Price Caption and Transcript Work Before You Commission It — Free
Paste your video lengths and quoted caption rates, and read cost per minute, per video and per audience before ordering.
The proof surface
Quotes arrive as flat figures or bundles; the decision needs a per-minute rate beside the total, because the mix of long and short videos is what changes the bill.
Why the flat version breaks
Flat-quote comparison
A $520 bundle and a $4.20 a minute rate look unrelated until both are priced at the same 180 minutes, where the difference is $236.
Auto captions on safety content
Auto captions misread medication names and safety instructions, which is exactly where the cheaper rate is the expensive choice.
Ignoring translation
Translated captions bill at a different rate, and a line without that note understates the package by whatever the translation adds.
How to work the caption strip
One quote per line with its rate, one line per video with its minutes.
Both figures place the package against the per-minute spread and the people it serves.
Each video is a segment with its cost, and the per-minute rate is ruled beneath.
Order the higher rate for legal, medical or safety material and the lower rate for the rest.
What the strip replaces
| Question | Before | On the strip |
|---|---|---|
| Which quote is cheapest | compare flat totals | per-minute rate printed under each segment |
| What it costs per viewer | not considered | cost per person who uses captions |
| Where to spend more | 'use the best one' | human rate for the videos that need it |
Auto and human captions are flagged from the words on the line, because a cheaper rate for the wrong material is not a saving.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the caption strip: your quotes and video lengths stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a paper ticker strip
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 6 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The strip and the per-minute rates are free. The paid layer prints the commissioning sheet and keeps three vendors on file.
Open the caption budget strip companionBoundary
This caption strip works only on the caption quotes and video lengths you paste you paste. It does not judge caption accuracy, does not certify a vendor, and does not order the work for you. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with your accessibility lead or the audience affected before settling for auto captions before you rely on it.
What this is built on
- Every figure comes from the caption quotes and video lengths you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
- Method: cost per minute is read from each quote; per-video cost = minutes × rate for the vendor selected
- Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.
Before: the reader accepted a bulk quote. After: they can see a $4.20 a minute rate against a $1.80 alternative for the same turnaround.