Wispr Flow pricing, and the one-time alternative.

What it costs

All of this comes from Wispr Flow’s pricing page, read on the date stamped above. The free tier, Flow Basic, allows 2,000 words a week on Mac or Windows and 1,000 a week on iPhone, and Android currently has no cap at all, which their page marks as a limited-time arrangement. Pro costs $15 per user per month, dropping to $12 if you pay for the year. Enterprise is sales-quoted and adds compliance and admin features. New accounts get 14 days of Pro without a card.

There’s no lifetime or one-time option. That’s a positioning decision rather than an oversight: Flow runs a cloud service with real per-word costs behind it, so a subscription is the model that fits what they built.

What 2,000 words a week buys you

Two thousand words a week is more usable than it sounds for occasional dictation, and less than it sounds if you dictate for work. One focused morning of prompts and messages will pass it. On the desktop tiers that makes Basic a trial rather than a permanent home, which looks like its purpose. Android is the exception while their unlimited promotion lasts.

Where your speech goes

This is the part worth knowing before the price. Their privacy page states it without hedging: "Transcription always happens in the cloud to provide the best speed and accuracy." That’s an engineering trade they’ve made openly, and it buys them larger models and cross-platform consistency.

It also means your audio leaves your machine every time you dictate. For most work that’s unremarkable. For a client call, an unreleased product name, or anything under an agreement you signed, it’s the whole decision, and no pricing tier changes it.

Against paying once

Wispr’s prices come from their pricing page, and their processing and offline rows from their own privacy page and docs. Ours come from this site. All current on the verified date.

The arithmetic

Flow Pro at the annual rate works out at $144 a year. Edict is $29 once, so a Flow subscription passes it within the first few months and everything after that is the difference. Over three years the gap runs to a few hundred dollars, which matters to an individual and rounds to nothing for a company buying seats.

Cost alone should not decide it, though. If you are weighing Flow against superwhisper rather than against us, that comparison has its own page. Buy Flow if you dictate across a phone and a Windows machine as well as a Mac, or if you want a vendor running the models for you. Buy Edict if you’re on a Mac, want the audio to stay there, and prefer a purchase to a bill.

What Flow does better

Stated plainly, because a comparison that concedes nothing is an advertisement. Flow runs on Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android; Edict runs on one of those. Their cloud models are larger than anything that fits on your machine, and cloud engines are often stronger on accents. On compliance it isn’t close: their privacy page says Wispr is SOC 2 Type II certified with ISO 27001, and offers HIPAA on all plans under a business associate agreement, while Edict has a licence and a menu bar. If any of that is your requirement, Flow is the better buy, and pretending otherwise would be the kind of comparison this site exists to avoid.

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