Spinach.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.
AI scrum master + meeting notetaker for engineering teams.
Best for engineering teams wanting standup transcripts + auto-ticket creation in Jira/Linear. Pricing: Free + paid plans.
What it is
Spinach.ai is a meeting notetaker specifically tuned for engineering rituals — standups, retros, planning. It transcribes, summarizes, and auto-updates Jira/Linear tickets, sprint boards, and Slack threads. Verticalized differentiation against generic notetakers. Best fit: engineering teams wanting standup transcripts + auto-ticket creation in jira/linear. Caveats: vertical focus; less suitable for non-engineering use cases. Pricing as listed: Free + paid plans. Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps. Directory tags: voice-intel, meeting-ai. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12. The product slots into the broader voice-AI tooling landscape and is best evaluated head-to-head with adjacent vendors in its subcategory; verify current language coverage, region availability, and compliance terms on the vendor's public docs at time of build.
Watch out for: Vertical focus; less suitable for non-engineering use cases.
Install / use
Spinach web + Zoom/Meet/Teams + Jira
What people actually do with Spinach.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 | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Spinach.ai vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Spinach.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 |
| Platforms | Vendor | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Spinach.ai
Is Spinach.ai free?
Yes. Spinach.ai is free (Free + paid plans).
How do I get started with Spinach.ai?
There is nothing to install — Spinach.ai is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Spinach.ai?
Vertical focus; less suitable for non-engineering use cases.
Who is Spinach.ai best for?
Engineering teams wanting standup transcripts + auto-ticket creation in Jira/Linear.
Is Spinach.ai open source?
No. Spinach.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.
What kind of tool is Spinach.ai?
In this directory Spinach.ai is filed under voice intel, meeting ai as a product.
What are the alternatives to Spinach.ai?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/spinach-ai-alternatives comparing Spinach.ai with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Spinach.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 Spinach.ai?
Spinach.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 Spinach.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 Spinach.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.
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