tl;dv vs Transcrib Si: a meeting notetaker against a transcription service

What we compared, and how

Everything in the other column was read from public pages on 21 October 2026. Where a page could not be read, the cell says “not measured” — we do not fill those cells from advertising or from memory. Our own column comes from our pricing page, our service contract and our privacy policy, all published on this site.

Where tl;dv is better

• The notetaker. tl;dv records the meeting itself, then asks questions about it: Ask AI and multi-meeting AI insights are the product, not an add-on.
• The free plan. 0 EUR, unlimited video recordings and unlimited transcription in 30+ languages.
• The interface in 11 languages — including Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, Japanese and Korean — with about 878 pages in the Russian locale.
• The content base. 8,973 URLs in the sitemap, 1,162 of them comparison pages, and a comparison hub in every locale. Nobody on our side publishes a thousand comparison pages.
• Machine-readable structure: SoftwareApplication, Offer, AggregateRating, FAQPage and WebSite in one JSON-LD on the home page, and prices in JSON-LD on the pricing page.

Where Transcrib Si is better

• Russian and English, tuned. Our engine is built for Russian speech and for the mixed Russian-English conversation; we state the number of languages instead of a marketing phrase.
• No bot in the call. Nothing is recorded unless you ask: you upload the file you already have.
• A stated allowance: 1,500 minutes of audio per calendar month on Pro, and 64 MB and 120 minutes per file on every plan including Team and the API.
• A developer surface you can read: REST v1 under api.transcrib.si, an MCP server with 4 tools, plugins for Claude and ChatGPT, API keys you create and revoke yourself.
• Six export formats out of the box — TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV and DOCX — and no paywall on the fifth one.

Who should pick which

• Pick tl;dv if the meeting is the object of work and your team wants the notes without asking for them.
• Pick Transcrib Si if you hold the recording and need the words: interviews, lectures, voice memos, podcasts, a call you were allowed to record.
• Pick tl;dv if your team works in one of its 11 interface languages, including Russian and Ukrainian, and you want the notes written in that language.
• Pick Transcrib Si if you want the transcript to land in your own pipeline — a script, a notebook, a CRM field you write yourself.
• Pick either if the free plan decides it; both have one, and both count in minutes or in files.

The short version

tl;dv is bigger on the web and stronger at the meeting: 8,973 sitemap URLs, 1,162 comparison pages, 11 interface locales including Russian, Ask AI, multi-meeting insights, SCIM provisioning on Enterprise, and a JSON-LD home page that carries the product, the price, the rating and the FAQ at once.

We are smaller and narrower: two languages, a file at a time, a stated allowance of 1,500 minutes of audio per calendar month on Pro, six export formats, a REST API and an MCP server, and a privacy policy that names the countries and the retention periods.

Pick tl;dv when the meeting has to be captured. Pick Transcrib Si when the recording is already in your hands and the words are what you need.

The limits, side by side

Every figure below was read from a public page on 21 October 2026. Our column comes from our own pricing page and service contract.

The one difference that decides it

Not the language count and not the price. The difference is the moment the work starts.

In tl;dv the work starts when the meeting starts: the notetaker is invited, the call is recorded, and everything else is derived from that recording. In Transcrib Si the work starts when a file already exists: you upload it, and the text comes out of it.

If you cannot always invite a bot into the room — a client interview, a confidential conversation, an internal review, a lecture — then the meeting-first product is not available to you at all, and the file-first product is the only one that works.