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TranscribeCat vs Sonix
Sonix is the only vendor in this category that publishes an hourly price: $10 an hour. TranscribeCat is $2.00 an hour. Here is the full comparison.
What Sonix is
Sonix is a straightforward transcription service with three subscription tiers and a pay-as-you-go option — and it is the only vendor on this list that publishes a price per hour of audio rather than a plan you have to do arithmetic on. That deserves credit; the rest of the category makes you reconstruct it.
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 |
| Sonix | $25 | $13 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $2.50 | $2.00 |
The break-even is 40 hours of audio a month. Below that we cost less; above it, Sonix does.
Where Sonix is the better choice
Publishing an hourly rate at all puts them ahead of every competitor here on honesty, and their editor and search tooling are more developed than ours. Their Pro plan works out at exactly two dollars an hour if you use precisely forty hours a month — the one volume at which we cost the same.
Where we are
Their overage is $10 an hour on every plan, so the moment you exceed an allowance the price is five times ours. Their pay-as-you-go rate is the same $10. At every volume except exactly forty hours a month, we are cheaper — often by a factor of five.
Which to pick
Pick Sonix if you want a mature editing and search workspace around the transcript and the per-hour premium is worth it to you.
Pick us if what you want is the transcript, in the formats you can export, at a fifth of the price.
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.