Productive Voice Buy $39
Productive Voice vs Dragon

A Dragon alternative
for $39.

Dragon Professional costs about $699 from resellers. Productive Voice is a $39 Windows licence that runs on your own Deepgram key. Here is how the two compare, including when Productive Voice is the wrong tool.

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At a glance

Feature
Productive Voice
Dragon
Price
$39 once
About $699 once, from resellers
Running cost
About $28 a year to Deepgram, at 10 minutes of speech a day
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Platform
Windows 10 and 11
Windows
Your own API keys
Deepgram, plus OpenRouter, Anthropic or OpenAI
No
Floating pill over any app
Yes
No
Needs an internet connection
Yes, to reach Deepgram
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Free trial
30 days, full-featured, no card
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What it costs to run

After the licence you pay Deepgram directly, at about $0.008 a minute. At 10 minutes of speech a day that is about $28 a year, so three years cost $123. At that rate Productive Voice reaches $699 after about 23 years.

New Deepgram accounts get a $200 credit, which covers that usage for about 7 years. The AI formatting is optional and uses your own key, so it adds a little more.

Choose Productive Voice if

  • You want dictation in every Windows app without a $699 purchase.
  • You want your speech turned into a formatted email, note or commit message by the AI model you choose.
  • You want to try it for 30 days before you pay.

Choose Dragon if

  • You must dictate with no internet connection. Productive Voice has no offline mode: every dictation goes to Deepgram.
  • You need to control Windows by voice. Productive Voice turns speech into text at the cursor, and does nothing else.
  • Your workplace does not allow audio to leave the PC.

What you get for $39

  • A floating pill over every Windows app. Press Ctrl Shift Space, speak, and the text lands at your cursor.
  • Raw dictation or formatted text. Raw dictation needs only a Deepgram key. Voices turn the same speech into an email, a note or a commit message.
  • Your keys, your accounts. Audio goes from your PC to your own Deepgram account. We run no servers for audio or text.
  • One device, lifetime updates. 30-day free trial with no card, and a 14-day refund.

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Full-featured, no card. If it is not right for you, there is nothing to cancel.

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Dragon Professional v16 price is from resellers, checked on 10 November 2026; Nuance sells no single licences online. Rows marked "Not checked" are ones we have not verified on the vendor site. Verify before you buy. Dragon is a trademark of its owner. Productive Voice is not affiliated with it.

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