Free plans
Free plans, in their own words
The free plans of 20 meeting tools side by side — how much, how long, how many people, how much is kept — each in the company's own words, with a log of every change.
How to read this
Each cell is the company's own words, copied from the page linked beside it, with a short note in grey saying which plan the words belong to. A dash means the page we read does not say. Nothing here is our estimate: if a company's page gives a number, the number is here in its words; if it does not, neither do we.
Free plans are where the small print matters most. One counts minutes, another meetings, another the people in the call, another how many days your notes are kept. The rows are lined up so that the same question sits in the same column, which is the only fair way to put a 40-minute limit next to a 300-minute allowance.
Video meeting apps
| How much | Longest meeting | People in a meeting | How much is kept | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoom | — | “Meetings up to 40 minutes” — Basic, the free plan source | “Participant capacity 100” — Basic, the free plan, and Pro source | — |
| Google Meet | — | “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 | “You can have a maximum of 100 participants in a meeting.” — a personal Google account source | — |
| Microsoft Teams | — | “Maximum meeting duration 60 minutes” — Microsoft Teams (free) source | “Group calling for up to 60 minutes and 100 participants” — Microsoft Teams (free) source | “5 GB of cloud storage” — Microsoft Teams (free) source |
| Webex | — | “Unlimited meetings, up to 40 min per meeting” — Webex Free source | “Up to 100 attendees per meeting” — Webex Free source | — |
| Whereby | “1 room URL” — Free source | “Meetings for up to 30 minutes” — Free source | “4 attendees per meeting” — Free source | — |
| Jitsi Meet | “Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, for free” source | — | — | — |
Notetakers
| How much | Longest meeting | How much is kept | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otter | “300 monthly transcription minutes” — Basic, the free plan source | “Max transcription time per conversation 30 minutes” — Basic, the free plan source | “Conversation history 25 most recent” — Basic, the free plan source |
| Fireflies | “400 mins of storage/team” — the free plan; transcription itself is not capped source | “Recording limit 2 Hours” — the free plan source | — |
| Fathom | “Unlimited recordings + transcriptions” — Free, for individuals source | — | — |
| Read AI | “5 meeting transcripts per month” — Free source | “Maximum Meeting Length Record and measure meetings up to the maximum recording duration. 1 hour” — Free source | — |
| Granola | — | — | “Meeting history 30 days” — Basic, the free plan source |
| Krisp | “Free for 7 days” — a trial, not a free plan source | — | — |
| Notta | “120 transcription minutes/month” — Free source | “Up to 3 minutes per conversation” — Free source | — |
| Fellow | “5 AI notes (lifetime) / user” — Free source | — | — |
| tl;dv | “10x meetings with AI notes included” — Free; recordings themselves are not capped source | “Recording limit 3h” — every plan, the free one included source | “up to 3 months” — how long the free plan keeps meetings source |
Booking links
Meeting-bot APIs
| How much | How much is kept | |
|---|---|---|
| Recall.ai | “your first 5 hours of recording are free” — Pay As You Go source | “7 days of free storage for every recording.” source |
| MeetingBaaS | “Record up to 8 hours of meeting for free” — Pay as You Go source | “3-day data retention” — Pay as You Go; 7 to 30 days on the monthly plans source |
| Skribby | — | “Recordings are stored for 1 week by default.” source |
What changed
Nothing has changed since the first reading on 10 November 2026. When a company changes the words on its page, the old words and the new go here, with the day we read the new ones — and the table above changes with them.
Every quote on this page is read again from its source by a script, and a quote that has gone from its page stops the next release until the table is put right. A few companies draw their prices with script after the page loads; those were read in a browser on the day shown.
Comparing two of them?
The side-by-side pages take the same quotes and put two companies next to each other, with one ordinary case worked out in numbers. See every comparison →
And Meetful's
Meetful is a video meeting app whose meetings take their own notes. Each person is transcribed from their own microphone, so every line carries the name of whoever said it, with no bot in the call. The notes, the recording and the transcript are part of the free plan, and anybody in the meeting can leave themselves out of the notes.
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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.