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wondarchive or Transkribus

Transkribus trains models on a handwriting; wondarchive reads manuscript without training, and does everything else — photographing, filing, reading, translating, searching. Here is the difference, numbers included.

Transkribuswondarchive
Who, whereREAD-COOP SCE, European cooperative, InnsbruckCompany, France
The year, lone researcherScholar €99 · 900 pagesEssential €39.99 incl. VAT · 5,000 credits a year, i.e. 2,500 pages transcribed or 1,666 translated, 10,000 pages kept and searchable; Standard €69.99 incl. VAT · 10,000 credits
The year, a teamTeam €449 · 1,500 pages · 5 accountsLaboratory €300 incl. VAT per account per year, from two · 40,000 pages kept and 80,000 credits per account, pooled
The extra pagecredits, 250 for €59.50pack of 5,000 credits at €24.99 incl. VAT, i.e. 1,666 pages transcribed and translated, no expiry date
Manuscriptmodels trainable on a particular handread by extra-strength reread, no training
Typewritten, print, Gothic scriptyesyes
Translation into your language (14 languages)not statedincluded, page by page, with context
Crooked trip photosto straighten beforehandstraightened on your own machine
Filing by repository, shelfmark, foliocollections and documentsas in an archive, shelfmark read at the foot of the page
Names and dates recordedtagging, partly automaticrecorded on reading, indexed with their spellings
Text correctionline-by-line editorper page, one step back; not yet line by line
ExportPDF, DOCX, TEI, ALTO, PAGEfull export in open formats, PDF of a selection included; TEI and Zotero coming soon
Where the images arethe cooperative’s servers, EuropeOVHcloud, in France

The cost, per page

For 900 pages a year, Scholar’s volumeper yearper page
Transkribus Scholar, transcription only€99€0.11
Scholar + a translator alongsideDeepL Pro, €7.49 a month billed annually€188.88€0.21
wondarchive Essential, transcription and translation5,000 credits, i.e. 1,666 translated pages; 766 left over€39.99 incl. VAT€0.044
The extra page at Transkribuscredits, 250 for €59.50—€0.238
The extra page at wondarchivepack of 5,000 credits, transcribed and translated—€0.015

Prices checked on 23 September 2026 on Transkribus’s own site and on deepl.com/pro; ours are incl. VAT.

What to take away

If you are preparing a line-by-line edition of a single hand, with a model trained on that handwriting, that’s Transkribus’s ground. To read, translate and search a fonds photographed in a reading room — typewritten, printed or handwritten, in a language you read poorly — wondarchive costs less, does more, and your images are stored in France, read in the EU.

See it on your own pages

A hundred pages transcribed and translated, for a year, no card required.

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