9 Best Rev Alternatives in 2025

Rev is a transcription, captioning, and subtitling tool, offering both human and automated transcription for interviews, webinars, podcasts, and all forms of content.

While Rev has long been a prominent player in the transcription industry, emerging competitors with overall better transcription quality and accuracy have prompted many users to seek alternatives.

Fortunately, options like Reduct, Otter.ai, Notta, and others provide extensive features tailored to your needs, whether you're looking for speed, accuracy, or additional functionalities beyond better-quality transcripts.

I’ve compiled a list of 9 different tools and briefly compared each tool in terms of features, language support, strengths, and transcription accuracy.

	Best for
Reduct	Transcribing large volumes of recordings with industry-leading AI accuracy
Otter.ai	Transcribing, summarizing and getting AI notes from online meetings
Notta	Transcribing and translating bilingual meetings in real time
Sonix	Human transcription in over 38 languages
Descript	Transcript-based video editing for a wide range of creators, including podcasters, content creators, and marketers
Verbit	Getting audio description of your recordings for accessibility compliance
GoTranscript	Human-made academic transcriptions at a discounted rate
TranscribeMe	Budget-friendly transcription of audio and video recordings

1. Reduct.Video

Reduct is an ideal alternative to Rev if you need to quickly transcribe and manage LARGE volumes of meetings, interviews, body-cam footage, or any form of audio and video content.

Even for longer recordings spanning hours, Reduct’s AI transcription engine generates accurate transcripts within 15 minutes after upload.

You can correct any mistakes the AI makes or send the transcript for human review, but with industry-leading accuracy, you won’t typically have to spend time on transcript corrections. Reduct’s average AI transcription accuracy across five different audio types was about 5% higher than that of Rev in our recent benchmark.

Hot feature:

• Video clipping just by working with the transcript.
• Editing videos in foreign languages.
• Syncing and viewing multiple camera angles by synchronizing transcripts.

Best for: Any teams working with a mountain of audio and video. Reduct is specifically ideal for legal teams and public defenders who rely on accurate AI transcription for discovery review.

Languages supported: 90+ languages

Platforms: Cloud-based web browser (no download needed). Runs well on mobile browsers as well.

Our accuracy benchmark: 94% (better than Rev across all audio types).

Pricing:

• $50 per editor per month on the Professional plan

• Includes 25 hours of transcription per editor per month

• Option to upgrade to professional human transcription @ $1.25 per min

2. Otter.ai

If you’re a remote worker and conduct/attend a lot of meetings virtually, Otter can be your AI-powered assistant that gives you real-time transcription, summaries, and action items of the meetings.

OtterPilot, its AI assistant, joins your Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings from your Calendar and transcribes them as they happen, then emails you the summaries.

One standout feature of Otter is its ability to automatically capture presentation slides shared during virtual meetings, so even if you miss one of your monthly Zoom meetings, you have the meeting transcripts and summaries, along with the slides to serve as a visual aid.

Even though Otter does not provide a human upgrade option for transcription, it might be a good tool for you if you work with good-quality audio recordings and exclusively want AI transcription and summaries of your meetings. We’ve found that Otter struggles with accuracy for low-quality audio with a lot of background noise like bodycam footage, so it’s not suitable for industries like legal where accuracy is really important.

Hot feature: Auto-identifies speakers in real-time, and generates summaries and action items with no effort on your end.

Best for: Online meetings and interviews. It’s also great for turning voice memos into text.

Languages supported: English (US and UK), Spanish, and French

Platforms: Web, Android, and iOS apps.

Our accuracy benchmark: 89.30% (Almost the same accuracy as Rev for clear audio | Rev performed better than Otter for complex audio).

Pricing:

• $16.99 per user per month on the Pro Plan

• Includes 20 monthly transcription hours per user; 90 minutes per conversation

3. Notta

Notta is an excellent alternative to Rev if your team is bilingual and frequently switches between languages during meetings, or work with global participants whose languages you do not fully understand.

A lot of the AI transcription tools either leave out the non-English parts or struggle to accurately transcribe them, leading to incomplete or misleading transcripts that fail to capture the full context of multilingual conversations.

With Notta, when you upload a recording or record live meetings, it will automatically identify the languages, transcribe them, and translate both languages in real time.

It is also one of the cheaper options for its limited features: meeting recorder, AI monolingual and bilingual transcription, translation, and AI notes.

Hot feature: Real-time meeting transcription for foreign language audio. In bilingual meetings, it gives the transcript in two languages simultaneously.

Languages supported: 58 languages total

Platforms: Web plus Android/iOS apps.

Best for: Global marketing and sales teams trying to be more productive with meetings and interviews.

Our accuracy benchmark: 88.72%. Better than Rev at supporting different accents and foreign languages. Not super useful for difficult audio like bodycam and jail calls.

Pricing:

• $14.99 per seat per month on the Pro Plan

• Includes 30 monthly transcription hours per user; 90 minutes per conversation

4. Sonix

Sonix is another popular transcription, translation, and subtitling tool that lets you search, edit, organize, and share your transcripts. It is one of the few options on the list with a pay-as-you-go model, ideal for small projects.

It has a growing network of transcribers across the globe and supports human transcription in over 38 languages, so it is a great option if you’re looking for a professional transcriber to clean up your transcripts in languages other than English.

To place an order, you can go to their directory and reach out to a transcriptionist who checks all the boxes for your transcription needs, like language, turnaround time, and specialties, and negotiate a rate that works for both of you.

Hot feature: Human transcription in over 38 languages with a pay-as-you-go option.

Platforms: Web (cloud) – also works on mobile devices with a browser.

Best for: Sonix has a pay-as-you-go option that might be good for fast and sporadic use cases.

