When we sat down to price Wisper Back, the tempting move was to copy the dictation apps: one low price, "unlimited," done. We couldn't — and the reason is worth being honest about, because it shapes the whole product.
Speaking costs more than listening
Transcribing your voice into text is cheap; the marginal cost is close to nothing, which is why dictation apps can promise unlimited words. Generating a natural human voice from text is the opposite — every minute of speech is a real bill. The best studio voices cost meaningfully more than the everyday ones.
So "unlimited premium voice" at a low flat price isn't a pricing strategy — it's a slow way to go broke. And a tool that quietly bankrupts the person building it doesn't stay around to help you.
The floor is free, and it's real
Wisper Back comes with a capable standard voice. It costs us next to nothing and works offline. So we made it the floor under every plan — free and unlimited, forever.
That changes what running out of minutes even means. On most tools, hitting your limit is a wall: a hard stop, an upsell, a dead feature. On Wisper Back, when your natural-voice minutes run out, narration continues in the standard voice. Never a hard stop, never a surprise charge.
You pay for the voice, not the minute
That's the honest version of our pricing. The free tier gives you unlimited narration in the standard voice. Paid tiers add generous hours of natural voices and a bucket of premium ones. And a cost-weighted meter runs underneath so that no matter how you mix voices, we can keep the lights on and you're never billed a rupee you didn't expect.