Starter
$9 / month
Side projects and small apps.
- 10 hours of audio each month · $0.90 / hour
- 500 YouTube videos a month
- Then $0.018 per extra minute
- 5 transcriptions at once
- All five output formats
Recording in.
Transcript out.
Who said what, with timestamps. Subtitles and a PDF too.
How it works
Create a free account
Email and a one-time code. No password.
Upload the recording
Audio or video, up to 5 GB.
Download the transcript
Text, subtitles and a PDF, a few minutes later.
What you get
- TXT
- SRT
- VTT
- JSON
A summary up top
A few sentences on what was said.
Who said what, when
Speakers labelled and timestamped, on every plan.
60+ languages
Detected automatically.
See exactly what you get
A 76-minute, ten-speaker public-domain recording, as it came back.
The PDF is the product
Speakers, timestamps, 31 pages. The same upload produced the four files below.
Transcribed in 18 seconds.
Made for
Meetings and calls
Decisions and action items, searchable.
Interviews and research
Quotes with timestamps and speakers.
Lectures and classes
Two hours of talking, ten minutes of reading.
Podcasts and video
Show notes and captions from one upload.
Legal, medical, HR
A clean PDF for the file.
Voice memos
Thoughts on the go, as text.
Your data stays yours
Deleted on a schedule
Audio after 7 days, transcripts after 30 — or sooner, by you.
Never used to train models
Your audio is used only to produce your transcript.
Encrypted end to end
In transit and in storage; cards are handled by Stripe.
Pricing
Start free: your first transcription is on us. Upgrade when you need more.
Pro Recommended
$29 / month
or $290 a year · two months free
Production workloads.
- 40 hours of audio each month · $0.72 / hour
- 2,500 YouTube videos a month
- Then $0.015 per extra minute
- 10 transcriptions at once
- Team: invite up to 5 people
- All five output formats
Scale
$99 / month
High volume, agencies, back catalogs.
- 150 hours of audio each month · $0.66 / hour
- 10,000 YouTube videos a month
- Then $0.013 per extra minute
- 25 transcriptions at once
- Team: invite up to 20 people
- All five output formats
Need pay-as-you-go or more volume? Contact us. How we compare: youtubetranscript.dev · Otter.ai · Rev · Sonix · Descript · TurboScribe · Happy Scribe.
Building something?
The same service as a REST API and an MCP server for AI tools.
Questions
How do I start?
Create a free account with your email address — we send a code, there is no password and no card. Your first transcription is free whatever its length; after that you get 5 minutes a month, or pick a plan. Upload a file on the dashboard, or create an API key under “API & connectors” to use it from code.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Everything happens in the browser: upload on the dashboard, download the files when they are ready. Developers can use the same service from code or an AI assistant instead.
What can I send it?
Common audio and video formats — MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, MP4, MOV, WebM and more. Upload the file, or pass a public URL and we fetch it. YouTube video links work too: we import the video’s captions in seconds.
Can I give it a YouTube or Spotify link?
YouTube, yes: paste a video link and we import its caption track, usually in seconds, as the same TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON and PDF files. Captions carry no speaker labels, and a video without captions cannot be imported (download its audio and upload that instead). Each plan includes a number of YouTube videos a month, 2 on the free account. Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts and Drive share links are web pages, not files: download the file and upload it.
Does it label speakers?
Yes, on every plan, including Free. Speaker labels appear in the JSON, the text file, the VTT voice tags and the PDF.
How does billing work?
Plans include a monthly allowance of audio. On paid plans, extra minutes are billed per second at the plan's overage rate, so a busy month never stops your app. The free account gets one transcription free, then 5 minutes a month, and stops there. Change or cancel any time.
How long do you keep my files?
Uploaded media is deleted automatically after 7 days and transcripts after 30 days. You can delete a transcription and its files immediately with one API call.
Which languages does it support?
Leave the language out and it is detected automatically — 35 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian and Vietnamese. Set it explicitly (es, pt-BR, ar, he, zh-TW …) to reach 60+ languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Bengali, Tamil and Urdu. Speaker labels work in every language.
All questions · Something else? Contact us.