TurboScribe Freemium

What it is

TurboScribe is a web-based AI transcription service that sells unlimited transcription for one flat subscription. You upload audio or video files, it transcribes them with speaker labels and timestamps, and you can export transcripts and subtitle files or translate them. It became popular with podcasters, students, journalists and YouTubers because its free tier is usable for small jobs.

Key features

• AI transcription with speaker recognition and timestamps
• Free tier of 3 files a day, each up to 30 minutes
• Unlimited plan: files up to 10 hours / 5 GB, up to 50 files uploaded at once
• Translation of transcripts into 134+ languages
• Export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT and VTT
• Unlimited storage on paid plans

Models inside

TurboScribe is widely reported to run on OpenAI's Whisper speech model, but we could not confirm this on its own pages when checking, so no model is listed here.

Pricing and rights

The free plan allows 3 transcriptions a day of up to 30 minutes each. The Unlimited plan is reported at $20/month billed monthly or $10/month billed yearly, with no cap on minutes (subject to fair-use rules) and larger files. TurboScribe's pricing page blocked our automated check on 2026-09-25, so these prices come from third-party trackers; confirm them at turboscribe.ai/pricing before buying.

Who it is for

Anyone who transcribes a lot of recordings (podcasts, interviews, lectures) and wants predictable cost rather than per-minute billing. Students and occasional users can often stay on the free tier, and creators can make subtitle files for YouTube from the same upload.

Verdict

TurboScribe offers some of the best value in AI transcription, with a free tier that is useful for real work. It is AI-only, with no human review, the editor is basic, and we could not verify its current pricing from its own site.