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WReduct vs Vosk
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Reduct if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you work on Web
- you're in its core audience: public defenders and legal teams, ux and qualitative researchers
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Choose Vosk if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you want open source you can self-host or audit
- you work on Linux, Android, iOS
- you're in its core audience: software developers, embedded and iot engineers
Side by side
Feature Reduct Vosk
Pricing modelFree trialFree
Starting price$12/moFree
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Security and complianceSOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA—
Speaker labels—
File upload—
HIPAA compliant—
PlatformsWeb, APILinux, Android, iOS, API, Self-hosted
CategoryTranscriptionTranscription
CompanyReductAlpha Cephei
Based in——
Founded2017—
Part of——
Key features
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
V Vosk
- Fully offline speech recognition
- Streaming API for real-time transcription
- Speaker identification
- Quick vocabulary reconfiguration
- Compact models of about 50 MB per language
- Larger server models available
- Bindings for Python, Java, C#, JavaScript and more
- Runs on Raspberry Pi, Android and iOS
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Reduct
Personal$12/editor per month
Professional$40/editor per month
EnterpriseCustom (seat plans from $75/editor per month)
Vosk
Open sourceFree
Strengths and limitations
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
Vosk
- Open source under the Apache-2.0 license
- Works fully offline, including on lightweight devices
- Supports 20+ languages and dialects
- Small models of about 50 MB each
- A developer toolkit, with no ready-made end-user app
- No commercial plans or pricing published on the site
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