Willow Frontier Mini offers unlimited voice dictation

Willow just split its dictation product into two lanes, and the split tells you a lot about who they're chasing. Frontier Mini is the free-flowing option: talk as much as you want, and it turns your speech into clean, readable text without a meter running in the background. No monthly cap, no overage fees, no little counter ticking down while you're mid-sentence trying to draft an email.

Frontier Pro is the other half of the bet. It's built for teams that need speed and accuracy at a level Mini isn't necessarily optimized for — the kind of workflow where a sales team is dictating notes between calls or a support desk is logging tickets by voice all day. Willow is betting that some users will pay for precision and throughput, while others just want a dictation tool that doesn't nickel-and-dime them for talking too much.

The unlimited-usage angle is the interesting part here. Dictation software has historically leaned on subscription tiers gated by minutes transcribed, which makes sense from a compute-cost standpoint but is annoying if you're someone who dictates constantly — writers, therapists, lawyers doing case notes. Willow removing that ceiling on Mini, even as a free or lower-cost tier, is a direct shot at competitors who still charge by volume.

What's not entirely clear yet is where the line sits between what Mini can do and what actually requires Pro. Willow says Pro is faster and more accurate for team use, but the practical gap — latency, error rate on accents or jargon, integration with team tools — is the stuff that will actually decide which tier people pick once they've tried both.