All comparisons

Rates and claims last checked August 2026

Paxa Labs and iApp for Thai speech and documents

Two Thai AI vendors compared on how many products each sells, how each one bills, and which shape fits the workload you actually have.

iApp sells a range of Thai AI products from one company. We sell three, all on one API and one credit balance. They are speech, translation into Thai, and document OCR. A wider catalogue is genuinely useful when a project needs several unrelated capabilities from a single supplier and a single contract. A narrower one is useful when the capabilities you need are the ones being worked on hardest. The comparison worth making is about which set of things you are actually going to call.

What differs

DimensionPaxa LabsiApp
What is on offerThree sold products on one API: Paxa Flash, Paxa Translate Lite, and Paxa OCR Lite, with speech-to-text in the lab.A broader product range from one vendor, listed on their pricing page.
How you buyOne credit balance across all three products, with per-character speech, per-character translation, and per-page OCR drawn from it.Rates published per product, in baht, on the same page.
Accuracy figuresWe publish none, for any product, and say so on every page. That will change once the lab publishes its evaluations.Their own published figures are on their site, under their own rubric.
What a failed request costsNothing. Credits are charged before inference and refunded automatically on failure, including mid-stream and on a refused document.Their billing terms are on their pricing page.
Thai and English in one sentenceHandled inside a single utterance. It is the flagship model's design constraint, and the model was built under it.Their documentation is where to check how they handle it.
Paxa Flash, per 1M characters
$15
iApp
$67-94
Their rate, as a multiple
4.5-6.3×

Both figures are published list rates normalized to one million characters of speech, read from each vendor's own page and re-checked on a fixed schedule.

What it costs at your volume

Speech, per monthPaxa LabsiAppDifference
100,000About 1.8 hours of speech$1.50$6.68-9.38$5.18 less
1,000,000About 18 hours$15$66.82-93.84$51.82 less
5,000,000About 92 hours$75$334.08-469.22$259.08 less
20,000,000About 370 hours$300$1,336.34-1,876.88$1,036.34 less

Every figure is the two published rates multiplied by the volume beside it. Where the other vendor publishes a range, the low end is compared and the range is shown.

When iApp is the better choice

Some projects need several different Thai AI capabilities, and procurement would prefer to sign once. A vendor with a wider catalogue solves a real problem there that a narrow one leaves open. iApp is also a longer-established Thai company, which is a legitimate factor for a buyer weighing supplier risk. And if you want a vendor who publishes accuracy figures you can put in a document, they do and we do not. Choose us when speech, Thai translation, or document reading is the work itself.

Questions

Why do you not publish accuracy figures?
Because a number without a rubric, a dataset, and a method is not evidence. When the lab publishes its evaluations, the figures and the method will arrive together. Until then, the honest answer is to test on your own material.
Do you rank Thai vendors against each other?
No. Ranking words are banned in our copy site-wide, and that includes here. This page states what differs and where the other product is the better choice.
Can we use one account for speech, translation, and OCR?
Yes. One key, one balance, three endpoints. Usage is itemized per product in the dashboard.
How current are the prices here?
They come from each vendor's published rates, recorded in one place and re-checked on a fixed schedule; the month of the last check is at the top of the page.

Start with free credits

Sign in with Google, GitHub, or Hugging Face and spend 100 one-time free credits on your own text.