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Google Meet vs Microsoft Teams
Google Meet and Microsoft Teams compared on what their own pages say, row by row — nothing about either in our words except a plain reading at the end.
Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, row by row
| Google Meet | Microsoft Teams | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan: longest meeting | “If your meeting has 3 or more participants, it has a time limit of one hour.” — a personal Google account; a call between two people can run 24 hours source | “Maximum meeting duration 60 minutes” — Microsoft Teams (free) source |
| Free plan: how much is kept | Not stated on the pages we read | “5 GB of cloud storage” — Microsoft Teams (free) source |
| Free plan: people in a meeting | “You can have a maximum of 100 participants in a meeting.” — a personal Google account source | “Group calling for up to 60 minutes and 100 participants” — Microsoft Teams (free) source |
| Accounts | Not stated on the pages we read | “Create a quick meeting with a meeting link for others to join, even without a Teams account, free up to 60 minutes.” source |
| Cheapest paid plan | “$7 per user / month” — Business Starter, with a year's commitment ($8.40 month to month) source | “$4.00” — Teams Essentials, a user a month paid yearly source |
| Paid plan: longest meeting | “Meeting length (maximum) 24 hours” — every Workspace plan source | “Maximum meeting duration 30 hours” — the business plans source |
| Most people in a meeting | “Video meetings with in-domain live streaming, 1000 participants” — Enterprise source | “Participant capacity 300” — the business plans source |
| Languages | Not stated on the pages we read | “Live captions are available in the English language with Microsoft account identities and more than 30 additional languages with Microsoft Entra identities.” source |
| Video recording | “Video meetings with recording, noise cancellation, 150 participants” — Business Standard; Starter's line reads "Video meetings, 100 participants" source | “Team meeting recordings with transcripts and live captions (English)” — Teams Essentials source |
| AI notes and summaries | “Gemini AI assistant in Gmail, Docs, Meet, and more” — Business Standard and up; Starter's reads "Gemini AI assistant in Gmail" source | Not stated on the pages we read |
Every cell is the company's own words, linked. Prices change — this is what each page said on 10 November 2026. Something changed? Tell us.
What the two pages add up to
- Free group calls on both last up to an hour, with up to 100 people.
- Teams Essentials is $4 a user a month and records meetings with transcripts; Google’s Business Starter is $7 and does not record — recording starts on Business Standard.
- Paid meetings run up to 24 hours on Google and 30 hours on Teams.
Which matters for your meetings
On free accounts the two match closely — an hour and 100 people. The paid plans differ in what they bundle: Google's cheapest includes business email and storage but not recording, while Teams Essentials is a meeting plan that records with transcripts. For captions in languages other than English, Microsoft ties the longer list to work accounts.
What that comes to, worked out
A five-person team that needs its meetings recorded: on Microsoft's side, Teams Essentials records with transcripts, at $240 a year for all five. On Google's, recording starts on Business Standard, a step above Business Starter, whose $7 a user a month comes to $420 a year for five and does not record. On the free accounts the two are a match for an ordinary meeting, an hour with up to 100 people, though a one-to-one call on Google can run a full day. Live captions on Teams come in English for personal Microsoft accounts and in more than thirty further languages for work accounts.
The sums use only the numbers quoted above. Yearly prices are the monthly figure times twelve.
Where Meetful is different from both
Meetful is a video meeting app too, but the notes are part of the meeting rather than an extra. Each person is transcribed from their own microphone, so every line carries the name of whoever said it without guessing, and nobody has to invite a bot. People join from a link in their browser. The notes, the recording and the transcript are free, and anybody in the meeting can leave themselves out of the notes.
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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.