Which one is cheaper for one hour of audio?
It depends on the unit. Otter's free plan is 300 minutes a month and its Pro plan is $8.33 a user a month. Rev bills $0.20 an hour for machine transcription in English. Ours gives 3 files a day free.
Otter vs Rev
Otter or Rev: team notes or a transcript you can sign
Otter.ai charges per user per month, Rev charges per hour and per minute of work. Both sets of prices were read on the official pages on 21 October 2026.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
Otter.ai charges $8.33 a user a month and returns searchable notes from every meeting. Rev charges by the work: $0.20 an hour for machine transcription, $1.99 a minute for a person. Transcribsi takes a file for $10 a month paid yearly.
Otter.ai, Rev and Transcribsi side by side
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What it is
a meeting assistant: it records calls, writes summaries and action items and searches across every meeting
a human and AI transcription platform for legal and investigative work, with the Rev AI API next to it
a transcription service with a REST API, an MCP server and plugins for Claude and ChatGPT
Free plan
$0: 300 minutes of transcription a month
no free plan on the pages we read; the Rev AI prices are per hour and per minute
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
How the price is written
per user per month: $8.33 paid yearly, $16.99 paid monthly
per unit of work: $0.20 an hour for Reverb Transcription in English, $0.30 an hour for a foreign language
per month: $10 paid yearly ($120 a year), $20 paid monthly
Who does the work
the engine, with summaries and action items generated after the call
a person when you ask for one: human transcription at $1.99 a minute, 99%+ accuracy, a 12-hour turnaround claimed
The recording language is detected automatically.
Languages
not stated on the pages we read; the site is English and Japanese
58 languages on the Reverb Foreign Language rate, 17 languages for Global Subtitles
99+ languages, set by you or detected
What comes back
notes, summaries, action items and a transcript inside the workspace
a transcript, a legal rough draft, a court report, subtitles and the public Transcript Library
TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV, DOCX
What it is built for
meetings, sales calls and an archive the team can search
investigations, depositions and case files
a file that has to become text and stay machine-readable
The machine-readable side
an MCP server in the Pro plan
the Rev AI API, with a published price per minute and per hour
a REST API, an MCP server with 4 tools, plugins for Claude and ChatGPT
The case
Two units of sale
One service sells a seat, the other sells a piece of work. Otter charges per user per month and answers with notes, summaries and action items from the meetings a team holds. Rev publishes a rate card instead: hours for the machine, minutes for the human. We only take files, and the table says so in every row.
How to compare a subscription with a rate card
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Write down the unit you will pay for
Otter: a seat and a month, with minutes inside it. Rev: an hour of Reverb Transcription at $0.20, or a minute of a person at $1.99. Ours: minutes of audio, 1,500 of them a month.
- 2
Ask who signs the transcript
A Rev transcript can be ordered from a person, priced at $1.99 a minute with 99%+ accuracy claimed. Otter and our service produce machine text; the difference is who carries the risk when a word is wrong.
- 3
Check the languages of the recording
Rev names 58 languages on the foreign-language rate and 17 for Global Subtitles. Otter named no transcription count on the pages we read. We support 99+ languages.
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Look at what leaves the meeting
Otter keeps summaries, action items and a search over every meeting. Rev returns a document: a rough draft, a premium transcript, a court report. Ours returns six formats of the same text.
Tips
A seat and an hour are not comparable numbers.
Ask whether a person checks the text before it is filed.
Count the languages you actually need, not the ones announced.
Minutes are only comparable when the unit is the same.
Questions this page answers
Can a Rev transcript be signed by a person?
Yes, that is the point of the service: human transcription at $1.99 a minute, with 99%+ accuracy and a 12-hour turnaround claimed on the menu of rev.com.
Does Otter transcribe a file that is already recorded?
Yes, with a limit: the Pro plan includes 10 file imports a month. The free plan is 300 minutes of transcription a month, and those minutes cover calls too.
What does Rev cost for the subscription itself?
We could not read it. The prices on rev.com are loaded with JavaScript and the page did not give a number to our check on 21 October 2026, so the cell says not measured.
Which one suits a Russian-language team?
Ours, for the language itself: 99+ languages, with the mixed case handled by our own engine. Otter and Rev both build their offer around English.
Sources
- OOtter — pricingotter.ai · checked 21 October 2026
- OOtter — home pageotter.ai · checked 21 October 2026
- RRev AI — pricingrev.ai · checked 21 October 2026
- RRev — home pagerev.com · checked 21 October 2026
- TTranscribsi — pricingtranscrib.si · checked 22 October 2026
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Transcribsi editorial team
Drop a recording — the text arrives in a minute
Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps