Speak AI vs Transkriptor (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Transkriptor grades higher than Speak AI: 3.0 against 2.6 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Transkriptor grades higher on ease of use. They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan, features and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Speak AI
Transcription, meeting notes and call scoring on a credit system
Transkriptor
AI transcription for files, recordings and meetings
Which one is for you
Pick Speak AI if
- Fits if you transcribe interviews or calls in many languages and want the file library searchable
- Works for developers who want an API or MCP server over their transcripts
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want a plan that stays free, as there is only a 7-day trial
- Pricey if you add people: Pro covers up to 5 users, and bigger teams go to custom Enterprise
- Watch out: tone-of-voice and video analysis are listed under Enterprise custom builds
- Watch out: pay as you go is credit-based, so costs depend on use
Pick Transkriptor if
- Fits if you have a pile of audio and video files to turn into text, not only live meetings
- Works for students and researchers, since education plans are 50% off
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a free plan to stay on, as the free account is 90 minutes and done
- Pricey if you pay monthly, at $19.99 for Pro against $8.33 a month on the yearly plan
- Skip it if you want summaries or AI chat on Lite, because both start on Pro
- Tight if you transcribe a lot: 300 minutes on Lite, 2,400 on Pro, 3,000 a seat on Team, and unused minutes don't roll over
- Watch out: the promise not to train on your data is listed only from Pro up, and Lite is billed monthly only
How we grade them
| 2.6GPASpeak AIGood | 3.0GPATranskriptorVery good | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CPro is $20 a user a month on yearly billing, $25 monthly, which is past the $18 that starts the dearer quarter. Pay as you go starts with a $10 top-up. | CPro is $8.33 a month billed yearly ($99.99) for 2,400 minutes, just past the low end of this category and in its middle. Pay monthly and it's $19.99. Lite is $9.99 for 300 minutes with no AI summaries. Every plan is metered and unused minutes don't roll over. |
| Free plan and trial | CA 7-day trial with no card, then no free plan. | CThere's no free plan to settle on. A free account hands you 90 minutes of transcription to try the service — an hour and a half, so two or three meetings — and that's the whole of it. A cap you'll hit in the first week. |
| Features | BTranscription, a meeting notetaker, chat across your library, call scoring, an API and surveys. The gaps named, like tone and video analysis, are custom Enterprise work, not core. | BIt covers the job end to end: files, YouTube and Drive links, a bot for Zoom, Meet and Teams, or the Mac and Windows app recording with no bot in the call. Over 100 languages, speaker labels, translation, and from Pro summaries, templates and AI chat that cites its source. Nothing its rivals don't also do, though. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. There is a lot to set up, from integrations to scorecards. | A4.7 from about 1,100 App Store ratings, which is enough people for the number to mean something. Upload a file or paste a link and the transcript comes back, and the desktop app spots a meeting and records it without being asked. |
| Platforms and integrations | AWeb, Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, with an API, an MCP server and a command line, plus Meet, Webex, Slack, Zapier, Salesforce, HubSpot and Claude. | AWeb, Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android and a browser extension — the lot. It also hooks into Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Google Drive, Dropbox, Slack, HubSpot and Notion. |
| Best for | transcription, notes and call scoring on credits | turning audio and video files into text |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Speak AI and Transkriptor. How we grade
Price against what you get
Speak AI starts at $20 a month for each person and scores 3.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Transkriptor starts at $8.33 a month and scores 3.7.
Transkriptor scores higher and starts $11.67 a month lower. Of the other AI meeting note takers on the chart, 18 score higher than Speak AI for less, and 2 score higher than Transkriptor for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Speak AI also covers workflow automation.
- Transkriptor also covers templates and screen recording.
At a glance
| Speak AI | Transkriptor | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $20 per user / month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly) | $8.33 per month, billed annually ($99.99 per year) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial, no credit card required. | Free account with 90 minutes of transcription to try the service |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Speak AI Inc. | Textintel FZE |
| Price read from | speakai.co | transkriptor.com |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Speak AI
- There is no ongoing free plan; after the 7-day trial you pay per credit or move to Pro.
- Pro covers up to 5 users; larger teams are directed to the custom Enterprise plan.
- Tone-of-voice and video analysis are listed under Enterprise custom builds, not on Pro.
Transkriptor
- Every plan is metered: 300 minutes a month on Lite, 2,400 on Pro and 3,000 per seat on Team. Unused minutes do not roll over.
- The free account is a trial that includes 90 minutes of transcription.
- AI summaries, AI chat and the knowledge base start on Pro, and the pricing page lists the promise not to train on your data from Pro up.
- Lite is shown with monthly billing only. The annual discounts apply to Pro, Team and the bulk-hour bundles.
Key features
Speak AI
- Transcription in 100+ languages
- Upload audio or video, or record in the app. Standard languages cost 2 credits per hour of audio and premium languages cost 3.
- Meeting notetaker
- Captures meetings and produces a transcript and summary. Meeting transcription is billed at 4 credits per hour on the pay-as-you-go plan.
- AI chat across your library
- Ask questions of a single recording or the whole library. Chat costs about 0.08 credits per message on pay-as-you-go.
- Call scoring and scorecards
- Scores sales and support calls against a scorecard you define, with coaching and conversation-intelligence views.
- API, MCP server and CLI
- Includes a REST API, webhooks, Zapier and an MCP server so other AI assistants can search and analyze the workspace.
- Branded recorder and surveys
- Pro adds a recorder and survey pages under your own branding, aimed at collecting interviews and feedback.
Transkriptor
- File and link transcription
- Upload audio or video such as MP3, MP4 and WAV, or paste a YouTube, Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox link. Transcripts export as TXT, SRT or Word.
- Meeting bot or bot-free recorder
- A bot can join Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls. The desktop app for Windows and Mac detects a meeting and records from the device, so no bot appears in the call.
- AI summaries and templates
- From Pro, each recording gets a summary, key takeaways and action items. Summary templates cover sales, marketing and education, or you can create your own format.
- AI chat and Ask Transkriptor
- Ask questions about a single transcript, or search every meeting in the library and get answers that cite the moment they came from. AI chat starts on the Pro plan.
- Translation and speaker labels
- Transcribes and translates in more than 100 languages, identifies multiple speakers, and lets you edit both the text and the speaker tags.
- Call analysis
- The Team plan adds speaker talk time, sentiment detection and AI filters, plus analytics that track how the team uses its minutes.
Plans
Speak AI
Pay as you go$10
minimum top-up, used as you go
No subscription. 1 credit is $1; standard transcription uses 2 credits per hour and meeting transcription 4 credits per hour.
Pro$20
per user / month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly)
Up to 5 users, 25 credits per user each month, 10 GB storage, AI chat, shared library, automations and a branded recorder.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom builds with white-label domains, custom AI agents, unlimited seats, volume rates, data residency options and an SLA.
Transkriptor
Lite$9.99
per month, billed monthly
300 minutes of transcription a month, with file uploads, editing, collaboration, translation, sharing and downloads on web and mobile.
Pro$8.33
per month, billed annually ($99.99); $19.99 billed monthly
2,400 minutes a month, AI summary, custom meeting summary templates, AI chat and knowledge base. Data is not used for training.
Team$20
per seat / month, billed annually ($240); $30 billed monthly
3,000 minutes per seat a month, custom vocabulary, call analysis, usage analytics, central plan management and a custom bot name and avatar.
Bulk 100 Hours$30
per month, billed annually ($360); $60 billed monthly
100 hours of transcription a month. Bundles of 250, 500 and 1,000 hours cost $75, $150 and $300 a month on annual billing.
Ways to pay less
Speak AI
- Annual discount
Save $60 per user a year on Pro
Pro is $20 per user a month when billed annually, against $25 billed monthly, as shown on the pricing page.
Transkriptor
- Annual discount
Up to 60% off with annual billing
Pro drops from $19.99 a month to $8.33 a month, billed as $99.99 a year and labeled Save 60%. Team drops from $30 to $20 per seat a month, billed as $240, labeled Save 33%.
- Education
50% off for students and education
The pricing page advertises Transkriptor for Education at 50% off all plans, and the student plan page promotes the same 50% discount.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Speak AI or Transkriptor?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Speak AI starts at $20 per user / month, billed annually ($25 billed monthly), and Transkriptor starts at $8.33 per month, billed annually ($99.99 per year). One is priced for each person and the other is not, so which costs less depends on how many of you use it.
Which has a free plan, Speak AI or Transkriptor?
As of Nov 13, 2026, neither Speak AI nor Transkriptor has a free plan. Both have a free trial.
Which platforms do Speak AI and Transkriptor run on?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Transkriptor lists a browser extension. Both list a web app and macOS, Windows, iOS and Android apps. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.