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Captions vs Whisper
Both stand on ai video caption generators. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
Free plan AndroidAPIiPhone+2
Captions combines footage editing, prompt-based video creation, and multilingual captioning and dubbing. The free plan has no AI credits, so review the paid plan credit allowances if you need AI generation.
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Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+2
Whisper provides multilingual speech-processing capabilities as locally installable, MIT-licensed code and model weights. Performance varies by language, and the turbo model is not intended for translation.
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| Captions | Whisper | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Runs on | Android, API, iPhone, Mac, Web | API, Linux, Mac, Self-hosted, Windows |
| Lowest paid plan | Lite: $4.99 a month | See the plans |
| Plans published | 8 | 3 |
| Maker | Not published | Not published |
| Website | captions.ai | github.com |
| On ai video caption generators | #4 of 99 | #1 of 99 |
Captions: what it does well
- Translates videos into over 100 languages
- Offers more than 100 caption styles
- Dubbing supports more than 30 languages
- Max includes 500 credits per month
- Unused credits can roll over for up to two months
What to know first
- Free plan includes no AI usage credits
- Free plan includes only 1 caption template
- Max costs $24.99 a month
Whisper: what it does well
- Supports transcription, translation and language identification
- Includes six model sizes with different tradeoffs
- Code and weights are MIT-licensed
- Offers command-line and Python interfaces
- Exports TXT, VTT, SRT, TSV, JSON and JSONL
What to know first
- Requires ffmpeg for installation
- Rust may be needed if a prebuilt wheel is unavailable
- VRAM needs range from approximately 1 GB to 10 GB
- Turbo is not trained for translation
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