How many hours is 500 minutes? 8 hours 20 minutes, or 8.33 hours.
500 minutes is 8 hours and 20 minutes, or about 8.33 hours: divide by 60 to get 8, with 20 minutes left over. For transcription that is the $6 pack of 500 minutes, which covers one 8-hour recording in a single file (one file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB) or four 2-hour lectures, and all 500 minutes process in about 17 minutes.
The arithmetic
500 ÷ 60 = 8 remainder 20.
The conversion
Eight hours is 480 minutes; 500 minus 480 leaves 20 minutes. As a decimal, 500 ÷ 60 is 8.333 hours. In seconds it is 30,000. The quick check: 6 hours is 360 minutes, 9 hours is 540, so 500 sits between them.
What 500 minutes holds
Four 2-hour lectures (480 minutes) with 20 spare; ten 50-minute classes exactly; six 80-minute interviews with 20 spare; or one 8-hour training day in a single file, dropped on the upload page.
What it costs per hour
The $6 pack works out at about 72 cents per audio hour. The $12 pack of 2,000 minutes brings that to about 36 cents, and the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes to about 29 cents, for when the hours add up.
How long it takes
Processing runs at about 2 minutes per audio hour, so 8 hours 20 minutes of audio is about 17 minutes of work. A single 8-hour file is back in about 16 minutes after it uploads.
Counting minutes
Most miscounts come from treating hours as hundreds of minutes.
✗ Easy ways to miscount
Minutes in base 60 trip people when they plan a pack.
- Reading 500 minutes as 5 hours
- Writing 8.20 hours for 8 h 20 min
- Forgetting that a 2:30 file is 150 minutes
- Rounding every file up to the next hour
- Buying a bigger pack than the hours need
- Splitting an 8-hour file that already fit
✓ Count once, then pick the pack
Add the real lengths, compare to 500, 2,000 and 5,000.
- 8 h 20 min fits in $6
- 33 h 20 min fits in $12
- 83 h 20 min fits in $24
- One file up to 10 hours or 5 GB
- About 2 minutes per audio hour
- Leftover minutes carry forward
Sample
An 8-hour training day, transcribed as one file, seven hours in.
Illustrative only: these lines were written for this page. The day ran 8 hours, 480 of the 500 minutes in the $6 pack.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $6 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
500 minutes, answered.
How many hours is 500 minutes exactly?
8 hours and 20 minutes, which is 8.333 hours as a decimal. It is not 8.5 hours; half an hour would be 510 minutes.
Can one 8-hour recording use the whole $6 pack?
Yes. One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so an 8-hour recording goes up in one piece and uses 480 of the 500 minutes. Before the first pack, files up to 2 GB upload; a larger one starts once the pack is on the account.
What if my recordings add up to more than 500 minutes?
Up to 2,000 minutes, the $12 pack is the better buy; past that, the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Leftover minutes stay on the account, since credits never expire.
Do the free 20 minutes come on top?
The first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor, which on a long file is a preview you read before buying. The pack then transcribes the rest of that recording from where the preview ended.
How are minutes counted?
By the length of the audio. A 2-hour-10-minute file uses 130 minutes, not 180. Converting the file to another format does not change its length, so it does not change the minutes.
What does each recording come back with?
A brief with the thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps, the names, numbers and dates said, the questions it answers and a chat over the transcript. Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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