Token prices for each VocaLingo tool

Each tool shows an estimate before it starts. The rates below are what the server actually charges. Charges are rounded up to a whole token, and tiny operations that cost a fraction of a token add up until they reach a whole token. How charging works in general is explained in How tokens work.

Video Translation

Video Translation is charged per second of the source video, only after the translated video is ready. The minimum is 1 token.

HeyGen accepts videos up to 30 minutes. If Lip Sync fails, you get the dubbed video without it and pay the ElevenLabs rate without Lip Sync.

Audio Translation

Audio Translation charges for three steps separately. Recognition and translation run automatically and cost very little. The voiceover is generated only when you tap the play button, and that is where most of the cost is.

Speech recognition

Translation of the recognized text and the Summary tab cost fractions of a token for a typical recording.

Voiceover

The voiceover is charged by the length of the translated text. 1,000 characters is roughly one minute of speech.

Example: a one-minute voice message voiced with an ElevenLabs voice costs about 1 token for recognition and translation plus about 10 for the voiceover. With ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 the same minute costs about 264 tokens.

Text to Speech

Text to Speech is charged by the length of the text, up to 10,000 characters per request.

For Qwen 3 voices the app currently shows about half of the real price.

Saving your voice to My Voices

Saving a MiniMax voice costs 180 tokens. They are charged before cloning starts and returned automatically if cloning fails. Saving a Qwen 3 voice costs about 1 token. The voice you record in the onboarding tour is saved for free.

Voice Changer

Voice Changer costs 14.4 tokens per minute of the source recording, counted by its real length, minimum 1. A 30-second clip costs 8 tokens, a 5-minute recording (the maximum) 72. Tokens are charged when the result is ready.

Add Captions

Add Captions charges after the captioned video is ready. The price is the same with or without caption translation.

Text Transcription and Video to Text

Both tools use the same recognition prices as Audio Translation. With the default ElevenLabs Scribe a transcript costs about 0.73 tokens per minute. Video to Text charges at least 1 token per video: 10 minutes cost 8 tokens, an hour 44. The Essence tab and Export to PDF cost fractions of a token.

Text Translation, photo translation and Text Analysis

• Text Translation and Text Analysis: fractions of a token for a typical text. They add up and appear as whole tokens in Usage History.

• Listen in Text Translation: 10 or 20 tokens per 1,000 characters, depending on the language.

• Translate photo: Nano Banana 2.1 costs 4 or 6 tokens depending on the photo size; GPT Image 2.5 costs 6 for a square image and 5 for a landscape or portrait one.

Tourist Translator

Tourist Translator charges for recognition, translation and voiceover. Recognition costs about 1.3 tokens per minute of speech, so an hour of continuous speech in lecture mode is about 80 tokens. Voiceover adds 10 tokens per 1,000 characters, and translation costs fractions of a token. Recognition and voiceover are charged only when they succeed.

Chat

A chat message costs as much as the model spends on reading your message with its context and writing the answer. The table shows VocaLingo tokens per 1 million model tokens (input / output). A short question and answer usually cost a fraction of a token; long chats with files cost more because the whole context is read again.

Tools inside the chat are charged on top: a web search costs 0.6 to 1.7 tokens depending on the model, an image from Nano Banana 2.1 costs 4.8 tokens (1K), 7.2 (2K) or 15.6 (4K), and an image from GPT Image 2.5 costs 6 to 7.2. Deep Research has no fixed price: it depends on how many pages it reads. Download Video in chat is free.

AI Calls

AI Calls are charged per minute, in 30-second steps. The price depends on the country and network you call and on whether the AI voices the translation. The exact price for your number is shown in the app before the call.

Verifying your own number in My Numbers costs the price of the SMS or call (at least 1 token) plus 10 tokens when you confirm the code.

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