Recall.ai alternative

A Recall.ai alternative for meetings that need no bot

Recall.ai charges by the hour for a bot in a meeting someone else hosts. When the meeting is held on Meetful, the transcript comes from each person's own microphone, through an API that is on the free plan.

Recall.ai, in its own words

Price
Recall.ai“$0.50/hr of recording” — Pay As You Gowww.recall.ai/pricing
Free to start
Recall.ai“your first 5 hours of recording are free” — Pay As You Gowww.recall.ai/pricing
Where its bots go
Recall.ai“Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, GoTo Meeting and Slack Huddles integrations”www.recall.ai/pricing
Transcription
Recall.ai“use our built-in transcription for $0.15/h”www.recall.ai/pricing

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What Meetful does instead

No hours to pay forThe agent API is on Free and Pro alike; nobody is billed for a bot sitting in a call.
Speakers from microphonesEach line carries the name of the microphone it came from, so there is no diarisation to trust.
meeting.ended, with everythingA webhook delivers the transcript, recap and notes when the meeting closes.
An MCP server for agentsStart, join, listen and fetch the transcript from an AI agent with the same tools people use.

When Recall.ai may suit you better

Recall.ai's bots join meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex, GoTo Meeting and Slack Huddles. If your product has to work with meetings that other people host on those apps, a bot is the way in, and Meetful's own API does not change that. Meetful fits when you choose where the meeting happens.

Moving over from Recall.ai

  1. Read the developer pages and mint a key with the one call shown there.
  2. Start meetings through the API or MCP, send people the link, and listen for meeting.ended.
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Try Meetful

Meetings that take their own notes

Free video meetings in the browser: every line of the transcript under the name of who said it, and the summary and action items when you hang up. Nothing to install — guests just open the link.

Try Meetful freeSee what it does