Comparison

txscribe vs Rev, if you check your own transcripts

Rev sells two things: people who transcribe your recordings for you, and AI plans. If you want an English recording transcribed by a person rather than a machine, Rev's human service is the thing we don't offer — though Rev's own Terms still leave checking the result to you.

This page is for the other case: you know how the names are spelled and what the jargon means, and you'd rather correct a draft yourself. Then what matters is how fast the machine's draft is to check and fix, what it costs, and what happens to your recordings.

Rev's details checked on its own pages on 2026-09-26; each links to its source. Plans and prices change — if something here is out of date, tell us at support@txscribe.ai.

Human transcription

txscribe

No human transcription. The machine's draft is yours to correct, in an editor built for it.

Rev

People transcribe for you: $1.99 per audio minute for a standard transcript, English only. Rev describes it as "99%+ guaranteed in 12 hours or less"; its help centre adds that turnaround itself isn't guaranteed. Sources 1, 2, 3, 4

Price

txscribe

Pro: $24.99 a month, billed monthly. One plan, no seats.

Rev

AI plans: Essentials $29.99 per seat a month, or $25.49 per seat a month billed annually; Pro $59.99 per seat a month, or $47.99 per seat a month billed annually. Unlimited is custom. Source

Time included

txscribe

Pro: 30 hours a month. Without an account: one recording, up to 10 minutes.

Rev

Free: 45 AI minutes a month. Essentials: 5,000 per user a month. Pro: 10,000 per user a month. Source

Languages

txscribe

82 languages (110 regional variants in the picker). Speaker labels offered in all of them — in 96, only on recordings of up to 2 hours, and not where that pass fails.

Rev

AI: "37+ languages" on Pro and Unlimited; English only on Free, English and Spanish on Essentials. People transcribe English only. Sources 1, 2

Speaker names

txscribe

Speakers come back numbered. Rename one once and every line follows; names you have used before are offered again.

Rev

In human transcripts, the transcriptionist labels speakers, though Rev says it doesn't guarantee speaker labelling, and names may be inconsistent on longer files split between transcribers. Sources 1, 2

Exports

txscribe

TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, Final Cut Pro captions, Premiere Pro markers, transcripts for NVivo, MAXQDA and ATLAS.ti, and JSON, on every plan, including Free. Up to 100 transcripts at once as one ZIP, and the audio or video file you uploaded can be downloaded again.

Rev

AI transcripts: DOCX, PDF, TXT, SRT and VTT. Human transcripts: DOCX, PDF and TXT. Source

Translation

txscribe

A translated copy of the whole transcript, on every plan.

Rev

AI: a side-by-side English translation (beta) on Pro and Unlimited. People: subtitles from English into 17 languages, priced per minute. Sources 1, 2, 3

Custom word list

txscribe

Up to 1,000 names and terms, on every plan.

Rev

An AI glossary of up to 1,000 phrases, each up to five words, in English letters only, on every plan. Sources 1, 2

Checking against the audio

txscribe

Words come back with timestamps: click any line to jump to that moment in the recording. A line you correct keeps its paragraph's timing rather than per-word timing. Answers to questions about a transcript link to the moments they came from.

Rev

Rev says its AI findings link "back to a citation with the exact timestamp and source file"; in the editor, clicking the timestamp beside a speaker name jumps the audio there. Sources 1, 2

Training on your recordings

txscribe

We do not use your recordings or transcripts to train models.

Rev

Rev's Terms say customer content is analysed by its speech recognition "and other Rev artificial intelligence models and may be used for continuous training of those models" — though not for generative AI. Its help centre says the data is used perpetually, and that only Unlimited and Enterprise customers can opt out. Sources 1, 2

Where Rev is the better choice

A person does the transcribing. If you'd rather pay someone to transcribe an English recording than correct a machine draft yourself, Rev's human service is the thing we don't offer. Sources 1, 2, 3, 4 It doesn't take the checking off your hands: Rev's Terms list human transcription among services that may contain errors, and make the customer "solely responsible for verifying the accuracy" of what it delivers. Source
Legal and investigative work. Rev's pricing page is headed "Pricing Plans For Legal And Investigative Work", and it sells legal and court transcripts priced per page. Sources 1, 2 We don't build for that.
Teams. Rev's plans are per seat, with minutes pooled across the account. txscribe has shared workspaces on every plan — invite people as admins, editors or viewers, and comment on transcripts together — but no team billing: there are no seats or pooled minutes, each member transcribes on their own plan, and there is no single sign-on.
Volume. Free: 45 AI minutes a month. Essentials: 5,000 per user a month. Pro: 10,000 per user a month. Source At regular prices, both billed monthly, Essentials includes about 131% more minutes per dollar than txscribe Pro — not counting txscribe's introductory price, and Essentials transcribes only English and Spanish.

What txscribe doesn't do well

Speaker labels stop at 2 hours in 96 of our 110 language variants: there a separate pass labels the speakers, and a longer recording — or one whose pass fails — comes back without labels and says so, with no speakers to rename.
A recording that switches language partway may come back translated rather than transcribed — or not at all — and nothing marks it as missing. Name the main language instead of leaving it on automatic.
Summaries do not point back to the moment each line came from. Answers to questions do.

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