Plans
What's free, what the paid plans add, and why the split falls where it does.
Dictation is free, unlimited, and runs on your own machine. That doesn't change and isn't a trial. Two things can't run locally, and those are what the paid plans are for: an AI cleanup pass, and cloud transcription.
What each plan includes
| Free | Plus — $3/mo | Pro — $11/mo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local dictation, all three engines | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Punctuation, filler removal, vocabulary | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI cleanup — rewritten for intent and context | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Transformations | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vocabulary synced across devices | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud transcription, 90+ languages | — | — | ✓ |
| More than one language in a single pass | — | — | ✓ |
| Priority support, new features first | — | — | ✓ |
Both paid plans are two months cheaper paid annually — $30 and $110 a year. There's an Enterprise plan as well; that one's a conversation rather than a checkout button, so it has a contact link.
One thing worth knowing about Plus
Plus adds the AI cleanup pass, but transcription still runs on whichever engine you have installed — so it hears whatever that engine hears.
Tiune Instant and Tiune Turbo are English-only. If you dictate in another language on Plus, use Tiune Multilingual, which covers 99 of them on your own machine. On Pro the question doesn't arise: transcription happens in the cloud either way.
Why mixing languages mid-sentence is Pro-only
On Pro, a single sentence can contain more than one language — start in Urdu, land in English, drop a French phrase in the middle, and the whole thing comes out right in one pass, with nothing to switch between.
This sits on Pro for a structural reason rather than a commercial one. The on-device engines commit to one language per window of audio and cannot revise that choice partway through a sentence — no local model of any size does. Cloud transcription detects per utterance instead, and the detection runs inside the utterance, so a sentence is allowed to change its mind.
How this works in practice — and how to choose what script the result comes out in — is in Languages & Scripts.
What it costs you in privacy
Different plans send different things, and it's worth being exact about it:
- Free — nothing leaves your machine. No audio, no text.
- Plus — the transcribed text is sent for cleanup at the end of a dictation. Your audio never leaves your machine.
- Pro — audio is sent for transcription, but only when you've turned cloud transcription on.
The three privacy guarantees — no stored audio, no training on your words, no one reading them — hold on every plan. See Privacy for the full picture.
Managing your plan
Your current plan, and a link to manage billing, are in Settings → Account. See Settings.