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Both cover captions & subtitles. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| Happy Scribe | VEED | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $8.50 | From $12 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Yes |
| Data export | Everything, in an open format | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
| Covers | Captions & Subtitles, Transcription & Show Notes | Captions & Subtitles, Video Editing |
| Works with | YouTube, Podcast | YouTube, TikTok, Instagram |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
Transcripts and subtitles in 60-plus languages
Happy Scribe does machine transcription and subtitles, and will sell you a human pass over the top when the machine is not good enough. The export list is long, including the subtitle formats an editor actually needs. Minutes are metered per year rather than per month, which suits lumpy production.
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Browser video editing with subtitles that hold up
VEED does the jobs a short-form editor repeats every week: auto subtitles, resizing for each platform, background noise removal and translation. Everything runs in a tab, so a Chromebook edits as well as a laptop does. The credit system covers the AI features rather than the editor, and heavy translation work burns through a month of them quickly.
Our note
VEED and Submagic overlap most on captions, and the split is scope: Submagic is sharper at the fast-cut short-form style, VEED does more of the boring work like resizing, translation and noise removal. If captions are the only job, Zubtitle is a third of the price.
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