Rev

About Rev

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Rev

All products by Rev reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

RevAI Legal

AI and human transcription, captions, and subtitles for audio and video

From $25/mo7.4/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Rev

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Rev's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.7 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Rev competes with, and how they differ.

Sonix7.9/10

Sonix is a self-serve online transcription/subtitling editor built around automated speech recognition, while Rev pairs AI transcription with a large human-transcriptionist marketplace and legal-vertical tools (SmartDepo deposition summaries, Legal Rough Draft); Sonix itself names Rev its top competitor.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

AssemblyAI8.1/10

AssemblyAI sells its speech-to-text and audio-intelligence models purely as a usage-priced developer API, competing directly with Rev AI (Rev's own transcription API), whereas Rev also sells direct-to-consumer and enterprise transcription/captioning with human transcriptionists.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Descript7.5/10

Descript is an audio/video editing tool that uses a transcript as its editing interface (text-based editing, Overdub) for podcasters and video creators, while Rev is a pure transcription, captioning and subtitling service with no editing/production layer.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Otter.ai7.5/10

Otter.ai focuses on live transcription of meetings (Zoom/Teams/Meet integrations) sold as a seat-based subscription, while Rev centers on uploaded audio/video files -- transcription, captions and subtitles -- with an optional human-transcriptionist tier and a legal-industry vertical.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Verbit

Verbit is an enterprise-focused AI-plus-human captioning and transcription provider (raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation) that competes most directly with Rev in legal and enterprise accounts, while Rev also serves a large self-serve SMB/individual market that Verbit targets less.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Rev's history, with sources.

1. Oct 6, 2025Partnership

   State Bar of Texas names Rev its first-ever AI partner

   The State Bar of Texas designated Rev as its first-ever official AI technology partner, per Rev's own announcement.

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2. Mar 24, 2025Acquisition

   Acquired SmartDepo, an AI legal deposition-summary startup

   Rev acquired California-based SmartDepo, whose AI generates deposition summaries with page-line citations for attorneys; deal terms were not disclosed.

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3. Dec 19, 2024Launch

   Launched first open-source Spanglish speech-recognition model

   Rev released an open-source automatic speech recognition model trained to handle Spanglish (mixed English/Spanish) audio.

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4. Oct 2, 2024Launch

   Released Reverb, open-weight speech-transcription and diarization models

   Rev open-sourced Reverb ASR and Reverb Diarization, models trained on 200,000 hours of human-transcribed speech, claiming lower word-error rates than OpenAI Whisper on several benchmarks.

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5. Oct 2, 2023Launch

   Launched AI Transcript Assistant

   Rev launched a generative-AI assistant that produces summaries and actionable insights from uploaded transcripts.

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6. Jun 21, 2023Partnership

   Partnered with Vimeo on video accessibility

   Rev and Vimeo announced a partnership to make captions and transcription available to Vimeo creators, aimed at improving video accessibility.

   globenewswire.com
7. Oct 11, 2022Milestone

   Cut 85 jobs in Austin office after financing troubles

   Rev laid off 85 employees in its Austin office; its CEO said the company had grown too fast and the restructuring would help it become profitable without relying on outside capital.

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8. May 24, 2021Milestone

   Expanded Austin office, adding 130 jobs

   Rev announced an expansion of its Austin office footprint, planning to add 130 new jobs that year, per the Austin Business Journal.

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9. Jun 25, 2020Launch

   Launched live captions for Zoom

   Rev launched a live-captioning integration for Zoom meetings, part of its expansion into real-time captioning during the pandemic-driven shift to remote work.

   prnewswire.com
10. Mar 26, 2013Funding

    Series A -- $4.5M led by Globespan Capital Partners

    Rev.com raised a $4.5 million Series A led by Venky Ganesan of Globespan Capital Partners, with Craig Sherman (ex-Ancestry.com COO) and Austin Ligon (CarMax founder) joining as investors; the round closed in August 2012 and was announced by TechCrunch in March 2013.

    techcrunch.com
11. 2010Founded

    Founded in San Francisco by former oDesk employees

    Rev was founded in 2010 by Jason Chicola and Josh Breinlinger (both early oDesk employees) along with co-founders Dan Kokotov, David Abrameto, Mark Chen and Paul Huck, as a freelancer marketplace for transcription and translation.

    statesman.com