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Descript: If you want to edit the audio or video by editing the transcript rather than just receiving a transcript file.
Rev
Human and AI transcription, captions and subtitles priced per minute
As of 31 August 2026, Rev is free to use. Rev sells transcription two ways: AI at a low monthly rate and human transcribers at 1. Softwr lists it under AI. Rev is made by Rev.com, Inc., available on Web, iOS, Android, API.
Overview
What Rev does
Rev provides speech-to-text in two forms. Automated transcription and captions are sold on subscription plans measured in AI minutes per seat per month. Human transcription, where a person produces or verifies the transcript, is sold per minute at a published rate with a stated accuracy target and turnaround. Alongside these it sells human captions, foreign-language subtitles across seventeen languages, and legal transcript formats priced per page rather than per minute. What distinguishes it is that both sides are published. Most transcription vendors either publish an AI subscription and hide human work behind a quote, or sell only human work through a sales process. Rev prints 1.99 US dollars per minute for human transcription and 1.99 upward for human captions, so a media team or law firm can cost a project before speaking to anyone. Subscribers get a discount on the human rate, 10 per cent on Essentials and 15 per cent on Pro, which is the actual reason to hold a subscription if your volume is mostly human work. The product direction has shifted. Rev now positions its subscription tiers as an investigative platform, with file analysis, image analysis and an integration with the Clio legal practice management system, and legal transcripts priced per page at 2.25 to 2.50 dollars. That matters to a media buyer choosing Rev for newsroom transcription: the roadmap attention is going to legal and investigative workflows, not journalism tooling. A newsroom evaluating Rev against Trint should weigh that, because Trint is built for and sold to newsrooms specifically.
What people use it for
- A law firm that needs a deposition transcript in a court-acceptable page format with a fixed turnaround and a published per-page price it can bill to a matter.
- A documentary or podcast producer costing a project in advance, because human transcription at a published per-minute rate makes the transcription line item a known number.
- A broadcaster needing compliant human captions rather than machine captions, where accuracy is a regulatory requirement and not a convenience.
- A team with high AI volume and occasional high-stakes files, using the subscription for the bulk and paying the discounted human rate only where accuracy matters.
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Rev.
- Human transcription at 1.99 US dollars a minute means roughly 120 dollars an hour of audio, so a long-form interview series costs more in transcription than most teams assume before they run the arithmetic.
- AI minutes are allocated per seat per month and do not roll over, so bursty workloads, which is how most media production actually behaves, waste allowance in quiet months and run out in busy ones.
- The product direction has moved towards legal and investigative use, so a newsroom or media buyer is choosing a tool whose roadmap priority sits elsewhere.
- Foreign-language subtitles are priced from 6.49 to 15.99 US dollars per minute, an order of magnitude above transcription, which makes multi-language localisation of any volume of video expensive enough to change the plan.
- Human turnaround is stated in hours rather than guaranteed contractually on the published plans, so a hard broadcast or filing deadline needs an agreement beyond the standard terms.
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What people choose instead of Rev
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- RevvsOtter.ai
Otter.ai: If the need is live meeting notes and searchable meeting history rather than broadcast-grade transcripts and captions.
- RevvsTrint
Trint: If you are a newsroom and want collaborative transcript editing, story workflow and a vendor that sells to journalism specifically.
Pricing
What Rev costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 45 AI transcription and caption minutes per month
- Up to 5 files analysed
- No human transcription included
Essentials
$25.49 /mo
- 5,000 AI minutes per seat per month
- Up to 3 seats
- 10 per cent discount on human transcription, captions and subtitles
- Billed annually at 305.90 USD; 29.99 USD if billed monthly
Pro
$47.99 /mo
- 10,000 AI minutes per seat per month
- Up to 5 seats
- 15 per cent discount on human work
- Image analysis and Clio integration
- Billed annually at 575.88 USD; 59.99 USD if billed monthly
Unlimited
On request
- Unlimited AI minutes
- Up to 500 files analysed at once
- Dedicated account specialist
- Quoted
Capabilities
Features
Human transcription
Person-produced transcripts at a published per-minute rate with a stated accuracy target
AI transcription
Automated transcription with a monthly minute allowance per seat
Captions and subtitles
Human captions per minute and foreign-language subtitles across seventeen languages
Legal transcripts
Rough draft and premium legal transcript formats priced per page with fixed turnarounds
File analysis
Search and question answering across a set of uploaded recordings
Clio integration
Connection into legal practice management for firms handling deposition and interview audio
Rev API
Programmatic submission and retrieval for both AI and human transcription jobs
Speaker identification
Diarisation and speaker labelling in both AI and human outputs
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much is human transcription?
1.99 US dollars per minute with a stated accuracy target above 99 per cent, typically returned within 12 hours. Subscribers get 10 to 15 per cent off.
Is there a free tier?
Yes, 45 AI minutes per month and up to 5 files analysed, with no human transcription included.
Do unused AI minutes roll over?
No. The allowance is per seat per month and resets, which penalises irregular workloads.
Can it do subtitles in other languages?
Yes, across seventeen languages, priced from 6.49 to 15.99 US dollars per minute, considerably more than transcription.
Is Rev still a good choice for newsrooms?
It works, but the subscription tiers are now positioned around legal and investigative workflows, so a newsroom should compare it against a tool built specifically for journalism.
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