Comparison·Wispr Flow
The same shortcut. A different jurisdiction.
Voxa is the European alternative to Wispr Flow. The hold-to-speak workflow you already know, rebuilt so your voice never crosses the Atlantic.
Independent comparison · Wispr Flow public docs · May 2026
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Where your voice lands
Voxa Frankfurt eu-central-1Wispr Flow United States AWS us-east-1, by default -
Who polishes the text
Voxa Mistral EU endpoints onlyWispr Flow OpenAI, Anthropic, Cerebras US AI providers -
Privacy posture
Voxa Architectural Always on. No toggle.Wispr Flow Privacy Mode Off by default for individuals -
Who sends the invoice
Voxa Voxa (Belgium) Stripe EU, in eurosWispr Flow Wispr AI, Inc. Delaware, in dollars
The geography
Where your voice actually goes.
You sit in Brussels and dictate a client email. Voxa routes that audio to Frankfurt, runs it through Voxtral and Mistral on their EU endpoints, and returns the polished text. Wispr Flow routes the same audio to the United States, runs it through OpenAI, Anthropic or Cerebras for the cleanup step, and returns the polished text from there.
The output reads the same. The legal jurisdiction it passed through does not.
On privacy
A toggle, or a foundation.
Both products care about privacy. They reach it through opposite paths. Read both, then pick the one you trust to do the right thing by default.
Privacy Mode Zero retention when you turn it on.
Wispr Flow ships a Privacy Mode in Settings. Switch it on and dictation data is discarded immediately, with no training use. For Enterprise customers with Zero Data Retention or a HIPAA BAA, it is enforced automatically.
For individual subscribers, Privacy Mode is off by default. In that state, per their own documentation, the audio and transcript "may be used to evaluate, train and improve Flow's features and AI models."
Source: Wispr Flow Privacy & Data Controls pages, May 2026.
Nothing to switch on, because the path does not exist.
Voxa has no privacy toggle because there is nothing to toggle. Audio streams straight into Voxtral and is discarded on response. Transcripts live in memory for the length of one request. Final text is never persisted server-side.
These are not preferences. They are seven invariants the API source code enforces on every request, with redaction at the log layer that strips any field that could leak content. The full subprocessor list is five names and all of them sit in the EU.
Read the seven invariants and the redaction config that backs them.
What stays the same
The workflow you already know.
If you have used Wispr Flow, you already know how Voxa feels. Hold-to-speak is hold-to-speak. The polish is the polish. The five things you actually use every day do not change.
- Hold a global shortcut, speak, release. Polished text lands wherever your cursor is.
- A custom dictionary that injects your terms into the cleanup model.
- A free tier with roughly two thousand words a week.
- Multilingual: detects the language you speak and replies in it.
- A push-to-talk widget that stays out of the way until you press the key.
What is actually different
Four things, and the why behind each.
Geography
Every Voxa request enters Europe and never leaves. The API runs in Frankfurt. Voxtral and Mistral both serve from EU endpoints. Wispr Flow processes voice in the United States and routes the cleanup step through US AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cerebras).
Defaults
Wispr Flow ships Privacy Mode, which delivers zero retention when you switch it on, and is enforced automatically for Enterprise Zero Data Retention and HIPAA accounts. For individual subscribers it is off by default. Per their own documentation, when off, dictation data may be used to train Wispr's AI models. Voxa has no Privacy Mode because there is nothing to toggle: raw audio is discarded on response and transcripts live in memory only.
Jurisdiction
Wispr is a US company. Default S3 region and US-incorporated subprocessors place dictation data under US law, including the CLOUD Act. Voxa is registered in Belgium, operated from Brussels, governed by Belgian and EU law, billed in euros through Stripe's EU entity.
Verifiability
Privacy claims are easy to print and hard to prove. The Voxa API source code enforces the seven invariants we advertise. The subprocessor list has five names. You can read both before signing up, not after.
Pricing, side by side
Roughly the same number. Very different invoice.
Voxa Pro is €12 a month billed yearly, €15 billed monthly. Wispr Flow Pro is $12 a month billed yearly, $15 billed monthly. The number reads the same. The invoice comes from a different country.
Free
Voxa
€0
2,000 words / week, forever
Wispr Flow
$0
2,000 words / week on Mac and Windows
Pro
Voxa
€12 / mo
Billed yearly, or €15 monthly
Wispr Flow
$12 / mo
Billed yearly, or $15 monthly
Team
Voxa
€10 / user / mo
Min. 3 seats. Yearly billing. Early access.
Wispr Flow
$15 / user / mo
Teams plan. Annual billing.
Enterprise on either side · email us
Already on Wispr?
Switching is twenty minutes.
Install Voxa. Pick the same shortcut you use today. Re-add the words your Wispr dictionary already knows. A real importer for dictionary entries is on the list but has not shipped yet.
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Install
Download the Voxa installer for Windows and run it. About a hundred megabytes, two minutes from click to ready.
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Sign in
Magic link to your work email, then a one-time password we send once your invite is approved.
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Pick a shortcut
Default is Ctrl + Shift + Space. Use the same combo you use in Wispr Flow if you want zero muscle-memory cost. The shortcut editor accepts any combination.
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Add your terms
Copy your dictionary across by hand. Surnames, clients, jargon. A real importer is on the list but has not shipped yet.
How we verified this
Every claim about Wispr Flow on this page is sourced from their public pages and help center, retrieved :
- Wispr Flow · Privacy — Privacy Mode behaviour and training-data defaults.
- Wispr Flow · Data Controls — User-facing privacy controls and retention language.
- Wispr Flow · Subprocessors — Named AI providers and default S3 region.
- Wispr Flow · Privacy Mode & Data Retention — Enterprise ZDR and HIPAA auto-enforcement.
- Wispr Flow · Pricing — Tier definitions and rates.
Voxa is not affiliated with Wispr or Wispr AI, Inc. The Wispr Flow wordmark belongs to its owners and is used here for the limited purpose of identifying the product we compare against. If Wispr Flow's architecture or pricing changes we will update this page; ping support@voxa.app if you spot a stale fact.
Voxa's side of the comparison is verifiable in code. Read the full privacy architecture for the subprocessor list, the redaction config, and the seven invariants the API enforces on every request.
Try it
Bring your voice home.
Free for the first two thousand words a week. No card. Audio never leaves Europe.