Methodology: AI tools price watch: plan price, included usage and effective unit price
AI tools price watch: plan price, included usage and effective unit price
- Conditions
What we track. Plans of AI tools grouped by task — transcription, text-to-speech, meeting notes, video avatars, image generation, writing, document OCR and background removal — by billing period: monthly, annual or pay as you go.
What counts as a value. The plan price and the usage included per month, as the vendor's public pricing page states them for the named plan and billing period, with the date we read it, in the page's currency (we do not convert). For pay-as-you-go plans, the published unit price. The effective unit price — the monthly price divided by the usage included per month (per hour of audio, per 1,000 characters, per video minute, per credit or per page) — is our calculation (Calculated), made only when both numbers come from the same reading.
What it is not. A list price: we do not buy plans or check how usage is deducted, and accuracy or voice quality are not compared. "Included usage" means different things across vendors and is described per plan.
When a value is Unknown. When the page does not state the value for the named plan and period, or several different values match it (for example promotional prices without a period). A value we have not recorded is shown as Unknown, never as zero.
How often. Every plan is read once a day.
AI Tools Price Watch. The median effective price per hour of transcription (US dollars and euros separately) and per 1,000 characters of text-to-speech, with the number of plans (N) and the date.
Version. Version 1 of this method, in effect since 29 September 2026; description revised 15 October 2026.
- Coverage
- On : 37 AI tool plans from 20 vendors.
- Region
- the United States