Is Rev cheaper than Transcribsi?
It depends on the price list, not on the work. A human transcript from Rev is $1.99 a minute. Ours is $10 a month with no minute limit of audio, with no separate line for a person.
Alternative
A Rev alternative for transcription
Rev or Transcribsi: $1.99 a minute for a human transcript against $10 a month with no minute limit of audio, plus timecodes and an API. Read 22 October 2026.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
Rev sells transcription by the minute and by the seat: $1.99 a minute for a human, $25.49 a seat a month for the AI plan. Transcribsi sells a flat $10 a month with no minute limit of audio, timecodes on every line, and a REST API.
Transcribsi and Rev side by side
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What it is
a transcription service with a REST API, an MCP server and plugins for Claude and ChatGPT
AI transcription with a human service on top: court reporting, legal rough drafts and human captions
Free plan
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
Free $0: 45 minutes of AI transcription a month, 1 seat, English only
Paid plan
$10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month paid monthly
Essentials $25.49 a seat a month (2 months free, $305.90 a year); Pro $47.99 a seat a month ($575.88 a year)
What a minute costs
$10 a month with no minute limit of audio, no per-minute meter
human transcription $1.99 a minute, a one-off AI transcription $0.25 a minute
AI minutes in the plan
30 minutes
45 minutes on the free plan, 5,000 a user a month on Essentials, 10,000 on Pro, unlimited on the custom plan
Transcription languages
99+ languages
English only on the free plan, English and Spanish on Essentials, 37+ languages on Pro
The language of the interface
the pages of this site are in English
English only
Longest single file
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
not measured for the AI plan; the human service states delivery within 12 hours
API
REST v1, an MCP server with 4 tools, plugins for Claude and ChatGPT
a separate Rev AI API with a published price list: $0.20 an hour for English, $0.30 an hour for the 58 other languages of its list
Machine-readable facts
llms.txt, llms-full.txt and JSON-LD offers
llms.txt answers 404, and robots.txt says nothing about AI crawlers
The case
A meter or a subscription
Rev answers two questions at once: who types the words, and what does that cost. A human transcript is sold by the minute, an AI transcript by the seat and the allowance, and the legal side of the product is where the money goes. We answer the second question only, and we answer it with a flat sum: one subscription, one allowance, no meter to watch.
How to move a file to this service
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Decide whether a person must type
Rev sells human transcription at $1.99 a minute and legal rough drafts by the page, at a price it does not publish. If the transcript has to be sworn in, that service is the reason Rev exists, and we do not compete with it.
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Take the file that needs words
Put the recording on the upload block at the top of the page. One file is up to 30 minutes, and the free plan sends 3 such files a day without a card.
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Keep the timecodes
Every line of the transcript carries the time it starts and ends. That is what lets a reader find the sentence in the recording instead of taking it on trust.
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Export for whoever reads next
TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT and CSV come out of every plan, DOCX with Pro. A quote goes to a document, the file goes to an archive, the same words in a different shape.
Tips
A sworn transcript is a human job; we do not sell it.
Ask for a timecode before you trust a quote.
Compare two prices as one sum, not as a rate.
Keep the recording next to the transcript.
Questions this page answers
Does Rev use people to transcribe?
Yes, and that is its strongest side: human transcription at $1.99 a minute, legal rough drafts and human captions for courts. We sell the machine transcript only, and we say so here.
How many minutes do I get?
no minute limit of audio a calendar month on the paid plan, and one file may be up to 30 minutes. Rev counts 45 minutes on the free plan, 5,000 on Essentials and 10,000 on Pro.
Does Rev have an API?
A separate one: Rev AI publishes $0.20 an hour for English transcription and $0.30 an hour for the 58 other languages of its list. Our REST API and our MCP server with 4 tools sit inside the same $10 plan.
Which languages does Rev transcribe?
English only on the free plan, English and Spanish on Essentials, 37+ on Pro, Spanglish among them. We publish 99+ languages for recognition, 99+ languages. The interface of this site is in English, and the interface of Rev is in English too.
Sources
- RRev — pricingrev.com · checked 22 October 2026
- RRev — human transcriptionrev.com · checked 22 October 2026
- RRev AI — pricingrev.ai · checked 21 October 2026
- RRev — robots.txtrev.com · checked 21 October 2026
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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