Which one is cheaper to start with?
Kapwing Pro is $16 a month and needs no annual commitment. VEED Creator is $147 a user a year, and the monthly price is not stated on the page. Both have a $0 plan.
VEED vs Kapwing
VEED vs Kapwing: two video editors
VEED or Kapwing: the price of the plan, the minutes it allows, the export limits and the subtitles each one writes.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
VEED and Kapwing are both video editors with transcription inside; VEED's cheapest plan is $147 a year and Kapwing's is $16 a month. Transcribsi is $10 a month with no minute limit of audio and six export formats.
VEED, Kapwing and Transcribsi side by side
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KKapwing
TTranscribsiThat's us
What it is
an online video editor with transcription and auto-subtitles
an online video editor with auto-subtitles and a transcript file
a transcription service with a REST API, an MCP server and plugins for Claude and ChatGPT
Free plan
$0: short clips, no card; auto-subtitles on paid plans carry a 50 hours a month fair-use limit
$0: export up to 4 minutes, a watermark, and 1 to 5 minutes a month for AI features
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
Cheapest paid plan
Creator, $147 a user a year; the monthly price is not stated on the page
Pro, $16 a month
Pro, $10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year) or $20 a month paid monthly
How much audio the plan allows
6,000 AI credits (about 25 hours of AI video) on Creator, 30,000 on Pro, 180,000 on Studio
up to 1,000 minutes a month for AI features on Pro, 4,000 on Business, 10,000 on Enterprise
30 minutes
Export limit
short clips on the free plan; translation and transcription draw on the same minute allowance
up to 4 minutes of export on the free plan, up to 2 hours on the paid plans
up to 30 minutes per file on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
Languages
125+ transcription languages; the paid plans translate subtitles into 50+ languages
subtitle translation into 60+; the number of transcription languages is not confirmed
99+ languages for recognition, set by you or detected automatically
What comes out
TXT, SRT and VTT, downloadable on the paid plans
SRT and VTT subtitles, a separate transcript file, plus video, images, audio and GIF
TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV and DOCX
The editor itself
a full video editor with 15+ AI tools and Gen-AI Studio
a video editor with AI minutes, lip-sync and dubbing
no editor: the transcript, the timecodes and the exports
The case
Both are editors first
Both of them put a timeline in front of you and write the subtitles as a side job. The price you pay buys an editor, and the minutes that come with it buy the captions. If the video is what you are making, that is a good deal.
How to read the two editors
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Count the minutes of AI you will use
VEED hands out AI credits, about 25 hours of AI video on its Creator plan, and they do not roll into the next month. Kapwing gives 1,000 minutes a month on Pro. Our Pro plan gives no minute limit of audio a month.
- 2
Check the export rule first
Kapwing cuts the free export at 4 minutes and the paid one at 2 hours. VEED keeps the free plan for short clips. A service that transcribes a file has no such wall: our limit is up to 30 minutes.
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Decide what you are buying
Subtitles that belong to a finished video need an editor. A transcript that belongs to a document, a ticket or a search index does not, and paying for a timeline you never open is waste.
Tips
Credits that do not roll over are wasted credits.
Check the export length before you import a long recording.
Subtitles need an editor; a searchable transcript does not.
Questions this page answers
Do both write SRT and VTT subtitles?
Yes: VEED exports TXT, SRT and VTT on the paid plans, and Kapwing writes SRT and VTT plus a separate transcript file. We export SRT and VTT as well, along with TXT, Markdown, CSV and DOCX.
How many languages do they transcribe?
VEED announces 125+ transcription languages; its paid plans translate subtitles into 50+ more. For Kapwing the pricing page names 60+ languages for translating subtitles and does not state how many it transcribes, so we leave that cell as it is.
Can I get the transcript without the editor?
Yes, and it is what we do: you upload a file and get the text with timecodes. At both of them the transcription sits inside a video editor, so the editor comes with the words.
Sources
- VVEED — pricingveed.io · checked 22 October 2026
- VVEED — audio to textveed.io · checked 22 October 2026
- KKapwing — pricingkapwing.com · checked 22 October 2026
- TTranscribsi — pricing and service contracttranscrib.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