The Notta alternative with no monthly minute budget.
Notta’s Free and Pro plans run on a monthly allowance: so many minutes, reset every month, gone if you don’t use them. Speecho has no allowance at all. You top up credits, they never expire, and every transcription comes back with subtitles, a summary and translation without a single add-on.
Transcribe your first file free → No card needed · 15 free minutes on email confirmationTranscribe four hours in a month? About $3.30 to $5 on Speecho, and nothing in the months you don’t open it.
Speecho vs Notta at a glance
| Speecho | Notta | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing model | Pay-as-you-go credit top-ups - no subscription | Freemium, with monthly subscriptions on paid plans |
| Monthly minute cap | None - you buy exactly the hours you need | Free: 120 minutes a month. Pro: 1,800. Business: unlimited |
| Do unused minutes expire? | Credits never expire | The monthly allowance resets |
| Free tier | 15 free minutes on email confirmation - spend them on one long file if you like | 120 minutes a month, but each conversation is capped at 3 minutes |
| How meetings are captured | Live subtitles from a browser tab or your mic, or record and upload - no bot in the call | Live capture and a meeting bot |
| Translation | Into 18 languages: two free with every transcription, more for a few cents each. Live subtitles are translated as people speak | On paid plans; real-time and bilingual modes are separate paid add-ons |
| Built-in text-to-speech | Yes - AI voices in three quality tiers | No |
| Effective price | About $0.83–$1.25 per hour of audio | Pro from $8.17 a month billed annually; Business from $16.67 |
| Best for | Occasional or bursty files: interviews, lectures, memos, any recording | Continuous capture of recurring meetings |
Notta’s plans and prices change often - check notta.ai/pricing for current numbers. The figures above are from Notta’s pricing page as of October 2026.
Which one should you pick?
Stay on Notta if you sit in recurring meetings and want a notetaker to join and record them for you, and you use enough minutes each month that a subscription pays for itself - past roughly ten hours a month it does.
Switch to Speecho if your transcription comes in bursts, you resent paying for months you barely use, you keep bumping into a per-file length cap, or you want subtitles, a summary and translation included rather than sold separately.
What you get with Speecho
- 90–97% accuracy on clean audio, with speaker labels for multi-voice recordings.
- Four outputs from one upload - transcript, subtitles (.srt/.vtt), AI summary, and translation into 18 languages.
- No monthly budget to ration - a three-hour recording is just a three-hour recording.
- Built-in text-to-speech - something Notta doesn’t offer.
- Live subtitles with translation for a call in a browser tab or a talk in the room - no bot, same per-second rate.
Notta vs Speecho - FAQ
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Is Speecho actually cheaper than Notta?
It depends on volume, and the honest break-even is around ten hours of audio a month. Below that, paying $0.83–$1.25 an hour beats any monthly plan. Above it, a subscription starts to win - we’d rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.
Notta’s free plan includes more minutes than Speecho’s 15. Why would I switch?
Because of how those minutes are shaped. Notta’s free plan gives 120 minutes a month but caps each conversation at 3 minutes, so a 40-minute lecture or interview doesn’t fit at all - the minutes are there but unusable for the recording you actually have. Speecho’s 15 free minutes can go on a single file.
Does Speecho join and record my meetings?
No bot joins your call. Speecho can show live subtitles for a meeting playing in a browser tab (Chrome or Edge on desktop) and translate them as people speak, or you record the call yourself - Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex all have a record button - and upload the file. Nothing routes through a third-party notetaker.
Do I have to pay extra for translation?
Not for the first two. Every transcription comes with translation into two languages of your choice, plus subtitles and an AI summary; each further language costs a few cents from the same balance. There is no add-on to buy.
Can I try Speecho before paying?
Yes. Create a free account and you get 15 free minutes when you confirm your email - no card required.
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