UserTesting

by UserTesting 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.

User-testing platform with AI insights and transcription.

Web, iOS, Android  ·  contact sales

TL;DR

Best for large enterprises running customer-experience research at scale. Pricing: contact sales.

Category
Products
Pricing
contact sales
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android

What it is

UserTesting is a leading user-testing platform where research teams record participant sessions, ask test tasks, and analyze the recordings. The platform produces automatic transcripts of every recorded session, AI-generated highlights, AI summaries by study, and theme tags across the corpus. UserTesting was acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2023 and is sold to Fortune 500 customer-experience teams. Pricing is enterprise contract; AI features ship with paid UserTesting deployments. The product is a category leader in moderated and unmoderated user testing. 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 running customer-experience research at scale.
Watch out for: Enterprise sales motion; not for SMB use.

Install / use

usertesting.com — Contact sales

What people actually do with UserTesting-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

UserTesting vs Whipscribe

FeatureUserTestingWhipscribe
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
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to UserTesting

Frequently asked about UserTesting

How much does UserTesting cost?

UserTesting 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 UserTesting work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

UserTesting runs on Web, iOS and Android.

How do I get started with UserTesting?

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

What are the limitations of UserTesting?

Enterprise sales motion; not for SMB use.

Who is UserTesting best for?

Large enterprises running customer-experience research at scale.

Is UserTesting open source?

No. UserTesting is a proprietary product from UserTesting Inc.. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Who makes UserTesting?

UserTesting is made by UserTesting Inc..

What kind of tool is UserTesting?

In this directory UserTesting is filed under meetings, research, testing as a product.

What are the alternatives to UserTesting?

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

Can I automate UserTesting-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 UserTesting?

UserTesting 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 UserTesting?

$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 UserTesting 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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