AssemblyAI vs oTranscribe
AssemblyAI
assemblyai.com
oTranscribe
otranscribe.comSide by side
| Figure | AssemblyAI | oTranscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.15/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 13 | 1 |
| Spec score · Transcription Software | 8.8 (#8) | 8.3 (#25) |
| Spec score · AI transcription tools | 8.7 (#13) | 8.1 (#29) |
| Spec score · Audio Transcription Software | 8.8 (#10) | 8.2 (#23) |
| Spec score · Transcription tools | 8.8 (#11) | 8.5 (#14) |
| Export formats | SRT,VTT | The application exports Markdown, plain text and its OTR format, and can send transcripts to Google Drive. |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Timestamp support | Yes | Users can insert a clickable timestamp that jumps to that point in the audio or video. |
| What it does | AssemblyAI provides Voice AI models and APIs for speech-to-text, speech understanding, and voice applications. | oTranscribe is a free browser application for manually transcribing recorded interviews. |
Plans
AssemblyAI
- Free creditsFree
- Pay as you go — Universal-2$0.15 a month
- Pay as you go — Universal-3.5 Pro$0.21 a month
- Pay as you go — Universal-Streaming$0.15 a month
- Pay as you go — Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime$0.45 a month
- Free tierFree
- Universal-2$0.15 a month
- Universal-Streaming$0.15 a month
- Universal-Streaming Multilingual$0.15 a month
- Universal-3.5 Pro$0.21 a month
In their own words
AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI provides Voice AI models and APIs for speech-to-text, speech understanding, and voice applications. Its Speech Understanding API can identify and diarize speakers, summarize speech, extract action items and key phrases, detect sentiment, entities, and topics, and handle formatting, language detection, translation, PII redaction, and content moderation. The platform lists support for 99 languages and translation into 86. It offers streaming and voice-agent latency below 300ms and states that it processes more than 800 million API calls per month. Use its managed cloud or self-host models in your own environment; the service also lists API access and integrations including Twilio, Zoom RTMS, Zapier, and LangChain. Security options include TLS 1.2+ in transit, AES-256 at rest, zero data retention, and opting out of model training. A free tier is available. Pay-as-you-go billing is based on usage, with monthly invoices and no minimum commitments. Universal-2 is listed at $0.15 per hour of audio; Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime is $0.45 per hour.
oTranscribe
oTranscribe has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.