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AudioScribe vs Sonix

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. AudioScribe starts at $19.99, Sonix at $25. Only AudioScribe has a free tier. Only Sonix ships a public API.

AudioScribeTranscribes audio and video, then lets you full-text search the transcript and question it in chat.SonixTranscription, translation and subtitles with a browser editor

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FactAudioScribeSonix
CategorySpeech-to-Text & TranscriptionSpeech-to-Text & Transcription
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starts at$19.99 month$25 month
Public APINoYes
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, API
CompanyAudioScribe Technologies, LLCSonix, Inc.
Launched—2017
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

AudioScribe

A transcription service that treats the transcript as a searchable archive rather than a one-off download, which matters if you accumulate hundreds of recordings. The 10-hour per-file ceiling is generous. The free tier's 25-minute cap makes it useless for real meetings, so you are effectively evaluating a paid product.

Pros

  • Unlimited transcripts on the $19.99 plan with a 10-hour per-file ceiling
  • Full-text search plus a chat layer across stored transcripts
  • Speaker identification and 18 languages on the paid tier
  • Native iOS and Android apps alongside the browser app

Cons

  • No public API mentioned anywhere on the site
  • Free tier caps files at 25 minutes, which excludes most meetings
  • No country or address disclosed for the LLC behind it

Sonix

Pick Sonix when the transcript is a working document you will correct, subtitle and hand off — the editor is the product, not the ASR. If you mainly want live meeting notes, Otter is cheaper and better suited; if the recording is legally critical, Rev's human tier is the safer route.

Pros

  • The word-locked editor makes correcting a long transcript far faster than re-typing
  • 50+ languages for both transcription and translation, priced at the same hourly rate
  • REST API with batch processing and custom vocabulary is included with subscriptions
  • SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA posture and a stated no-training policy on customer files

Cons

  • Per-seat pricing at $25/mo each punishes small teams sharing one library
  • Hour allowances are the real constraint; Core's 5 hrs/mo goes fast on video
  • The 99% accuracy claim is vendor marketing — independent tests put it near peers, around the mid-90s
  • No free plan, only a 30-minute trial

Which one fits

Choose AudioScribe if you need

  • Building a searchable archive of interviews or lectures
  • Long single recordings up to ten hours
  • People who want transcription on phone and desktop

Choose Sonix if you need

  • Journalists and researchers cleaning up long interview recordings
  • Video teams producing multilingual subtitle tracks from one master file
  • Legal, medical and academic work where custom vocabulary matters
  • Engineering teams batch-transcribing a media archive through the API

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