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WAmazon Transcribe vs Evernote
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Amazon Transcribe if…
- you need an API to build on
- you're in its core audience: developers building on aws, contact center teams
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Choose Evernote if…
- you work on iOS, Android, macOS
- you're in its core audience: students, knowledge workers
Side by side
Feature Amazon Transcribe Evernote
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price—$14.99/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Security and compliance—ISO 27001, GDPR
Speaker labels—
File upload—
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Chrome
CategoryTranscriptionNotes & Knowledge
CompanyAmazon Web Services, Inc.Bending Spoons US Inc.
Based inUnited StatesUnited States
Founded——
Part ofAmazon.com, Inc.Bending Spoons
Key features
A Amazon Transcribe
- Batch and real-time streaming transcription
- Speaker diarization and automatic language identification
- Custom vocabularies and custom language models
- Automatic redaction of sensitive information
- Call Analytics with sentiment and generative summaries
- Toxicity detection and content moderation
- HIPAA-eligible medical transcription
- Features available in 100+ languages
E Evernote
- Notebooks, spaces and tags for organizing notes
- Tasks and built-in calendar with external calendar sync
- Web Clipper for Chrome, Firefox and Safari
- AI Assistant, semantic search and AI Transcribe
- Document scanning and offline notes
- Real-time collaboration with comments and task assignment
- Integrations with Gmail, Google Drive, Outlook and Slack
- MCP connection to external AI tools
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Amazon Transcribe
Free TierFree
Standard Batch$0.006/min (US East example)
Standard Streaming$0.01/min (US East example)
Call Analytics (post-call)$0.03/min first 250K min; $0.0186 next 750K; $0.0138 next 4M
Generative call summarization$0.0024/min (Tier 1)
Content redaction$0.0024/min (Tier 1)
Evernote
FreeFree
Starter$14.99/mo
Advanced$24.99/mo
FlexiblePer seat
UnlimitedCustom
Strengths and limitations
Amazon Transcribe
- Free tier with 60 minutes a month for 12 months
- Billed per second with no minimum charge
- Volume tiers lower the per-minute cost at scale
- Features available in more than 100 languages
- Prices vary by region and the page gives some only as examples
- Redaction and custom language models are not in the free tier
- Requires an AWS account and some developer setup
Evernote
- Free plan available
- Apps for web, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android
- Paid plans come with a 7-day free trial, and Enterprise gets 14 days
- Eligible college students get 40% off a year of Advanced
- Free plan is limited to 50 notes, 1 notebook and 1 device
- Starter syncs on only 3 devices
- AI Cleanup is mobile only
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