HappyScribe vs Rev: machine or human
HappyScribe or Rev for transcription: free minutes, the price of a human proofreader, the languages, the export formats and the seat price.
HappyScribe's Basic plan costs $8.50 a month yearly and its free plan gives 10 minutes of transcription; Rev's Essentials costs $25.49 a seat a month and its free plan gives 45 minutes. Both sell a human tier, from $2.00 and $1.99 a minute.
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AI transcription with subtitles, a proofreading service and a meeting recorder
AI transcription plus human transcription, aimed at legal and investigative work
a transcription service with a REST API, an MCP server and plugins for Claude and ChatGPT
$0: 10 minutes of AI transcription, up to 45 minutes per recording, 3 files a month, 1 user
$0: 45 AI minutes a month, English only, one seat, up to 5 files analysed at a time
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
Basic, $8.50 a month paid yearly ($17 a month paid monthly)
Essentials, $25.49 a seat a month; Pro is $47.99 a seat a month
Pro, $10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year) or $20 a month paid monthly
45 minutes on the free plan, 90 on Basic, no limit on Pro and Business
the limit of one file is not stated on the pricing page
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
1,440 minutes a year on Basic, 7,200 on Pro, 72,000 on Business
5,000 AI minutes a user on Essentials, 10,000 on Pro, unlimited on request
30 minutes
150+ transcription languages, 80+ for translation
English on Free, English and Spanish on Essentials, 37+ on Pro
99+ languages for recognition, set by you or detected automatically
proofreading from $2.00 a minute, a stated 99% accuracy, delivery from 4 hours
human transcription from $1.99 a minute, a stated 99%+ accuracy
no human tier: every transcript is written by the engine
1 on Basic, 3 on Pro, 5 on Business
1 on Free, 3 on Essentials, 5 on Pro, unlimited on the Enterprise plan
one seat on every plan; a Team volume is written down on request
15+ formats on Pro: TXT, SRT, PDF, DOCX, VTT, STL, XML, FCPXML, EDL, HTML, MP4
the formats are not listed on the pricing page
TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV and DOCX
Both sell a person as well as a machine
Two services that put a machine and a person on the same price list. The machine is cheap and fast, the person is slow and dear, and both companies sell the pair together. The difference is in the packaging: minutes a year against minutes a month, one seat against many.
How to read the two price lists
- 1
Read the free line before the paid one
HappyScribe gives away 10 minutes of AI transcription and Rev gives away 45 AI minutes in English. Both are enough for a test and not enough for a working week.
- 2
Compare the yearly allowance with the monthly one
HappyScribe bills 1,440 minutes a year on Basic and 7,200 on Pro. Rev bills 5,000 AI minutes a user per month on Essentials. Our own Pro plan gives no minute limit of audio every month.
- 3
Price the person separately
HappyScribe charges from $2.00 a minute for proofreading and Rev from $1.99 a minute for a full transcript. Nobody in this comparison writes your file with a human by default, and that is a deliberate choice on our side.
Tips
A free plan of 10 minutes is a sample, not a budget.
Seat price matters more than plan price when several people work on it.
Check whether the export you need is on the plan you are buying.
Questions this page answers
Which one is cheaper per month?
HappyScribe Basic is $8.50 a month paid yearly, Rev Essentials is $25.49 a seat a month. Our Pro plan is $10 a month paid yearly, and the free plan of all three is $0.
What does the free plan of each one give?
HappyScribe gives 10 minutes of AI transcription, up to 45 minutes per recording and 3 files a month on AI Chat. Rev gives 45 AI minutes a month in English only, with up to 5 files analysed at a time. We give 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes each.
Can HappyScribe record a meeting for me?
Yes. It sells AI meeting recording for Zoom, Meet and Teams next to the transcription. Rev transcribes what you send it; our service does the same with a file.
How long a file can each service take?
HappyScribe allows 45 minutes per recording on the free plan and 90 on Basic, and no limit on Pro. Rev does not state a limit for one file on its pricing page. Our limit is 30 minutes per file on the free plan, no minute limit.
Sources
- HHappyScribe — pricinghappyscribe.com · checked 22 October 2026
- HHappyScribe — languageshappyscribe.com · checked 22 October 2026
- RRev — pricingrev.com · checked 22 October 2026
- TTranscribsi — pricing and service contracttranscrib.si · checked 22 October 2026
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