Plans are measured in hours of audio.
Hours of audio are the only meter on every plan. Documents, authoring, corrections and exports are never counted.
Who are you?
Documents, corrections and exports are not counted, on any plan.
Choosing who you are changes the wording and which plan is marked as recommended: never a price, a limit or what a plan includes.
Audio per month
Per recording
Keep up to
Speaker names
Recordings at once
Also included
- Audio per month2 hPer recording40 minKeep up to7 daysSpeaker namesNot includedRecordings at once1
Personal
Recommended$9
per month
For the recording or two a week.
Billed $86.40/year — save $21.60
Audio per month10 hPer recording2 hKeep up to30 daysSpeaker namesIncludedRecordings at once2Professional
$29
per month
For people who record most days.
Billed $278.40/year — save $69.60
Try it free for 14 days
With up to 20 hours of audio. Then $29 a month, from day 14.
Audio per month40 hPer recording4 hKeep up to90 daysSpeaker namesIncludedRecordings at once5- Audio per month85 h, then $1 per hourPer recording8 hKeep up to365 daysSpeaker namesIncludedRecordings at once10Also included
API and signed webhooks
Priority queue: your recordings are processed before the others.
Professional’s trial: 14 days, with up to 20 hours of audio. A card is asked for at the start, and the first charge is on day 14 unless you cancel before; running out of hours charges nothing. One trial per account and per card: a card that has had one is charged at once.
Run out mid-month? Add 3 hours for $5 on Personal or Professional — top-up hours are used after your monthly ones. Business doesn’t need them: it meters the overage instead. No card for Free. Cancel anytime. Prices in USD.
Verbato is priced by hours of audio, and nothing else is metered. Free: $0, 2 hours a month, recordings up to 40 minutes. Personal: $9 a month ($7.20 a month billed yearly), 10 hours. Professional: $29 a month ($23.20 a month billed yearly), 40 hours. Business: $59 a month, 85 hours, then $1 per extra hour. Documents, corrections and exports are never counted.
The same on every plan — including Free
- Every document your project types define
- Authoring and adjusting project types
- Corrections by chat, with undo
- Exports — Markdown, plain text, Word and PDF
- A verbatim transcript beside every document
- 7-day default deletion, receipts included
Fair questions about paying.
Everything you need to know about Verbato. Can’t find your answer? Reach us at support@verbato.io.
- What am I paying for?
- With Verbato you pay for audio hours. Every plan, including Free, has templates, instructions, project types you write yourself, documents written automatically when a recording finishes, and every export format. What you choose is how many hours of audio you run through it each month; speaker identification, correcting the transcript and the API also depend on the plan.
- What is a project type?
- A Verbato project type is the recipe you keep: a list of documents to write when a recording finishes — each one a template (the shape: its sections) paired with instructions (how to write it). Pick one when you drop a recording, or set a default and never think about it again. A radiologist's report, a meeting summary with action items, show notes: the same engine, different recipe.
- What file formats can I upload?
- Verbato takes all the common audio and video formats: MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, MP4, WebM, MOV, AVI. You can also paste a link. The longest single recording is 40 minutes on Free, 2 hours on Personal, 4 on Professional, and 8 on Business.
- How accurate is Verbato?
- Verbato publishes no accuracy figure, because accuracy depends on the recording: clear audio from a close microphone transcribes best, and crosstalk, background noise and heavy accents cost the most. Paid plans also tell speakers apart; Free does not label them. Judge it on your own recording on the Free plan: the literal transcript stays beside every document, so you can check what was said.
- What happens when I run out of hours?
- When you run out of hours, Verbato stops processing — you are never charged for something you did not ask for. On a paid flat plan you can add a top-up pack: 3 hours for $5, used only after your monthly hours. A recording sent while you are out of hours is held, and is not charged; it starts by itself once your hours cover it. Existing projects are untouched.
- Can I send recordings from Telegram or email?
- Yes: connect Verbato to Telegram from Settings, or link your email address and send recordings to Verbato's intake address — the transcript and the documents come back where they came from. Each channel can carry its own default project type, and any channel can be switched off without disconnecting it.
- How long do you keep my recordings?
- Verbato keeps a recording 7 days by default, on every plan — audio, transcript and documents together. Extend a project when you need to (up to 30, 90 or 365 days depending on your plan) or delete it now; deleting a recording writes a receipt you can read. Nothing you upload is used to train models.
- How does Business billing work?
- Verbato's Business plan costs $59 a month, with 85 audio hours included. Past those, extra hours are metered at $1 each and billed in arrears on the same invoice — so there is no cap to plan around, you simply pay for what you go over. It includes API access with signed webhooks and priority processing. Annual billing and top-up packs do not apply, because the overage is metered.
- Can I cancel anytime?
- Yes: you can cancel Verbato from Settings, and you keep access until the end of the period you have paid for. Top-up hours stay valid while the subscription is active.
- Can I try Professional first?
- Yes, once: an account that has never had a trial or a plan can try Professional free for 14 days, with up to 20 hours of audio. A card is asked for at the start, and the first charge is Professional’s price on day 14, unless you cancel before. Running out of hours charges nothing. One trial per account and per card: a card that has had one is charged at once.