FreeSubtitles.ai (FreeSubtitles AI)
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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.
FreeSubtitles.ai generates subtitles in the browser for free. Here is what it does, its limits, and a working alternative when the site is slow or down.
Free browser subtitle generator using Whisper.
Best for free SRT generation for video in any language Whisper supports. Pricing: free.
What it is
FreeSubtitles.ai is a free in-browser SRT generator running Whisper on the backend. Useful for quick subtitle drafts.
Watch out for: Audio uploaded; ad-supported.
Install / use
Go to FreeSubtitles AI freesubtitles.aiWhat people actually do with FreeSubtitles AI-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 | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 99 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
FreeSubtitles AI vs Whipscribe
| Feature | FreeSubtitles AI | 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 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about FreeSubtitles AI
Is FreeSubtitles AI free?
Yes. FreeSubtitles AI is free.
Does FreeSubtitles AI work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
FreeSubtitles AI 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 FreeSubtitles AI?
There is nothing to install — FreeSubtitles AI is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does FreeSubtitles AI support?
FreeSubtitles AI lists 99 languages. That is the Whisper-family multilingual set, so quality varies by language — English and the large European languages are strongest.
What are the limitations of FreeSubtitles AI?
Audio uploaded; ad-supported.
Who is FreeSubtitles AI best for?
Free SRT generation for video in any language Whisper supports.
Is FreeSubtitles AI open source?
No. FreeSubtitles AI is a proprietary product. 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 FreeSubtitles AI desktop app?
No — FreeSubtitles AI is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.
What kind of tool is FreeSubtitles AI?
In this directory FreeSubtitles AI is filed under web app, captioning as a product.
What are the alternatives to FreeSubtitles AI?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/freesubtitles-web-alternatives comparing FreeSubtitles AI with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate FreeSubtitles AI-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 FreeSubtitles AI?
FreeSubtitles AI 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 FreeSubtitles AI?
$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 FreeSubtitles AI 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.
What we measured, last 30 days
2,547 recordings, 1,244 audio hours, 66 languages detected. An hour of audio came back in 3.5 minutes for half of the recordings and within 18.0 minutes for nine in ten, measured from the moment the file landed to the finished transcript. Refreshed 2026-10-07; method on how we test.
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