The short answer
Rev AI is billed per minute (usage-based). It has a free tier: 45 AI min/mo (English). The paid plans we list start at $1.99/minute (Human Transcription).
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free credits | 5 hours free | Reverb ASR credits applied across all products, no card required to evaluate. |
| Reverb Transcription (English) | $0.20/hour | Flagship async English ASR model (~$0.0033/min). |
| Reverb Turbo (English) | $0.10/hour | Faster, lower-cost English transcription tier. |
| Reverb Foreign Language | $0.30/hour | Async transcription across 56+ languages. |
| Whisper Fusion / Whisper Large (English) | $0.005/minute | Whisper-based English ASR options. |
| Human Transcription | $1.99/minute | Professional human transcriptionists at ~99%+ accuracy; Enterprise custom volume pricing also available. |
How Rev AI bills you
The pricing model is per minute (usage-based). STT arm of transcription company Rev, offering the Reverb and Whisper models plus optional human transcription; solid but a narrower SDK set. Best suited to: stt with human-transcription fallback.
What to watch for on the bill
- Top-tier competitors now publish lower clean-English WER (e.g. AssemblyAI Universal-3 ~1.56% pooled WER) than Rev's class
- Streaming supports only ~9 languages versus 58+ for async, so real-time global coverage is narrower
The pricing page we read
Source: https://www.rev.ai/pricing. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.
Compare Rev AI with alternatives
Other speech-to-text apis: Deepgram, AssemblyAI, OpenAI Whisper / GPT-4o Transcribe, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, Amazon Transcribe.
Looking at quality rather than price? See the Rev AI score on APIbenchmarks. Full entry: Rev AI pricing.