Is Rev transcription legit?
Yes. Rev (Rev.com, Inc., Austin, Texas) has run a human transcription platform since 2010 and is SOC 2 Type II compliant. Human transcription costs $1.99 per minute, and AI transcription has a free plan with 45 minutes a month and paid plans from $25.49 per seat per month billed annually.
Facts checked on against Rev's own pages (linked below). FastScribe publishes this page and is a competing product. Prices are in USD and can change.
What Rev sells
| Service | Price (Rev pricing page) | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Human transcription | $1.99/min | Rev states 99%+ accuracy, delivered in 12 hours or less |
| AI Free | $0 | 45 AI minutes per month, 1 user, English only |
| AI Essentials | $29.99/seat/mo, or $25.49 billed annually | 5,000 minutes per user per month |
| AI Pro | $59.99/seat/mo, or $47.99 billed annually | 10,000 minutes per user per month |
How Rev handles your recordings
- Security page: SOC 2 Type II, TLS 1.2/1.3 in transit and server-side encryption at rest. HIPAA is offered on the enterprise tier.
- Rev says it never uses your content to train external AI models. Its terms add that content from speech-to-text subscribers may be used to keep training Rev's own speech recognition models, but not generative AI models.
Is Rev worth it?
Rev is worth it when you need a human-checked transcript, for example for court, research quotes or published captions. At $1.99 per minute, a one-hour interview costs about $119. For drafts you will review yourself, AI transcription is far cheaper.
A note on searches
"Rev transcription" is also a biology term (reverse transcription). This page is about the Rev.com transcription service.
Where FastScribe fits
FastScribe is AI-only: it does not offer human transcription, so it is not a replacement when you need a human-verified transcript.
For AI drafts, FastScribe bills by duration with credits instead of seats. FastScribe's free allowance is 120 credits at signup (valid 30 days, not monthly), roughly 120 minutes of uploaded audio, with up to 3 jobs a day and files up to 1 GB. No payment details are needed.
If you need more, FastScribe Pro is $9.90/month or $99.00/year for 2000 credits a month, and one-time credit packages start at $9.90 for 1200 credits, so you can pay per batch of recordings instead of subscribing.
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