# Maestra review (2026): is it worth $39 a month, billed yearly? > Transcription, subtitles, voiceover and live translation Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Maestra transcribes, captions and voices over video and audio in more than 125 languages. Its voiceover product dubs a file into another language and offers pro voices with voice cloning, and a separate real-time product translates and dubs live sessions. Each product has its own plan set, sold by monthly minutes. - **Category:** AI Voices & Text to Speech - **Made by:** Katara Tech, Inc. (since 2018) - **Website:** https://maestra.ai - **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to try voiceover first, because there is no free plan or trial. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Maestra is a paid product, starting at $39 per month for voiceover, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $39 per month, billed annually (monthly price not shown in page text) | Voiceover into another language for 120 minutes a month, plus AI summary, custom dictionary and subtitle import. | | Premium | $79 per month, billed annually (monthly price not shown in page text) | 300 minutes of voiceover into another language, or 100 minutes of pro voices and voice cloning. Adds a team member, AI rewriting and API access. | | Business | $159 per month, billed annually (monthly price not shown in page text) | 600 minutes of voiceover, or 200 minutes of pro voices and voice cloning. Adds 2 team members, DeepL translation, a glossary and optional lip sync at $2 a minute. | | Business Plus | $359 per month, billed annually (monthly price not shown in page text) | 1,500 minutes of voiceover, or 500 minutes of pro voices and voice cloning, with 4 additional team members. | | Enterprise | Custom | Custom pricing and development, a custom agreement, SCORM import and export, and live event captioning. | Read from https://maestra.ai/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Maestra before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 20% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page's yearly tab is labelled Save 20% against monthly billing. Source: https://maestra.ai/pricing - **20% off for students, teachers and nonprofits** (Education): Students, teachers and nonprofit organizations get 20% off; after payment you ask for a refund of 20% and later payments are charged at the discounted rate. Source: https://maestra.ai/pricing ## Key features - **Voiceover into other languages:** Generates a voiceover for a video or audio file in another language, with standard voices on every plan and pro voices with voice cloning from Premium. - **Transcription and subtitles:** Transcribes audio and video in 125+ languages and generates subtitles, with translation into other languages. - **Real-time translation and dubbing:** A separate real-time product covers live captions, translation and dubbing for meetings and events, with OBS and vMix support. - **Team workspaces:** Premium and above include Maestra Teams with centralized billing and extra team members. - **API access:** API access is listed from the Premium plan on the voiceover, transcription and subtitle products. - **Lip sync add-on:** On the Business voiceover plan, lip sync can be unlocked at $2 a minute. ## Good for - Teams that need transcription, subtitles and voiceover from one vendor - Event organizers who need live captions or live translation - Video producers translating files into many languages ## Worth knowing - The voiceover plans have no free tier; the pricing page lists pay-as-you-go credits only for transcription and subtitles ($12 per 60 credits). - The prices shown are the yearly-billing figures; the monthly-billing prices were not readable in the page text. - Minutes are a monthly allowance shared between standard voiceover and pro voices with cloning, which use credits at different rates. - Real-time sessions have separate plans, such as $15 a month for Maestra Personal, and one-time events start at $799 a day. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Maestra does transcription, subtitles, voiceover and live translation from one vendor. The voiceover plans start at $39 a month billed yearly, with no free plan or trial. Monthly-billed prices weren't readable, and live sessions have their own separate pricing. - **Value for money: D.** $39 a month yearly for 120 voiceover minutes, then $79, $159 and $359. That puts the first plan in the dearest tenth of the category, which starts at $29. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free tier for voiceover. Pay-as-you-go credits exist for transcription and subtitles only, at $12 per 60 credits. - **Features: B.** Transcription, subtitles, voiceover, cloning, a glossary, DeepL translation, API on Premium and live captioning. It covers a wide job, though pro voices and cloning use the same minutes at a different rate. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Plans, credit rates and team seats add some setup. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and a browser extension, with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, OBS and vMix listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Katara Tech's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI voice generators - Maestra's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 2 of the 43 other AI voice generators we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on features (B, above 27 of 43) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $39 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 32 of the 33 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-voices ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Maestra you would be making a voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 36 of the 43 other AI voice generators grade higher. It costs $468 a year. - You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. - You could not: A voice model trained on your recordings. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams among them, and has an API. - You could not: People on the other end: live sessions. No app builder makes those. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, OBS, vMix **Tags:** Text to speech, Voice cloning, Transcription, Public API ## Alternatives - [Rask AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rask-ai): AI video dubbing and translation with voice cloning. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/maestra-vs-rask-ai) - [Dubverse](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dubverse): AI video dubbing, subtitles and text to speech. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dubverse-vs-maestra) - [Camb AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/camb-ai): AI dubbing, text to speech and translation priced in monthly credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/camb-ai-vs-maestra) - [ElevenLabs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/elevenlabs): AI voice platform for speech, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/elevenlabs-vs-maestra) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://maestra.ai/pricing - https://maestra.ai - https://maestra.ai/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/maestra Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).