How credits and billing work

Every successful transcript costs 1 credit. Failed requests cost nothing.

What counts as a credit

One credit is charged per successful response, regardless of how long the video or episode is. A four-hour podcast costs the same single credit as a 30-second TikTok. This is deliberate: most transcription services bill per audio minute, which makes long content expensive.

You are not charged when a request fails. If a video has no captions and cannot be transcribed, or a link points at something we cannot reach, the response costs nothing.

Cached responses

If someone has already fetched a transcript recently, we serve it from cache and it still costs 1 credit. You get a much faster response, but caching is a speed optimisation, not a discount.

Free credits

Every account gets 100 free credits each month. They refresh monthly rather than being a one-time signup bonus, so you can keep using the API at low volume without a paid plan.

Plans

Basic, $5 a month, 500 credits. Pro, $15 a month, 5,000 credits. Mega, $45 a month, 50,000 credits.

Need more within a month? Top-ups are $10 per 1,000 credits and do not expire at the end of the billing period.

Checking your balance

Call the credits endpoint, or use the get_credits tool if you are connected over MCP. Checking your balance is free and never costs a credit.