VideoCue Rankings · captions
Best AI Captions & Transcription (2026)
ASR engines compared on word-error rate and timing.
#1FREE
WhisperX
Community (Max Bain)
The open-source ASR champion - word-level timestamps free.
OUR SCORE
-In VideoCue
#2FREE
ElevenLabs Alignment
ElevenLabs
Free word-timing when you TTS through ElevenLabs.
OUR SCORE
-In VideoCue
#3MID
OpenAI Whisper-3
OpenAI
The hosted Whisper - solid baseline at hosted convenience.
OUR SCORE
$0.0060 / minuteIn VideoCue
#4MID
AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI
Diarization + entity detection + sentiment - the platform pick.
OUR SCORE
$0.01 / minute
#5MID
Deepgram Nova-3
Deepgram
The speed champion - real-time ASR for voice agents.
OUR SCORE
$0.0080 / minute
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