Transcription Tool Pricing Compared (2026)
What SubGrab, Tactiq, Otter.ai, Happy Scribe and Rev cost in October 2026: free allowances, monthly plans, per-minute rates, and what an hour of video really costs.
What SubGrab, Tactiq, Otter.ai, Happy Scribe and Rev cost in October 2026: free allowances, monthly plans, per-minute rates, and what an hour of video really costs.
Three ways to get a transcript, with genuinely different failure modes. One of them is free and beats paying — for a specific and checkable set of videos.
The comparison posts you find are written by the tools being compared, including ours. Five links you already have will tell you more than any of them.
Most Facebook transcript tools work on a public video and fail on the same link a day later. Rarely about accuracy — it is how each one handles Facebook's decoy page.
Every tool claims it supports hundreds of sites. Almost none publish how often it works. Here are our real numbers, including the platforms we are bad at.
Measured on real jobs, not estimated: captions come back in milliseconds, AI transcription has a 10-second median, and the slow tail has three specific causes.
Per-minute, per-hour and per-seat pricing compared honestly, what happens to your money when a job fails, and why our caption path is not free either.
Most YouTube caption scrapers break when YouTube changes its API. Here's why a managed transcript service beats DIY scraping in 2026 — and how to switch.
What AI transcription accuracy really looks like in 2026: what changes it (audio quality, speakers, language) and where Whisper-based transcription still struggles.
A comparison of tools for transcribing videos that don't have subtitles — accuracy, pricing, speed, and platform support.
Compare transcript availability across all 5 major video platforms. Which have captions? Which need AI? Complete guide for 2026.
Why SubGrab uses a credit system instead of monthly subscriptions — and how it saves you money.
Exactly what costs a credit on SubGrab, what doesn't, and how to make credits go further — with real scenarios priced out.