Echo360

by Echo360 Inc.

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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.

Active-learning and lecture-capture platform for higher education.

Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android  ·  contact sales

TL;DR

Best for universities running active-learning programs with lecture capture and engagement analytics. Pricing: contact sales.

Category
Products
Pricing
contact sales
Platforms
Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android

What it is

Echo360 is a higher-education lecture-capture and active-learning platform. The product records classroom lectures, transcribes, provides closed captions, and adds active-learning features like in-class polls, in-video questions, and analytics on student engagement. Echo360 integrates with major LMS platforms and is widely deployed across US, UK, and Australian universities. Pricing is enterprise contract sold to academic-technology leadership. The product competes head-to-head with Panopto and Kaltura in higher-education lecture capture. Pricing and product details listed here were last reviewed by Neugence on 2026-05-12; check the vendor site for current values before quoting.

Best for: Universities running active-learning programs with lecture capture and engagement analytics.
Watch out for: Higher-ed-focused; enterprise sales motion.

Install / use

echo360.com — Contact sales

What people actually do with Echo360-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

Wire it into ZoomSlackNotionAirtableLoomMake.com

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

Echo360 vs Whipscribe

FeatureEcho360Whipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages—99
PlatformsWeb, macOS, Windows, iOS, AndroidWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Echo360

Frequently asked about Echo360

How much does Echo360 cost?

Echo360 does not publish a self-serve price — it is quoted by the vendor on contact. Expect an enterprise-style agreement rather than a card-and-go signup.

Does Echo360 work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Echo360 runs on Web, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.

How do I get started with Echo360?

There is nothing to install — Echo360 is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

What are the limitations of Echo360?

Higher-ed-focused; enterprise sales motion.

Who is Echo360 best for?

Universities running active-learning programs with lecture capture and engagement analytics.

Is Echo360 open source?

No. Echo360 is a proprietary product from Echo360 Inc.. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Who makes Echo360?

Echo360 is made by Echo360 Inc..

What kind of tool is Echo360?

In this directory Echo360 is filed under meetings, education, lecture capture as a product.

What are the alternatives to Echo360?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/echo360-alternatives comparing Echo360 with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Echo360-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from Echo360?

Echo360 is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Echo360?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the Echo360 category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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