Panopto
Lecture-capture, video CMS, and AI transcription for education.
Lecture-capture, video CMS, and AI transcription for education.
Best for universities and large enterprises running video learning programs with automatic captions and search. Pricing: contact sales.
What it is
Panopto is a leading lecture-capture and video content-management platform used by hundreds of universities and large enterprises. The product records classroom lectures and corporate-training sessions, transcribes them, generates closed captions in many languages, and provides search-inside-video so viewers can jump to any moment a topic was mentioned. Panopto integrates with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. Pricing is enterprise contract; the AI captioning and search features are bundled with paid Panopto deployments. 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: Higher-ed-and-enterprise focus; not for SMB use.
Install / use
panopto.com — Contact sales
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Panopto vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Panopto | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | contact sales | free beta |
| Speaker diarization | — | Yes |
| Word timestamps | — | Yes |
| Streaming | — | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android | Web, API, MCP |
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