ScribeCrate

Self-hosted transcription, subtitles, and English translation with an OpenAI-compatible API

About ScribeCrate

ScribeCrate is an open-source, self-hosted transcription API that runs on your own hardware: deploy it with Docker on CPU or an NVIDIA GPU and transcribe recordings, generate subtitles and translate speech into English through OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio endpoints powered by faster-whisper. Audio never leaves your server and it can run fully offline with pre-cached models from tiny through large-v3-turbo. Outputs include JSON, text, verbose JSON, SRT and WebVTT, with optional local speaker diarization and SSE streaming of decoded segments.

ScribeCrate website preview

Live preview of scribecrate.com via the WordPress mShots service — it can take a few seconds to generate on a first visit.

ScribeCrate: strengths & things to check

Strengths

Completely free to use — this directory lists no paid plan for it.
Covers transcription, api, self hosted, whisper, open source — see the focus areas listed in its key facts.
Has 6 close alternatives in the same category on this page, so switching or comparing is easy.

Things to check

Free tools can change their model or shut down — avoid locking critical work into it without an export path.
Current plan prices are not listed here (they change too often to print reliably) — confirm the exact price on the official site.
It is one of 1164 tools in the Developer Tools category here — compare it against the alternatives below before you commit.

Derived from this listing's own data (pricing model, focus areas and category) — not a hands-on review score.

ScribeCrate pricing

Pricing model	Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Free access	Yes — fully free
Current plan prices	Listed on the official site — prices change, so this directory links out instead of printing a number that may already be stale.
Official site	scribecrate.com

ScribeCrate key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: transcription, api, self hosted, whisper, open source
Official site: scribecrate.com

ScribeCrate FAQ

How much does ScribeCrate cost?

Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it. Current plans and prices are listed on the official site (scribecrate.com).

What is ScribeCrate used for?

Self-hosted transcription, subtitles, and English translation with an OpenAI-compatible API Its focus areas in the Developer Tools category: transcription, api, self hosted, whisper, open source.

Where can I try ScribeCrate?

On its official site, scribecrate.com — the Visit Official Site button above goes straight there.

ScribeCrate vs alternatives

	ScribeCrate	Cockpit	GoModel	SpeakCrate
Pricing	Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.	Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.	Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.	Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas	transcription, api, self hosted, whisper, open source	headless cms, api, self hosted, open source	ai gateway, llm, open source, self hosted, api	text to speech, self hosted, open source, api, kokoro
Official site	scribecrate.com	getcockpit.com	gomodel.enterpilot.io	speakcrate.com
Directory status	Listed	Listed	Listed	Listed

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About the Developer Tools category

Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 1164 tools. Alongside ScribeCrate, it includes Smallest AI, Amp, Augment Code, omg.dev.

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Alternatives to ScribeCrate

Tools in the same Developer Tools category that share focus areas with ScribeCrate — worth comparing before you commit:

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Comparing tools in the Developer Tools category? These related listings are worth a look: Smallest AI — Voice AI models for every part of the conversation; Amp — The coding agent that never stops working; Augment Code — Agentic software development at organizational scale.