Honest pricing. No subscription trap.

Start free. Top up $2 for an hour — credits never expire. Every paid plan ships with Claude chat on your transcripts and the Intelligence Beta summary card.

Free

30 minutes / day

No sign-up, no credit card.
$0
always
99+ languages auto-detected
just use it →
Starter pack

200 minutes

Credits never expire.
$2
≈ $0.010 / minute
99+ languages auto-detected
Casual pack

600 minutes

Credits never expire.
$4
≈ $0.007 / minute
99+ languages auto-detected
Creator pack

2,400 minutes

Credits never expire.
$7
≈ $0.003 / minute
99+ languages auto-detected
Best value

6,000 minutes

Credits never expire.
$12
≈ $0.002 / minute
99+ languages auto-detected
For teams

30,000 minutes

Credits never expire.
$29
≈ $0.001 / minute
99+ languages auto-detected

Claude Sonnet on every paid transcript

Executive summary, topics & mentions, the key quote — and a chat box where you can ask Claude follow-ups about your own audio. Chat is private and per-session — your messages stay in the tab, nothing is stored on our server, and the next visit starts fresh. The model never trains on your recording.

New · 2026-05-08

Whipscribe vs ChatGPT Realtime audio

OpenAI launched three GPT-Realtime audio models on 2026-05-08: Realtime-Whisper streaming STT, Realtime-Translate, and Realtime-2 voice agent. Side-by-side on the dollars, features, and privacy posture — checked 2026-05-08.

What you pay / get Whipscribe
$2 → 200 min · packs up to $29 / 30,000 min · credits never expire · privacy-first
ChatGPT Realtime audio
OpenAI · launched 2026-05-08
Cheapest pack $2 / 200 min ($0.010/min)
credits never expire
30 min / day free
$0.017 / min
$1.02 / hour
(Realtime-Whisper)
no free tier
Bigger packs
(better per-minute)
$4 / 600 min ($0.007/min)
$7 / 2,400 min ($0.003/min)
$12 / 6,000 min ($0.002/min)
$29 / 30,000 min ($0.001/min)
credits never expire
No packs
pure usage metering
no caps · no free tier
Live translation
rate
$0.010 / minute transcript
+ your favourite LLM
(Claude, DeepL)
$0.034 / min
$2.04 / hour
(Realtime-Translate,
70 → 13 langs)
Voice-agent
(GPT-5 reasoning)
Out of scope
transcript only;
bring your own model
Realtime-2
$32 / $64 per 1M
audio tokens
10 hours / month $4 Casual pack
(600 min · never expires)
~$10.20
(10 × $1.02/hr)
40 hours / month
(power user)
$7 Creator pack
(2,400 min · $0.003/min)
≈ 5.8× cheaper
~$40.80
(40 × $1.02/hr)
6,000 minutes / month
(podcast network)
$12 / 6,000-min pack
($0.002/min · never expires)
≈ 8.5× cheaper
~$102.00
(100 × $1.02/hr)
Try without paying 30 min / day anonymous
+ 120 minutes free on signup
No free tier
billed from minute zero
Account /
API key required
Optional
paste a URL,
get a transcript,
no account
Yes
OpenAI account
+ API key
Speaker diarization Included
whisperX + pyannote
no extra fee
Not built-in
URL input · batch ·
library · MCP · GPT
All five included
on every plan
None
developer API only
Languages 99
(full Whisper coverage)
Whisper-realtime · 99
Translate · 70 → 13
Privacy posture Self-hosted Whisper
audio never sent to OpenAI
or any 3rd-party AI
no training on uploads
Audio sent to OpenAI
servers (US)
retention per OpenAI policy
not HIPAA-eligible by default

Last price-check 2026-05-08. Full side-by-side & FAQ →

Questions

How does Whipscribe compare to ChatGPT’s new Realtime audio (2026-05-08)?

Whipscribe is one-time credit packs that never expire — $2 / 200 min ($0.010/min), $4 / 600 min ($0.007/min), $7 / 2,400 min ($0.003/min), $12 / 6,000 min ($0.002/min), $29 / 30,000 min ($0.001/min). At the $12 pack the effective rate is $0.002/minute — about 5× cheaper than ChatGPT Realtime-Whisper ($0.017/min). Realtime is closer at light volumes, but Whipscribe wins past ~5 hours of audio. Whipscribe also includes 30 min/day free without signup, paste-a-URL input, speaker diarization, batch uploads, web library, MCP server, and ChatGPT Custom GPT integration. Audio is processed on Whipscribe’s self-hosted Whisper cluster and never sent to OpenAI. Full comparison →

Is my Claude chat private?

Yes. Chat runs per-session — your messages live only in the browser tab and are never saved on our server, in our logs, or in your account. Closing the tab clears the conversation. The next time you open the transcript, chat starts fresh. Anthropic does not train on the messages we send through it.

Do PAYG credits expire?

No. Once you buy a pack, the hours sit on your account until you use them. Use them today or a year from now — same price.

Is there a subscription or auto-renew?

No. Every pack is a one-time payment — Razorpay charges you once, the credits land on your account, and they sit there until you use them. There is no monthly bill, no auto-renew, no card-on-file. When the pack runs out you decide whether to buy another one.

Do you train AI on my audio?

Never. We don't use your recordings or transcripts to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any AI model — ours or anyone else's. Transcription runs on Neugence-owned GPUs; nothing is sent to OpenAI, Google, AWS, Deepgram, Rev, or any third-party AI provider.

What currency are these prices in?

All prices are in USD and Razorpay charges in USD. If your card is denominated in another currency, your bank converts at its published FX rate and may add a foreign-transaction fee; that's outside Razorpay's control. Indian cards can pay in USD via Razorpay's international-payments flow with no change on your side.

What happens to my file?

We keep your audio and transcript only as long as needed to deliver the job and let you retrieve it. Ask us to delete sooner at contact@neugence.ai.