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The Amberscript alternative at cents an hour, not euros.

Short answer. Amberscript's machine transcription is €10 an hour pay as you go, or a subscription: Starter €19 a month for 5 hours, Pro €29 for 10, Power €49 for 25. Human-made transcription starts at €1.85 a minute. Whipscribe is machine transcription only, priced in US dollars: packs are $4 for 500 minutes, $12 for 2,000 and $24 for 5,000, about $0.29 to $0.48 an hour. If you need people to check every word, Amberscript offers that; if you need a machine transcript, Whipscribe costs far less per hour. (Amberscript figures: amberscript.com/en/pricing, checked 26 October 2026.)
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Amberscript pricing, explained

Amberscript: hours by subscription, or €10 an hour.

Read on amberscript.com/en/pricing, checked 26 October 2026.

Machine-made subscriptions: Starter €19 a month (5 hours) or €190 a year (60 hours); Pro €29 a month (10 hours) or €290 a year (120 hours); Power €49 a month (25 hours) or €490 a year (300 hours). Pay as you go is €10 an hour, with 10% off at 5 hours, 25% at 20 and 40% at 50+; the page lists the discounts but not the resulting prices.

Human-made transcription is from €1.85 a minute and human-made subtitles from €4.40 a minute, ready within 5 days or 1 business day with a rush order. Machine-made covers 90+ languages and exports Word, JSON, TXT and CSV, plus SRT, VTT and EBU-STL subtitles. Amberscript prices in euros; we have not converted them.

Side-by-side

Whipscribe vs Amberscript

Amberscript figures from amberscript.com/en/pricing, checked 26 October 2026. Where their page does not say, the cell says so.

FeatureWhipscribeAmberscript
Pay as you go $4 for 500 minutes, $12 for 2,000, $24 for 5,000 (USD) €10 an hour, discounts from 5 hours
Subscriptions None needed; Workspace optional at $19 a month €19, €29 or €49 a month for 5, 10 or 25 hours
Human-made transcripts No From €1.85 a minute
Languages 99+ 90+ machine-made; 18+ human-made
Exports TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON Word, JSON, TXT, CSV; SRT, VTT, EBU-STL
Largest file 10 hours or 5 GB Not shown on the pricing page

Whipscribe prices are the ones on /pricing. Product notes: Amberscript on our tools index.

What a month costs

1, 10 and 50 hours of audio a month

Amberscript prices in euros and Whipscribe in US dollars; neither column is converted.

Your monthWhipscribeAmberscript
1 hour a month The $4 pack of 500 minutes lasts about 8 months: about $0.48 a month at $0.48 an hour Pay as you go: €10
10 hours a month The $12 pack of 2,000 minutes lasts about 3 months: about $3.60 a month at $0.36 an hour Pro: €29 a month (10 hours)
50 hours a month The $24 pack of 5,000 minutes lasts about 7 weeks: about $14.40 a month at $0.29 an hour. Or Workspace, $19 a month for up to 150 hours Past Power's 25 hours (€49): pay as you go is €300 for 50 hours after the 40% discount, by our arithmetic

Whipscribe: one-time packs, credits never expire, so the monthly figure is the share of a pack you use. Amberscript: amberscript.com/en/pricing, checked 26 October 2026.

Be fair to Amberscript

Who Amberscript is the better choice for.

Transcripts a person has checked

Human-made transcription from €1.85 a minute, with a rush option.

Broadcast subtitle formats

EBU-STL and editor-specific subtitle exports.

European buyers who want euro invoices

Every price is in euros.

Where each one wins

Whipscribe, better and worse.

Where Whipscribe is better

  • About $0.29 to $0.48 an hour, against €10 an hour pay as you go.
  • No subscription, and pack credits never expire.
  • Files up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and links from YouTube, podcasts or Google Drive.
  • Summary, chapters and translation into 99 languages with each transcript.

Where Whipscribe is worse

  • No human-made transcription or human-made subtitles.
  • No EBU-STL export.
  • Speakers are named in the summary, quotes and chapters, not on each transcript line.

Switching

Moving from Amberscript, step by step.

  1. Export your Amberscript transcripts in Word or TXT and keep the source audio.
  2. Drop a file or paste a link here; it starts with a free preview of the opening minutes.
  3. Pick a pack: 2,000 minutes for $12 is about 33 hours.
  4. Download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. For files that must be human-checked, keep Amberscript's human service for those.

Questions people ask first

Amberscript alternative, answered.

How much is Amberscript per hour?

€10 an hour pay as you go, or €3.8 to €1.96 an hour inside the Starter, Pro and Power subscriptions (amberscript.com/en/pricing, checked 26 October 2026).

Does Whipscribe have human transcription like Amberscript?

No. Whipscribe is machine transcription only. Amberscript's human-made transcription starts at €1.85 a minute.

Which is cheaper for 10 hours a month?

Amberscript Pro is €29 a month for 10 hours. On Whipscribe, 600 minutes come out of the $12 pack of 2,000, about $3.60 a month at that rate.

When were these Amberscript figures checked?

Every Amberscript figure on this page was read on amberscript.com/en/pricing on 26 October 2026, as the page displayed it (currency EUR). Pricing pages change without notice, so check theirs before you buy.

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