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Read AI vs tl;dv
Read AI and tl;dv compared on what their own pages say, row by row — nothing about either in our words except a plain reading at the end.
Read AI and tl;dv, row by row
| Read AI | tl;dv | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan: how much | “5 meeting transcripts per month” — Free source | “10x meetings with AI notes included” — Free; recordings themselves are not capped source |
| Free plan: longest meeting | “Maximum Meeting Length Record and measure meetings up to the maximum recording duration. 1 hour” — Free source | “Recording limit 3h” — every plan, the free one included source |
| Free plan: how much is kept | Not stated on the pages we read | “up to 3 months” — how long the free plan keeps meetings source |
| Cheapest paid plan | “$15” — Pro, a user a month billed yearly ($19.75 month to month) source | “$18” — Pro, a seat a month billed yearly source |
| How it gets into a meeting | “Add Read Assistant to any Zoom, Teams, or Meet meeting to automatically take meeting notes” source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Meeting apps | “Support for Zoom, Teams, & Meet” source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Who said what | “The full dialogue of a meeting broken out by speaker” source | “Automatic speaker detection” source |
| Languages | “Read meeting reports are available in 16+ languages” source | “Unlimited transcription in 100+ languages” — the free plan included source |
| Video recording | “For individuals and teams who want video playback and other supercharged capabilities.” — the Enterprise plan source | “Unlimited video recordings” — Free source |
| Downloads and export | Not stated on the pages we read | “Download recording” source |
| Single sign-on | “SAML & SCIM” — Enterprise+ source | “Custom SSO (SAML, OIDC)” — Enterprise source |
| API | Not stated on the pages we read | “API, webhooks, and MCP server” — Pro and up source |
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
- Read AI’s free plan gives five meeting transcripts a month, up to an hour each; tl;dv’s records without a count, up to three hours, with AI notes for ten meetings.
- tl;dv lists transcription in over 100 languages; Read AI lists its reports in 16 or more.
- Single sign-on is on the top plan of each.
Which matters for your meetings
Read AI's free plan counts transcripts — five a month, up to an hour each — while tl;dv's does not count recordings and allows three hours each, with AI notes for ten meetings. If people in your calls speak many languages, tl;dv's list is the longer one. Both keep single sign-on for their top plans.
What that comes to, worked out
Eight hour-long calls a month: on Read AI's free plan five are transcribed and three are not; on tl;dv's, all eight are recorded and all eight get AI notes, since they fall inside its ten. Make those calls ninety minutes and Read AI's five transcripts each stop at the hour, while tl;dv takes them whole. On paid plans Read AI Pro is $15 a user a month and tl;dv Pro $18, both billed yearly, which is $180 and $216 for a year.
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 meeting app rather than a notetaker you add to someone else's call. It transcribes each person from their own microphone, so every line carries the name of whoever said it without guessing, and there is no bot in the participant list. 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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