Our accuracy benchmark: 92.83%. Better than Rev for almost all audio types except for bodycam.

Pricing:

• Pay-as-you-go AI transcription for $10 an hour

• $5/hour plus $22 per user/month for the Premium Plan

• Negotiable rate for human transcription

5. Descript

Descript is best for media editing and content workflows—it’s a full audio/video post-production tool, not just a transcription service.

Descript is an excellent transcript-based video editing tool for podcasters, content creators, and marketers. It offers transcription and translation in 23+ languages and is bundled with a wide range of AI features.

For instance, you can ask Underlord, Descript’s AI editor, to create social media clips from the recordings, and remove background noise, filler words, and retakes. When you mess up a voiceover, you can fix it as easily as typos with Descript’s voice cloning feature.

If you want all the tedious tasks of transcript-based video editing taken care of, like removing verbal clutter or creating social media clips, you might wanna give Descript a go.

Hot feature: Advanced conversation-based AI interface to edit videos like in a professional studio.

Languages supported: 23+ languages

Platforms: Mac and Windows desktop apps + a web version

Best for: Podcasters, video producers, marketers, and anyone who uses transcripts to make social media-ready posts.

Our accuracy benchmark: 91.18%. Almost always better than Rev, except for low-quality audio.

Pricing:

• $35 per person per month for the Creator Plan

• Includes 30 transcription hours per month

6. Verbit

If you’re looking for a Rev alternative to meet the ADA and WCAG standards while making information accessible for people with disabilities, particularly those with visual impairments, Verbit is the tool for you.

Its audio description feature helps you create an inclusive experience, especially in a corporate setting, where you want to meet the accessibility needs of both your employees and customers for effective communication.

Like most options on the list, Verbit offers audio and video transcription, live captioning and transcription, translation, and AI notes features. Its generative AI technology also generates quizzes from the recordings to help your employees recall important information from the meetings.

Hot feature: Audio description of your recordings for accessibility compliance.

Languages supported: 50+ languages

Platforms: Web-based.

Best for: Large organizations, universities, and any setting with strict accessibility needs.

Pricing:

• $29/month for a Self service plan.
• Includes 20 transcription hours per month

7. GoTranscript

GoTranscript is a cheap Rev alternative with more language breadth. Their turnaround is a bit slower (days, unless you pay extra), but the quality is excellent.

GoTranscript is another reliable speech-to-text transcription tool that offers accurate, human-made transcriptions in multiple languages.

A lot of universities use it for seminars, focus groups, presentations, and lecture transcription at discounted rates. You can use GoTranscript’s mobile app to record your lectures and presentations so you have high-quality notes for your studies.

The transcribers at GoTranscript are specially trained to deal with academic transcriptions and each file undergoes a 4-step process including review, proofreading, and quality check. They also claim to have an accuracy rate of 99%, making it an excellent choice for academic transcriptions.

Hot feature: Human-made academic transcriptions at a discounted rate. They also offer court-certified transcripts.

Languages supported: 50+ languages

Platforms: Web platform plus iOS/Android apps

Best for: Any work that requires 100% human-made transcript.

Pricing:

• $0.20 per audio minute of AI transcription

• Human transcription starting at $0.84 per audio minute for 5-day turnaround time

• Individual pricing for captions, translation, and foreign subtitles

8. TranscribeMe

In case you're searching for a Rev alternative solely because of Rev’s higher pricing structure, TranscribeMe is the most budget-friendly option on this list for your transcription and translation needs.

TranscribeMe’s AI transcription service is 3.5 times more affordable than Rev, and its human transcription and translation features also have competitive pricing. According to their website, prices may vary depending on the language and the type of human-generated transcripts you need, whether standard or verbatim.

TranscribeMe is also best for cases where you want human-level accuracy with compliance guarantees.

With over 2 million registered transcriptionists on the platform, you can also expect fast delivery times with TranscribeMe.

Hot feature: Crowdsourced hybrid transcription. TranscribeMe uses many thousands of global transcribers on top of AI transcription.

Languages supported: 14+ languages.

Platforms: Web portal plus mobile apps (iOS/Android)

Best for: Secure, professional transcriptions in the medical field.

Pricing:

• $0.07 per audio minute of AI transcription

• Human transcription starting at $0.79 per audio minute

9. Google Cloud Speech-to-Text

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is particularly useful when building a tool or a prototype. It’s a direct alternative to Rev if you are using it just for the API.

It’s best for developers and tech-savvy teams who need an easy way to get back transcripts from audio or video.

It also supports domain adaptation, meaning you get improved accuracy of words and phrases that occur frequently in your audio data.

Hot feature: Supports features like diarization (who spoke when), punctuation, and even domain adaptation.

Languages supported: Over 125 languages and variants

Platforms: Cloud-based (REST API/SDK).

Best for: Technical use-cases and custom apps

Our accuracy benchmark: Generally high accuracy. Although, we’ve found the accuracy of Whisper API and Rev API to be better than Google Cloud.

Pricing:

• Starts at $0.016/min for standard models.

In summary, the best Rev alternative depends on your bucket of needs:

• For legal video and evidence editing, pick Reduct.Video (it's built for courts and has top-tier accuracy.)
• For meeting notes and everyday transcription, pick Otter.ai or Notta (Otter for general English meetings, Notta for multi-language meetings).
• For complex video editing workflows using transcripts, try Descript.
• For compliance-heavy cases that require human transcription, Verbit or TranscribeMe has the human-backed accuracy and security needed.
• For affordable, manual transcripts in many languages, GoTranscript is a solid pick.
• And if you’re a developer, Google Cloud STT offers the most languages (125+) and flexibility.

I hope this rundown helps you pick the right tool. As I’ve learned, no single alternative beats Rev on every metric, but each of the nine above outperforms Rev in its way.