TL;DR: Buying dictation for a team turns three questions into one spreadsheet: what does a seat cost per year, does audio leave the company, and does anyone have to administer it. Infina is $99 per seat per year, transcribes on each person's machine, and gives every engineer the hands-free loop for AI agents. Wispr Flow is $144 to $180 per seat per year and cloud-only. Here is the whole table, including where we are the wrong buy.
What the money is actually buying, before the numbers. Infina runs on three spoken triggers and there is no fourth. Say "type" and a sentence and it lands as typed text in whatever app is in front of you. Say "send it", or just "enter", and it presses Enter so the prompt actually goes. Say "open Cursor" or "open Slack" and your computer switches apps for you.
Nothing is held down and nothing is pressed. There is no push-to-talk key to find and no Enter key to reach for two hundred times a day, which is the part every other tool in this category leaves to your hands. Wispr Flow, Superwhisper and the rest all stop at inserting text, which leaves the two keypresses around every prompt exactly where they were.
The three questions a team actually has
Per-seat cost per year, not per month. Monthly pricing hides the real number. A $15/month seat is $180 a year, and twenty of those is $3,600.
Does the audio leave the company. Your team dictates client names, salary discussions, unreleased product plans, and customer support details. A cloud-only tool means every one of those sentences transits a vendor's servers. That is a decision for whoever signs the contract, not for each engineer.
Who administers it. Some of these are consumer apps with no team tier at all. Buying twenty individual licenses and expensing them works, until someone leaves.
| App | Per seat per year | Transcription | Team tier | Hands-free |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infina | $99 | On each Mac | Yes, team plan | Yes, three triggers |
| Wispr Flow | $144 annual, $180 monthly | Cloud | Yes, Growth and Enterprise | No |
| Superwhisper | $84.99, or $249.99 lifetime | On each Mac | No team tier | No |
| VoiceInk | $25 to $49 once, per device tier | On each Mac | No team tier | No |
| MacWhisper | €65 once, Pro | On each Mac | No team tier | No |
| Dragon | Quote | Varies by product | Yes, enterprise | Command grammar |
1. Infina: $99 a seat, local by default, and the loop
$99 per seat per year at the time of writing, unlimited words and unlimited voice commands. Transcription runs on each person's own Mac by default, so audio does not pool anywhere central, which is the shortest answer you can give a security reviewer.
What your engineers get for it is not faster typing, it is the removal of the keyboard from the AI loop. "Open Cursor" switches them into it. "Type" plus the prompt writes it. "Send it", or just "enter", sends it. Nothing is held down and nobody presses Return two hundred times a day. On a team running several agents in parallel, the "open" trigger is the one that compounds: they move between Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor by voice while all three are working.
If your team writes text that customers read, there is an optional cloud add-on on top of the yearly plan: $5 per month billed annually at $60 per person. That makes a fully loaded seat $159 a year, billed as two separate subscriptions with two renewal dates. It is genuinely optional. For a team that mostly prompts AI agents, the base $99 is the whole purchase, and we would rather you kept the $60.
Free trial is 2,000 words and 50 commands with no card, and there is a 7-day money-back guarantee, so you can put it on five machines before you buy twenty.
Pick it if: your team prompts AI agents all day and audio must stay local. Skip it if: half the team is on iPhone or works in other languages. More: pricing, private dictation.
2. Wispr Flow: the most complete team product
Wispr Flow has the real team story here: Growth at $23 per user per month, or $18 billed annually, above the $15 and $12 individual tiers, plus an Enterprise tier with a quote. It covers Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android on one subscription with 100+ languages, and its rewrite layer produces the cleanest output of anything in this list without anyone configuring anything.
The two things a buyer has to weigh: it is cloud-only, so every dictation leaves the company, and at $144 to $216 per seat per year it is the most expensive per-seat option here other than Dragon. It also stops at inserting text, so the send is still manual.
Pick it if: mixed devices, many languages, and cloud is approved. Skip it if: local-only is a requirement. See Wispr Flow vs Infina and wisprflow.ai.
3. Superwhisper: cheapest per seat, no team management
$84.99 per year or $249.99 lifetime, local, free tier available. On raw per-seat cost it undercuts everything here except VoiceInk, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
What it does not have is any notion of a team: no admin console, no central billing, no seat management. Twenty seats means twenty expense reports and twenty renewal dates you do not control. For a five-person startup that is fine. For fifty people it is not.
Pick it if: small team, tight budget, local matters, nobody minds expensing it. Skip it if: you need one invoice.
4. VoiceInk: cheapest total outlay, per device
$25 for one Mac, $39 for two, $49 for three, once, open source, local, 14-day refund. For a small team this is genuinely the lowest number on the page, and the source being public is an argument some security teams actually accept.
No team tier, no admin, no support contract, no polish layer, no commands, no send.
Pick it if: a handful of people and cost dominates everything. Skip it if: you need a vendor to call.
5. MacWhisper: buy it for the meetings, not the seats
€65 once for Pro, with a free tier. Its real team use is not dictation, it is transcribing recorded meetings, customer calls, and interviews locally so the recordings never go to a transcription service. Plenty of teams buy it for that alongside something else for typing.
Pick it if: your team transcribes recordings and needs it to stay local. Skip it if: you are buying daily input. See MacWhisper vs Infina.
6. Dragon: the incumbent, if you are in a regulated field
Dragon, now under Microsoft after the Nuance acquisition, is what medical and legal teams already run, with domain vocabularies and deployment models built for those industries. Pricing is by quote and depends heavily on the product line. Our pricing note here was last checked July 4, 2026, so get a current quote.
