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title: "Free trial"
description: "The trial runs 7 days with every premium feature on and 2 credits to spend: 2 hours of transcription, 1 hour of Meeting Assistant, or about 20 AI Chat questions."
---

> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.speakai.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Free trial

Every Speak AI trial runs 7 days with **every premium feature turned on**: transcription,
AI Chat, the Meeting Assistant, automations, insights, and exports. No credit card required,
and nothing is charged when it ends. {/* fact:trial.days */}{/* fact:trial.no_card */}

Your trial comes with **2 credits**. {/* fact:trial.credits */} One balance covers everything, so
you choose whether to spend it on transcription, on AI Chat, on translation, or on a mix of all
three. Credits carry a dollar value, and Speak shows the estimated cost before you run something.

## What 2 credits covers

Spend the whole balance on one thing and you get:

| What you do | Rate | 2 credits covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Transcribe uploaded audio or video | 1 credit an hour | **2 hours** |
| Transcribe with the Azure or AWS engines | 1.5 credits an hour | 1 hour 20 minutes |
| Record a meeting with the Meeting Assistant | 2 credits an hour | 1 hour |
| Translate a transcript | 6 credits per 100,000 characters | about 33,000 characters, roughly 40 minutes of speech |
| Ask AI Chat a question | 0.1 credits a question | about 20 questions |
| Analyze text notes | 1 credit per 100 notes | 200 notes |
| Import a YouTube video | 0.05 credits an import | 40 imports |

Transcription is billed by the minute, not rounded up to the hour. A 12-minute file costs
0.2 credits and leaves the rest of your balance for something else.

> **0.1 credits a question is the cautious figure**
>
> Speak plans AI Chat at 0.1 credits a question so your usage screen never promises more than it
> can deliver. Measured over 30 days of real traffic, a question on the trial's model averages
> closer to 0.04 credits, so 2 credits usually stretches well past 20 questions.

Want to work out a different balance, or check what a specific recording costs before you upload
it? Use the [credits calculator](/help/account/credits-calculator/).

## Which AI model the trial uses

During the trial your account sits on the free tier, so AI Chat runs on **Gemini 2.5 Flash**.
Premium models such as Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, and GPT-5.5 show a lock in the model picker
and open up when you upgrade. {/* fact:trial.free_tier_model */}

That is what keeps chat cheap while you evaluate. A premium model costs roughly 16 to 30 times
more per question, so the same 2 credits would cover one or two questions instead of twenty.
Comparing models is a paid-plan exercise, not a trial one.

## Is 2 credits enough for you?

Work it out against what you actually want to test:

- **One interview or one podcast episode.** Yes. A 45-minute recording transcribes for
  0.75 credits and leaves more than a credit for AI Chat and exports.
- **A short meeting through the Meeting Assistant.** Yes. A 30-minute meeting costs 1 credit,
  which is half the balance.
- **A transcript plus a translation.** Yes, for a short file. A 20-minute recording costs
  0.33 credits to transcribe and about 0.96 credits to translate, so roughly 1.3 credits together.
- **A full research study, a back catalogue, or a week of team meetings.** No. Two credits will
  not cover it, and running out mid-evaluation tells you nothing useful.

If your evaluation is in that last group, ask us and we'll set up a custom trial sized to it:
[book a free consult](https://calendly.com/speak-ai/consult?utm_source=docs&utm_campaign=consult)
or write to success@speakai.co.

## What happens when the trial ends

**You are not charged.** The account converts to the free tier: you keep access to Speak AI,
your uploads, transcripts, and analysis. Limits apply to new work, not to what you already made.
Upgrade whenever it's actually worth it to you: [compare plans](/help/account/plans/).

## Can I test with a long recording?

Yes, and a single long file can use the whole balance. Two hours of audio is exactly 2 credits,
so a two-hour recording spends the trial in one upload. That is a legitimate test, not a problem,
as long as you know it leaves nothing for AI Chat afterwards. If you want both, upload something
shorter first.

## Do trial transcripts work like paid ones?

Yes: view, edit, export, and share them exactly as on a paid plan. That's the point of the
trial: judge Speak AI on your own recordings, end to end.

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Related: [Credits calculator](/help/account/credits-calculator/) ·
[Plans and pricing](/help/account/plans/) · [Credits and usage](/help/account/credits/) ·
[Upload files](/help/uploads/) · Evaluating for a team?
[Book a demo and see your own recordings analyzed](https://calendly.com/speak-ai/demo?utm_source=docs&utm_campaign=book-demo)

Source: https://docs.speakai.co/help/account/free-trial/index.mdx