Fact · Transcription
0US dollars per hour of audio
The AutoSubs product page calls the tool free and says it has no paid tier behind a feature flag, so its list price for transcribing audio is zero dollars per hour of audio.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 25, 2026
In the source's own words
“Free, open and native MIT licensed, Rust transcription engine, Mac, Windows and Linux. No paid tier behind a feature flag.”
AutoSubs: Local AI subtitles, Tom Moroney, Tom Moroney, 2026, Product page, feature summary.
Open the original- What it measures
- AutoSubs is a desktop tool for Mac, Windows and Linux that transcribes audio or video files on the user's own machine. The page describes dropping a file in, picking a model and transcribing it. No price is printed as a number.
- What it does not show
- The zero is a conversion of 'free' and 'no paid tier' into a per-hour list price, not a figure printed on the page. It covers file transcription only; the page does not describe live transcription. Any paid tier added later would change it.
In the data
A row of Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, as AutoSubs, free and open source: 0 US dollars per hour of audio.
- Provider
- Tom Moroney
- Product
- AutoSubs
- Mode
- Batch (recorded audio)
- Tier
- Free, open source, no paid tier
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- No price is printed as a number. The page says the tool is free with no paid tier, so its list price is 0 dollars per hour (0 per minute times 60).
Source
Used to calculate
- In the speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset, the 105 published figures for “Batch (recorded audio)” have a median of 0.27 US dollars per hour of audio, ranging from 0 to 15.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset holds 150 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset draws on 59 distinct sources.