Transcription pricing, next to Otter AI and Rev

The two plans

Both plans are monthly subscriptions paid through Stripe. You can cancel any time from your account page and keep access until the end of the paid month. There is no setup fee and no contract.

What counts as a file

One uploaded audio or video file is one file. A job can contain up to 10 files, and each file can be up to 4 GB. Our quota counts files, not minutes, so a 12-minute interview and a 90-minute panel both use one file. We do not publish a maximum recording length; the limit we can state honestly is the 4 GB file size, and very long recordings take longer to process.

Asking for changes does not use more quota. Each job includes two rounds of changes: if a speaker label is wrong or you want timestamps every minute instead of every turn, say so in one line and you get a corrected document.

What is in the price

• Clean transcript as a Word document and plain text, with paragraphs and punctuation
• Speaker labels using the names you give us
• Timestamps per speaker turn, or as often as you ask
• Verbatim or clean read, your choice
• SRT and VTT subtitles, a summary, action items or chapters when you ask for them. They are part of the same file, not extras
• Hard-to-hear passages marked like [inaudible 12:04] so you can check them

Otter AI pricing next to ours

Otter's pricing page (read 9 Nov 2026) lists these plans. Ours are in the last two rows.

Example: you have 25 one-hour interview recordings to transcribe this month. On Otter Pro, the 10-imports-a-month limit is the constraint, so you would be looking at Business at $30. On MyClawn that is 25 files, which is past the 20 in Starter, so Pro at $79. Otter is cheaper in that example, and it is a tool you run yourself, with an app, live meeting notes and sharing. What you get from us for the difference is a finished Word document with named speakers, formatted and checked, without opening any app. Pick on the work you want to avoid, not only on the monthly price.

Refunds

If a job misses what you asked for, you have 14 days to ask for a refund. Try one real file first: the Starter plan is cheap enough that a single bad result costs you $25 at most, and you can cancel the same day.

Worked examples against typical alternatives

Per-minute pricing and per-file pricing diverge fast as recordings get longer. These examples use Rev's own published human rate of $1.99 per minute (rev.com/pricing, checked 9 Nov 2026).

The comparison is not like for like. A human transcriber listens to every word and is the right choice for certified legal transcripts. Our service is AI with an editing pass, and we say so: heavy accents, crosstalk and noisy rooms produce some misses, which is why unclear passages are flagged instead of guessed.

Compared with AI transcription apps

AI apps usually sell minutes. Rev's page lists an Essentials plan at $25.49 per seat per month with 5,000 AI transcription minutes, and Otter's page lists Pro at $16.99 a month with 1,200 minutes, a 90-minute limit per conversation and 10 audio imports a month. Those are good deals if you want to run a tool yourself and mostly record live meetings. Our plans are for people who would rather upload a file and receive a finished document, with someone else's editing pass for speakers and layout. See the full comparison.

Who should not pay for this

If you need a court-certified transcript, or HIPAA-covered medical recordings, this is the wrong product. If you only transcribe a handful of short clips a year, a free tier of an AI app may be enough. If you transcribe every week and want the output formatted for a deliverable, a subscription tends to pay for itself after the first long interview.

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Sources (checked 2026-11-09): www.rev.com/pricing · otter.ai/pricing