The app is open source and runs entirely on your machines - no subscriptions, no tiers, no trial clock. Prepaid credits pay for the hosted AI features that run on our servers, at the rate card below.
The full app. Not a trial.
One published price per hosted feature. Only live, usable features are listed. We work to provide the cheapest possible tokens - prices change loudly, with a new effective date and a changelog entry, and over time they can go down.
| Hosted feature | Price | Effective from |
|---|---|---|
| Hosted transcription Talk to your agents by voice on our key - zero setup, custom dictionary synced across machines. | $0.20 per hour of audio | 2026-07-02 |
All prices USD. Transcription is metered per second of audio, with a 10-second minimum per request.
Accounts are free. Hosted transcription activates with your first top-up: add credits and it just works - no AI account, no API key. The minimum top-up is $5 - that buys 25 hours of audio, which in the usage we've seen so far lasts developers more than a month of daily voice use. Credits are prepaid and nothing recurs: your balance draws down as you use hosted features, and when it runs out you top up again - or don't. The app stays free either way.
Yes. DevThrottle runs entirely on your own machines, so it costs us nothing when you use it - which is why it costs you nothing. It is the full app, not a trial, and it never expires. There are no subscriptions and no tiers.
Anything DevThrottle does with AI on your behalf on our servers. Today that is hosted transcription. One balance, one rate card - every hosted feature draws from the same prepaid credits at the published price. Prefer to bring your own transcription key? You can, and then nothing draws from your balance.
Accounts are free. Hosted transcription activates with your first top-up: add credits and it just works, no AI account or API key needed. The minimum top-up is $5, which buys 25 hours of audio.
Longer than it sounds. Developers dictate in short bursts - a few minutes a day, even across a full day of coding - so 25 hours of audio goes a long way. You would need to dictate more than an hour every workday to spend $5 in a month. In the usage we have measured so far, $5 lasts well over a month of daily voice use, and for typical use several months.
We publish a simple rate card with an effective date on every price, and we work to provide the cheapest possible tokens. Prices change loudly - every change gets a new effective date and a changelog entry - and over time they can go down.
No. Credits are prepaid: you top up when you choose, your balance draws down as you use hosted features, and nothing recurs. When the balance runs out, hosted features pause until you top up again - the app itself keeps working, free, forever.
Every price change lands here, with its effective date. Never silently.
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