quietmoneyVatis
Online audio and video to text transcription in 50+ languages, with an API. A speech-to-text service from a Romanian team: upload or record on the web page to transcribe, with 10 free minutes and no signup; it also sells an hourly-priced API serving media, legal, healthcare, and other companies.
A small RomaniaOne-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Revenue over time
Real payments synced by TrustMRR, in USD, by calendar month, renewals included.
- MRR
- $1,387
- Revenue, last 30 days
- $2,116
- All-time revenue
- $121,445
- Active subscriptions
- 68
- Payments via
- Stripe
- Source
- TrustMRR, synced from the founder's payment account
1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- Online audio and video to text transcription in 50+ languages, with an API. A speech-to-text service from a Romanian team: upload or record on the web page to transcribe, with 10 free minutes and no signup; it also sells an hourly-priced API serving media, legal, healthcare, and other companies.
- Users
- Individuals and small teams who need to turn meetings, interviews, and videos into text, plus Romanian and European companies (media, law firms, energy and insurance companies) that need to plug in a transcription API
- Positioning
- In-house speech recognition engine, strong on Romanian, with a multilingual (50+) web tool you can try without signing up; API priced by the hour at about €0.22/hour, on the cheap side
- Pricing
- 10 free minutes; Basic €10/month (10 hours), Standard €27/month (30 hours), Pro €89/month (100 hours), €5/hour beyond that, annual billing at about 80% of the monthly price; API transcription €0.22/hour Billing: mixed Free tier: yes Source: Pricing page
- Prices on site
- Free 10 min; €10/mo Basic (10h/mo); €27/mo Standard (30h/mo); €89/mo Pro (100h/mo); €5/h overage; API €0.22/h async; API €0.60 per 1M input tokens; API €2.30 per 1M output tokens
- Acquisition entry points on site
- press coverage
“No referral, share, embed or leaderboard visible; 'Free 10 minutes, no signup'.”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: SEO (Non-brand search). Similarweb 2026-09 shows direct as the top channel at 48%, followed by organic search 39% and social 7.8%. The search terms are multilingual tool terms, such as Indonesian transkrip audio ke teks, German kostenfreies tool zur transkription von mp3, mp4 to pdf, facebook transcript, with almost no brand keywords, which shows new users mainly come from tool-style long-tail pages. Romania at 28.7% corresponds to local direct-sales business customers. Since 2026-05 the website has published a transcription-themed blog post almost every day. Returning users are mostly direct visits and API customers. No channel filled in on TrustMRR.
Last month's traffic sources
Top channel measured by Similarweb, others estimated by rank
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| SEO | 39% |
| 8% | |
| Other | 53% |
Direct + brand search 48%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| Romania | 28.69% |
| Indonesia | 10.88% |
| United States | 10.74% |
| Italy | 7.94% |
| India | 6.97% |
Language
English
Keywords
485 keywords · brand ~48% · organic 100% / paid 0%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| transkrip audio ke teks |
| mp4 to pdf |
| facebook transcript |
| transkrip audio |
| kostenfreies tool zur transkription von mp3 |
Non-brand queries: transkrip audio ke teks, mp4 to pdf, facebook transcript, transkrip audio, kostenfreies tool zur transkription von mp3
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits, last 3 months
- 62.9K
- Visits MoM
- +15.78%
- Country rank
- India #79126
- Category rank
- News & Media Publishers (India) #1272
- Bounce rate
- 33.37%
- Pages / visit
- 3.30
- Visit duration
- 00:01:50
- Top 3 channels
- Direct › Organic Search › Organic Social (top channel 48.03%)
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Long-tail search”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via SEO
FAQ
How much revenue does Vatis make per month?
About $2,092 last month (real payments synced by TrustMRR), #400 of 563 TrustMRR sites; the month before was $2,982.
Where do Vatis's new users come from?
New-user source: SEO (Non-brand search). New users mostly come from need-based searches Similarweb 2026-09 shows direct as the top channel at 48%, followed by organic search 39% and social 7.8%. The search terms are multilingual tool terms, such as Indonesian transkrip audio ke teks, German kostenfreies tool zur transkription von mp3, mp4 to pdf, facebook transcript, with almost no brand keywords, which shows new users mainly come from tool-style long-tail pages. Romania at 28.7% corresponds to local direct-sales business customers. Since 2026-05 the website has published a transcription-themed blog post almost every day. Returning users are mostly direct visits and API customers. No channel filled in on TrustMRR.
How much does Vatis cost?
10 free minutes; Basic €10/month (10 hours), Standard €27/month (30 hours), Pro €89/month (100 hours), €5/hour beyond that, annual billing at about 80% of the monthly price; API transcription €0.22/hour
Dossier confidence: medium. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The numbers: revenue comes from TrustMRR: real payments synced automatically from the founder's Stripe or other payment account, summed by calendar month, renewals included, in USD. Site visits come from the Similarweb public page; where it shows none, they are estimated from global rank or the TrustMRR payment count, as noted on the page.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-31.