Reduct is a video transcription and clip-extraction platform with strong public-defense adoption — Personal at $12/editor/mo (120 pooled transcription hrs/yr), Professional at $40/editor/mo (300 hrs/yr), and Enterprise from $75/editor/mo — plus multicam sync, video/audio redaction, and 94% AI transcription accuracy. Evidence Copilot is the defense-specific alternative: a grounded evidence-review workspace where every AI answer cites the exact video second or PDF page, with auto-surfaced report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies, suppression and Miranda playbooks, and published pricing starting at $39/user/mo (Solo, 15 media hours included). Choose Reduct for multicam bodycam review and legal-format transcript exports; choose Evidence Copilot when you need citation-backed AI analysis across video, audio, and documents in one workspace.
Bottom line: Reduct wins on multicam bodycam review, legal-format transcript exports, and human transcription backup; Evidence Copilot wins on grounded AI analysis, document OCR, inconsistency signals, and cross-exam/suppression workflow. They solve different parts of the discovery problem, so the right pick depends on whether your bottleneck is video review or evidence analysis.
TL;DR
- Reduct pricing is per editor: Personal $12/editor/mo (120 pooled transcription hrs/yr), Professional $40/editor/mo (300 hrs/yr), Enterprise from $75/editor/mo — all verified on reduct.video/pricing.
- Evidence Copilot pricing is published with no sales wall: Solo $39/user/mo (15 media-processing hours), Firm $99/user/mo (60 hours, priority queue), PD Office $750/attorney/yr (100 hours).
- Reduct claims 94%+ AI transcription accuracy and offers overnight human transcription at up to 99% accuracy for noisy, crosstalk-heavy footage.
- Reduct's multicam sync and timeline view let you review bodycam from multiple officers side by side — a feature built specifically for criminal defense review.
- Evidence Copilot's AI agent answers questions with clickable citations into the exact second of video or page of the PDF, and auto-signals flag candidate inconsistencies (report vs bodycam, statement vs jail call) on ingest.
- Reduct excludes silence from billing — about 36% of one large public defender client's bodycam audio was silent and not charged.
- Reduct ceased serving law enforcement and prosecutors; Evidence Copilot is defense-only by design — both eliminate the conflict of using a tool that also serves the other side.
Head-to-head
| Dimension | Reduct | Evidence Copilot |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $12/editor/mo Personal; $40 Professional; Enterprise from $75/editor/mo; overages a-la-carte | $39/user/mo Solo; $99/user/mo Firm; $750/attorney/yr PD Office; overage hard-capped at 3x included hours |
| Ease of use | Text-based editing — highlight transcript to clip and stitch; users compare it to editing a docwinner | Upload or email the discovery dump; AI outputs always marked for human review |
| Features | Multicam sync, redaction, legal-format exports, translation (90+ languages), Live Capture, human transcription | Citation-backed AI agent, auto inconsistency signals, suppression/Miranda playbooks, OCR, redaction, multicam sync, MCP serverwinner |
| Support | Priority support on Enterprise; public-defense CLE team (NACDL, NLADA, state bars)winner | 20-minute walkthrough available; direct founder-led support |
| Integrations | Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro export; API access on Professional | Two-way email intake; read-only MCP server for Claude Desktop/Code |
| Setup | Self-serve signup; 14-day trial with 5 hrs transcription | Self-serve Solo signup; full workspace on every plan, no feature tiers |
| Security posture | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA compliance on Enterprise; AES-256 on Google Cloudwinner | Immutable originals, audited actions, per-member export permissions; no SOC 2 certification yet |
| Defense focus | Refuses law-enforcement and prosecutorial business; public-defense practice led by former PDs | Defense-only by design; no prosecution or LE use cases |
Scores
Reduct
reduct.video ↗Reduct is a text-based video transcription, review, and editing platform that has built a substantial criminal-defense practice, with named deployments at the Missouri State Public Defender System, Solano County, Barrow County (GA), Lancaster County, Marion County (OR), Michigan State Appellate Defender Office, and Neighborhood Defender Service of Texas. You upload bodycam, interrogation footage, jail calls, 911 calls, and surveillance video, get an AI transcript (claimed 94%+ accuracy, editable, with section re-transcription), then search, highlight, clip, and stitch footage by editing text. Professional-tier features include timeline view and multicam sync for reviewing multiple officers' bodycam at once, video and audio redaction, and legal-formatted transcript exports compatible with federal and state courts. Reduct supports 90+ languages, proprietary formats (GTL, G64x, DS2), and offers overnight human transcription at up to 99% accuracy. It explicitly stopped serving law enforcement and prosecutors, and its team includes public defenders presenting ethics CLEs for NACDL, NLADA, and state bars.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | $12/mo | Per editor; 120 hrs pooled transcription/yr; up to 10 free commenters; 720p exports; files up to 4GB |
| Professional | $40/mo | Per editor; 300 hrs pooled transcription/yr; multicam sync; video/audio redaction; legal-format exports; 2K exports; API access; files up to 75GB |
| Enterprise | $75/mo | Per editor starting price; 600 hrs pooled transcription/yr; 4K exports; SSO; SOC 2 Type II; priority support; case-based ($500/case incl. 50 hrs) and utilization ($0.25/min) models also offered |
Pros
- Low entry price at $12/editor/mo with pooled hours shared across the whole team
- Silence detection means you are not billed for dead air — one large PD client's bodycam audio was 36% silent and uncharged
- Multicam sync built specifically for reviewing multi-officer bodycam scenes
- Legal-format transcript exports accepted by most federal and state courts
- Deep public-defense track record with named office deployments and defense-focused ethics CLEs
