Rev is a general transcription service used across industries. Brady is transcription software for bodycam footage, built for criminal defense. Here is how they compare on cost per hour of footage and on what you actually get back.
Rev publishes its prices. Human-verified transcription is billed per minute. AI transcription is sold as a monthly subscription with a minute allowance. Brady is a flat monthly plan that includes the transcript and the review.
$95 a month for 40 hours of footage: transcripts, visual events, key issues, Wilson, clips, and the evidence vault.
$1.99 per minute, verified by a human, typical turnaround 12 hours. A 4-hour traffic stop with two cameras costs about $478.
Essentials plan, 5,000 AI minutes a month. Cheap per hour, and the output is a transcript only: no visual review, no issue spotting, no evidence vault.
Rev rates from rev.com/pricing. Brady per-hour figure assumes the full 40-hour monthly allowance is used. Rev’s Essentials plan is $25.49 per seat per month when billed annually.
| Capability | Brady | Rev |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker-labeled transcripts with timestamps | Yes | Yes |
| Human-verified transcript option | No | Yes |
| Built for criminal defense evidence | Yes | No |
| Visual event detection on silent footage | Yes | No |
| On-screen text capture (plates, signs, screens) | Yes | No |
| Reads the police report against the video and flags conflicts | Yes | No |
| Key issues with a timestamp and a page cite | Yes | No |
| Ask questions across the whole case file (Wilson) | Yes | No |
| Cross-examination and strategy drafts | Yes | No |
| Lossless clips for court | Yes | No |
| SHA-256 fingerprint and custody log on every file | Yes | No |
| Encrypted evidence vault reserved for your account | Yes | No |
| Never used to train AI models | Yes | See Rev terms |
Rev capabilities per its public pricing and product pages. Rev is a transcription and captioning service; it does not market evidence review features.
If all you need is words on a page, Rev is a fine place to get them, and its human-verified option is as accurate as transcription gets. But it hands you back the same four hours of footage you started with, now with a transcript beside it. You still have to watch the silent stretches, read the report, and find the conflicts yourself.
Brady does that work. It transcribes the audio, watches the frames where nobody is talking, reads the report and affidavits, and flags where they disagree with the camera, each finding tied to the second and the page. You verify with one click and draft the cross from the verified record.
On cost, Brady is a fraction of Rev’s human rate: about $2.38 an hour against $119.40. Rev’s AI plan is cheaper per hour than Brady for raw transcription, so if a transcript is genuinely all you want, say so and buy that. If you want the file reviewed, the comparison is not close.
You need a certified, human-verified transcript of a short recording for filing or for a court that requires one.
You transcribe depositions, interviews, or meetings outside criminal defense and do not need the video watched.
Your discovery is body cam, dash cam, 911 audio, jail calls, and reports, and you need all of it reviewed, not just typed.
The case turns on what the officer did, not only what was said: a search, a consent exchange, a bag leaving the frame, a plate on screen.
You want chain of custody on every file and an evidence vault that never trains anyone’s AI.
Figures checked October 26, 2026. Vendors change prices and features; confirm current terms with each vendor before relying on them.
Three videos with full AI review, no card required. Then $95 a month for 40 hours.