Rev AI
Verified Oct 2, 2026 ActiveSpeech-to-text API for recorded and live audio, with add-on language identification, summarization and human transcription.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $0.01/min
- Billing
- Metered · per minute
Pay-as-you-go with free starter credits worth five hours of Reverb transcription. Whisper Large transcription is $0.005 per minute, Reverb English is $0.20 per hour, human transcription is $1.99 per minute, and each call has a 15-second minimum. Enterprise pricing is volume-based.
Use tool ↗About Rev AI
Rev AI is the developer arm of Rev: an API that turns audio and video into transcripts, either asynchronously from files or in real time from a stream. It covers more than 50 languages, returns word-level timestamps and forced alignment, and layers on language identification, sentiment analysis, topic extraction, translation and summarization. Teams can order human-verified transcripts through the same account and deploy in the cloud or on-premises. Rev's main website has since shifted toward legal and investigative evidence analysis, so this product is the one to look at for building transcription into your own software.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 2, 2026
Verified sources
- Pay-as-you-go prices: Reverb $0.20 per hour, Whisper Large $0.005 per minute, human transcription $1.99 per minute, free starter creditsrev.ai ↗
- Async and streaming speech-to-text API, 57+ languages, insights, SOC 2/HIPAA/GDPR claims, on-prem optionrev.ai ↗
- Rev's main site now presents an investigative intelligence platform and points developers to the API siterev.com ↗
Is Rev AI legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Last checked
- Oct 2, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Rev, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 2, 2026
Pros & cons of Rev AI
A straightforward, per-minute speech recognition API from a company with a long record in human transcription, which gives it a clean path from machine drafts to verified transcripts. Developers who need accuracy claims backed by their own audio should run a test on their material, since the benchmark claims are the vendor's. Anyone wanting a consumer transcription app should know Rev's main site now targets legal and investigative teams.
Pros
- Free starter credits and public per-minute prices
- Async and streaming endpoints, plus forced alignment
- 57+ languages and add-on insights such as topics and sentiment
- Human transcription available from the same API
Cons
- Accuracy and bias claims come from the vendor's own benchmarks
- Several separate meters (transcription, insights, alignment) make costs harder to forecast
- Human transcription costs far more per minute than machine transcription
Best for
- Developers adding transcription to a product through an API
- Media and accessibility teams that need captions plus an option for human review
- Companies with data-control needs that want an on-premises deployment
Not for
- Individuals who just want to drop in a recording and get a transcript
- Teams that need the cheapest possible bulk transcription with no human-verification path
Watch out: Every request is rounded up to the nearest second with a 15-second minimum, so many very short clips cost more than their length suggests.
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