Microsoft prices MAI-Transcribe-2 at $0.10/hour

Microsoft launched MAI-Transcribe-2 at $0.10 per hour of audio through year-end, with diarization, word-level timestamps, configurable transcription styles, and support for 60 languages, according to Microsoft’s model announcement. Microsoft says it ranks first on FLEURS at a 5.2% average word-error rate and processes audio up to 10× faster than leading competitors; those comparisons come from Microsoft and Artificial Analysis, so test production recordings before switching. For teams already watching Microsoft’s move to own more of its model stack, this is a cheap, narrow workload to benchmark now—but treat $0.10 as a limited-time offer, not a contract baseline.