by Fathom Video, Inc.AI meeting notetakers
A free notetaker with unlimited recordings, video and history, a team plan at $15 a seat with a 2-user minimum, and the API on every plan.
Unlimited recording, transcription, video and history on a free plan, and a shared team workspace from $15 a seat.
Fathom records Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls with no monthly limit and keeps recordings until you delete them, on every plan including Free. Each call has video, a transcript and an AI summary, and recordings download as MP4. Team, at $15 a seat billed annually with a 2-user minimum, adds a shared workspace with folders and global search, and the API and webhooks are on every plan.
Against 3 other products we reviewed in AI meeting notetakers: what you pay for with each, the five access facts, the plan limits we recorded and each review's bottom line. The note under the table says how each one was checked.
| Metric | Fathom | Granola | tl;dv | Otter.ai |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Worth the priceUnlimited recording, transcription, video and history on a free plan, and a shared team workspace from $15 a seat. | Easy to adoptMeeting notes without a bot in the call: Granola transcribes your computer’s audio in any meeting app and keeps no recording. | Compliance includedVideo recordings of Zoom, Meet and Teams calls hosted and stored in the EU on every plan, with no training on your meetings. | Easy to adoptA notetaker that joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams on every plan, with AI chat across meetings and a desktop app that records without a bot. |
| Overall score | 6.6 | 7.2Best | 7.0 | 6.6 |
| Free option | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan |
| Card to start | –Not measured | No card needed | No card needed | –Not measured |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $15/user/mo | $14/user/mo | $18/seat/mo | $8.33/user/mo |
| Pricing model | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing unit | Per user per month | Per active member per month | Per seat per month | Per user per month |
| Free option | Free: unlimited recordings and history, for individuals; 30-day Premium preview | Basic: no transcription limit, notes visible for 30 days; trials of paid plans (length not stated) | Free: unlimited video recordings, 40 a week, kept 3 months; no card | Basic: 300 minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation; 7-day Business trial, card required |
| Reference scenario (5 users, annual) | $75/mo on Team ($15 × 5), computed | $70/mo on Business ($14 × 5, billed monthly), computed | $90/mo on Pro ($18 × 5), computed | $99.95/mo on Business ($19.99 × 5), computed |
| Month-to-month price | $19 per user on Team; $20 on Premium; $34 on Business | $14 per user on Business; Enterprise $35, monthly or annual | $29 per seat on Pro; $39 on Business | $30 per user on Business ($24 for 3 months for first-time subscribers); $16.99 on Pro |
| Meeting length cap | Not stated; the bot does not join Zoom meetings over 250 attendees | Not stated; transcription stops after 15 minutes of silence | 3 hours on every plan | 30 minutes on Basic, 90 on Pro, 4 hours on Business |
| Meeting platforms | Zoom, Google Meet and Teams on every plan | Any app through device audio (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack huddles) | Zoom, Google Meet and Teams by bot on every plan | Zoom, Teams and Google Meet on every plan |
| Bot-free capture | Mac-only beta (not Teams yet); iOS app for in-person | Always: no bot; desktop, iOS and Android apps | Desktop app (audio only) and mobile app | Desktop app (macOS, Windows) and Chrome extension for Google Meet |
| Video recording | Every plan, MP4 download | Not offered; audio is not stored | Every plan; downloads from Pro | Enterprise only; audio playback on every plan |
| Training on your data | De-identified data for in-house models; opt-out per user, org-wide on Team | Anonymized data unless each user opts out; Enterprise off by default | Not used to train AI, every plan (privacy policy) | De-identified data used for training; Enterprise opted out by default |
| SOC 2 / HIPAA | SOC 2 Type II; BAA in the terms, signed BAA on Enterprise | SOC 2 Type II; HIPAA BAA on Enterprise through sales | SOC 2 Type II on request; BAA mentioned only in blog posts | SOC 2 Type II; HIPAA add-on on Enterprise |
| EU data storage | Not offered; stored in the US | Not offered; AWS US region | Every plan (Germany and Finland); AI processing in the EU or the US, as chosen in preferences | Not offered; AWS US West |
| SSO | Enterprise | Enterprise, 50+ seats | Enterprise (SAML, OIDC) | Enterprise, 100-user minimum |
| Transcript export | Copy in the app; JSON through the API | CSV of all notes per user; API from Business | Copy per meeting; API on Pro and Business; no bulk export | TXT, PDF, DOCX, SRT from Pro; bulk export from Business |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Fathom has the strongest free plan of the bot notetakers here and the lowest 5-user price among them, $75 a month on Team. Transcripts leave only through copy or the API, and its pages disagree on several plan details. | From its public pages, Granola is the one notetaker here built without a bot or stored audio, with the lowest 5-user price ($70 a month on Business) and self-serve retention settings. It trains on anonymized data unless each user opts out, and SSO needs 50 seats. | From its public pages, tl;dv is the EU-hosted option here, with video on its free plan, no training on your meetings, and CRM mapping and the API on Pro at $18 a seat. Recordings are capped per week (80 a user on Pro), and SSO, retention and the audit log are Enterprise. | From its public pages, Otter covers the three big platforms and AI chat from the free plan, and Business adds unlimited meetings and bulk export at $19.99 a seat. The API, video, retention and HIPAA sit on Enterprise, and data is stored in the US. |
Evidence: Fathom: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Granola: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; tl;dv: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Otter.ai: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Review from public pages
Written from Fathom's public pages (pricing, security or privacy, and docs) as read on Oct 16, 2026. We did not sign up, and no hands-on run is published yet.
