How much does transcription cost in reais?
Our Pro plan costs R$ 50.46 a month for 1,500 minutes of audio, which works out to R$ 0.0336 for every minute of it. The service is paid in dollars; this page converts the same plan into reais at the rate of 23 October 2026 — R$ 5.046458 — so that the number fits the budget you actually have.
The short version
R$ 50.46 a month for the Pro plan of 1,500 minutes; R$ 0.0336 for a minute of audio at that rate; $0 and no card for the free plan. The rate is R$ 5.046458, published on 23 October 2026.
The price by volume
Six lengths, one formula: minutes times the rate of the Pro plan. The second column is the result, the third one says how much of the monthly allowance the recording would eat.
| The recording | Price at the Pro rate | Share of the allowance | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 minutes | R$ 0.50 | 1 % of 1,500 minutes | R$ 0.50 at the Pro rate — and the free plan takes files this short. |
| 30 minutes | R$ 1.01 | 2 % of 1,500 minutes | R$ 1.01 at the Pro rate; the longest file the free plan takes. |
| 1 hour | R$ 2.02 | 4 % of 1,500 minutes | R$ 2.02 at the Pro rate; the free plan stops at 30 minutes. |
| 2 hours | R$ 4.04 | 8 % of 1,500 minutes | R$ 4.04 at the Pro rate; the longest file any plan takes. |
| 5 hours | R$ 10.09 | 20 % of 1,500 minutes | R$ 10.09 at the Pro rate; a long recording, sent in chunks. |
| 10 hours | R$ 20.19 | 40 % of 1,500 minutes | R$ 20.19 at the Pro rate; split into files of two hours. |
The volumes are minutes of audio, not the size of a file: one file may hold up to 64 MB and 120 minutes on every plan.
What the market charges
The prices of the other services, read from their own pricing pages on the dates shown. A monthly plan is quoted as a monthly plan; a published price per minute is quoted per minute.
| Service | What it publishes | Per minute | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transcrib Si | Free — $0, 3 files a day, files of up to 30 minutes. Pro — $10 a month billed yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month with 1,500 minutes of audio | R$ 0.0336 a minute here, at the rate of the Pro plan | the pricing page of this site |
| Notta | With Free (no credit card required): 120 transcription minutes a month, up to 3 minutes per conversation, for $0; Pro at $8.17 a month, billed annually, with 1,800 transcription minutes a month; Business: $16.67 a month, billed annually, $199.99 for the year; unlimited transcription; up to 5 hours per recording | not published on the pricing page | read 24 October 2026 — www.notta.ai/en/pricing |
| Otter | With Basic: 300 transcription minutes a month, for $0; Pro at $8.33 per user a month, billed yearly, with 1,200 in-app recording minutes a user; Business: $19.99 per user a month, billed yearly; 6,000 minutes a user | not published on the pricing page | read 24 October 2026 — otter.ai/pricing |
| TurboScribe | With Free: 3 transcripts a day, files up to 30 minutes, for $0; Unlimited at $10 a month, or $120 for the year, with unlimited transcriptions for one person (files up to 10 hours) | not published on the pricing page | read 21 October 2026 — turboscribe.ai/pricing (project research: the page answered an automated request with a challenge page) |
| Rev | With Free: 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month, for $0; Essentials at $25.49 per seat a month, billed yearly, with 5,000 AI transcription and caption minutes a user a month; Pro: $47.99 per seat a month, billed yearly; 10,000 AI transcription and caption minutes a user a month | Human transcription, $1.99 per minute (R$ 10.04 a minute here); Human captions at from $1.99 per minute (R$ 10.04 a minute here) | read 24 October 2026 — www.rev.com/pricing |
A price per minute is published by Rev alone — $1.99 a minute for human transcription and for human captions. The AI minutes are sold by subscription, and those pages publish no price per minute.
The calculator
Move the slider or type the length of your recording. The result is calculated in your browser from the rate of the day — nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is fetched from a currency service.
Your audio at the Pro rate
R$ 2.02
60 minutes of audio at the Pro rate of $10 a month for 1,500 minutes
The Pro plan
R$ 50.46
a month for 1,500 minutes of audio, or $120 for the year
The Free plan
R$ 0
The free plan takes files of up to 30 minutes, so a file of 60 minutes needs the Pro plan.
One minute of audio
R$ 0.0336
the rate of the Pro plan: $10 divided by 1,500 minutes
The rate of the day: 1 USD = R$ 5.046458 — European Central Bank, 23 October 2026. The price of the plan is paid in dollars; this page shows the same plan converted.
What the price includes
The same plan in every language: the languages of the engine, the export formats, the limits of a file and the API.
| What | What you get | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Export formats | TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV, and DOCX on Pro | Service contract |
| Size of one file | 64 MB | Service contract |
| Length of one file | 120 minutes (two hours) | Service contract |
| Free plan | $0, 3 files a day, files of up to 30 minutes, no card | Pricing page |
| Pro allowance | 1,500 minutes of audio per calendar month | Pricing page |
| REST API and MCP | API keys and the MCP server on Pro and Team | Pricing page |
| Payment | through Stripe; card numbers never reach our servers | Privacy policy |
| Languages | Russian and English, set by you or detected automatically | Service contract |
Where to go next
Two of the pages below are worth a look: the pricing page, where every plan is written down, and the market calculator, which does the same comparison for the services of the table above.
Questions about the price
Do you translate the audio as well?
No translation is needed and none is made. The service transcribes the recording in the language it is spoken: Russian or English. The transcript comes back as text with timecodes, in the language of the audio. If you need a translation into a third language, that is not part of the plan — write to support@transcrib.si and ask before you upload.
How long can one recording be?
Yes. One file may be up to 64 MB and 120 minutes on every plan, Pro included. The Free plan is stricter: files of up to 30 minutes, three a day. A longer recording is cut into parts — the guide on long recordings shows how, and the API does it with chunked uploads.
Is Russian transcription good?
The engine was built for Russian speech and for mixed Russian-English audio, and that is what the model profile is tuned for. Russian and English are the two transcription languages; the answer states whether the language was set by you or detected. Privacy follows the language of the file: Russian and mixed files are processed on our own infrastructure outside the United States, a pure English file by a third-party cloud speech provider in the United States when that fallback is enabled.
How do I pay?
Yes, a card is all it takes. The payment is handled by Stripe; we never see or store the card number. Nothing is charged on the Free plan and no card is asked for there. A paid plan can be cancelled from the Billing section of the app at any time.