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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "whispertranscribe",
 "name": "WhisperTranscribe",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "whispertranscribe.com",
 "category": "Video & Audio",
 "task": "AI video & voice content",
 "summary": "AI transcription and translation for podcasts, videos and interviews with speaker detection, content generation and many export formats, plus a bot-free meeting assistant; plans by minutes a month with unlimited users.",
 "best_for": "podcasters, YouTubers, researchers and small teams who transcribe a predictable number of hours a month, want unlimited users without seat fees, and prefer a service that does not keep their files",
 "skip_if": "you transcribe only occasionally (pay-as-you-go or a free tier elsewhere may be cheaper), you need the vendor to store a searchable archive for you, or your recordings may not leave the EU for AI processing",
 "honest_knock": "Starter's card advertises $2.80 an hour, but 320 minutes for $19.99 a month is about $3.75 an hour, our arithmetic. Monthly billing costs twice the annual rate on every plan, and fees and unused credits are non-refundable under the terms. Transcripts are not kept on the vendor's servers after delivery, which is good for privacy but means a lost local copy is gone. Some AI processing runs in the United States. The pricing page says translation into 99 languages while its comparison table says 65+.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$19.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "Starter · per month billed annually ($240 a year) for 320 transcription minutes a month",
  "from_price_usd_month": 19.99,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-14 in a live browser on whispertranscribe.com/pricing and the terms of use last updated 28 October 2025) Two products. Transcription plans, priced by minutes of uploaded audio a month, with unlimited users: Starter $19.99 a month billed annually ($240 a year) or $39.99 monthly for 320 minutes; Pro $29.99 annually ($360) or $59.99 monthly for 800 minutes; Grow $69.99 ($840) or $139.99 for 2,500 minutes; Scale $139.99 ($1,680) or $279.99 for 6,000 minutes. The annual toggle is labelled save 50%. Each plan includes one free Meeting Assistant seat, files up to 10 hours long (5 GB on Starter, 10 GB above), AI clips, podcast search, import from web links, exports to Word, PDF, TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV, XLSX, JSON and ELAN, and priority support on Grow and Scale. Pay-as-you-go minutes start at $8 an hour, bought in the app, and never expire. The Meeting Assistant, which captures calls without a bot joining, is $16 a seat a month billed annually ($192) or $20 monthly, with a 7-day trial. The terms say a cancelled account reverts to the free tier with 60 credits, and that fees and unused credits are non-refundable except for billing errors, service failure or where the law requires.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-14",
  "source_url": "https://www.whispertranscribe.com/pricing"
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "The terms say a cancelled account reverts to the free tier with 60 credits, and that fees and unused credits are non-refundable except for billing errors, service failure or where the law requires.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "The terms say a cancelled account reverts to the free tier with 60 credits, and that fees and unused credits are non-refundable except for billing errors, service failure or where the law requires.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-14",
   "source_url": "https://www.whispertranscribe.com/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Descript",
  "why": "Descript is in our dossiers too, read on 1 October 2026: free for 60 minutes a month, Hobbyist $16 per person a month billed annually ($24 monthly) for 10 media hours, and it is a full audio and video editor with seats. WhisperTranscribe, read on 14 October 2026, is $19.99 a month billed annually for 320 minutes of transcription with unlimited users and no editor. If you edit media, Descript; if you only need transcripts and content from them for a team, WhisperTranscribe charges for minutes instead of seats."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/whispertranscribe.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/whispertranscribe-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/whispertranscribe/",
  "vendor_site": "https://whispertranscribe.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://whispertranscribe.com/?aff=6NyDVn",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "whispertranscribe:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "whispertranscribe:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "whispertranscribe:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "whispertranscribe:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}