New Flat-Rate Pricing: Up to 67% Savings
Long-form audio transcription just got significantly cheaper. We've replaced per-minute pricing with a flat $6 rate for files 16-120 minutes—saving customers up to 67% on two-hour recordings. No subscription required.
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- New Pricing Structure
- Savings by File Length
- Why We Made This Change
- Who Benefits Most
- Affordable Transcription Without Subscriptions
New Pricing Structure
Effective immediately, BrassTranscripts uses two simple pricing tiers:
| Duration | Price |
|---|---|
| 1-15 minutes | $2.50 flat |
| 16-120 minutes | $6.00 flat |
No per-minute calculations. No monthly fees. No subscription. A 20-minute file costs the same as a 90-minute file.
Savings by File Length
The flat-rate model delivers increasing savings as file length grows:
| Duration | Previous Price | New Price | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 minutes | $6.00 | $6.00 | Break-even |
| 60 minutes | $9.00 | $6.00 | $3.00 (33%) |
| 90 minutes | $13.50 | $6.00 | $7.50 (56%) |
| 120 minutes | $18.00 | $6.00 | $12.00 (67%) |
Any file over 40 minutes now costs less than before. The longer the recording, the bigger the savings.
Why We Made This Change
Two things happened over the past year:
We improved our infrastructure. Processing optimizations reduced our per-file costs while maintaining transcription quality. WhisperX large-v3 and Pyannote 3.1 speaker diarization continue to power every transcript.
We're passing those savings to you. Rather than keep the margin, we restructured pricing to benefit customers who transcribe longer content—the fastest-growing segment of our user base.
Who Benefits Most
Podcast transcription gets dramatically cheaper. A 60-minute episode now costs $6 instead of $9. Over a year of weekly episodes, that's $156 in savings. Most podcast transcription services charge $15-25 per episode or require monthly subscriptions—flat-rate pricing eliminates both problems.
Research interview transcription becomes more affordable. Academic and UX researchers conducting 60-90 minute interviews see immediate 33-56% cost reductions per recording. Qualitative research projects with 20+ interviews save $60-150 on transcription alone.
Meeting transcription costs drop for teams. Organizations transcribing 10 meetings monthly at 60 minutes each save $30 per month—$360 annually. No subscription commitment required.
Long-form content creators benefit across the board. Webinars, lectures, training videos, and conference recordings 40+ minutes all cost less to transcribe.
Affordable Transcription Without Subscriptions
Most transcription services lock you into monthly subscriptions—$16.99/month for Otter.ai Pro, $60/month for Trint, higher for enterprise tiers. You pay whether you transcribe one file or fifty.
BrassTranscripts works differently:
- Pay only when you transcribe. No monthly fees. No annual commitments.
- Predictable flat-rate pricing. Know the exact cost before you upload.
- No minimums. Transcribe one file this month, ten next month, zero the month after.
For occasional users transcribing a few files monthly, pay-per-use beats subscriptions on cost. For heavy users transcribing long content, flat-rate pricing beats per-minute pricing on savings.
What Stays the Same
Everything else about the service remains unchanged:
- Automatic speaker identification with Pyannote 3.1
- Four output formats included (TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON)
- 30-word preview before payment
- 1-3 minute processing per hour of audio
- 99+ languages with automatic detection
- 100% satisfaction guarantee
Start Saving
The new pricing is live now. Upload your next file at brasstranscripts.com and see the flat rate in action.