We read Fathom's pricing page with both plan tabs and its comparison table, the trust center and its FAQ, the terms, privacy policy, DPA and BAA, the developer docs and help center articles on plans, recording limits, bot-free capture, consent, retention, SSO, exports and cancellation on Oct 16, 2026; we did not sign up, start a trial or call the API. The pricing page served us US dollar prices; the struck-through figure beside each annual price is the monthly price, not a promotion.
Fathom's limits are short: recordings, transcription and storage are unlimited on every plan, and the only number is the 5 calls a month with advanced summaries on Free. Uploading recorded files is not supported. Bot-free capture is a Mac-only beta, and the iOS app records in person.
Several points need a question to Fathom. The pricing page shows a 90-day guarantee, while the terms say all fees are non-refundable. Custom summaries sit on Enterprise in the table, on the Business card, and on Premium and Team in help. Retention settings are Enterprise on the pricing page and the Pro (Business) plan in the trust FAQ. The pricing page marks a signed BAA on Enterprise, while the terms incorporate a BAA for any customer covered by HIPAA.
Free records and transcribes without a monthly limit, keeps recordings indefinitely and includes video, summaries and MP4 downloads.
Compared: Otter’s Basic gives 300 minutes and the 25 most recent conversations; tl;dv deletes Free recordings after 3 months.
Team adds the shared workspace, folders, global search and admin settings at $15 a user billed annually; 5 users cost $75 a month (computed).
Compared: Fireflies Business is $95 and Otter Business $99.95 a month for 5 users on annual terms (computed).
API keys and webhooks are included on all plans at 60 calls a minute, and the MCP server and Claude and ChatGPT connectors are ticked on Free.
Compared: Otter keeps its API and webhooks on Enterprise.
Team admins can enforce the in-meeting consent message and turn on recording-consent emails for everyone (for bot recordings, only when a meeting has one guest); if an attendee declines, auto-record is turned off for that meeting.
Help says transcripts cannot be downloaded directly, only copied; the API returns them as JSON, 10 results a page, with no bulk endpoint. Recordings download as MP4.
Workaround: The API on every plan can pull all transcripts page by page.
The pricing page, help and trust FAQ place custom summaries, coaching metrics, Ask Fathom on Free, retention and the HIPAA BAA on different plans, and the 90-day guarantee sits beside terms that say fees are non-refundable.
Workaround: Ask Fathom to confirm in writing what your plan includes.
Bot-free recording is in beta on Mac only and does not yet cover Teams; the bot does not join Zoom meetings with over 250 attendees or those that need registration.
SAML SSO, SCIM and retention settings are Enterprise, sold through sales; no audit log or built-in two-factor sign-in is stated, and data is stored in the US.
Fathom bills per user per month. For our scenario, 5 users on Team cost 5 × $15 = $75 a month on annual terms ($900 a year), or 5 × $19 = $95 month to month (computed), before tax; Team and Business need at least 2 users, and Free and Premium are for individuals. Business, at $25 a seat ($125 a month for 5, computed), lifts the 3-users-per-domain limit on CRM syncs and adds CRM field sync and coaching metrics. Nothing is metered: no minute or AI credit top-ups are sold. Cancelling a Team plan takes an email to Fathom.
Recordings download as MP4 on every plan; transcripts are copied in the app or pulled as JSON through the API, which has no bulk endpoint. After a cancel, an individual account reverts to Free, which keeps recordings indefinitely. The trust FAQ says deleted data leaves backups 7 days later; the terms say up to 30.
From its public pages, Fathom has the strongest free plan of the bot notetakers here and the lowest 5-user price among them, $75 a month on Team. Transcripts leave only through copy or the API, and its pages disagree on several plan details.
| Limit | As recorded |
|---|---|
| Billing unit | Per user per month |
| Free option | Free: unlimited recordings and history, for individuals; 30-day Premium preview |
| Reference scenario (5 users, annual) | $75/mo on Team ($15 × 5), computed |
| Month-to-month price | $19 per user on Team; $20 on Premium; $34 on Business |
| Meeting length cap | Not stated; the bot does not join Zoom meetings over 250 attendees |
| Meeting platforms | Zoom, Google Meet and Teams on every plan |
| Bot-free capture | Mac-only beta (not Teams yet); iOS app for in-person |
| Video recording | Every plan, MP4 download |
| Training on your data | De-identified data for in-house models; opt-out per user, org-wide on Team |
| SOC 2 / HIPAA | SOC 2 Type II; BAA in the terms, signed BAA on Enterprise |
| EU data storage | Not offered; stored in the US |
| SSO | Enterprise |
| Transcript export | Copy in the app; JSON through the API |
Read from the vendor's public pages on Oct 16, 2026. No hands-on run is published yet. How we check
We have not published a sign-up run for Fathom yet. The access facts above were read from its sign-up and pricing pages on Oct 16, 2026.
We have not published API calls for Fathom yet.
Fathom lists 5 plans. The cheapest paid plan, Team (billed annually, 2-user minimum), costs $15/user/mo.
Prices as listed, USD, excluding tax; observed 2026-10-16.
Source: fathom.ai pricing page. Prices change; the observed date above is when our agent read them.
We read the pricing, trust, legal, help center and developer pages of three AI meeting notetakers on the same day and scored them on the same six indicators. What 5 users with 20 hours of meetings a month cost, where video, SSO and retention sit, how each treats your data, and who should pick which.
