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WAmazon Transcribe vs Reduct
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Amazon Transcribe if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you're in its core audience: developers building on aws, contact center teams
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Choose Reduct if…
- you're in its core audience: public defenders and legal teams, ux and qualitative researchers
Side by side
Feature Amazon Transcribe Reduct
Pricing modelFreemiumFree trial
Starting price—$12/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Security and compliance—SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA
Speaker labels—
File upload
HIPAA compliant—
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CategoryTranscriptionTranscription
CompanyAmazon Web Services, Inc.Reduct
Based inUnited States—
Founded—2017
Part ofAmazon.com, Inc.—
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
R Reduct
- Interactive transcript linked to video playback
- Transcription in over 90 languages
- Video and audio PII redaction
- Text-based editing with strikethrough cuts
- Live Capture for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls
- Exact and fuzzy search across all recordings
- Multicam sync and timeline view
- Premiere Pro plugin for rough cuts
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)
Reduct
Personal$12/editor per month
Professional$40/editor per month
EnterpriseCustom (seat plans from $75/editor per month)
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
Reduct
- Free commenters on every plan
- Long silences are excluded from transcription billing
- Discounts for non-profits and academics
- Premiere Pro integration uses original source files
- Redaction and multicam sync require Professional or above
- Personal plan limited to 720p exports and 4GB files
- Document support only on Enterprise
- Transcription beyond the quota is charged per minute
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