# Rev review (2026): is the free plan enough? > AI and human transcription, now sold as a legal evidence platform Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Rev transcribes audio and video with AI, or with human transcribers for a per-minute fee. Its current pricing page is built around legal and investigative work: subscriptions add multi-file analysis, workflow templates and deposition citations. It is a file-and-recording tool rather than a bot that joins meetings. - **Category:** AI Meeting Notes - **Made by:** Rev - **Website:** https://www.rev.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you're one person: $25.49 a seat a month, and human transcripts are $1.99 a minute extra. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Rev has a free plan, and paid plans start at $25.49 per seat / month, billed annually ($29.99 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 45 AI transcription and caption minutes a month for 1 user, English only, 5 files analyzed at a time. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 45 AI minutes a month, 1 user, English only, document editor (beta) and the mobile dictation app. | | Essentials | $25.49 per seat / month, billed annually ($29.99 billed monthly) | 3 users, 5,000 AI minutes per user a month, English and Spanish, 10 files at once, 10% off human services. | | Pro | $47.99 per seat / month, billed annually ($59.99 billed monthly) | 5 users, 10,000 AI minutes per user, 37+ languages, 50 files at once, Clio Manage, 15% off human services. | | Unlimited | Custom | Unlimited users and AI minutes, CJIS and HIPAA compliance, SSO, 500 files at once and a dedicated specialist. | Read from https://www.rev.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Rev before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Two months free with annual billing** (Annual discount): Rev's pricing page lists 2 months free on annual pricing, for example $305.90 a year for Essentials against $29.99 a month. Source: https://www.rev.com/pricing ## Key features - **AI transcription and captions:** Monthly AI minutes cover both transcripts and captions: 45 on Free, 5,000 per user on Essentials, 10,000 on Pro. - **Human-verified transcripts:** Human transcription is sold by the minute, with 99%+ accuracy promised in 12 hours or less; subscribers get a discount. - **Multi-file analysis:** Analyze several case files at once, from 5 on Free up to 500 on Unlimited, with workflow templates on paid plans. - **Legal formats:** Page and line citations for depositions, plus legal rough draft and premium transcripts priced by the page. - **Image analysis and document editor:** Pro adds image analysis; the document editor is labeled beta and is available from the Free plan. - **Mobile recording app:** An iOS and Android app records and dictates on the go, and is included from the Free plan. ## Good for - Law firms and investigators working through audio, video and documents - Journalists and researchers who sometimes need human-checked transcripts - Solo users who want a small monthly allowance of AI minutes at no cost ## Worth knowing - Human transcription and captions are separate per-minute services at $1.99 per minute. - Free is English only; Essentials adds Spanish and Pro 37+ languages. - The pricing page is written for legal and investigative work and lists no live meeting-bot feature. - Essentials includes 3 users and Pro 5; larger teams go through sales on Unlimited. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Rev transcribes files with AI or with human transcribers for a per-minute fee, and its pricing page is written for legal and investigative work. The free plan is 45 AI minutes a month in English only, and the paid plans start at $25.49 a seat. - **Value for money: D.** $25.49 a seat a month on Essentials, billed yearly, right at the dearest tenth of the category. Pro is $47.99 a seat, and human transcripts cost $1.99 a minute. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free is 45 AI minutes a month for one user, English only, 5 files at a time. - **Features: C.** AI transcripts and captions, human transcripts, multi-file analysis, deposition citations and a mobile app. It has no live meeting-bot feature on the pricing page. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. You upload a file or record on the app, then edit the transcript. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Clio Manage, Dropbox, Google Drive and YouTube, but no desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Rev's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI meeting note takers - Rev's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 8 of the 68 other AI meeting note takers we grade, and level with 20. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 37 of 68) and worst on value for money (D, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $25.49 a month for each person, against a middle price of $11.99 for the category: 59 of the 62 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 29 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-meeting-notes ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Rev does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 5 things listed below take a company. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 40 of the 68 other AI meeting note takers grade higher. It costs $305.88 a year. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Clio Manage, Dropbox and Google Drive among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Clio Manage, Dropbox, Google Drive, YouTube, Vimeo **Tags:** Transcription, AI features ## Alternatives - [Otter.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otter): Live meeting transcription with summaries and AI chat. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/otter-vs-rev) - [Trint](https://toolgpa.com/tools/trint): Transcription and live capture platform built for newsrooms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rev-vs-trint) - [Sonix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sonix): Browser-based transcription, translation and meeting recorder. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rev-vs-sonix) - [Verbit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/verbit): Captioning and transcription for legal, media, corporate and education. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rev-vs-verbit) - [HappyScribe](https://toolgpa.com/tools/happyscribe): AI transcription, subtitles and meeting notes in 150+ languages. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/happyscribe-vs-rev) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.rev.com/pricing - https://www.rev.com/about-rev Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/rev Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).