# Sonix review (2026): is it worth $25 a month, billed yearly? > Browser-based transcription, translation and meeting recorder Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Sonix turns uploaded audio and video into editable transcripts in 54+ languages, with speaker labels, translation, subtitles and AI summaries. It also has a meeting recorder that joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls. Plans are sized by hours of media rather than by number of meetings. - **Category:** AI Meeting Notes - **Made by:** Sonix, Inc. (since 2017) - **Website:** https://sonix.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a bot that sits in every call, since the recorder is a side feature. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Sonix is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $25 per month for 5 hrs, billed monthly ($275 billed yearly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 30 free minutes of transcription, no card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Core | $25 per month for 5 hrs, billed monthly ($275 billed yearly) | 5 hours a month of transcription and translation and 5 of AI analysis, 25 GB storage, email support. | | Advanced | $50 per month for 20 hrs, billed monthly ($550 billed yearly) | 20 hours of transcription, 25 hours of AI analysis, 50 GB storage, email and chat support. | | Pro | $80 per month for 40 hrs, billed monthly ($880 billed yearly) | 40 hours of transcription, 100 hours of AI analysis, 100 GB storage, priority support. | | Enterprise | Custom | Adds SSO, SCIM, audit logs, a BAA, unlimited team members, 1 TB storage and a dedicated account manager. | Read from https://sonix.ai/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Sonix before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **One month free with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Sonix's pricing page shows yearly prices of $275, $550 and $880, equal to 11 months of the monthly price, and marks the toggle as 1 month free. Source: https://sonix.ai/pricing - **Discounts for students, educators and nonprofits** (Education): Sonix lists special pricing for students, teachers, faculty and nonprofit staff; its discounts page is titled 20% off. Source: https://sonix.ai/discounts ## Key features - **Transcription in 54+ languages:** Uploaded audio and video become transcripts with named speakers and word-level timestamps, editable in the browser. - **Translation and subtitles:** Transcripts can be translated into 54+ languages, and subtitles exported as SRT or VTT or burned into video. - **AI meeting recorder:** A Sonix agent joins Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams calls and writes the transcript while people talk. - **AI analysis:** Summaries, chapters and sentiment analysis run on transcripts, drawing on a separate monthly allowance of AI hours. - **Sharing and exports:** Share transcripts by link, embed a media player, or export to DOCX, PDF and TXT. - **API and automation:** A REST API, webhooks and a Zapier connection let other tools send recordings in and pull transcripts out. ## Good for - Journalists, researchers and podcasters transcribing recorded files - Teams that need translated transcripts or subtitles from meetings - Regulated teams that need a BAA and SOC 2 report ## Worth knowing - Pay As You Go is $10 per hour with no subscription; extra hours on any plan are also $10 per hour. - Extra seats cost $25 a month ($275 a year) each and add no hours; the included hours are shared by the workspace. - Real-time transcription is listed as early access, and the AI meeting recorder is one feature among a file-based transcription product. - The pricing page shows no mobile or desktop apps; the editor runs in a browser. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Sonix turns uploaded recordings into editable transcripts in 54+ languages. But it sells by the hour, starting at $25 a month for 5 hours, every extra hour is $10, and the meeting recorder is one add-on to a file-based product, with real-time transcription still in early access. - **Value for money: C.** $25 a month for 5 hours, or $275 billed yearly. The category's middle sits at $11.99 and the dearer quarter starts at $15, so this is the upper end. Extra hours are $10 each and extra seats $25 a month with no added hours. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan. There are 30 free minutes of transcription with no card, which is about one short meeting. - **Features: C.** Transcripts, translation, subtitles, summaries, a meeting bot and an API. The listing itself says real-time transcription is early access and the recorder is a side feature, so it is a file tool first. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It's a web app where you upload a file, but the meeting recorder needs your calendar and call accounts connected, and the editor has a learning curve. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no mobile or desktop apps on the pricing page. It does connect to Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Zapier and Adobe Premiere, and has a REST API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Sonix'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 - Sonix'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 platforms and integrations (B, above 9 of 68) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $25 a month, against a middle price of $11.99 for the category: 58 of the 62 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 45 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.** To replace Sonix you would be making a bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. 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: 40 of the 68 other AI meeting note takers grade higher. It costs $300 a year. - You could not: A bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. - 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: 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 Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zapier, Adobe Premiere **Tags:** Transcription, Meeting notes, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [Otter.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otter): Live meeting transcription with summaries and AI chat. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/otter-vs-sonix) - [Notta](https://toolgpa.com/tools/notta): AI notetaker and transcription for meetings, files and recordings. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/notta-vs-sonix) - [Transkriptor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/transkriptor): AI transcription for files, recordings and meetings. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sonix-vs-transkriptor) - [HappyScribe](https://toolgpa.com/tools/happyscribe): AI transcription, subtitles and meeting notes in 150+ languages. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/happyscribe-vs-sonix) - [Trint](https://toolgpa.com/tools/trint): Transcription and live capture platform built for newsrooms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sonix-vs-trint) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://sonix.ai/pricing - https://sonix.ai/features - https://sonix.ai/ai-meeting-recorder - https://sonix.ai/discounts Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sonix Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).