Upload a recording or paste a link, read the first part free, and pay once for that file if you want the rest. $5 unlocks the whole file, whether it runs twenty minutes or ten hours. Nothing renews.
Most transcription tools sell a monthly plan. That suits someone who transcribes every week and nobody else: if you have one lecture, one interview or one long YouTube video, a subscription means paying for a month, remembering to cancel it and often hitting a cap on file length anyway. WhoScribe prices the file instead. You upload it or paste the link, the transcript is produced, and the first 15 minutes are free to read with a free account (5 minutes with no account). If the result is good enough to pay for, one payment of $5 unlocks the rest of that file: the full text, speaker labels, timestamps, translation, and export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT and VTT. The price does not grow with the length of the recording, so a three-hour file costs the same $5 as a thirty-minute one. Payment is a one-time card charge through Stripe. There is no plan to cancel afterwards, and the transcript stays in your account.
One payment of $5 unlocks one whole video or recording, up to 10 hours, whether you upload it or paste a YouTube link. There is no subscription: nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel. The start of the file is transcribed before you pay: read the first 5 minutes with no account or the first 15 minutes with a free account. After you pay, the rest of the file is transcribed. For a YouTube video, paste its link on the YouTube transcript page.
| Service | 30 min | 2 h | 3 h | 10 h | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WhoScribe, one file | $5 | $5 | $5 | $5 | Our pricing page |
| Sonix Pay as you go, $10 per hour | $5 | $20 | $30 | $100 | sonix.ai/en/pricing checked Oct 7, 2026 |
| FileToText $3 per audio hour, $3 minimum, $12 maximum per file, files up to 20 h | $3 | $6 | $9 | $12 | filetotext.ai checked Oct 7, 2026 |
| AllNote $0.10 per minute, $3 minimum, files up to 5 h | $3 | $12 | $18 | over its 5 h limit | allnote.ai/transcribe checked Oct 7, 2026 |
| TurboScribe Subscription only | No single-file option; Unlimited is $20 for a month. | turboscribe.ai/pricing checked Oct 7, 2026 | |||
Our price: $5 in the US, Canada, the UK, the EU, Australia, Japan and other high-income countries, $3 in most other countries, and R$16.90 in Brazil. You see the amount in your own currency before you pay. Costs are worked out from each service’s published rates for one file of that length, in US dollars, before any tax.
For a short file, a per-minute service can cost less; from about two hours up, one flat payment costs less.
How it works
Audio or video of any length; the free plan transcribes the first 15 minutes of each file. MP3, MP4, M4A, WAV, MOV and a dozen more.
Leave the language on automatic or set it for better accuracy. Turn on speaker recognition if you need to know who said what.
The transcript opens with clickable timestamps — read it and fix a name straight away. A free account keeps it and exports it as TXT; DOCX, PDF, SRT and VTT come with the unlimited plan.
FAQ
One payment of $5 unlocks one file, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the EU, Australia, Japan and other high-income countries. In most other countries the same unlock is $3, and in Brazil it is R$16.90. The amount is shown in your own currency on the file before you pay. Prices as of 4 October 2026.
No. The payment unlocks the whole file, whatever its length, up to the 10-hour limit per file. A three-hour recording costs the same as a thirty-minute one.
Yes. It is a single charge for a single file. Nothing renews, there is no trial that converts and there is nothing to cancel. You do not need an account before paying; one is created from the email you enter at checkout so you can come back to the transcript.
Yes. The file is transcribed first. You read the first 5 minutes with no account, or the first 15 minutes with a free account, and you decide after seeing your own recording as text.
Pay-as-you-go services usually charge by the hour of audio. Sonix lists $10 per hour and Maestra $12 per 60 minutes (their published prices, checked 4 October 2026), so a two-hour recording costs $20 or $24 there and $5 here. Many other tools, such as Otter, Happy Scribe, Notta and Transkriptor, sell monthly plans rather than a single file.
The complete transcript of that file with speaker labels and timestamps, export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT and VTT, translation of the transcript, and the AI tools under it: a chat that answers questions about the recording and one-click blog post, study notes and chapters.
Then a plan is cheaper. Pro is $20 a month, or $120 a year, for unlimited transcription with files up to 10 hours each. Paying per file makes sense for one or a few recordings.
Audio and video uploads in the common formats (MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4, MOV and others), and links from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, SoundCloud and Google Drive. Over 90 spoken languages are supported.
No account, no card. See the transcript before you decide anything.
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