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Transcription automations that pay for themselves
Flows teams actually run — recordings to course modules, webinars to clips, an archive to a searchable corpus. Each one is priced at published rates so you can decide before you build.
Rate$0.0048 / min
Per audio hour$0.29
10 hours of audio$2.88
CreditsNever expire
Turn long screen recordings into course modulesA three-hour screen recording is the most valuable asset a course business owns and the least usable. Nobody r…3-hour recording ≈ $2.16Cut short-form clips out of a webinar automaticallyThe clips worth posting are buried somewhere in a 60-minute recording and finding them by scrubbing costs more…60-min webinar ≈ $0.72Transcribe every new file in a Drive folderFiles accumulate in a folder nobody opens, and the knowledge in them is invisible to search.…≈ $0.29 per audio hour on the $24 packTurn recorded calls into searchable notesThe recording exists, the answer is in it, and nobody will scrub an hour to find the ninety seconds that matte…200 calls a month ≈ $48Generate show notes and chapters from each episodeShow notes and chapter markers are the last job before publishing and the one most often skipped.…weekly show ≈ $1.56 a monthTranscribe a whole back catalogue in one runThe archive is the asset, but one-at-a-time upload means it never gets done.…1,000 hours ≈ $480, onceCaption lecture recordings for accessibilityCaptions are required, manual captioning is slow, and auto-captions from video platforms have no punctuation o…12-week course ≈ $12Write SOPs from how-we-do-it recordingsProcess knowledge lives in someone's screen recording and leaves when they do.…40 recordings ≈ $6.40
Why build it here
No subscription to size wrongCompeting transcription tools sell $25–$65 monthly plans with a minute cap that resets whether you used it or not. Credits here are bought once and do not expire, so a quiet month costs nothing and a backlog run does not need an upgrade.
Your audio is not sent to a third-party modelTranscription runs on our own servers in our own private cloud. Nothing is forwarded to OpenAI or any other vendor's API, which is usually the blocking question when the recordings are customer calls or unreleased material.
One job, every formattxt, json, srt, vtt and docx all come from the same job id. Re-submitting a file per format is the most common way teams pay several times for one transcription.
Built to be retriedIdempotency-Key means an automation platform's automatic retry returns the original job instead of billing a second one. Every no-code platform retries; most transcription APIs charge you for it.
Or start from the platform you use
Make.com40s module timeout — submit, store job_id, poll from a second scenariono-code automationZapier30s action timeout — split into a submit Zap and a scheduled poll Zapno-code automationn8nWait node works but pins a worker — split submit and poll at volumeself-hosted automationAirtable30s script limit — store job_id on the record, poll on a scheduledatabase + automationGoogle Driveshare links are not media URLs — use the OAuth connectorstorageYouTubeauto-captions have no punctuation or speakersvideo platform
Try the quality free, then wire it up
In the web app the first 20 minutes are free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest — that is how to check accuracy on your own audio before writing any code. The API has no recurring free tier: without a key you can run 3 sample transcriptions a day, each returning a preview, and keys come with the 5,000-minute pack ($24) or Workspace ($19/month). $24 per 5,000 minutes — about $0.29 an audio hour — and credits never expire.
Transcribe a file free →Create an API keyAPI referenceIntegrationsAutomationsPrefer a web app?
If you would rather upload a file or paste a link: see how to transcribe audio to text online and transcription services from $6.