How much does Rev cost per minute?

Pay-as-you-go AI transcription is $0.25 a minute. Human transcription is $1.99 a minute and English only. Human captions start at $1.99 a minute in English and $3.25 in Spanish.

Does Rev offer human transcription in other languages?

No. Rev's human transcription is English only. Human captions cover English and Spanish, and Global subtitles translate English videos into 17 languages.

Do Rev subscriptions discount human transcription?

Yes, a little. The pricing page shows up to 10% off on Essentials and up to 15% off on Pro. Legal per-page transcripts are not discounted.

What's a cheaper option than Rev for AI transcription of recorded files?

RocketScribe Plus costs $10 a month or $72 a year for 1,200 minutes a month, and a $10 Minute Pack gives 600 minutes with no subscription. That is $1 an hour or less, against $15 an hour for Rev's pay-as-you-go AI. Rev Essentials is cheaper per hour only if you use most of its 5,000 minutes.

Rev Pricing 2026: AI Plans, Human Rates, Cost per Hour

Q: Does Rev have a free plan?

Yes. It includes 45 minutes of AI transcription and captions a month, in English only, for one user.

	Free	Essentials	Pro	Unlimited
Monthly billing	$0	$29.99 per seat	$59.99 per seat	Custom
Annual billing	$0	$25.49 per seat a month ($305.90 a year)	$47.99 per seat a month ($575.88 a year)	Custom
AI minutes a month	45	5,000 per user	10,000 per user	Unlimited
Seats	1	Up to 3	Up to 5	Unlimited
AI transcription languages	English only	English and Spanish	37 languages	37 languages
Discount on human services	—	Up to 10%	Up to 15%	Custom
API	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
HIPAA and CJIS	No	No	No	Yes

The free plan

Rev's free plan includes 45 minutes of AI transcription and captions a month, in English only, for one user. You get the transcript and caption editors, bulk download, ZIP upload, Google Drive import and the AI Notetaker. The AI Assistant and AI Prompts share 5 uses a month, and verbatim AI transcripts, OCR and the API need a paid plan.

Essentials and Pro

Essentials costs $29.99 per seat on monthly billing, or $25.49 per seat a month billed annually ($305.90 a year). It includes 5,000 AI minutes per user a month, up to 3 seats, English and Spanish, and API access. Pro costs $59.99 per seat monthly, or $47.99 a month billed annually ($575.88 a year), with 10,000 minutes per user, up to 5 seats and all 37 languages. Pro also adds side-by-side translation into English (in beta), OCR and image analysis.

Minutes are pooled across seats at the account level, and AI captions draw from the same minutes as transcripts. Rev now presents these plans as an investigative platform for legal and case work, with multi-file analysis and a document editor. Its help center notes that accounts created before 2026 may be on different plans.

Pay as you go: $0.25 a minute for AI

Without a subscription, Rev's AI transcription costs $0.25 a minute, which is $15 for an hour of audio. Rev describes it as 95%+ accurate and delivered in five minutes or less. It suits a one-off file. For regular use, Essentials' 5,000 minutes cost less once you transcribe more than about 2 hours a month.

Human transcription and other human services

Human-verified work is priced per minute of audio, on top of any subscription. A subscription lowers these prices a little: the pricing page shows up to 10% off on Essentials and up to 15% off on Pro, with smaller discounts on monthly billing.

Human transcription: $1.99 a minute, with 99%+ accuracy guaranteed and delivery in 12 hours or less. It is English only.
Add-ons per minute: Rush +$1.25, Premium +$1.75, Timestamping +$0.30, Verbatim +$0.50, Instant First Draft +$0.10.
Human captions: from $1.99 a minute in English and $3.25 a minute in Spanish.
Global subtitles for English videos: $6.49 to $15.99 a minute, depending on the language, in 17 languages.
Legal transcripts are priced per page: Legal Rough Draft $2.25 and Legal Premium Transcript $2.50. Subscriptions don't discount them.

What an hour of transcription costs

The subscription figures assume you use every minute you pay for. Rev's plans include a lot of minutes, more than 80 hours a month on Essentials, so most individuals pay far more per hour than these numbers.

Rev pay as you go (AI): $0.25 × 60 = $15.00 an hour.
Rev Essentials: $29.99 ÷ 83.3 hours (5,000 minutes) ≈ $0.36 an hour monthly; $25.49 ÷ 83.3 ≈ $0.31 an hour annually.
Rev Pro: $59.99 ÷ 166.7 hours (10,000 minutes) ≈ $0.36 an hour monthly; $47.99 ÷ 166.7 ≈ $0.29 an hour annually.
Rev human transcription: $1.99 × 60 = $119.40 an hour, before add-ons.
RocketScribe Minute Pack: $10 ÷ 10 hours (600 minutes) = $1.00 an hour, with no subscription, valid for 12 months.
RocketScribe Plus: $10 ÷ 20 hours (1,200 minutes) = $0.50 an hour monthly; $72 a year is $6 a month, or $0.30 an hour.
RocketScribe Unlimited: $20 ÷ 200 hours (12,000-minute fair use) = $0.10 an hour monthly.

Example: 5 hours of recordings a month

At 5 hours a month, Rev's pay-as-you-go AI costs $75. Essentials costs $29.99 a month, about $6 an hour, because you pay for 5,000 minutes and use 300. The free plan's 45 minutes won't stretch that far. On RocketScribe, Plus costs $10 a month, or $6 a month billed yearly, and one $10 Minute Pack covers two months at this pace.

When Rev is the better buy

Rev is the right choice when accuracy has to be guaranteed by a person: its English human transcription promises 99%+ accuracy, and it sells legal-formatted transcripts priced per page. It also fits teams that need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR on every plan, HIPAA or CJIS on Unlimited, an API from Essentials up, or multi-file case analysis. RocketScribe offers AI transcription only.

RocketScribe is the cheaper fit for AI transcripts of recordings when you transcribe tens of hours a month or less. It has no seats to buy, supports 90+ languages on every plan including Free, and its free plan allows 3 files a day and 120 minutes a month.

Rev Pricing: AI Plans, Human Transcription and Cost per Hour