How much does SuperWhisper cost?
Short answer: there is a free tier that does not expire, Pro costs $8.49 a month or $84.99 a year, and a Lifetime licence is $249.99 as a one-time purchase. A 30-day refund window applies. Those numbers are easy to find and they are not the hard part. The hard part is that $249.99 against $8.49 a month is a bet on how long you will still be using this particular app, and almost nobody does the arithmetic before deciding. This page does it, and sets it against the general case for buying dictation once rather than renting it.
What the same decision looks like at a lower number
Parakeety is $25 once, which is the whole price list. There is no free tier, no Pro tier and no lifetime upgrade, because there is one product: the NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 on the Apple Neural Engine, with every future update included. A 7-day trial runs first on every Mac with no card up front. It buys a narrower product than a tiered app does: no cloud models to fall back on, no file transcription, and 25 European languages rather than a global set.
The tiers
The free tier does not expire and covers everyday voice-to-text. That is more than a trial, and it is under-reported: a good deal of writing about SuperWhisper presents it as a paid app.
Pro is $8.49 a month, or $84.99 a year if you pay annually, which works out cheaper than twelve monthly payments. It adds the use of your own AI API keys along with further advanced features. There is a student discount, and an Enterprise tier is custom-priced.
Lifetime is $249.99 as a one-time purchase, with the same feature set as Pro and no recurring fee. A 30-day refund window applies across the plans.
The sum nobody does
Divide $249.99 by $8.49 and you get 29.4. So the lifetime licence pays for itself against monthly billing after roughly 30 months, or two and a half years. Against the $84.99 annual price the payback is slower, closer to 35 months.
That reframes the choice usefully. You are not deciding whether $249.99 is a lot of money for a dictation app. You are deciding whether you expect to still be using this specific app in about three years, in a category where the underlying speech models have been changing fast.
It cuts both ways honestly. Three years is not a long time for a tool you use daily and like, and plenty of people will clear that bar comfortably. It is a long time in a market where the model that made on-device dictation viable is itself only a couple of generations old.
Reading a tiered price list
Tiered pricing is a reasonable answer to a wide product. SuperWhisper spans multiple models, cloud and local, file transcription and dictation, so a single price would either overcharge light users or undercharge heavy ones.
The thing to check is which tier your actual work needs, rather than which tier looks like the best value. A free tier that does not expire means the honest first step is to use it until you hit something you need, and let that tell you which tier you are.
That is a better test than any comparison table, including this one.
| Tier | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | None | Does not expire; everyday voice-to-text |
| Pro monthly | $8.49 | Per month | Own API keys plus advanced features |
| Pro yearly | $84.99 | Per year | Cheaper than twelve monthly payments |
| Lifetime | $249.99 | One-time | Same features as Pro, no recurring fee |
| Enterprise | Custom | Contact sales | Adds enterprise capabilities |
FAQ
- Is SuperWhisper free?
- There is a free tier and it does not expire, covering everyday voice-to-text. It is not a time-limited trial. Paid tiers sit above it: Pro at $8.49 a month or $84.99 a year, and a Lifetime licence at $249.99 once. A good deal of writing about SuperWhisper presents it as a paid-only app, which is not accurate.
- How much is SuperWhisper Pro?
- $8.49 a month billed monthly, or $84.99 a year billed annually, which is cheaper than paying month by month. Pro adds the ability to use your own AI API keys along with further advanced features. There is a student discount, and a 30-day refund window applies. An Enterprise tier is priced on application.
- Is the SuperWhisper lifetime licence worth it?
- It depends on one number. At $249.99 against $8.49 a month, the licence pays back after roughly 30 months, and closer to 35 against the $84.99 annual price. So the real question is whether you expect to still be using this specific app in about three years, in a category where the speech models underneath have been moving quickly.
- Does SuperWhisper offer refunds?
- Yes. A 30-day refund window applies to the plans. Combined with a free tier that does not expire, that means you can establish whether the app suits your work before committing to anything, and in particular before committing to the $249.99 lifetime licence, which is the tier where the decision is hardest to reverse.
Try it
Parakeety sits at the other end of the same idea: one price, $25 once, and no tier to choose. You get the Parakeet TDT v3 model on the Apple Neural Engine, every future update, and no subscription to cancel. It is a narrower product than a tiered app, deliberately. There is a free 7-day trial with no card required, so the trial is the test.