How much does Sonix cost?
Paid plans start at
$22.92/mo billed yearly
or $25/mo billed monthly
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Free trial
- 30 minutes of free transcription, no credit card required
- Usage price
- $10/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from sonix.ai/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Free trial. 30 minutes of free transcription, no credit card required
- Notice before price changes. At least 30 days' notice, effective at next renewal term
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. Additional hours on subscription plans billed at $10/hr
- Going over the Core allowance costs $10 per hour. Included: 5 hours.
- Their pages disagree: countries served. "105+ Countries served" vs "100+ Countries"
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Start free trial, Contact sales, Start with Core, Talk to our Enterprise team
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup with no credit card required "Setting up your account takes just a minute. No credit card required."
- Setup
- Account setup takes about a minute "Setting up your account takes just a minute."
- When sales steps in
- Not stated
- Support
- Pay As You Go: self-serve help center and docs "Self-serve"
- Support
- Core: email, 48-hour response "Email48-hour response"
- Support
- Advanced: email and chat, 12-hour response "Email + chat12-hour response"
What Sonix does
Sonix converts audio and video to text with speaker labels, translates into 54+ languages, and adds AI summaries, chapters and sentiment analysis. It sells pay-as-you-go and subscription plans self-serve, plus a custom Enterprise plan with SSO, SOC 2 and HIPAA.
- Good for
- Journalists, researchers, legal and healthcare teams, media producers and enterprises needing transcripts, translation and subtitles.
- Channels
- Web app, Mobile app, API, Zapier
- Main product
- AI transcription, translation and subtitles
- Also includes
- Transcription in 54+ languages, Translation into 54+ languages, Speaker labels and timestamps, In-browser transcript editor, Automated subtitles and captions, AI summaries, chapters and sentiment analysis
- Connects to
- Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Zapier, Adobe Premiere, Dropbox, Google Drive
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Speaker identification
Speaker diarization identifies who said what.
- Multiple languages supported
Convert speech to text with 99% accuracy across 54+ languages.
- Live meeting transcriptionNot stated
- AI summaries and action items
Automatically generate summaries, action items, and key points from your transcripts in seconds using advanced
- Human proofreading optionNot stated
- API access
RESTful API for automated transcription.
- Zoom, Teams, Meet integrations
Import recordings from Zoom and Teams, sync transcripts to Dropbox and Google Drive
- SOC 2 / HIPAA compliance
SOC 2 Type 2 certified, HIPAA compliant, bank-level encryption, and comprehensive access controls keep your se
- Export and subtitle formats
Subtitle exports (SRT, VTT)
- Custom vocabulary
Custom dictionary
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | no | "Sonix does not use your content or Customer Data to train our machine learning or generative AI models."privacy |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | available on Enterprise | "HIPAA compliance & a signed BAA on Enterprise"pricing |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type 2 certified | "Yes. Sonix is SOC 2 Type 2 certified."security |
| GDPR | GDPR compliance (Europe) on Enterprise | "GDPR compliance (Europe)"pricing |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | ISO 27001 listed in comparison | "SOC 2+ HIPAA, ISO 27001"home |
| Single sign-on | Enterprise plans (SSO/SAML) | "Enterprise plans include SSO/SAML integration."security |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core/mo | $25 | $22.92per month | 5 hours | $10/hour | "$25/mo" "$275/yr" |
| Advanced/mo | $50 | $45.83per month | 20 hours | $10/hour | "$50/mo" "$550/yr" |
| Pro/mo | $80 | $73.33per month | 40 hours | $10/hour | "$80/mo" "$880/yr" |
| Pay As You Go/hr | $10per minute | – | – | – | "$10/hr" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "Custom pricing for your org" |
Their pages disagree: countries served"105+ Countries served" vs "100+ Countries"
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Prorated to the nearest second "We prorate your “per hour” transcription down to the nearest second so you only pay for what you use."
- Billed beyond usage
- Additional hours on subscription plans billed at $10/hr "Additional hours on any subscription plan are billed at $10/hr."
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- At least 30 days' notice, effective at next renewal term "Sonix will provide at least thirty (30) days’ prior notice of any price increase, or such longer notice as required by applicable law."
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Sonix, Inc.
- Address
- San Francisco, CA
- Online since
- Dec 16, 2017 Domain registration date
- Founder
- Jamie Sutherland, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
- Founder
- David Dat Nguyen, Co-Founder & Chief Experience Officer
- Customers
- "6.2 million+ users worldwide" their claim
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Questions
Is Sonix free?
There's no free plan. Free trial: 30 minutes of free transcription, no credit card required. Paid plans start at $25/month.
How much does Sonix cost?
Paid plans start at $22.92 per month billed yearly, or $25 billed monthly.
Does Sonix train AI on your data?
No, according to Sonix: "Sonix does not use your content or Customer Data to train our machine learning or generative AI models."
Is Sonix HIPAA compliant?
Sonix says a HIPAA BAA is available on Enterprise.