superwhisper pricing, and what each tier actually gets you.
superwhisper gives away more languages than anyone else in Mac dictation and sells a lifetime licence most rivals don’t offer. Here is what each plan costs, what Pro gates, where its free tier is beaten, and how the arithmetic lands against a cheaper one-time app.
superwhisper is free for voice-to-text in any app, meeting recording with transcription, custom prompt control, and what their site advertises as 100-plus languages on small models. Pro is $8.49 a month, $84.99 a year, or $249.99 as a one-time lifetime licence, and it adds cloud and local model choice, your own API keys, translation to English, and transcription of audio and video files. Enterprise is quoted. All plans carry a 30-day refund and students get 40% off.
Last verified 2026-07-25
The tiers
Read off superwhisper’s pricing on the date stamped above. Their toggle offers monthly, yearly, and lifetime; all three are listed here.
| Plan | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Voice to text in any app, meeting recording and transcription, 100+ languages, unlimited use of small AI models, custom prompt control, email support |
| Pro, monthly | $8.49 a month | Everything in Free, plus your own AI API keys, unlimited cloud and local models, translation to English, transcription of audio and video files, priority support |
| Pro, yearly | $84.99 a year | Same as Pro. Their toggle bills it as two months free |
| Pro, lifetime | $249.99 once | Same as Pro, with no recurring charge |
| Enterprise | Quoted | Everything in Pro, plus SOC 2 Type II, centralized billing and authentication, model access control, enterprise-hosted models, volume discounts |
The free tier is the story
Their free tier is a real one rather than a countdown: dictation into any app, meeting recording with transcription, their claimed 100-plus languages, unlimited use of the small models, and custom prompt control. A lot of people will never need to pay, and they should not.
What Pro actually buys is choice and files: your own API keys, the larger cloud models, translation into English, and transcription of audio and video files you already have. Note the distinction hiding in those two lists. The free tier will transcribe a meeting it records for you; feeding it a file you recorded elsewhere is the Pro feature.
The lifetime option, and what it is worth
Their free tier is not the most generous in every direction, though, and the honest comparison says where it loses. Spokenly gives away local file transcription that superwhisper keeps in Pro, and MacWhisper’s free tier transcribes files too. What superwhisper gives away that nobody matches is the language count and the absence of any word limit.
On the lifetime licence: at $249.99 it pays for itself against monthly billing in about thirty months, or against yearly billing in about three years. Whether that is a good trade depends on a question nobody can answer for you: how long you expect to keep using it, and how long they expect to keep shipping. Lifetime pricing is a bet placed in both directions.
Worth saying plainly, since this site sells a one-time app. Offering a lifetime licence at all puts superwhisper on the same side of that argument as us. What is left between the two products on price is a number, not a principle.
Against Edict
Their column is what their pricing page showed on the verified date; ours is what this site sells.
| superwhisper | Edict | |
|---|---|---|
| Free option | A real free tier; their bullet reads unlimited use of small models | 7-day full trial, then a purchase |
| One-time price | $249.99 lifetime | $29 (list $39) |
| Subscription | $8.49 a month or $84.99 a year | None |
| Speech processed | Local models offline, or cloud models you choose | On your Mac only; no cloud path exists |
| Languages | 100+ claimed | 25 European, detected automatically |
| File transcription | Pro tier | Included, with speaker labels |
| Platforms | Mac, Windows, iOS | macOS on Apple Silicon |
| AI rewriting | Yes, modes and custom prompts | No, verbatim by design |
| Refunds | 30 days, all plans | 14 days |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II on Enterprise | None; it is one person and a licence |
Which one is for you
Buy superwhisper if you want the text improved rather than transcribed. Their modes, custom prompts, and the choice of language model their site advertises are the product, and nothing here matches that. Take it too if you need Windows or iOS, or more languages than we cover.
Buy Edict if you want the opposite: your exact words, unchanged, from a model that never leaves the machine, going straight into a coding agent that will act on them. On languages, be clear-eyed about what you are choosing between. Edict dictates in 25 European languages against their advertised 100-plus, its accuracy across those 25 runs from 3.00% word error rate in Italian to 24.03% in Slovenian on NVIDIA’s published results, and its own interface is English only. That difference is deliberate on both sides. The dictation comparison puts the whole field in order, and the head-to-head against Wispr Flow sets the two biggest subscriptions side by side.
Common questions
How much does superwhisper cost?
Pro is $8.49 a month, $84.99 a year, or $249.99 once for a lifetime licence, as shown on their pricing page on the date stamped above. Students get 40% off on verification, every plan carries a 30-day refund, and Enterprise is priced on request.
Is superwhisper free?
Yes, in a real sense rather than a trial sense. The free plan covers voice to text in any app, meeting recording with transcription, custom prompt control, unlimited use of their small AI models, and a language count their site puts above 100. Cloud models, your own API keys, translation, and file transcription are the Pro features.
Does superwhisper have a lifetime licence?
Yes, at $249.99 as a one-time payment, which their pricing toggle marks as the top choice. It carries the same features as Pro without a recurring charge.
Is superwhisper Pro worth it?
It depends on whether you want the text changed. Pro buys cloud and local model choice, your own API keys, translation to English, and transcription of audio and video files. If you only dictate and the small local models are accurate enough for you, the free tier already does that.
Is there a cheaper one-time alternative?
Yes on price, though the products differ. Edict is $29 once for macOS on Apple Silicon, transcribes on the Mac with no cloud path, and stays verbatim rather than rewriting. VoiceInk is also one-time and open source. superwhisper remains the better buy if you want AI rewriting modes or Windows and iOS support.
Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) · macOS 15 Sequoia or later · 7-day full trial · one-time purchase