Sonix or Trint: pay for the hour or for the seat
Sonix sells hours of transcription from $25 a month; Trint sells seats from $69 a month. Prices read on the official pages.
Sonix charges $10 an hour, $25 a month on Core, $80 a month on Pro. Trint charges per seat: $79 a month on Pro, $69 on Team. Transcribsi charges per month: $10 paid yearly, $20 paid monthly.
Sonix, Trint and Transcribsi side by side
a transcription, translation and analysis service, with legal and medical versions of it
a media workspace: transcription, translation, summaries, subtitles and shared drives for teams
a transcription service with a REST API, an MCP server and plugins for Claude and ChatGPT
by the hour: Core $10 an hour or $25 a month, Advanced $50 a month, Pro $80 a month
by the seat: $79 a seat a month on Pro, $69 a seat a month on Team, a custom plan on Business
by the month: $10 paid yearly ($120 a year), $20 paid monthly
5 hours of transcription and 5 hours of AI analysis on Core, 20 and 25 on Advanced, 40 and 100 on Pro
unlimited transcription in 50+ languages, unlimited translation in 70+, and 1 hour of live transcription a month per seat
no minute limit of audio a month, DOCX export, the REST API and the MCP server
54+, listed in its llms.txt, with translation into 54+
50+ for transcription, 70+ for translation
99+ languages, set by you or detected
30 minutes, no card
not stated on the plans page we read
3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
$25 a month for each extra seat, extra hours at $10 an hour
the price is per seat, so a team of five pays for five seats
a Team plan on request: a committed volume, written down
HIPAA and a BAA in the medical version
ISO 27001 and an EU-based server on the Business plan
never used to train models for other customers, never sold; Russian speech is processed on our own engine outside the United States
What the money is attached to
The difference between these two is not the quality of a word, it is what the money is attached to. Sonix sells hours of work: transcription, analysis, translation. Trint sells places for people: a seat in a workspace where the transcript, the translation and the subtitles live together. We sell minutes of audio, and nothing else.
How to compare an hour with a seat
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Count the hours you need
Sonix Core gives 5 hours of transcription and 5 hours of AI analysis a month, Advanced 20 and 25, Pro 40 and 100. Trint writes the allowance as a fair use of 50 hours a seat a month.
- 2
Count the people who need access
A Sonix seat is $25 a month on top of the plan. A Trint seat is the plan: $79 on Pro, $69 on Team, and a custom price on Business. Five editors at Trint is five seats.
- 3
Check the languages of the archive
Sonix lists 54+ languages in its llms.txt. Trint lists 50+ for transcription and 70+ for translation. We support 99+ languages, and a file that mixes them.
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Ask where the file is stored
Trint offers ISO 27001 and an EU-based server on its Business plan; Sonix has HIPAA and a BAA in the medical version. Our files are never used to train models for other customers.
Tips
Decide what the money is attached to.
Check the number of languages, not the promise of accuracy.
Read a trial before a yearly plan.
Ask where the archive is kept.
Questions this page answers
Which one is cheaper for one person?
Sonix Core, at $25 a month for 5 hours of transcription and 5 of analysis. The cheapest Trint seat is $69 a month, and it is a seat for a person, not a bucket of hours.
Is the Trint price reliable?
It is the price of the official plans page, read through the search index on 22 October 2026, because the page loads its prices with JavaScript and would not render for us. Sonix was read directly.
Does Trint translate as well as it transcribes?
It lists 50+ languages for transcription and 70+ for translation. Sonix lists 54+ for both. Neither names Russian separately in the material we read.
What does the fair-use limit mean in practice?
For Trint it is written as 50 hours of transcription a seat a month in the enterprise agreement. For Sonix the hours are the product: $10 an hour when the plan runs out.
Which one suits a single file?
Neither, if the file is the whole job. Sonix starts at $25 a month and Trint at $69 a seat; a service that charges for minutes of audio is the smaller tool.
Sources
- SSonix — pricingsonix.ai · checked 21 October 2026
- SSonix — llms.txtsonix.ai · checked 21 October 2026
- ATrint — pricing plansapp.trint.com · checked 22 October 2026
- TTranscribsi — pricingtranscrib.si · checked 22 October 2026
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