9 Best AI Meeting Assistants of 2026

Fathom gives away the part most competitors meter. The free plan records and transcribes an unlimited number of calls, writes instant AI summaries, and lets you clip, search and build playlists. It works in Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, with a choice between a visible bot and bot-free capture, which is a beta feature on Mac. Premium costs $16 per user per month on annual billing or $20 monthly, and adds advanced summaries, AI action items and the conversational assistant without limits. Team at $15 per user annually, with a two user minimum, adds a shared workspace, trackers, search across team calls and HIPAA compliance under a standard BAA. Business at $25 adds CRM field sync, a deal view and coaching metrics for sales teams. Integrations cover Zapier, Make, Slack, Claude, ChatGPT and a public API with MCP. The limits are that action items and follow-up emails sit behind the paywall, and Team pricing assumes at least two seats.

Fireflies.ai pairs broad language coverage with a low entry price. The free plan includes unlimited transcription, limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage per team and the AskFred assistant, and it records Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more than 10 other meeting apps. Pro costs $10 per seat per month billed annually, or $18 monthly, and adds unlimited AI summaries, video recording, downloads, 8,000 minutes of storage per seat and AI apps such as a personal assistant, an email assistant and voice agents. Business at $19 adds unlimited storage, Multi-language Mode for meetings that switch languages, conversation intelligence and team analytics. Transcription covers 100+ languages, and a Chrome extension records without the bot joining. All integrations and API access come with every plan, though rate limits rise with each tier. The trade-off is a busy interface with many add-on features, and the free storage cap fills quickly for regular users.

Granola takes a different approach from bot-based recorders. It captures audio from your device, so nothing joins the call, and it merges a transcript with the notes you type into a finished document. Apps run on desktop, iOS, Android and Apple Watch. The free Basic plan includes AI meeting notes, custom templates, speaker tagging, voice typing in any app, shared folders, a Slack integration and AI chat across meetings, but keeps only 30 days of history. Business costs $14 per user per month and adds unlimited history, a choice of AI models, pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails, a workspace dictionary, integrations with Notion, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity and Zapier, and API access. Enterprise at $35 adds SSO, Salesforce, admin controls and org-wide deletion periods. The free plan suits occasional use, but the 30 day history limit and the move of Notion, HubSpot and Zapier to Business mean regular users will pay, and teams that live in Salesforce need Enterprise.

Otter.ai remains a solid pick for live transcription. Its assistant joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, writes notes and shows live captions, and the apps run on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Chrome. The free Basic plan includes 300 transcription minutes a month, AI Chat across meetings, speaker identification, AI meeting workflows and an MCP server, with only 3 lifetime file imports. Pro costs $8.33 per user per month on annual billing or $16.99 monthly and adds 1,200 minutes, meetings up to 90 minutes, advanced templates, unlimited storage, team vocabulary and Salesforce, HubSpot and Zapier integrations. Business at $19.99 annually removes the meeting cap, allows 4 hour meetings and joins 3 meetings at once. Transcription supports English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese. The limits are the narrow language list and the minute caps on Pro, which longer meetings or heavy users will hit.

tl;dv records and transcribes meetings in 100+ languages with no cap on recordings, even on the free plan, which also includes a mobile app and email and calendar integrations. AI features on Free are limited to 10 meetings with AI notes and 10 Ask AI queries, and data is kept for up to 3 months. Pro costs $18 per seat per month billed annually and adds premium transcription quality, multi-language support, unlimited AI notes, custom note templates, AI action item assignment, an email follow-up drafter, global search, unlimited uploads and storage, 5000+ integrations and an MCP server with API and webhooks. Business at $29 adds custom vocabulary, multi-meeting AI insights, scheduled reports, playbook monitoring and team-wide automations. Each recording runs up to 3 hours. tl;dv is a strong fit for sales and customer teams that automate follow-ups, but individuals will find Pro pricier than similar plans from Fireflies or Fathom.

Read AI goes beyond notetaking with live metrics and coaching. Its assistant joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, shows an in-meeting dashboard with transcription and engagement metrics, and produces reports with a summary, topics, action items and key questions. The free plan includes 5 meeting transcripts a month, unlimited enterprise search, summaries for email and messaging, a personal meeting coach and 20+ languages. Pro costs $15 per user per month billed annually or $19.75 monthly and adds unlimited transcripts, priority processing, 100 file upload credits and premium integrations with Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence and Zapier. Enterprise at $22.50 annually adds audio and video playback and highlights, and Enterprise+ adds HIPAA compliance, SAML and SCIM and EU and Canada hosting. The catch is that playback, which many buyers expect from a meeting recorder, is not part of Pro, so the realistic price for video is $22.50 per user.

Avoma combines a meeting assistant with scheduling and sales tooling. Startup costs $19 per recorder seat per month billed annually, or $29 monthly, and includes unlimited recording, real-time transcription, AI summary notes, Ask Avoma for a meeting, AI email follow-ups, automatic note sync to CRM records, dialer integration and a 1:1 scheduler, for up to 25 paid seats. Viewers and collaborators never need a paid seat. Organization at $29 annually adds custom AI topics and templates, group and round-robin scheduling, translation of transcripts and notes, API access and webhooks. Enterprise at $39 adds SSO, HIPAA compliance and data retention policies. Conversation intelligence, revenue intelligence and a lead router are sold as add-ons, and transcription supports 70+ languages. There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial, and the plan and add-on structure is more involved than lighter notetakers, so solo users will find simpler options above.

Fellow started as a meeting agenda tool and has added a full AI notetaker. It works with Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams and includes AI summaries, transcription in 100+ languages, action items and the Ask Fellow chatbot. The free plan gives each user 5 lifetime AI notes and recordings, which is enough to test but not to use. Team costs $7 per user per month billed annually or $11 monthly, includes 10 AI notes per user per month and adds meeting automations, project management, Confluence and Notion integrations and API access, for up to 20 seats. Business at $15 annually unlocks unlimited AI notes and recordings, sales recap templates, org-wide templates, keyword tracking and Salesforce and HubSpot sync. Fellow's strength is the meeting itself: shared agendas, private notes and version history keep recurring team meetings organized. The note limits on Free and Team mean most active teams will end up on Business.

Krisp is known for noise cancellation, and its meeting assistant builds on that. The Core plan costs $8 per user per month billed annually or $16 monthly and includes unlimited noise cancellation, a bot-free AI note-taker for online and in-person meetings, audio and video recording, AI notes and action items, multilingual transcripts, AI chat, an outbound phone call recorder, a mobile app, integrations and webhooks, an MCP integration for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, and 10 GB of storage. It also includes one hour a day of accent conversion. Advanced at $15 annually adds more accent conversion, Salesforce and ConnectWise integrations, manager views and 60 GB of storage, and Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM and HIPAA compliance. The note-taker is bot-free, so no extra participant appears in the call. There is no free plan after the 7-day trial, and buyers who only want notes will find more note features for the price elsewhere.