Riverside pricing: what it costs and what is paywalled

Bottom line: Riverside's Pro plan was £35 a month, or £24 a month billed yearly (£288), on its pricing page as shown to a UK visitor on 17 October 2026, and it buys a whole recording, editing and publishing platform. The free plan lets you try 2 hours of multitrack recording, with a watermark and up to 720p video. If all you need is to edit your own voice by its transcript, Paraphrase is £13.99 a month or about £4.99 a month on the three year cycle, but it does far less, so compare what you will actually use.

All prices below were read on Riverside's pricing page and help centre on 17 October 2026. Vendors change pricing, so check before you buy.

What Riverside costs

These are the prices the page showed a UK visitor. Riverside's help centre says it accepts USD, EUR and GBP and adjusts "pricing by region".

The pricing page shows a 14-day free trial on Pro, Grow and Webinar (Business is "Book a demo"). The help centre says you need a credit card to start a trial, and you are not charged until it ends.

What you get for free

The free plan, from the pricing page:

• "Try 2 hours of multi-track recordings (Separate audio and video tracks)", in the plan card's words.
• Unlimited single-track recording and editing, and video calls as long as you want.
• The "full suite of editing tools" and Magic Clips.
• Up to 720p video and 44.1 kHz audio.
• A Riverside watermark on what you export. On audio-only exports that is a "Powered by Riverside" audio track at the start, according to the help centre.

The help centre lists text-based editing, removing words from the recording by deleting them from the transcript, on all plans.

What sits behind the paywall

Pro (£35, or £24 a month yearly) adds:

• Up to 4K video and 48kHz audio, no watermark.
• "Unlimited text-based editing" and "Unlimited transcriptions".
• AI B-roll, eye contact, silence and filler word removal, audio enhancement.
• Magic Clips and show notes, plus the AI editing and repurposing agent.
• Podcast hosting and analytics, and publishing to YouTube, Spotify, Apple and others.
• 1 studio and 15 hours of separate track downloads a month.
• 2,000 AI credits to start with, for features like AI translation and AI B-roll.

On Pro and above the help centre also lists AI Voice (up to 5,000 characters a month in your own authenticated voice), voice clones (in beta, using AI credits) and VideoDub, which regenerates up to two words at a time with lip sync. Find Fluff, which suggests whole segments to remove, is on all paid plans. External file uploads are 15 hours a month on Pro, Grow and Webinar.

Grow (£45, or £34 a month yearly) adds live streaming in 1080p, multistreaming, social scheduling, a newsletter, a creator website, hosting for two shows, 2 studios and 20 hours of separate track downloads.

Webinar (£99, or £79 a month yearly) adds webinar tools for up to 100 registrants, 3 studios and 25 hours of separate track downloads.

Business (custom pricing) adds unlimited studios and separate track downloads, collaborative editing, non-destructive timeline exports, SSO, API access and a "Dedicated CSM".

How the separate track hours work

This is the limit most worth understanding. The pricing page FAQ says "Recording itself is unlimited", and the cap is on downloading the individual per-participant tracks, the locally recorded studio-quality files. Hit the cap and you can still access your content, but cannot download new separate tracks until the next billing cycle or an upgrade. If you edit inside Riverside rather than exporting separate tracks to another editor, the cap may not matter to you at all.

How Paraphrase prices editing

Paraphrase is a transcript editor for your own recording, not a recording platform, and it prices around one thing: transcription. One credit transcribes one second of audio, and credits are spent once. Editing, AI cleanup and export never use credits, so re-editing and re-exporting cost nothing.

Premium includes 120 hours of audio a month (it does not roll over), 30 AI cleanups a day, and projects up to 4 hours. There is a 7 day free trial on the monthly and annual cycles, card required.

The free plan needs no card: 15 minutes of transcription, 3 AI cleanups a day, and projects up to 5 minutes of recordings. Credit packs work on either plan and do not expire while the account is open: £3.99 for 4 hours, £12.99 for 13 hours 20 minutes, £34.99 for 40 hours. The credits and plans docs have the details, and the pricing page has the current plan.

Comparing the two honestly

Both prices are in pounds here, but they do not buy the same thing, so a straight saving would mislead. What is comparable is the shape:

• Riverside is priced as a platform. Pro bundles a 4K remote studio, local separate tracks, hosting, publishing, AI video tools and AI voice. If you use those, the price is buying a lot.
• Paraphrase is priced as one job. It records or takes an upload, transcribes it, and lets you edit by the words. No remote studio, no separate per-speaker tracks, no hosting, no captions, no noise removal.
• Free plans suit different trials. Riverside's free plan lets you try 2 hours of remote multitrack recording. Paraphrase's free plan lets you try transcript editing and the AI cleanup on short recordings.
• Generated speech. Riverside's paid plans include tools that generate speech in your voice. Paraphrase never generates speech at any price; your export only contains words you said.

So the honest answer depends on whether you record guests. If you do, Riverside's Pro plan is the relevant comparison and Paraphrase is at most a second tool. If you work alone, our Riverside alternatives post covers the options, the Riverside review covers what it is like on paper, and Paraphrase vs Riverside compares the editing directly.

Try it on your own recording first: create a free account at paraphrase.bot, no card needed.