Accurate transcription with nothing sent anywhere. Once it's on your machine there is no quota, no account and no per-minute price — which changes what you're willing to transcribe.
Setup is a real step (Python, a model download, ideally a GPU), and long files on CPU are slow. It's free in money, not in effort.
| What you get free | Free and unlimited — code and model weights released under the MIT licence, run locally |
| Where the limit sits | No service limits; you pay in CPU/GPU time on your own hardware |
| Credit card to start | No |
| Pricing type | Open source |
| Last checked | 2026-07-30 · source |
| Run it yourself | Yes — MIT · repo |
| Platforms | windows, mac, linux |
| Category | Audio & voice · Self-hosted / local |
We recheck every entry. Subscribers hear first when a free tier quietly shrinks.