Ema
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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.
Universal AI employee for enterprise workflows.
Best for enterprise operations leaders wanting an AI employee that handles full workflows including meetings. Pricing: contact sales.
What it is
Ema is a Mountain-View startup founded by Surojit Chatterjee (former Coinbase product chief) that positions itself as a universal AI employee for the enterprise. The product handles full workflows — customer-support cases, sales-engagement playbooks, recruiting tasks, finance reconciliations — combining LLM reasoning, action-taking via API integrations, and conversation handling including voice. Ema has raised over $60M from Accel and Section 32 and is in early enterprise deployments. Pricing is contract-only with engagements scoped per use case. Pricing and product details listed here were last reviewed by Neugence on 2026-05-12; check the vendor site for current values before quoting.
Watch out for: Early-stage product; enterprise sales motion.
Install / use
ema.co — Contact sales
What people actually do with Ema-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.
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Ema vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Ema | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Web | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Ema
Frequently asked about Ema
How much does Ema cost?
Ema 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 Ema work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Ema runs in the browser, so it works on any desktop OS with a modern browser, and on phones and tablets.
How do I get started with Ema?
There is nothing to install — Ema is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Ema?
Early-stage product; enterprise sales motion.
Who is Ema best for?
Enterprise operations leaders wanting an AI employee that handles full workflows including meetings.
Is Ema open source?
No. Ema is a proprietary product from Ema Unlimited Inc.. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Is there a Ema desktop app?
No — Ema is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.
Who makes Ema?
Ema is made by Ema Unlimited Inc..
What kind of tool is Ema?
In this directory Ema is filed under meetings, agents, enterprise as a product.
What are the alternatives to Ema?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/ema-unlimited-alternatives comparing Ema with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Ema-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 Ema?
Ema 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 Ema?
$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 Ema 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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