Reduct is a strong video transcription and clip-extraction tool for defense teams, with plans from $12/editor/mo (Personal) to $40/editor/mo (Professional) and pooled annual transcription hours — but it is fundamentally a transcription-and-editing platform, not a full evidence workspace. Evidence Copilot is the defense-specific alternative at $39/user/mo (Solo, 15 processing hours included), adding timestamped diarized transcripts, OCR'd police reports, an AI evidence agent with citations to the exact second, auto-flagged report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies, redaction, and suppression/Miranda playbooks.
Bottom line: Reduct wins on raw transcription volume per dollar and multilingual transcription, but for criminal-defense discovery review Evidence Copilot covers more of the actual workflow — documents and OCR, grounded AI Q&A with citations, inconsistency detection, redaction, and case work products — at a comparable entry price.
TL;DR
- Reduct's Professional plan is $40/editor/mo with 300 pooled transcription hours per editor per year; Evidence Copilot's Solo plan is $39/user/mo with 15 media-processing hours per month included.
- Reduct publishes 94% AI transcription accuracy and offers overnight human transcription at up to 99% accuracy; it transcribes in 90+ languages.
- Evidence Copilot is defense-only by design and covers the whole discovery dump — video, audio, scanned PDFs, and photos — with OCR and timestamped diarized transcripts.
- Evidence Copilot's AI evidence agent answers questions with clickable citations to the exact second of video or page of the PDF; every output is marked AI-generated and pending human review.
- Reduct's silence detection excludes long silences from billing — one public defender client saw about 36% of uploaded bodycam audio go uncharged.
- Evidence Copilot's overage billing is metered and hard-capped at 3x included hours, so runaway intake cannot overbill; Reduct charges per-minute overages a-la-carte.
- Reduct has SOC 2 Type II on its Enterprise tier and deep public-defender partnerships; Evidence Copilot's PD Office tier is $750/attorney/yr with 100 hours included.
Head-to-head
| Dimension | Reduct | Evidence Copilot |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $12/editor/mo (Personal); $40/editor/mo (Professional)winner | $39/user/mo (Solo) |
| Transcription | 94% published AI accuracy; overnight human transcription up to 99%; 90+ languages; 300 pooled hrs/editor/yr on Professionalwinner | Deepgram Nova with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps; 15 hrs/mo included on Solo |
| Documents & OCR | Document/image support added recently (upload, search, summarize, ask questions) | Scanned PDFs and photo evidence OCR'd into searchable, citable text with bounding boxes kept for redactionwinner |
| AI Q&A with citations | Ask-the-recording summaries and AI insights | AI evidence agent answers with clickable citations into the exact second of video or page of the PDF; every output marked AI-generated and pending human reviewwinner |
| Inconsistency detection | Not offered — defenders find inconsistencies via keyword and fuzzy search | Auto-signals compare every new file against earlier evidence; report-vs-bodycam and statement-vs-call candidates surface before anyone askswinner |
| Redaction | Video and audio redaction on Professional and above | Frame-accurate video, audio (exact spoken words), image, and PDF redaction; every redaction is a new derived file; originals immutable; fully auditedwinner |
| Multicam sync | Timeline view and multicam sync on Professional and above | Multi-camera sync to a single master clock with auto-sync proposals from word-timing correlation, reported with match evidence, never auto-applied |
| Trial work products | Captioned clips, reels, legal-format transcript exports compatible with most courts | Exhibit pack with MANIFEST.md citation index, review memo, suppression motion outline, Miranda timeline, exhibit list, cross-exam question draftswinner |
| Overage protection | Per-minute a-la-carte overage charges, confirmed in-app | Metered overage hard-capped at 3x included hourswinner |
| Trial & guarantee | 14-day free trial with all Professional features, 5 hrs AI transcription | 7-day full-access trial (Firm-level, no card); 14-day money-back guarantee on every paid plan |
| Defense-only | Serves legal plus research, marketing, education, filmmaking; policy to cease law-enforcement/prosecution services | Defense-only by designwinner |
Scores
Reduct