For a software team it is the wrong shape: heavy, Windows-centric, and built around dictating documents rather than prompting agents.
Pick it if: healthcare or legal, with a compliance department. Skip it if: you are an engineering team.
When Infina is not the answer
- Your team is half on phones. Wispr Flow covers iPhone and Android; Infina is Mac and Windows.
- Your team works in many languages. Wispr Flow or Superwhisper.
- You want an enterprise contract with SSO and a security questionnaire already answered. Wispr Flow Enterprise or Dragon are further along that path.
- Budget is the only criterion. Superwhisper and VoiceInk are cheaper per seat.
- You need output polished for customers by default. Wispr Flow includes that; with Infina it is the optional add-on.
FAQ
How much does dictation software cost per seat per year? As of September 2026: Infina $99, Superwhisper $84.99, Wispr Flow $144 billed annually or $180 monthly at the individual tier and $216 to $276 on Growth, VoiceInk $25 to $49 once, MacWhisper €65 once. Dragon is by quote. Multiply by headcount before comparing anything else.
Which dictation app is best for a team that cannot send audio to the cloud? Infina, Superwhisper, VoiceInk, and MacWhisper all transcribe on the user's own machine by default. Wispr Flow is cloud-only. If local processing is a hard requirement, that single line removes one option from the list immediately.
Does Infina have a team plan? Yes. Seats are $99 per person per year. There is an optional cloud add-on at $60 per person per year on top of that, which makes a fully loaded seat $159, billed as two separate subscriptions with two renewal dates. Most engineering teams do not need the add-on.
What should an engineering team look for in a dictation app? Whether it can complete the action, not just produce text. Engineers prompting Claude Code or Cursor spend their day switching apps and pressing Return. A tool that types but cannot send leaves most of the friction in place. Infina's three triggers cover switch, type, and send.
Can we trial it across the team before buying? Infina gives 2,000 words and 50 commands with no card, plus a 7-day refund. Wispr Flow and Superwhisper both have free tiers. VoiceInk has a 14-day refund. Put each on a few machines for a week and count keypresses rather than comparing accuracy claims.
The bottom line
For an engineering team on Macs that prompts AI agents and wants audio to stay local, Infina at $99 a seat is the straightforward buy, and the hands-free loop is the part that pays for itself. For a mixed-device, multilingual team with cloud approved, Wispr Flow is the better-built team product and costs more. Superwhisper and VoiceInk are cheaper and have no team management at all. Dragon is for regulated industries.
More: pricing, dictation for founders, private dictation.
What each one costs, and what the money buys
Price on its own decides nothing. Here is every price on this page next to the reader it is the right price for.
The tools this page covers (Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, MacWhisper, VoiceInk) are at the top. The rest of the field follows, because the right answer is sometimes none of the above.
| Tool | Price | Keyboard needed | Pick it if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infina | $99 a year, unlimited words and unlimited commands | No. Speak "type", speak the prompt, say "send it" or "enter". | you want to prompt AI tools without touching the keyboard. Say "type" and the words go in, "send it" and the prompt goes, "open Cursor" and you are in the next agent. It is the only one of these that finishes the whole loop by voice in the tools developers prompt in all day. |
| Wispr Flow | $15 a month, or $144 a year billed annually | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you need dictation on an iPhone or an Android phone as well as a laptop, or you write in one of 100+ languages. Those are the two things Infina does not ship. |
| Superwhisper | $8.49 a month, $84.99 a year, or $249.99 once | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you want to pick and swap the speech model yourself, and dictation into a text box is the whole job. It stops where the text box ends: there is no spoken send, and no spoken app switch. |
| MacWhisper | 65 euros, paid once | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | the job is transcribing recorded audio files rather than talking to your computer while you work. |
| VoiceInk | $25 to $49, paid once | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you want plain local dictation at the smallest possible price and you never need your voice to control the machine. |
| Talon | free | No, once you have learned its command language. | you want to drive the entire computer by voice, cursor and clicks included, and you are willing to learn a command language to get there. Talon is the serious hands-free tool on this list. Infina goes after the same freedom with three ordinary English words instead of a syntax to learn. |
| Apple Dictation | free, built in | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you dictate a sentence here and there and do not want to install anything. |
The part that is actually different: zero keypresses
The mainstream dictation apps (Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, MacWhisper, VoiceInk, Apple Dictation) are all push-to-talk: you hold or press a key to start talking, and you press Enter to send. That is two physical acts on every single prompt. A hundred prompts in a day is two hundred keypresses that exist only to start and stop the tool. Infina removes both of them. Nothing is held, nothing is pressed, and the same loop runs on three spoken words.
There are three triggers and there is no fourth. "type" types, "send it" sends, "open" opens and switches apps. The send trigger answers to either wording, "send it" or a plain "enter", whichever you find yourself saying. That is the entire vocabulary: no command language, no grammar, no custom scripts to write, nothing to memorize beyond those three words.
When Infina is not the answer. If you need dictation on an iPhone, an iPad, an Android phone or Linux, Infina is a Mac and Windows desktop app and there is no phone version. Wispr Flow covers phones.
Everywhere else, the difference is the loop. Every other tool in that table types words into a box and stops, leaving your hands to press Enter and pick the next window. Infina finishes it: say "type" and your sentence, say "send it" (or just "enter"), say "open Cursor", and keep going without a key.