Pay-as-you-go — $0.05 per minute. No subscription. Whisper large-v3 quality. 100+ languages.
50–100x realtime. A 1-hour podcast finishes in under 1 minute.
English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Russian, Arabic — auto-detected.
Your files never leave our server. Auto-deleted after 7 days.
Plain text, .docx with timestamps, .srt subtitles. All included.
$0.05 per minute. Pre-buy minutes — never expire.
| Service | Per minute | 10 hours |
|---|---|---|
| Otter.ai | $0.20 | $120 |
| Rev.ai (API) | $0.25 | $150 |
| Descript | $0.15 | $90 |
| LessRec | $0.05 | $30 |
Whisper large-v3 (the same model OpenAI uses internally), INT8-quantized for speed. On clean audio it's 95%+ accurate; on noisy audio it still beats most consumer services because we don't downsample.
Stripe credit card. Buy credits in $5/$10/$25 packs — never expire. No subscription.
mp3, wav, m4a, ogg, flac, mp4, mov, webm, mkv. We extract audio automatically. Up to 1GB per file.
Coming soon — opt-in for $0.02/min extra. Detects up to 8 speakers.
Yes — REST API with the same per-minute pricing. Email hi@lessrec.com for keys.
Unused credits refundable within 30 days. Email us.