reduct.video ↗Reduct is a video transcription and text-based video editing platform that has built a substantial criminal-defense practice, serving public defender offices including the Missouri State Public Defender System, the Colorado State Public Defender, Solano County, Marion County, and Lancaster County. It transcribes bodycam footage, interrogations, jail calls, 911 calls, and surveillance video with published 94% AI accuracy, supports 90+ languages, and offers overnight human transcription at up to 99% accuracy for noisy or crosstalk-heavy footage. Defenders search transcripts, highlight and label key moments, and export captioned clips and legal-format transcripts compatible with most federal and state courts. Professional and Enterprise plans add a timeline view with multicam sync for reviewing bodycam from multiple officers, plus video and audio redaction. Reduct has also committed to ceasing services to law enforcement and prosecutorial entities, and its Senior Resident Public Defender leads ethical-AI CLE sessions for NACDL, NLADA, and state defender organizations.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | $12/mo | 120 hrs pooled transcription/editor/year; up to 10 commenters free; 720p exports; media files up to 4GB |
| Professional | $40/mo | 300 hrs pooled transcription/editor/year; up to 50 commenters free; 2K exports; redaction; multicam sync; legal-format transcript exports; files up to 75GB; API access |
| Enterprise | $75/mo | Seat-based plans starting at $75/editor/mo; 4K exports; SSO; advanced access controls; SOC 2 Type II; MSA with SLA; priority support |
Pros
- Generous pooled transcription quotas — 300 hrs/editor/year on Professional, shared across the team
- Published 94% AI accuracy with an optional overnight human transcription tier at up to 99% accuracy for noisy, crosstalk-heavy, or accented footage
- Multicam timeline sync built for reviewing bodycam from multiple officers at once
- Silence detection means silent bodycam stretches aren't billed — one PD client saw ~36% of audio go uncharged
- Strong public-defense footprint and trust signals: SOC 2 Type II (Enterprise), a policy ceasing services to law enforcement/prosecution, and dedicated PD-focused staff
- 90+ language transcription and translation, useful for bilingual discovery
Cons
- Transcription misses specialized legal terms, so transcripts need correction passes on technical vocabulary
- Core strength is video transcription and clip extraction — document/OCR support is newer, and there is no grounded AI agent that cites the exact source moment of every answer
- Overage transcription is charged per-minute a-la-carte with no published hard cap on runaway intake
- Redaction and multicam sync require the $40/editor/mo Professional tier; Personal lacks them
- Serves many non-legal verticals (marketing, research, filmmaking, education), so the product is not defense-only by design
Evidence Copilot
evidencecopilot.com ↗Evidence Copilot is a grounded evidence-review workspace built specifically for US criminal-defense attorneys, law clerks, defense investigators, and public-defender offices. Upload the whole discovery dump — bodycam video, interrogation footage, jail calls, 911 audio, police report PDFs, photos, and scanned documents up to 2 GB per file — and get timestamped diarized transcripts (Deepgram Nova with word-level timestamps and one-click speaker renaming), OCR'd document text, and an AI evidence agent that answers questions with clickable citations into the exact second of video or page of the PDF. Every new file is automatically compared against earlier evidence in the case, surfacing candidate inconsistencies (report vs bodycam, statement vs call audio) as review signals before anyone asks. Agent playbooks draft suppression motion outlines, Miranda timelines, and exhibit lists with both sides quoted and cited; cross-exam drafts produce suggested questions tied to quoted sources with no credibility conclusions. Frame-accurate video, audio, image, and PDF redaction always creates a new derived file — originals are immutable and every action is audited. Every AI output is marked AI-generated and pending human review, and the product never makes legal conclusions. It is defense-only by design, and its MCP server lets defenders query cases read-only from Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Claude Code, or Cursor with a no-token OAuth connector.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | $39/mo | $39/user/mo, 15 media-processing hours included; full workspace, no feature tiers |
| Firm | $99/mo | $99/user/mo, 60 media-processing hours included; full workspace |
| PD Office | $750/yr | $750/attorney/yr, 100 media-processing hours included |
Pros
- Purpose-built for the defense discovery dump: video, audio, scanned PDFs, and photos in one workspace with OCR and diarized transcripts
