What is Sonix?
Audio and video transcription in 54+ languages with speaker labels.
Who is Sonix best for?
Sonix is best for journalists and researchers who need accurate, searchable transcripts.
Interviews and research
Speaker labels show who said what, and you can ask questions across a whole folder of transcripts and documents at once.
Legal and medical teams
SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA compliance and a policy of not training on your data suit private recordings, with a signed BAA on Enterprise.
Video captions and subtitles
Transcripts become timed captions or burned-in subtitles, and translation into 54+ languages runs on the same hours.
Occasional transcription jobs
Pay As You Go bills each file by its length, rounded to the second, with no monthly fee.
How much does Sonix cost?
Sonix gives new accounts 30 free minutes, then charges $10 per hour of audio on Pay As You Go, or $25, $50 or $80 a month for the Core, Advanced and Pro plans with 5, 20 or 40 hours included.
- No subscription, billed to the second
- 5 GB storage, one user
- No AI workspace usage
- 5 hours a month of transcription and translation
- 5 hours a month of AI workspace use, 25 GB storage
- 1 user included, extra seats $25 a month each
- 20 hours a month of transcription and translation
- 25 hours a month of AI workspace use, 50 GB storage
- Email and chat support, 12-hour response
- 40 hours a month of transcription and translation
- 100 hours a month of AI workspace use, 100 GB storage
- Priority email and chat support, 4-hour response
Every new account gets 30 free minutes of transcription with no credit card. Extra hours on any subscription cost $10 an hour, and extra seats add no hours. Paying yearly gives one month free: Core is $275, Advanced $550 and Pro $880 a year, and extra seats $275 a year. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, audit logs, HIPAA with a signed BAA, 1 TB of storage and unlimited team members at a custom price. Students, teachers, faculty and non-profits get discounted pricing. Prices are in US dollars. Full pricing on sonix.ai. We checked these prices on .
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Questions about Sonix
What is Sonix?
Audio and video transcription in 54+ languages with speaker labels.
Who is Sonix for?
Sonix is best for journalists and researchers who need accurate, searchable transcripts.
Is Sonix free?
You can try Sonix free before paying; paid plans start at $10 per hour of audio or video.
How much does Sonix cost?
Sonix's paid plans are Pay As You Go at $10 per hour of audio or video, Core at $25 per month, Advanced at $50 per month and Pro at $80 per month.
What are the best Sonix alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are TurboScribe, Good Tape and Cockatoo.
Where can I try Sonix?
On its official website, sonix.ai.
Does Sonix charge extra for translation?
No separate fee. Sonix translation, alignment and burned-in subtitles draw on your transcription hours: subscribers use the hours included in their plan, and Pay As You Go users buy more hours at $10 each.
How does Sonix count transcription hours?
Sonix counts the length of the audio or video you upload, not how long it takes to process, and rounds to the second, so a 52-minute file uses 52 minutes. AI analysis hours are counted the same way, by the length of the recordings you run it on.
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