By PodcastleBerkeley, United States1 product across 2 categories
Strong fit. Records, cleans and edits a podcast in the browser, with transcription and voice tools in the same place.
Free plan
Yes
Free sign-up, with a free trial of the paid plans; Podcastle now sells as Async at async.com
Month to month
$19.99/mo
Essentials
Billed yearly
$11.99/mo
Essentials plan −40%
Watch out: Podcastle has rebranded as Async and now sells a credit-priced creative suite, so the price depends on how many credits you pick. Browser recording is only as good as the connection.
All plans (5)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free sign-up, with a free trial of the paid plans; Podcastle now sells as Async at async.com
Essentials
$19.99/mo · $11.99/mo yearly
450 credits a month at the base level, roughly 61 short videos or 900 images
Pro
$39.99/mo · $23.99/mo yearly
1,200 credits a month at the base level, all video, image and audio models
Teams
$84.99/mo · $49.99/mo yearly
3,000 credits a month per creator at the base level
By Fireflies.aiSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Records, transcribes and searches meetings, then pushes the summary into a CRM or a channel. Useful when the record of a call matters more than the call.
Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan: unlimited transcription
Month to month
$18/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$10/mo
Pro plan −44%
Watch out: Recording colleagues and customers has consent rules that vary by country and state. Settle that before switching it on across a team.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free forever plan: unlimited transcription, though the page marks that with an asterisk, plus limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage for the whole team and 20 AI credits, across Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and others in more than 100 languages
Pro
$18/mo · $10/mo yearly
unlimited transcription and AI summaries, 8,000 minutes of storage a seat, 20 AI credits, video recording, downloadable transcripts and recordings, and the personal and email assistants
Business
$29/mo · $19/mo yearly
unlimited storage, 30 AI credits, multi-language mode, conversation intelligence, team analytics for admins and public meeting access
Enterprise
$39/mo
unlimited storage, 50 AI credits, a rules engine, SSO and SCIM, audit logs through the API and HIPAA compliance. AI credits are what separate the tiers as much as storage does, and Pro carries the same 20 credits as the free plan
Two things separate these and both are on every card.
Fit
Whether a tool is built for this job, a strong fit for it, or
able to do it without that being its focus.
Free plan
Whether there is a tier you can keep using rather than a
trial that expires.
The order
Fit first, then a free plan, then alphabetical. There is
no score, no weighting we decline to publish, and nothing on this site a company can buy.
Questions
What is the best ai for podcast transcription?
There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 5 rather than one: Descript, Otter.ai, Podcastle, Riverside, Fireflies.ai. 3 of them are built for this kind of work rather than able to do it. Start with a free one.
Which of these have a free plan?
5 of the 5: Descript, Otter.ai, Podcastle, Riverside, Fireflies.ai. Free means a real free tier you can keep using, not a trial that expires.
How was this list chosen?
By hand, from the 750 products this site tracks, and it is checked against the catalogue on every build — a product renamed or removed breaks the build rather than quietly disappearing from here. Nothing on this site can be paid for: no listing, no position, no wording.
