The price of transcription in pounds
A minute of transcription costs £0.0050 at the rate of the Pro plan: £7.48 a month for 1,500 minutes of audio. Billing stays in dollars, and pounds here is a conversion at the official rate of 23 October 2026 (£0.748039), published by European Central Bank.
The short version
One minute of audio — £0.0050. One month of Pro — £7.48, with 1,500 minutes inside it. The free plan costs nothing and takes three files of up to 30 minutes a day. The rate is £0.748039, the one of 23 October 2026.
What your audio costs
Type the number of minutes of audio you have. The calculator works out the cost of that audio at the rate of the Pro plan and tells you what the free plan covers.
This audio, at the rate of Pro
£0.30
60 minutes of audio, at $10 a month for 1,500 minutes of audio
What Pro costs
£7.48
$10 a month for 1,500 minutes, or $120 for the year
What the free plan gives
£0
The free plan takes files of up to 30 minutes, so a file of 60 minutes needs the Pro plan.
The price of a minute
£0.0050
the rate of Pro, $10 for 1,500 minutes of audio
The rate of the day: 1 USD = £0.748039 — European Central Bank, 23 October 2026. The price of the plan is paid in dollars; this page shows the same plan converted.
The prices of the other services
Every figure comes from the pricing page of the service, and the date it was read is next to it. A service that sells its minutes inside a monthly plan is quoted as it is, with no per-minute price derived from it.
| Service | What it publishes | Per minute | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transcrib Si | Free: $0, three files a day of up to 30 minutes. Pro: $10 a month when billed yearly — $120 a year — or $20 a month, 1,500 minutes of audio | £0.0050 a minute here, at the rate of the Pro plan | the pricing page of this site |
| Notta | Free — $0 (no credit card required); 120 transcription minutes a month (up to 3 minutes per conversation); Pro costs $8.17 a month, billed annually, and carries 1,800 transcription minutes a month; unlimited transcription, up to 5 hours per recording for Business at $16.67 a month, billed annually, $199.99 for the year | the pricing page publishes no price per minute | www.notta.ai/en/pricing — the price was read on 24 October 2026 |
| Otter | Basic — $0; 300 transcription minutes a month; Pro costs $8.33 per user a month, billed yearly, and carries 1,200 in-app recording minutes a user; 6,000 minutes a user for Business at $19.99 per user a month, billed yearly | the pricing page publishes no price per minute | otter.ai/pricing — the price was read on 24 October 2026 |
| TurboScribe | Free — $0; 3 transcripts a day (files up to 30 minutes); Unlimited costs $10 a month, or $120 for the year and carries unlimited transcriptions for one person; files up to 10 hours | the pricing page publishes no price per minute | turboscribe.ai/pricing — the price was read on 21 October 2026 (project research: the page answered an automated request with a challenge page) |
| Rev | Free — $0; 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month; Essentials costs $25.49 per seat a month, billed yearly, and carries 5,000 AI transcription and caption minutes a user a month; 10,000 AI transcription and caption minutes a user a month for Pro at $47.99 per seat a month, billed yearly | Human transcription at $1.99 per minute (£1.49 a minute here); from $1.99 per minute for Human captions (£1.49 a minute here) | www.rev.com/pricing — the price was read on 24 October 2026 |
One row publishes a price per minute — Rev, $1.99 a minute, from. For the AI plans of all four services the page gives a monthly price and the minutes of the plan, and nothing more.
What each volume costs
These are the lengths that come up most often. The price is the Pro rate multiplied by the minutes, and the share is the part of the monthly allowance it uses.
| The recording | Price at the Pro rate | Share of the allowance | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 minutes | £0.0748 | 1 % of 1,500 minutes | £0.0748 at the Pro rate — and the free plan takes files this short. |
| 30 minutes | £0.15 | 2 % of 1,500 minutes | £0.15 at the Pro rate; the longest file the free plan takes. |
| 1 hour | £0.30 | 4 % of 1,500 minutes | £0.30 at the Pro rate; the free plan stops at 30 minutes. |
| 2 hours | £0.60 | 8 % of 1,500 minutes | £0.60 at the Pro rate; the longest file any plan takes. |
| 5 hours | £1.50 | 20 % of 1,500 minutes | £1.50 at the Pro rate; a long recording, sent in chunks. |
| 10 hours | £2.99 | 40 % of 1,500 minutes | £2.99 at the Pro rate; split into files of two hours. |
These are minutes of audio. The limit of one file is 64 MB and two hours, on the free plan and on Pro alike.
What is in the plan
What the plan covers: the languages, the exports, the limits and the API — the same list for every plan.
| 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 |
The other pages
Every plan and every limit is on the pricing page. The market calculator puts the published prices of the other services next to each other, and the Russian guide describes the engine in detail.
The questions that come up
Is a translation included in the price?
The price covers transcription, not translation. What you get back is the text of the recording, in Russian or English, with a start and an end time for every line and, on request, the speaker labels. A translation into another language is not part of any plan here.
What is the longest file I can send?
Every file is limited to 64 MB and 120 minutes, on the Free plan and on Pro alike. What differs between the plans is how much audio you may send in a month: 1,500 minutes on Pro. If a recording runs past two hours, cut it into parts before you send it.
What if the recording is in Russian?
Both Russian and English, and the engine is tuned for Russian and for code-switching between the two. Set the language yourself or let it be detected; either way the answer says which. A Russian or mixed Russian-English file is transcribed on our own infrastructure outside the United States, and a file that is only English is passed to a third-party cloud speech provider in the United States when that fallback is enabled on the server.
Can I pay with a card from my country?
The plan is paid in US dollars, and the payment itself goes through Stripe, which is the card path in most countries. The price pages of this site convert the price of the plan into a local currency so that you can see the number in your own money; the invoice itself is issued in dollars.