$4.00 covers the first hour of runtime in one language. Every 15 minutes after that hour adds $1.00. Multiply by the number of languages you want back. That is the entire pricing model — there is no second page.
The first hour costs
$4.00
per language, whatever the runtime
then $1.00 per 15 minutes, per language
A flat charge for the first hour, and a small charge for each block after it. Nothing else enters the calculation — not cue count, not audio difficulty, not how many characters ended up in the file.
Per language. Charged in full whether the file runs ten seconds or the whole sixty minutes, which makes $4.00 the least any job can cost in one language. A trailer and a fifty-minute episode land on the same number.
Per language, and a block counts the moment it starts. One hour and one minute bills the same as one hour and fifteen, so a two-hour film comes to $8.00 — exactly twice the hour.
| Job | Runtime | Languages | Per language | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ten-second clip the minimum charge |
0:00:10 | 1 | $4.00 | $4.00 |
| Short film inside the first hour |
0:18:00 | 1 | $4.00 | $4.00 |
| Drama episode inside the first hour |
0:46:00 | 5 | $4.00 | $20.00 |
| Lecture recording first hour plus two blocks |
1:30:00 | 4 | $6.00 | $24.00 |
| Feature film first hour plus five blocks |
2:04:11 | 3 | $9.00 | $27.00 |
| Long documentary first hour plus eight blocks |
3:00:00 | 2 | $12.00 | $24.00 |
Languages multiply the per-language figure, because each one is a separate translation pass. Two languages cost exactly twice one language; five cost five times.
Move the sliders. What comes out is the whole bill — no setup fee, no per-format charge, no rush surcharge, no commitment.
Features usually run 90 to 140 minutes. Episodes, 22 to 50. Anything under an hour bills the flat $4.00.
8 per job is the ceiling. Run the job twice if you need more.
Backfilling a library? Set this to how many you want to clear each month.
Per month
$56.00
House comparison uses $150 per hour per language — the low end of a subtitling vendor quote.
You put money in, jobs draw it down. There is nothing to cancel, nothing renews, and an idle month costs nothing at all.
The smallest top-up. At $4.00 for the first hour, that covers 25 hour-long titles in a single language, so you can judge the output properly rather than on one short clip.
Load up once and use it over a year if that is your rhythm. We do not sweep dormant balances and there is no monthly minimum eating into it.
Top-ups, holds, settlements and refunds each write a ledger row carrying the balance after it. The whole account audits by reading down one column.
Every movement is visible: what was held, what was settled, and the balance after it.
The estimated cost is held from the wallet. A ledger row appears marked hold.
From the transcript. Whichever is larger, your file's stated length or where speech actually ends.
If the true runtime falls into fewer blocks than we estimated, the difference comes back. If it falls into more, the balance is taken. Either way it is visible in the ledger.
Failed job, cancelled job, silent file — the entire hold is released. There is no dispute process because there is nothing to dispute.
One hour of runtime, one language. The other figures are typical market rates, not quotes — get your own, but the order of magnitude will hold.
Cost per hour of runtime, per language. Bars use a logarithmic scale — the real gaps are wider than they look.
Flagship titles, anything with legal exposure, comedy where the wordplay carries the scene, and lyric-heavy musicals. A human is genuinely better at these and we will say so.
Back catalogue, long tail, lecture libraries, corporate video, and anything where the honest alternative was shipping no subtitles at all.
Machine pass across the catalogue, a human on the two or three titles that carry the brand. That usually costs a tenth of doing everything by hand.
Assuming an average 95-minute title in four languages — $28.00 each. This is a one-time number; after the backfill you are only paying for new releases.
Total one-time cost to subtitle an entire catalogue into four languages, at 95 minutes average runtime.
Nothing forces you to do it all at once. Load $700.00 a month and clear twenty-five titles a month; the wallet simply drains slower. There is no plan that expires and no allowance to lose.
Above roughly five hundred titles a month, get in touch before you start — talk to us and we will look at the volume rather than letting you pay list rate on a five-figure backfill.
Everything below is in the $4.00. There is no premium tier where the good features live, because there is no tier at all.
1 feature · 3 languages · one time
$24.00
A 114-minute film subtitled into English, French and Spanish for festival submission. The same job quoted by a house would have been north of $500.
300 titles · 5 languages · backfill
$10,500
Spread over six months at roughly $1,750 a month. After that, only new acquisitions.
40 lectures · 2 languages · monthly
$480.00
Ninety minutes each, every month. Clean single-voice audio, so the flag rate sits in the low single digits and almost nothing needs review.
At that point the flat rate stops being the right instrument and we would rather quote you properly than watch you pay list price on a very large backfill.
That conversation covers committed volume against a lower unit rate, custom reading-speed profiles matching a distributor's spec sheet, glossary and character-sheet support for series work, priority processing, and invoicing on terms rather than a prepaid wallet.
Because the fixed cost of running a job — transcription setup, the translation pass, cue conformance, storage and delivery — barely moves with runtime at the short end. The first hour is priced as one block at $4.00 so short jobs pay their own way. If you have a batch of very short clips, join them into one file and you pay for one block instead of several.
The first 60 minutes are one block at $4.00. After that, each 15 minutes is a block at $1.00, and a block counts the moment it starts. A file running one hour and one second has started its second block, so it bills $5.00 in one language.
Because the exact runtime is not known until the file has been through transcription, and nobody should run a job on credit that might not be there. The hold reserves the estimate, the transcript fixes the true duration, and the difference is settled in whichever direction it falls. You always end up paying for exactly what was processed.
It cannot, because the cost is held up front. If the file turns out longer than estimated and your balance cannot cover the difference, we take what is there and deliver the work anyway rather than holding finished files hostage over a few cents.
No. WebVTT, SRT and the transcript all come with every language, and re-exporting a title you have already processed is free. You paid for the translation, not the serialisation.
Yes, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. A ten-minute clip works out at $4.00 for the whole thing; a two-hour feature works out at $8.00, which is far less per minute. The flat first hour is what makes short jobs viable to run at all, and the block rate after it is deliberately small.
It costs us less — transcription only happens once. We keep the rate flat rather than building a tiered discount because a single number is easier for you to plan against, and the saving is already reflected in the rate being what it is.
Yes. Each top-up generates a receipt, and the wallet ledger exports as your reconciliation record. For net-30 invoicing rather than prepayment, contact us.
Compute and storage, the conformance engine, the infrastructure that keeps long jobs resumable, support, and margin. We priced it so that two numbers work at every volume rather than building a tier ladder you have to model against. The engine page explains where the work actually goes.
Create an account, top up the wallet, and process a title you actually care about. A feature film in two languages costs about $16.00, so you can judge the output on real material rather than on a demo clip.