• Free: $0. 120 minutes a month. Files up to 30 minutes, one at a time, three a day. Basic transcription model. Media deleted after 30 days.
• Basic: $10 a month, or $6 a month billed yearly. 1,200 minutes. Premium model, YouTube links, speaker identification, custom vocabulary, API access, bulk upload, no retention limit.
• Standard: $20 a month, or $12 yearly. 3,000 minutes, same features.
• Pro: $30 a month, or $18 yearly. 6,000 minutes.

Extra minutes come as add-ons: $10 for 500, $15 for 1,000 or $20 for 3,000, valid 90 days. There are also one-time packages named Lite, Plus and Max, valid 90 or 180 days. Their prices sit behind a toggle on the pricing page. One-time buyers do not get API access.

Refunds are offered for a monthly period with no minutes used, and pro-rated on yearly plans. Payment runs through Stripe.

Who is UniScribe for?

Podcasters and video makers. Transcript, show notes and quotable lines from one upload, in the formats editors and subtitle tools expect.

Students and researchers. Lecture recordings become searchable notes, with a summary and key questions to revise from.

Teams with meeting recordings. Speaker labels and timestamps make a Zoom or Teams recording searchable.

Developers and automators. The API, webhooks and MCP server turn transcription into a step in a pipeline rather than a chore.

Where does UniScribe fall short?

The free plan is tight. Thirty-minute files, three a day and a basic model with lower accuracy. Most real recordings run longer than that.

No live transcription. UniScribe works on files and links. It does not listen to a meeting as it happens.

The API is in beta and closed to free and one-time users. Endpoints may change, by UniScribe's own notice.

Accuracy is not stated. "Premium model, highest accuracy" carries no figure and no benchmark.

One-time package prices are hidden until you toggle for them. The site's user counts read like live counters rather than audited numbers.

Data sits in the United States on Microsoft Azure. Fine for most, worth knowing for anyone with residency rules.

Is UniScribe worth trying?

Yes. The free plan is enough to test accuracy on your own audio. Basic at $6 a month on the yearly plan is cheap for 20 hours with speaker labels and summaries.

Buy monthly if your need is a single project. Take the yearly plan if transcription is a habit. And if you need live captions during a call, this is the wrong tool. It is built for the recording afterwards.