- Refuses law-enforcement and prosecutorial business, removing a conflict-of-interest concern
Cons
- Transcription can miss specialized legal terms, requiring manual correction or paid human transcription
- Enterprise features (SSO, SOC 2 reporting, priority support) sit behind a sales conversation starting at $75/editor/mo
- No citation-backed AI evidence agent — search, highlight, and summaries, but no answers tied to the exact source moment
- No auto-surfaced inconsistencies between police reports and bodycam; you find those yourself
- Overage transcription beyond the pooled quota incurs a-la-carte per-minute charges
Evidence Copilot
evidencecopilot.com ↗Evidence Copilot is a grounded evidence-review workspace built for US criminal-defense attorneys, law clerks, defense investigators, and public-defender offices. You upload the discovery dump — bodycam video, interrogation footage, jail calls, 911 audio, police reports, photos, and scanned documents up to 2 GB per file by web upload or email attachment — and get timestamped diarized transcripts (Deepgram Nova with word-level timestamps and one-click speaker renaming), OCR'd text from scanned PDFs and photo evidence, and an AI evidence agent whose every answer carries clickable citations into the exact second of video or page of the PDF. On ingest, every new file is compared against earlier evidence in the case, surfacing candidate inconsistencies (report vs bodycam, statement vs call audio) as review signals before anyone asks. Purpose-built playbooks cover Suppression Motion Prep, Miranda Timeline, and Exhibit List Builder; one-click case briefs, cross-exam drafts with both sides quoted, frame-accurate redaction that never touches originals, and multi-camera sync with reported match evidence round out the workflow. Every AI output is marked AI-generated and pending human review; nothing makes legal conclusions.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | $39/mo | Per user; 15 media-processing hours included; full workspace — no feature tiers |
| Firm | $99/mo | Per user; 60 media-processing hours included; priority queue |
| PD Office | $750/yr | Per attorney; 100 media-processing hours included |
Pros
- Every AI answer cites the exact source moment — you can verify before you rely on it
- Inconsistencies between the police report and the bodycam surface automatically on ingest
- Defense-specific playbooks (suppression, Miranda timeline, exhibit list) that generic transcription tools don't offer
- Published pricing with no sales wall, and overage hard-capped at 3x included hours so runaway intake cannot overbill
- Handles the full discovery mix — video, audio, images, scanned PDFs — not just video
- Defense-only by design; every AI output marked for human review and originals are immutable
Cons
- No overnight human-transcription option for the noisiest footage — correction is manual
- Smaller vendor with a shorter public-defense deployment track record than Reduct's named office list
- No Premiere Pro/Final Cut rough-cut export for edit-heavy clip production
- No SOC 2 certification to point to yet — security posture is documented honestly but not certified
Pricing compared
Transcription and evidence analysis
Redaction and court-ready output
Which should you pick?
FAQs
Is Reduct built for criminal defense work?
Yes, substantially. Reduct has a dedicated public-defense practice with named deployments at the Missouri State Public Defender System, Solano County, Barrow County (GA), Lancaster County, Marion County (OR), and the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office, and it publicly ceased serving law enforcement and prosecutors. Its multicam bodycam review, legal-format transcript exports, and defense-focused ethics CLEs (NACDL, NLADA, D.C. Bar) are all aimed at defenders. Its core, however, is video transcription and clip extraction — analysis features like citation-backed AI answers and auto-flagged report inconsistencies are not part of its offering.
How do the transcription hours work on each platform?
Reduct's hours are pooled per editor per year: a Personal editor gets 120 hours, Professional 300, Enterprise 600, shared across the whole team, with silence automatically excluded from billing (one large PD client's bodycam audio was 36% silent and uncharged). Overages are charged a-la-carte per minute. Evidence Copilot includes media-processing hours per plan — 15 on Solo, 60 on Firm, 100 per attorney on PD Office — and overage is metered but hard-capped at 3x the included hours, so runaway intake cannot produce an unbounded bill.
Which tool is cheaper for a solo criminal defense attorney?
At the entry tier, Reduct: Personal is $12/editor/mo (billed annually) with 120 pooled transcription hours per year, versus Evidence Copilot's Solo plan at $39/user/mo with 15 media-processing hours. But the plans aren't equivalent — Reduct's Personal tier lacks multicam sync, redaction, and legal-format exports (those start at $40/editor/mo Professional), while Evidence Copilot's Solo plan includes the full workspace with no feature tiers, including the citation-backed AI agent, OCR, redaction, and playbooks. Compare the feature set, not just the sticker price.
Can either tool serve prosecutors or law enforcement?
No. Reduct published a policy commitment to cease all provision of services to law enforcement agencies, including District Attorneys' offices, and related prosecutorial entities engaged in adversarial criminal proceedings. Evidence Copilot is defense-only by design and does not offer prosecution or law-enforcement use cases. Either way, you avoid the conflict of using a platform that also serves the other side of your cases.
Does Evidence Copilot replace attorney judgment?
No, and it's built not to. Every AI output is marked AI-generated and pending human review, the product never makes legal conclusions, cross-exam drafts are suggested questions tied to quoted sources with no credibility conclusions, and AI-suggested redaction regions and multicam sync proposals are filed as review items that are never auto-applied. Originals are immutable and every action is audited. The tool organizes and cites evidence; the lawyer makes the calls.