ElevenLabs Scribe
The most accurate transcription across many languages right now.
Best overallFree plan
- Best for
- Interviews, podcasts, multilingual audio
- On your PC
- No, online only
- Works on
- Web, iPhone, Android, API
- Made by
- ElevenLabs
What’s good
- Top score on the multilingual Open ASR leaderboard
- Labels who is speaking and marks laughter, music
- Live transcription option for real-time use
Downsides
- Free minutes run out in one short meeting
- Credits are shared with voices, so heavy use gets pricey
- Cloud only, your audio is uploaded
At a glance.
- Best for
- Interviews, podcasts, multilingual audio
- Price
- Free plan, then $6/mo
- For developers
- about $0.22 to $0.40 per hour of audio (page shows both)
- Version
- Scribe v2
- Works on
- Web, iPhone, Android, API
- Open source
- No
- Made by
- ElevenLabs
- Website
- elevenlabs.io
How it ranks.
- Open ASR Leaderboard multilingual, average WER#1 · 3.562026-11-05
- Open ASR Leaderboard English, average WER#6 · 6.022026-11-05
- Artificial Analysis speech to text, AA-WER %#4 · 2.22026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
No. It only runs online.
Your prompts and files go to the company’s servers. See the local options in this category for a private alternative.
Want it offline? The best local option for speech to text is Whisper large-v3 turbo.