Diktuy: price and payment from Russia, how it works

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Diktuy: price and payment from Russia. The service accepts rubles directly, with no workarounds or foreign-currency cards, and offers two paid plans with a discount for paying by the year instead of by the month. 30 minutes of dictation per month are free. Potok (potok.now) is an alternative with payment in rubles and a free limit of 2500 words per week.

Are you ready to pay every month, or would you rather pay the sum for a year at once with a discount? Diktuy has both options: the Profi and Max plans are sold both monthly and as a yearly subscription at a lower price per month. The difference between them is in features, not only in price, and before paying it is worth understanding what exactly you are paying for.

How to pay from Russia and where the catch is

Payment at Diktuy is simple: rubles are accepted directly, without foreign-currency cards and without workaround schemes through third-party payment systems. The developer is a sole proprietor registered in Russia, not an offshore structure, which for many simplifies the question of closing documents for business.

There are two plans: Profi and Max. Both are sold in two formats, monthly payment and a yearly subscription paid in full in advance; in the second case the price per month is noticeably lower than with monthly payments. The difference between Profi and Max is described in open sources by price, not by a specific list of features of each plan, so before paying for the more expensive plan it is worth asking the service what exactly it adds beyond the basic one.

The catch, if it can be called that, is in the very structure of yearly payment: the sum looks impressive as one payment, even if per month it comes out cheaper than the monthly plan. For those who are not sure they will use the service all year, it is wiser to try monthly payment first or to stay longer on the free plan, and to move to a yearly subscription when the habit has formed.

Diktuy's free plan, 30 minutes of dictation per month, is not a trial period with a limit on time of use but free access with no time limit and a limit on volume. The difference matters: a trial period in many services ends by itself, while Diktuy's free plan can be used as long as you like, just within the limit. A general overview of similar conditions in other services is in the section voice input programs.

Sources: diktuy.ru · diktuy.ru

How much it comes to per year

The exact figures for a year are in the table above and in the service's fact card, not in the text: prices change, and duplicating them here would mean keeping two versions of the same figure, one of which will sooner or later become outdated.

The general principle of yearly payment at Diktuy is the same as in most similar services: the bigger the payment at once, the lower the price per month. The saving is noticeable over a year, not over a couple of months: if you are not sure you will stay with the service that long, monthly payment costs more per month, but it does not require a large sum at once and is easier to cancel without losses.

Comparison with Potok's own free plan, 2500 words per week with no payments at all, and 14 days of full access without a card at the start, gives a third point of reference: before paying for a yearly subscription to any service, it is worth checking whether the free option already covers the task. A similar review of a free limit is in the article molvi voice input.

When the overpayment is justified

Overpaying for a more expensive Diktuy plan is justified if the volume of dictation regularly exceeds the free limit and accuracy on professional terms matters more to you than saving a few hundred rubles per month: for a lawyer or a doctor who dictates documents daily, the difference in time lost on corrections quickly outweighs the difference in price.

Potok is a cloud service, recognition runs on servers in Russia, and it does not work without the internet, just like Diktuy. For those who need to work offline, neither of these two options will fit.

The overpayment is not justified for those who dictate rarely and briefly: the free plan, both at Diktuy and at Potok, is more than enough for one-off notes, and a yearly subscription in this case is an expense without real need.

Frequently asked questions

Primary sources: diktuy.ru · diktuy.ru