Pricing — Steno
Steno is free and open source (MIT licensed) — the MIT license places no restriction on who can use it or at what scale, including enterprise and commercial use. There are no per-seat fees, subscriptions, or accounts. Separately, Steno also offers a paid Enterprise tier: managed deployment with admin controls and organization-specific features, for teams that want that on top of the free app.Free — for everyone, including enterprise use
- Price: $0
- License: MIT (open source) — no usage restrictions, including for commercial or enterprise deployments
- Source code: https://github.com/ruzin/stenoai
- Account required: no
- Includes: recording (system audio + microphone), on-device transcription (Parakeet and Whisper engines), on-device summarization (local models via Ollama), live transcription, report templates, ask-your-meetings chat, speaker labels, and Apple Shortcuts automation.
Enterprise (optional paid tier)
- A separate, optional offering on top of the free app: managed deployment with admin controls and organization-specific features.
- Enterprise pricing and packaging is being finalized — details coming soon.
Optional costs (not paid to Steno)
- Cloud summarization (optional, off by default): if you choose OpenAI, Anthropic, or AWS Bedrock instead of the local model, you pay that provider directly for API usage. Steno does not resell or mark up these services. A custom endpoint may be a paid API (same as above) or your own self-hosted server, which may have no per-request cost.
- Everything works with no cloud provider — the default pipeline is fully local and free.
Platform
- macOS only (macOS 12 Monterey or later; Apple Silicon, M1 or later — Intel Macs are not supported since v0.4.0).