AI notetaker that records, transcribes, summarizes and searches meetings across Zoom, Meet and Teams.
Read.ai
AI Meeting Assistants & TranscriptionRead.ai records and summarizes meetings on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, with bot-based or bot-free capture on desktop and mobile. Beyond meetings, its Ask Read search connects meetings, email and chat to answer questions, and it adds engagement and sentiment metrics plus a meeting coach.
Pricing
Read.ai pricing
Free plan: yes. Paid from ~$15/seat/mo billed annually (Pro)
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Features
What Read.ai does
- Meeting reports with summaries, action items and topics
- Bot or bot-free capture across web, desktop and mobile
- Ask Read search across meetings, email and messages
- Speaker-separated transcripts with sentiment and engagement scores
- Salesforce and HubSpot integration
- Upload audio and video to generate reports
Pros
- Search spans meetings, email and messaging, not just calls
- Engagement and talk-time metrics for self-coaching
- Apps on every major platform including in-person capture
- Reports available in 16+ languages
Cons
- Free plan limited to a few meeting transcripts per month
- Upload minutes are capped on paid plans
- CRM integrations require premium tiers
- Engagement scoring can feel intrusive to some participants
Fit
Who Read.ai is for
Look elsewhere if: People who only want plain transcripts without analytics or connected inboxes may find the scope broader than necessary.
For teams & enterprise
Enterprise readiness
BAA requires an annual Enterprise+ plan with SAML and domain capture configured first.
- Business / enterprise plan
- Yes
- SSO (SAML / OIDC)
- Enterprise+ plan
- SCIM user provisioning
- Enterprise+ plan
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
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- HIPAA (BAA available)
- Enterprise+ plan (BAA)
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Data residency options
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- No training on your data
- —
- Audit logs
- —
- Admin controls
- Enterprise+ plan
- Deployment
- Cloud
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| Meetings feature checklist | |
|---|---|
| Records without a bot joining | Yes |
| Meeting platforms | Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex |
| Transcription languages | 16+ languages |
| CRM sync | Paid plans only |
| Ask AI across meetings | Yes |
| Speaker identification | Yes |
| In-person / mobile recording | Yes |
| Transcribe uploaded files | Paid plans only |
| Translation | Limited |
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