How much does legal dictation and transcription software with AI cost?

Legal dictation and transcription software with AI runs from free (Rev and Voibe both have a free tier) to posted plans of $21.90 to $54.00 per user a month billed annually at Philips SpeechLive, $35.00/mo at GoTranscript and $880/yr at Sonix Legal, with per-minute and per-page rates for one-off jobs. Four of the ten tools in Transcription, Dictation & Meeting Notes — BigHand Professional, Dragon Legal Anywhere, OM SYSTEM ODMS Cloud and Verbit — are quoted. Prices were read on the vendor's own site on October 31, 2026.

Dictation

• Philips SpeechLive: Workflow $21.90; Legal Direct $47.80; Legal AI Assistant $54.00, each per user per month billed annually. Legal Direct adds legal speech recognition, dictation at the cursor and up to 10-speaker transcription; Legal AI Assistant adds AI-assisted document drafts. Posts a no-training statement and names ISO 27001.
• Voibe: free tier; Voibe Dictation $99/yr per seat billed annually; Voibe Work $149/yr per seat billed annually with AI meeting summaries. Dictation into any app including Clio, on-device processing on Apple Silicon Macs, and a custom legal vocabulary.
• Dragon Legal Anywhere: quoted subscription. Cloud speech recognition with a legal vocabulary, automatic citation formatting and custom voice commands for standard clauses; Dragon Anywhere Mobile included.
• BigHand Professional: quoted, for firms under 50 people. Bundles BigHand Dictate, BigHand Speech Recognition and the BigHand Go mobile app so dictations are transcribed and routed; free trial.
• OM SYSTEM ODMS Cloud: quoted 12-month licences. Routes dictations from Olympus recorders and the phone app to typists, with an optional Speech Recognition Package that converts them to text in legal templates; free trial on request.

Transcription of evidence, hearings and depositions

• Rev: free plan (45 AI transcription minutes a month); Essentials $25.49 per seat/mo billed annually; Pro $47.99 per seat/mo billed annually. À la carte: Legal Rough Draft $2.25/page, Legal Premium Transcript $2.50/page, human transcription $1.99/min, AI transcription from $0.25/min. Posts a no-training statement and names SOC 2 Type II.
• Sonix Legal: Sonix Legal Pro $880/yr billed annually (one user, 480 transcription hours a year); Pay As You Go $10/hour. Real-time transcription for depositions and hearings, AI summaries, case-wide Q&A with citations and one-click sending to Clio. Posts a no-training statement and names SOC 2 Type II.
• GoTranscript: 2,100 minutes $35.00/mo; 6,000 minutes $55.00/mo for AI transcription, with a meeting bot for Zoom, Teams and Google Meet and human transcription priced per minute; free pilot on the legal page.
• TranscribeMe: Automated Transcription $0.07 per audio minute; legal transcription with human review is quoted per page. AI Formatted Legal Transcripts work with MAXScribe, CaseCatalyst and YesLaw.
• Verbit: quoted. AI rough drafts within 24 hours, human-edited certified transcripts, and Legal Visor for real-time AI insights with inconsistency detection during depositions.

What the price covers

Dictation plans are per user and cover speech recognition plus the routing of dictations to whoever types or reviews them. Transcription is priced three ways: per seat with included minutes or hours (Rev, Sonix Legal), per month for a block of minutes (GoTranscript), or per minute and per page for a single file (Rev, TranscribeMe). Three of the ten tools post that client data is not used to train AI models and name a security standard; the confidentiality column on each listing shows which.

Quick answers

What is the cheapest legal dictation software with AI?

Voibe has a free tier and a Dictation plan at $99/yr per seat billed annually, and Philips SpeechLive posts its Workflow plan at $21.90 per user per month billed annually, with legal speech recognition on Legal Direct at $47.80.

How much does it cost to transcribe a deposition or hearing recording with AI?

Rev posts AI transcription from $0.25/min and legal-formatted transcripts from $2.25/page, Sonix Legal posts Pay As You Go at $10/hour, TranscribeMe posts automated transcription at $0.07 per audio minute, and GoTranscript posts 2,100 AI minutes for $35.00/mo.

Which transcription tools send transcripts into Clio?

Sonix Legal sends transcripts to Clio in one click, and Voibe dictates directly into Clio from any app on its legal page.