Productive Voice vs Wispr Flow

A Wispr Flow alternative
you pay for once.

Wispr Flow is a subscription. Productive Voice is a $39 licence for Windows that runs on your own API keys. Here is how the two compare, including where Wispr Flow is the better choice.

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At a glance

Productive Voice

Wispr Flow

Price

$39 once

$15 a month, or $144 a year billed yearly (Pro)

3-year cost

$123, with Deepgram at 10 minutes of speech a day

$432 on Pro, billed yearly

Platform

Windows 10 and 11

Mac, Windows, iOS and Android

Your own API keys

Deepgram, plus OpenRouter, Anthropic or OpenAI

Where your audio goes

Straight to your own Deepgram account

To the vendor

AI formatting

Your choice of model, on your own key

Included, fixed provider

Works over any app

Floating pill overlay

Yes

Custom dictionary

Yes, stored on your PC

Yes

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 $39 + $84 = $123. Wispr Flow Pro billed yearly costs $144 a year, or $432 over the same three 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 work on Windows and want to stop paying every month.
You want your audio to go to an account you control, not through a vendor.
You want to choose the AI model that formats your text.

Choose Wispr Flow if

You dictate on a Mac. Productive Voice runs on Windows only.
You want one bill and no API keys to set up. Productive Voice needs a Deepgram key, which takes a few minutes.
You want AI formatting with no second account. Ours is optional and uses your own key.

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.
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