Pricing & plans
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Starter
For individuals
$30USD / month · billed monthly
- One user license
- Automatic Captioning & transcription — 300 mins/month*
- Import over 30 different subtitle file formats
- Basic subtitle file export (excluding SCC, MCC, and EBU STL)
- Export broadcast dialogue lists
- Export transcripts (DocX, and CSV)
- Video export with burnt-in subtitles
- Desktop installer for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Access to browser-based editor
Pro
For individuals and teams
$60USD / month · billed monthly
Everything in Starter, and:
- One user license with the option to add more***
- Automatic Captioning & transcription — 600 mins/month*
- Automatic Alignment & Sync
- Machine Translation — 500,000 characters/month**
- Team Projects & Sharing
- Key Names and Phrases (KNP) Manager
- Pre-built 3rd party platform integrations
- Advanced subtitle export including SCC, MCC, and EBU STL
- Embed 608/708 Closed Captioning in video (mov, mp4, mxf, and more)****
Enterprise
For large teams and enterprise
Custompricing on request
- Powered by Closed Caption Unity
- Unlimited users
- Integrate with 3rd party management systems
- On-premise and cloud deployment options
- Single tenancy environment
- API access
- User permissions
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Priority support
*Additional usage is charged per minute of content at a cost of $0.10/minute.
**Additional usage is charged per character at a cost of $0.00005/character.
***Pro accounts include one user. Additional users cost $5/month per active user.
****There is a flat rate cost of $2.00 per file + $0.40/GB for closed caption embedding.
Starter
For individuals
$25USD / month · billed annually
- One user license
- Automatic Captioning & transcription — 3600 mins/year*
- Import over 30 different subtitle file formats
- Basic subtitle file export (excluding SCC, MCC, and EBU-STL)
- Export broadcast dialogue lists
- Export transcripts (DocX, and CSV)
- Video export with burnt-in subtitles
- Desktop installer for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Access to browser-based editor
Pro
For individuals and teams
$50USD / month · billed annually
Everything in Starter, and:
- One user license with the option to add more***
- Automatic Captioning & transcription — 7200 mins/year*
- Automatic Alignment & Sync
- Machine Translation — 6,000,000 characters/year**
- Team Projects & Sharing
- Key Names and Phrases (KNP) Manager
- Pre-built 3rd party platform integrations
- Advanced subtitle export including SCC, MCC, and EBU-STL
- Embed 608/708 Closed Captioning in video (mov, mp4, mxf, and more)****
Enterprise
For large teams and enterprise
Custompricing on request
- Powered by Closed Caption Unity
- Unlimited users
- Integrate with 3rd party management systems
- On-premise and cloud deployment options
- Single tenancy environment
- API access
- User permissions
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Priority support
*Additional usage is charged per minute of content at a cost of $0.10/minute.
**Additional usage is charged per character at a cost of $0.00005/character.
***Pro accounts include one user. Additional users cost $5/month per active user.
****There is a flat rate cost of $2.00 per file + $0.40/GB for closed caption embedding.
Audio Description Plugin
$40/month per user + usage*
Unlock the ability to create and export audio descriptions and described video using lifelike synthetic voice.
*Each AD Plugin license includes up to 750,000 characters/month (9,000,000/year) of free text-to-speech usage. Additional usage is billed at $0.00005/character ($50/million characters). Customers with multiple AD Plugin licenses have their usage pooled across all licenses. Usage can be tracked by navigating to Help → Reporting & Usage in the application.
