Rev.com Inc. · Tools

Rev

Visit website

At a glance

Price
from 25.49 $/mo
Vendor
Rev.com Inc.

Specifications & properties

Key decision factors

Pricing model
Freemium 1
Audio functions
  • Speech-to-text
1
Supported languages
37 languages 1

Pricing

Price from
25.49 $/mo 1
Free tier
Yes 1
Free monthly quota
45 min/month 1

Integration

API available
Yes 1

Compliance

SOC 2
Yes 1
Report data / suggest a correction

Metrics vs. the category

Supported languages
37 languages Category max 100 languages (12 with data)
Latency (real-time audio)
n/a
Free monthly quota
45 min/month Category max 3,000 min/month (7 with data)

Transcription platform offering AI speech-to-text plus optional human transcription services. The free plan includes 45 AI transcription minutes per month; the Essentials plan starts at $25.49 per seat/month billed annually.

Profile

Rev is a transcription, captioning and subtitling platform that blends AI speech recognition with an optional human-transcriptionist marketplace, built for podcasters, journalists, legal teams, video editors and enterprises. It runs on a hybrid model: a genuinely free AI tier, paid per-seat subscriptions with pooled AI minutes, pay-per-minute human transcription/captioning on top, and a separate developer API (Rev AI) billed per hour of audio processed.

Who builds it

Rev is built by Rev.com, a US company that pairs its own AI transcription engine with a global network of freelance human transcriptionists and captioners. Users upload audio or video, choose AI-only or human-reviewed turnaround, and get back searchable transcripts, subtitle files and caption formats ready for publishing.

Core features

  • AI transcription and captions with minutes pooled across every seat on a plan
  • Human transcription and captioning marketplace, priced per minute with plan-based discounts
  • Up to 37+ languages for AI transcription on the Pro plan, versus English-only on Free and English & Spanish on Essentials
  • Bulk multi-file analysis — up to 10 files at once on Essentials, 50 on Pro, 500 on Unlimited
  • Beta side-by-side foreign-language translation view for reviewing transcripts alongside a translated version
  • Separate Rev AI developer API (Reverb models) for building speech-to-text into external products, billed hourly

Pricing

  • Free: $0/month — 45 AI transcription/caption minutes per month, English only, up to 5 files analyzed at once
  • Essentials: $25.49/seat/month billed yearly ($29.99 billed monthly) — 5,000 AI minutes/seat/month, English & Spanish, 10% discount on human services (annual)
  • Pro: $47.99/seat/month billed yearly ($59.99 billed monthly) — 10,000 AI minutes/seat/month, 37+ languages, 15% discount on human services (annual)
  • Unlimited: custom pricing — unlimited AI minutes, up to 500 files at once, CJIS and HIPAA compliance
  • Rev AI developer API (pay-as-you-go): Reverb Turbo from $0.10/hour, Reverb Standard $0.20/hour, foreign-language Reverb $0.30/hour, plus human transcription at $1.99/minute
  • Check rev.com/pricing and rev.ai/pricing for current rates, since prices and included minutes can change

Who it's for

The Free and Essentials plans suit individuals, students and small teams who mainly need English (or Spanish) AI transcripts without much volume. Pro fits multilingual newsrooms, video production teams and legal professionals who need bulk processing and broader language coverage. Organizations with compliance requirements (CJIS, HIPAA) or very high monthly volume should use the Unlimited plan, while developers embedding speech-to-text into their own software should use the separate Rev AI API rather than the consumer subscriptions.

Frequently asked questions

What does Rev cost?

Rev's consumer plans run from a free tier up to $59.99/month billed monthly (or $47.99/seat/month billed yearly) for the Pro tier, plus a custom-priced Unlimited plan; a separate pay-per-minute fee applies for human transcription and captioning. Developers instead use the Rev AI API, billed per hour of audio from $0.10/hour for Reverb Turbo up to $0.30/hour for foreign-language transcription. Check rev.com/pricing and rev.ai/pricing directly, since exact rates and included minutes can change.

Is Rev free?

Yes, Rev has a genuine $0 Free plan with 45 AI transcription and caption minutes per month, English only, and up to 5 files analyzed simultaneously. It doesn't require a credit card, but it's capped in both minutes and language coverage, so regular or multilingual use requires upgrading to Essentials or Pro. Rev AI's developer API separately gives new accounts free credits equivalent to about 5 hours of Reverb ASR processing.

What languages does Rev support?

Rev's AI transcription covers English only on the Free plan, English and Spanish on Essentials, and 37+ languages (including Spanglish) on the Pro plan. The Rev AI developer API separately lists a foreign-language Reverb model covering 55+ languages including Spanish, French, Chinese and Portuguese, billed at $0.30/hour. Rev also offers human-translated captions and subtitles as an add-on service for broader language needs.

Can I use Rev's transcripts and captions commercially?

Yes — under Rev's terms of service, customers retain ownership of all transcripts, captions and translations created from their content, so commercial use (broadcast, publishing, legal filings, monetized video) is standard practice. Rev itself states it does not claim ownership of customer content or the resulting work product. If accuracy for legal or broadcast delivery matters, the human-reviewed option is generally the safer commercial choice over AI-only output.

Does Rev have an API?

Yes, Rev's developer API is a separate product called Rev AI, offering programmatic speech-to-text (Reverb and Whisper models), language identification, translation, sentiment analysis, topic extraction and summarization, billed per hour or minute of audio rather than through the consumer subscription plans. Reverb Turbo starts at $0.10/hour for English, with human transcription available via API at $1.99/minute. New accounts get free credits equivalent to about 5 hours of Reverb ASR to start.

Rev vs Sonix — what's the difference?

Both are AI transcription platforms with paid human-review add-ons, but Rev leads with a genuinely free 45-minute AI tier plus a large human-transcriptionist marketplace, while Sonix leads with broader baked-in AI language coverage (54+ languages for transcription, 55+ for translation) on every paid plan starting at $25/month. Rev's AI language coverage is tier-gated (English-only free, 37+ languages only on its $47.99+/month Pro plan), whereas Sonix offers its full language list even on its entry Core plan. Teams that want cheap human-reviewed accuracy tend to prefer Rev; teams that want broad automated multilingual coverage from the start tend to prefer Sonix.