Scribe v2Snapshot
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
2.5%3.6%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%2.2%18 Oct 2026