Willow Voice pricing: what it actually costs in 2026
Willow Voice is free with unlimited words on its smaller Frontier Mini model, $15 per user per month for Pro or $12 on annual billing, and $35 per user per month for Business or $28 annually. Enterprise is quoted on request, and no one-time licence is offered.
Enforced privacy mode with zero data retention starts at Willow Voice's Business tier, which is $28 per user per month on annual billing. (willowvoice.com/pricing, checked September 4, 2026)
Competitor pricing and features last verified September 4, 2026. Every claim links to its source.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freesource | $0 | free | Unlimited use of the smaller Frontier Mini model, limited personalization, 20 Scribe uses per week |
| Pro (monthly)source | $15 | monthly | per user |
| Pro (annual)source | $12 | annual | per user, billed annually |
| Business (monthly)source | $35 | monthly | per user |
| Business (annual)source | $28 | annual | per user, billed annually |
Choose Willow Voice if…
- The free plan has no word ceiling at all, which no other free tier in this comparison matches — the limit is model quality rather than volume.
- Pro at $12 per user per month on annual billing covers Mac, Windows and iOS, and VoiceGem covers macOS 14.4 or later only.
- Business buys enforced zero data retention, SSO and SAML, which VoiceGem does not supply in any contractual form.
Why Willow Voice charges for the model and VoiceGem does not
Willow Voice's tiers are drawn around model quality: Frontier Mini free, Frontier Pro paid. That is a coherent way to price a hosted service, where every transcription costs the vendor compute.
VoiceGem's models run on your Mac, so a stronger model costs nothing extra to serve and every engine is available on the free tier. What a VoiceGem licence buys is the time cap coming off and the Deterministic Pass being available all day rather than for 15 minutes.
Neither pricing model is a trick. They are the honest consequence of where the transcription happens.
What it costs to leave Willow Voice
Willow Voice documents no export for a personal dictionary or history on its public pages, so custom words are copied out by hand before cancelling. For most people that is twenty minutes.
VoiceGem stores its dictionary on the Mac and exports it with the rest of its settings, so this is the last time the list gets retyped. Going the other way means giving up on-device transcription, which Willow Voice does not offer at any tier.
What Willow Voice costs across its four tiers
Free covers unlimited dictation on Frontier Mini with limited personalization and 20 Scribe uses a week. Pro is $15 per user per month, or $12 on annual billing, and unlocks unlimited use of Frontier Pro and unlimited Scribe. Business is $35 per user per month, or $28 annually. Enterprise is quoted on request.
Over three years, one Pro seat on annual billing is $432. A single-Mac VoiceGem licence is $25 once and a ten-Mac licence is $159 once, though no VoiceGem licence covers a phone or a Windows machine.
What the unlimited Willow Voice free plan really means
Unlimited applies to words, not to capability. The free plan runs Frontier Mini, Willow Voice's smaller speech-to-text model, with limited personalization and 20 Scribe uses a week; the stronger Frontier Pro model is a paid feature.
Compared with the metered free tiers elsewhere in this set — 2,000 words a week on Wispr Flow, 8,000 on Typeless, 1,000 once on Aqua Voice — that is a genuinely different offer, and it is worth taking seriously before paying anyone including VoiceGem.
Which Willow Voice guarantees are priced for organisations
Enforced privacy mode with zero data retention and compliance certifications begin at the Business tier. Single sign-on and SAML and dedicated support sit at Enterprise. An individual on Pro cannot switch those on.
VoiceGem has no tier structure to hide anything behind — the default engine runs on the Mac and nothing is transmitted unless you supply a cloud API key. What VoiceGem cannot offer is a certification or a contractual retention term, which is precisely what a Business plan is for.
What people ask before switching
“My employer's code cannot go to a third-party server, so cloud dictation is out.”
VoiceGem's default engine runs on the Mac and the Deterministic Pass never leaves it. Cloud AI providers are opt-in and use your own key, held in the macOS Keychain. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you switch it on and supply the key yourself.
Which models run locally →“Fifteen minutes a day free is a trial, not a free tier.”
Fair, up to a point. It is 15 minutes of recorded audio per day, every day, with no expiry and no feature restrictions — Developer Mode and the local models are included. Call it a generous trial with an honest cap; it is not a two-week countdown.
The pricing page, including the cap →“When the connection is poor it stalls, spirals, or loses what I dictated.”
A hosted dictation service has a round trip to fail. VoiceGem's default engine runs on the Mac and the Deterministic Pass is a pure function, so there is no request to time out and no queue to spiral — dictation behaves the same on hotel wifi as at a desk.
Which models run on the device →Also comparing: the head-to-head against Willow Voice, every Willow Voice alternative worth the switch, or moving off Willow Voice without losing anything.
Common questions
Pro is $15 per user per month, or $12 per user per month on annual billing. Business is $35 per user per month, or $28 annually. Enterprise pricing is quoted on request.
Unlimited on words, using the smaller Frontier Mini model, with limited personalization and 20 Scribe uses a week. The stronger Frontier Pro model and unlimited Scribe are Pro features.
No. Every tier is billed per user per month or per year. In this comparison set the one-time options are VoiceGem from $25, MacWhisper from $89.99 on its App Store build, and Superwhisper at $249.99.
Enforced privacy mode with zero data retention is a Business-tier feature at $35 per user per month, or $28 on annual billing. VoiceGem retains nothing by default because transcription happens on your Mac.
Willow Voice's team pricing has a three-seat minimum, so three Pro seats on annual billing is $432 a year. VoiceGem's ten-device licence is $159 once and provides no shared administration at all.
VoiceGem allows 15 minutes of recorded audio a day with no feature restrictions, including Developer Mode and every local model. Willow Voice allows unlimited words on a smaller model with personalization limited.
$25 once against $432 for three years of one Willow Voice seat.
VoiceGem is released under GPL-3.0, a derivative of VoiceInk by Prakash Joshi Pax.