- Every AI answer cites the exact source moment it came from; all AI output is marked AI-generated and pending human review, and the product never makes legal conclusions
- Auto-signals compare each new file against earlier evidence and surface report-vs-bodycam inconsistencies before anyone asks
- Suppression Motion Prep, Miranda Timeline, and Exhibit List Builder playbooks draft work products with both sides quoted and cited
- Overage billing is metered and hard-capped at 3x included hours, so runaway intake cannot overbill
- MCP integration lets defenders query cases from Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Claude Code, or Cursor — no defense-side competitor offers this
Cons
- Smaller included processing quotas than Reduct's pooled hours — 15 hrs/mo on Solo vs 300 hrs/editor/year on Reduct Professional
- No published transcription-accuracy benchmark comparable to Reduct's 94% figure, and no human-transcription tier for noisy or accented audio
- No SOC 2 or security certifications yet — only honest current-posture language
- Defense-only by design: no prosecution, law-enforcement, or non-legal use cases
- Per-file upload limit of 2 GB, versus up to 75 GB individual media files on Reduct Professional
Pricing compared
Transcription and accuracy
The discovery workflow: transcript tool vs evidence workspace
Redaction, security, and ethics posture
Which should you pick?
FAQs
Is Reduct or Evidence Copilot cheaper for a solo defender?
Reduct's entry Personal plan is $12/editor/mo, but it lacks redaction and multicam sync; the comparable Professional plan is $40/editor/mo. Evidence Copilot's Solo plan is $39/user/mo with 15 media-processing hours included and the full workspace — no feature tiers. Reduct includes far more transcription hours (300 pooled per editor per year on Professional), so the cheaper option depends on whether your bottleneck is transcription volume or workflow coverage.
Which tool handles police reports and scanned documents better?
Both now accept documents, but Evidence Copilot is built around them: scanned PDFs with no text layer and photo evidence are OCR'd into searchable, citable text with bounding boxes kept for redaction, and the AI agent cites the exact PDF page. Reduct added document and image support more recently — upload, search, summarize, ask questions, highlight, and share — as an extension of its video-first platform.
What happens if I exceed my transcription or processing hours?
Reduct charges a per-minute overage fee, confirmed in-app before proceeding, with no published cap; it also offers utilization-based enterprise models. Evidence Copilot's overage is metered and hard-capped at 3x your included hours, so a runaway discovery dump cannot overbill your office. Reduct also excludes long silences from billing — one public defender client saw about 36% of uploaded bodycam audio go uncharged.
Can either tool help draft a motion to suppress or cross-examination questions?
Evidence Copilot ships agent playbooks for this: Suppression Motion Prep drafts a motion outline with both sides quoted and cited, the Miranda Timeline builds a chronological custodial-interrogation timeline, and cross-exam drafts produce suggested questions each tied to a quoted source with no credibility conclusions — all saved as attorney-review notes. Reduct does not draft motions or cross questions; it supports that work through searchable transcripts, highlights, and clips.
Do either of these serve prosecutors or law enforcement?
Reduct has published a policy committing to cease all provision of services to law enforcement agencies, District Attorneys' offices, and prosecutorial entities in adversarial criminal proceedings. Evidence Copilot is defense-only by design and does not offer prosecution or law-enforcement use cases. Neither tool is built for the prosecution side.
Which tool has better transcription accuracy?
Reduct publishes 94% AI accuracy (94.78% in its benchmark comparisons) and offers overnight human transcription at up to 99% accuracy for noisy, crosstalk-heavy, or accented footage. Evidence Copilot uses Deepgram Nova with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps but publishes no accuracy benchmark. If accuracy on difficult audio is your top concern, Reduct's human-transcription option is the differentiator.
Is there a free trial for each?
Reduct offers a 14-day free trial with all Professional features and 5 hours of AI transcription included. Evidence Copilot starts new accounts on a 7-day full-access trial at Firm level with no card required, and every paid plan carries a 14-day money-back guarantee — email [email protected] within 14 days of the first charge for a full refund.