How much to transcribe 100 hours of audio $36, with the sums shown.
Transcribing 100 hours of audio costs $36 here: 100 hours is 6,000 minutes, and one $24 pack of 5,000 minutes plus one $12 pack of 2,000 minutes covers it with 1,000 minutes left over. Each file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, processing takes about 2 minutes per audio hour, and the first 20 minutes are free so you can test one recording before buying.
The 100-hour arithmetic
Six thousand minutes, priced without a sales call.
The sum, step by step
One hundred hours times sixty is 6,000 minutes. The $24 pack holds 5,000 and the $12 pack holds 2,000, so the pair gives you 7,000 minutes for $36. Two $24 packs would cost $48 and strand 4,000 minutes, and twelve $6 packs would cost $72, so the mixed pair is the cheapest way to cover exactly this much audio.
Processing time for the lot
At about 2 minutes per audio hour, a hundred hours adds up to roughly 200 minutes of processing in total. You do not wait for the whole archive: every recording lands in your Library the moment it is done, so you can read the earliest files while you are still uploading the later ones.
A hundred hours is many files
No single file passes 10 hours or 5 GB, so an archive this size arrives as a collection: fifty 2-hour interviews, a hundred hour-long calls, or a season of recorded classes. Before the first pack, uploads stop at 2 GB, so buying the packs first lets large video files start straight away.
What the archive becomes
A spoken hour runs to roughly nine thousand words, so 100 hours is close to a million. Nobody reads that end to end. Each recording carries a brief with its thesis and takeaways, timestamped chapters, and the names, numbers and dates said in it, which lets you sort the archive before you read any of it closely.
Quoting a big archive elsewhere
Small per-minute rates grow large over 6,000 minutes.
✗ How 100 hours usually gets priced
Monthly plans keep billing while you upload, and typing the audio yourself is weeks of work.
- A subscription charged for every month of the project
- Minute allowances that reset before you finish
- Per-file caps that force recordings into pieces
- Typing by hand at several hours per audio hour
- Upload limits in megabytes, like the Whisper API's 25 MB
- A bare transcript per file with nothing pulled out
✓ 100 hours on two packs
You pay once for minutes that stay on the account until you spend them.
- $36 covers 6,000 minutes with 1,000 to spare
- About 2 minutes of processing per audio hour
- Files up to 10 hours or 5 GB each
- A brief and chapters for every recording
- Speakers named in the summary, quotes and chapters
- TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON for each file
Sample
One file out of a hundred-hour archive.
Illustrative only: written for this page, not taken from a customer recording. It shows a short stretch of one oral-history file from a large collection.
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
- Unlimited AI chat per 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
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Pricing 100 hours, the common questions.
How much does it cost to transcribe 100 hours of audio?
$36 in one-time packs. 100 hours is 6,000 minutes; the $24 pack holds 5,000 minutes and the $12 pack holds 2,000, which leaves 1,000 minutes for the next batch. Across the archive that is about $0.36 per audio hour.
How long will 100 hours take to process?
Roughly 200 minutes of processing in total, at about 2 minutes per audio hour. A recording of two hours is ready in about 4 minutes, and finished files show up in your Library one by one, so there is no single long wait.
What if my archive is 30 or 60 hours instead?
Thirty hours is 1,800 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Sixty hours is 3,600 minutes, which belongs on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. A team that records every week rather than clearing one archive may prefer the $19-a-month Workspace.
Will any of my files need splitting?
Only a file longer than 10 hours or larger than 5 GB. Anything under both goes up whole. Until a pack is on the account, uploads stop at 2 GB, so for an archive of large videos buy first and upload after.
My archive mixes languages. Do I sort it first?
No. 99 languages are detected automatically, file by file, with nothing to set. A recording that switches language is detected on its main language, and English and Tagalog switching inside one file is handled.
Which exports come with each file, and what happens to the recordings?
Each file exports as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete any file together with its transcript when the project ends.
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