What do “fair usage” and “higher usage” mean?

Most dictation tools record, transcribe, then paste a block of text once you stop. soink is different: it streams every word into place live, at the speed you speak. Real-time voice input is more expensive to run, but we believe it’s worth it for the experience: faster, more natural, and usable directly inside the apps where you work.

Our aim is to keep pricing simple and limits as permissive as we can afford. We expect Pro to comfortably cover most people. soink is still in its early launch period, so instead of a hard number, each plan has a generous fair-use ceiling that we may adjust over time, only ever in response to real pressure on our infrastructure and costs. If you ever reach your plan’s limit, we’ll let you know in advance and help you move to the plan that fits.

soink counts talk-time, the minutes you actually spend speaking, added up over a month. At an average English pace of about 150 words per minute (WPM), that comes to roughly 9,000 words an hour. Here are some examples of what each plan comfortably covers:

Pro, when dictation is part of your day. Most people land here:

• Maya, a working professional mixing keyboard and voice across email, chat, and notes: about 4 hours a month (≈ 35,000 words).
• Daniel, a marketer drafting copy and social posts by voice most days: about 9 hours a month (≈ 80,000 words).

Max, when dictation is how you work:

• Leo, a creator writing everything by voice, all day: about 18 hours a month (≈ 160,000 words).
• Emma, a developer vibe-coding through prompts, code, AI chat, and research: about 21.5 hours a month (≈ 195,000 words).

These limits will keep changing while we’re still new, so if your usage gets close to your plan’s, we’ll tell you early and help you find one that fits better. What we care about most is giving you the best experience and the most usage we can, and we’re working hard to lower our costs so we can give you even more.