Kaltura Events

by Kaltura 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.

Enterprise video platform with event broadcasting and AI captions.

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TL;DR

Best for large enterprises and universities running video-heavy events and learning programs. Pricing: contact sales.

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What it is

Kaltura Events is the events product inside Kaltura's broader enterprise video platform. The platform handles webinars, virtual conferences, town halls, and large-scale corporate events with AI features that include automatic captions in 70+ languages, AI summaries, chapter detection, and short clip generation. Kaltura is publicly traded and serves Fortune 500 enterprises and major universities. Pricing is enterprise contract; the AI features are bundled with paid Kaltura Events deployments. The product is held to enterprise security and accessibility standards. 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: Large enterprises and universities running video-heavy events and learning programs.
Watch out for: Enterprise; complex deployment; broad surface area.

Install / use

kaltura.com — Contact sales

What people actually do with Kaltura Events-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.

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Features

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

Kaltura Events vs Whipscribe

FeatureKaltura EventsWhipscribe
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
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Kaltura Events

Frequently asked about Kaltura Events

How much does Kaltura Events cost?

Kaltura Events 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 Kaltura Events work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Kaltura Events 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 Kaltura Events?

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

What are the limitations of Kaltura Events?

Enterprise; complex deployment; broad surface area.

Who is Kaltura Events best for?

Large enterprises and universities running video-heavy events and learning programs.

Is Kaltura Events open source?

No. Kaltura Events is a proprietary product from Kaltura 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 Kaltura Events desktop app?

No — Kaltura Events is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.

Who makes Kaltura Events?

Kaltura Events is made by Kaltura Inc..

What kind of tool is Kaltura Events?

In this directory Kaltura Events is filed under webinar, events, enterprise as a product.

What are the alternatives to Kaltura Events?

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

Can I automate Kaltura Events-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 Kaltura Events?

Kaltura Events 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 Kaltura Events?

$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 Kaltura Events 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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