vidby
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveVideo and document translation with dubbing across many languages
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
Billed per minute of source by quality tier, from a fully automated pass up to translator-checked and actor-voiced output, with prepaid credit subscriptions as an alternative. The pricing page returned a server error on 15 October 2026, so no price was confirmed today.
Use tool ↗About vidby
vidby translates video, audio and documents, then returns subtitles or a dubbed audio track in the target language. Jobs are priced by quality level, from a fully automated pass through translator-checked output up to versions voiced by professional actors. Source files can be pulled straight from YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive or Dropbox, and the service is also listed on the Google Cloud, Azure and AppSource marketplaces.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Home page offers video, document, PDF and audio translation with subtitles and dubbing, imports from YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive and Dropbox, and a Telegram bot for uploads (15 October 2026)vidby.com ↗
- Footer names Technologies of Understanding AG, Rotkreuz, Switzerland, and listings on the Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and AppSource marketplaces (15 October 2026)vidby.com ↗
- The prices page linked from the main menu returned HTTP 500 on every language version (15 October 2026), so per-minute tiers were not re-readvidby.com ↗
Is vidby legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Oct 6, 2006 (20 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Infomaniak Network SA, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Jan 12, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Technologies of Understanding AG, SwitzerlandOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of vidby
Choose vidby when the translation has to be correct and you will pay for a human check, because the tiered quality ladder is the entire point of the product. For casual social clips the automated tier competes on price but not on polish with the dedicated dubbing tools.
Pros
- Explicit quality tiers let you pay for human review only on the content that warrants it
- Handles documents and audio files, not video alone
- Named Swiss legal entity with a physical address, which helps in EU procurement
- Available through Azure, Google Cloud and AppSource, simplifying enterprise purchasing
Cons
- Per-minute pricing climbs steeply once you move above the fully automated tier
- No developer API is advertised, so job submission stays manual
- The pricing page renders only via JavaScript, making costs awkward to review or archive
Best for
- Localizing training or compliance video where a mistranslation carries cost
- YouTube channels adding multi-language audio tracks
- Buyers who need both document and video translation from one vendor
- Enterprises that must procure through Azure or Google Cloud marketplace
Not for
- Creators wanting free or near-free dubbing of short clips
- Live or real-time translation workflows
- Teams that need to submit jobs programmatically
Watch out: The headline accuracy claims apply to the human-reviewed tiers; the cheap fully automated tier is effectively a different product at a fraction of the price and the quality.
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