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Both cover transcription & show notes. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| Castmagic | Sonix | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $19 | From $10 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Annual only | Usage-based |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
| Covers | Transcription & Show Notes, AI Content Tools, Audio & Podcasting | Transcription & Show Notes, Captions & Subtitles |
| Works with | Podcast | Nothing in particular |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
Turn an episode into a week of posts
Castmagic takes a recorded episode and returns show notes, timestamps, clips, a newsletter and social posts from the same upload, which is the repurposing job most podcasters do by hand on a Monday. Custom prompts let you fix the house style once. Hours are a library total rather than monthly, so a long back catalogue eats a plan on import.
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Transcription you can pay for by the hour
Sonix will bill by the hour rather than by the month, which is the right shape for somebody who transcribes a batch of interviews twice a year and nothing in between. Accuracy across its 54 languages is good and the editor lines the text up against the audio. Subscribers get storage and an AI workspace that the hourly rate does not include.
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