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TranscribeCat vs GoTranscript
GoTranscript is human transcription from $1.20 a minute. TranscribeCat is AI transcription at $2.00 an hour. They are different products at roughly thirty-six times the price difference.
What GoTranscript is
GoTranscript is human transcription. There are no subscriptions and no allowances: you pay per minute of media, and the rate depends on how fast you want it back — from $1.20 a minute at a five-day turnaround up to $2.75 a minute for six to twelve hours.
Cost per hour of audio
| Hours per month | 1 h | 2 h | 5 h | 10 h | 20 h | 40 h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TranscribeCat | $2.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| GoTranscript | $72 | $72 | $72 | $72 | $72 | $72 |
There is no monthly volume at which GoTranscript becomes cheaper than we are.
Where GoTranscript is the better choice
A person listening will beat a model on the audio that matters most and is hardest: overlapping speakers, unfamiliar accents, poor recordings, specialist vocabulary, anything where a misheard word changes the meaning. There is no volume at which we become the more accurate option on difficult audio, and no discount that changes that.
Where we are
Their cheapest published English rate is $1.20 a minute, which is $72 an hour — thirty-six times our price for the same hour, with a five-day wait attached. Most files most people transcribe are clean enough that the difference in output does not justify the difference in cost, and ours comes back in minutes.
Which to pick
Pick GoTranscript when the recording is difficult or the transcript is going on the record, and the budget and the wait are both acceptable.
Pick us for clean audio, ordinary stakes, and a result today rather than next week.
What you get either way, from us
$2.00 per hour of audio, $2.00 minimum per file, tax included. No subscription, no seats and no expiring credits. If a transcription fails, the card authorization is cancelled and no money is taken. Audio is deleted 90 days after your last sign-in.