Trint vs Temi — Two Rev-Owned Meters, One Local Way Out

It depends on volume and team size. Temi bills \$0.25 per audio minute (\$15 per audio hour) with no subscription — \$15 for one hour, \$75 at 5 hours, \$300 at 20 hours a month. Trint rents seats: Team \$69/seat/mo annual (\$90 monthly), Pro \$79. A solo user under ~4.6 hours of audio a month pays less on Temi; past that crossover, Trint's flat seat wins for one person — until a second editor doubles the bill, at which point Temi's meter (or a local engine) is cheaper again. At 100 hours a month, Temi costs \$1,500 and Trint \$69 per seat. A local tool such as VocalFuse is \$5/mo flat at every volume, because your own PC does the transcription.

Yes — both are owned by Rev. Rev acquired Trint in 2021 for its newsroom and enterprise collaboration features, while Temi serves as Rev's automated-only pay-as-you-go product. Temi runs on Rev's ASR engine and its homepage now funnels users toward Rev's subscription tiers. Functionally that makes the Trint-vs-Temi choice a decision between two pricing shapes of one vendor's stack: per-seat rent (Trint) or per-minute meter (Temi), with Rev's own subscription tiers waiting behind both.

Trint is a collaborative editorial workspace for media teams: interactive transcript editor, story builder, shared drives, real-time multi-user editing, live transcription, 50+ transcription languages, 70+ translation languages, and newsroom-system connectors (AP ENPS, Mimir, Octopus). Temi is a transcription vending machine: upload a file, get a timestamped English transcript in 5-10 minutes, fix it in a simple web editor, export TXT/DOCX/PDF/SRT/VTT. Trint adds real-time work, collaboration, and multilingual support; Temi adds zero commitment and zero learning curve. Neither offers local processing or meeting-note features — that is the local-tool lane.

Trint's published plans: Team \$69 per seat/month billed annually (\$828/seat, marketed as a \$252 saving), \$90 monthly, and a \$79 Pro tier for individuals — with a 7-day trial and no permanent free plan. Watch the fine print: the Enterprise Services Agreement fair-use clause caps service at 50 transcription hours per seat per month despite 'unlimited' marketing, and Starter historically capped files per month. Temi charges \$0.25 per audio minute (\$15/hour), rounded up per file, with no setup fee or minimum — and its only free allowance is a one-time 45-minute trial transcript.

Both advertise ~95% on clean audio, and independent evidence is limited for both. Temi's published accuracy degrades sharply on noise, accents, and multi-speaker audio per independent 2026 tests, and it is English-only, so accent-heavy non-native audio is its worst case. Trint's engine is tuned for broadcast-quality multilingual work and adds a custom vocabulary builder, but per-seat pricing means you pay whether accuracy holds up or not. The 2026 benchmark finding applies to both: audio quality affects accuracy 3-5x more than engine choice. A local Whisper-class engine is competitive on clean audio, stronger on accented speech in published WER comparisons — and re-running it costs nothing.

Neither is truly unlimited. Temi has no usage cap but every audio minute bills at \$0.25 — the meter is the limit. Trint markets unlimited transcription, but its published Enterprise Services Agreement sets a fair-use allowance of 50 hours per seat per month over the contract term, and cheaper tiers historically capped file counts. If your real volume is high, do the math on what happens after the cap — or move the workload local, where 300 hours a month costs your electricity, not a subscription.

Not really. Temi has no meeting mode at all: no bot, no live capture, no summaries, no action items — it is upload-a-file transcription with 5-10 minute turnaround. Trint can capture live audio from desktop, mobile, or broadcast streams and transcribe virtual meetings, but it produces transcripts, not structured meeting notes — no action items, no AI notes workflow. VocalFuse captures system audio on your own PC without any bot joining the call, adds speaker labels and AI meeting notes on Pro, and covers hold-to-talk dictation — the layer both Rev products leave out.

Trint offers EU or US data residency, ISO 27001 certification, and GDPR retention controls — the stronger cloud posture of the two, aimed at enterprise buyers. Temi runs on Rev's cloud with TLS 1.2 in transit and dashboard deletion, retention on Rev's terms, and no marketed HIPAA BAA for the AI tier. Both are upload-first products: the audio leaves your machine by design. A local engine inverts the model — audio is transcribed on your own Windows PC and never uploads, so there is no retention policy to trust and no server to breach. For legal work product, HR investigations, or source-protecting journalism, that difference is structural.