Hume Audio Decisions API
Hume Audio Decisions API answers questions about sound with probabilities. Its listed price is $0.47 per million input tokens; answers are free.
By Hume AI · Released 2 Nov 2026
Hume's hosted model answers questions about speech and sound with probabilities. Send one MP3 or WAV recording, 5 seconds to 5 minutes long, with questions in plain language. It supports yes/no, choice, score and time-span answers, and returns no transcript. Hume says the probabilities estimate how human raters would respond.
Quick answers
What is Hume Audio Decisions API by Hume AI?
Hume Audio Decisions API: Hume's hosted model answers questions about speech and sound with probabilities.
How much does Hume Audio Decisions API cost?
Hume Audio Decisions API: Published price (vendor-reported): $0.47 per million input tokens (audio, questions and context); answers not billed. Hume's billing docs, checked 03 Nov 2026
Who makes Hume Audio Decisions API?
Facts
- Access
- Playground; request API access through Hume's waitlist
- Inputs
- One MP3 or WAV per request, 5 seconds to 5 minutes; the model hears 16 kHz mono audio
- Price
- $0.47 per million input tokens (audio, questions and context); answers not billed. Hume's billing docs, checked 03 Nov 2026 · Compare prices
- SDKs
- Python hume-audio-decisions and TypeScript @humeai/audio-decisions; Python SDK code MIT
- Questions
- Several questions can share one recording; the overview demonstrates yes/no and score questions in one request
Claims and sources
- Hume reports 70.7% agreement with a human panel's average judgment, against 56.5% for an individual-rater baseline, in its initial evaluation. vendor reportedsource
- On Hume's product-page chart, its model averages 0.82 across 10 benchmarks at 0.23 seconds median latency per screen. The chart gives Gemini 3.8 Flash 78%, Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 76% and Inkling-Small 67%; it names MMAU, ParaPair and EmphAssess among the benchmarks. vendor reportedsource
Links
Source: Announcement → Source: Product and playground → Source: Docs → Source: Billing → Source: Audio preparation → Source: Launch changelog → Source: Python SDK →
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