Compare features side by side
| Starter | Pro | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is it for? | For individuals and freelancers | For production, captioning, and broadcast teams | For major networks, and content providers |
| AI Tools | |||
| Automatic Captioning* | 300 min/month | 600 min/month | Custom |
| Machine Translation** | Not included | 500,000 chars/month | Custom |
| Automatic Shot Descriptions | Not included | $1.00/minute | Custom |
| Automatic AD/DV^ | Not included | $1.00/minute | Custom |
| Speech Synthesis (Text-To-Speech)^ | 750,000 chars/month | 750,000 chars/month | Custom |
| Shot Change Detection | Not included | Included | Included |
| Automatic Sync | Not included | Included | Included |
| File Import | |||
| Transcript Import (.txt, .docx, .csv) | Included | Included | Included |
| Subtitle Import | Included | Included | Included |
| Local and Cloud File Playback | Included | Included | Included |
| 3rd Party Player Support (Vimeo, and YouTube) | Included | Included | Included |
| Custom Data Import (.JSON, and .CSV) | Included | Included | Included |
| File Export | |||
| Transcript Export (.txt, .docx, .csv) | Included | Included | Included |
| Dialogue List Export (.docx, .csv) | Included | Included | Included |
| Embed 608/708 Closed Captioning**** | Not included | Included | Included |
| Basic Closed Caption File Export (excludes SCC, STL, and MCC) | Included | Included | Included |
| Advanced Closed Caption File Export | Not included | Included | Included |
| Audio Description (Described Video) Export (.mp3, .wav, .flac) | Optional add-on | Optional add-on | Optional add-on |
| Extended Audio Description (EAD) Export (.mp3, .wav, .flac) | Optional add-on | Optional add-on | Optional add-on |
| Additional Features | |||
| Interactive Timeline with audio waveform | Included | Included | Included |
| Foot Pedal Control | Included | Included | Included |
| Desktop Application (Windows, Mac, and Linux) | Included | Included | Included |
| Web Application (Google Chrome) | Included | Included | Included |
| Multi-Channel Audio Support | Included | Included | Included |
| Automatic QC & Style Guides | Included | Included | Included |
| KNP (Key Names & Phrases) Manager | Not included | Included | Included |
| Team Projects & Collaboration | Not included | Included | Included |
| Automatic Replacement & Shortforms | Included | Included | Included |
| Number of Users*** | 1 | 1-25 | Unlimited |
| Updates & Support | |||
| 24/7 Email & Live Chat Support | Included | Included | Included |
| Monthly Software Updates | Included | Included | Included |
| 1:1 Team Training | Not included | Included | Included |
| Priority Support | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Account Manager | Not included | Not included | Included |
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What is included, what is metered, and what the add-ons cost.
Starter is $30 per month or $25 per month billed annually. Pro is $60 per month or $50 per month billed annually. Enterprise pricing is custom. Every plan includes the editor, automatic QC, monthly updates and 24/7 email and live chat support.
Starter covers one user, 300 automatic captioning minutes a month and basic subtitle export, excluding SCC, MCC and EBU-STL. Pro adds 600 minutes, machine translation, automatic alignment and sync, advanced caption export including SCC, MCC and EBU-STL, 608/708 embedding, and team projects for up to 25 users.
Yes, a 7-day free trial with no credit card required. It includes access to the video courses and the full user guide so you can run a real project end to end before deciding.
Additional automatic captioning and transcription is charged at $0.10 per minute of content. Minutes do not carry over between months. Usage can be tracked in the application under Help, then Reporting and Usage.
The Pro plan includes 500,000 characters per month. Additional usage is charged at $0.00005 per character, which is $50 per million characters. Characters do not carry over between months.
Pro accounts include one user. Additional users are $5 per month per active user, up to 25 users. Enterprise accounts include unlimited users.
Embedding 608/708 captions into a video file is charged at a flat $2.00 per file plus $0.40 per GB uploaded. The capability itself is included on the Pro and Enterprise plans.
The Audio Description plugin is $40 per month per user plus usage. Each licence includes up to 750,000 characters per month of text-to-speech, which is 9,000,000 per year. Additional usage is $0.00005 per character. Customers with multiple licences have their usage pooled.
Yes. Annual billing saves 20 percent against the monthly rate. You can change plan or billing term from the subscription management portal at any time. Every new subscription is covered by our 14-day money-back guarantee.
No. One subscription covers the desktop applications for Windows, macOS and Linux as well as the browser version, so you can sign in on whichever machine you are working from.
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