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Read AI: pricing, features and alternatives

AI notetaker and search assistant for meetings, email and messages

Meeting notesDocs, tasks and calendarsFree plan · from $15/user/mo

What is Read AI?

Read AI joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex calls to produce transcripts, recaps, action items and highlights. It also summarizes email and chat messages and offers search across meetings, documents and notes with cited answers. Plans are priced per user, and the free plan covers five meeting transcripts a month.

Good for

  • Sending meeting recaps and action items to a team automatically
  • Catching up on long email threads and message channels through summaries
  • Finding what was agreed in past meetings with search

Key features

  • Meeting recaps, transcripts, action items and highlights
  • Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex
  • Summaries of email and messages
  • Search across meetings, documents and notes with citations
  • Personal meeting coach and topic readouts
  • 20+ languages supported

Limitations to know about

  • Free plan allows 5 meeting transcripts per month and meetings up to 1 hour
  • Premium integrations start on the Pro plan
  • Enterprise+ requires 5 or more licenses

Read AI pricing

Read AI has a free plan. Paid plans start at $15 per user a month billed annually (Pro).

PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$05 meeting transcripts/month, meetings up to 1 hour
Pro$19.75/user/month billed monthly, or $15/user/month billed annuallyUnlimited transcripts, 100 upload credits/month, premium integrations
Enterprise$29.75/user/month billed monthly, or $22.50/user/month billed annually200 upload credits/month, meetings up to 4 hours, audio and video playback
Enterprise+$39.75/user/month billed monthly, or $29.75/user/month billed annually5+ licenses, HIPAA compliance, SAML and SCIM, meetings up to 8 hours

Free plan limits: 5 meeting transcripts per month; meetings up to 1 hour; summaries for meetings, email and messaging; unlimited enterprise search; basic integrations.

What a team pays: For a team of five on Pro: $75 a month billed annually ($900 a year), or $98.75 billed monthly.

Prices in US dollars as published on Read AI's pricing page on 23 September 2026. Vendors change prices often; check theirs before you buy. Current prices

Read AI alternatives

Otter.ai

AI notetaker that transcribes, summarizes and searches meeting conversations

Meeting notesFree plan · from $8.33/user/mo

Fireflies.ai

AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes team calls

Meeting notesFree plan · from $10/user/mo

Fathom

AI notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes video calls

Meeting notesFree plan · from $16/user/mo

tl;dv

AI meeting recorder and notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams

Meeting notesFree plan · from $18/seat/mo

Fellow

AI meeting assistant for notes, recordings and agendas with security controls

Meeting notesFree plan · from $7/user/mo

Granola

AI notepad that transcribes meetings from device audio, without a bot

Meeting notesFree plan · from $14/user/mo

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Frequently asked questions

Is Read AI free?

Read AI has a free plan. 5 meeting transcripts per month; meetings up to 1 hour; summaries for meetings, email and messaging; unlimited enterprise search; basic integrations. Paid plans start at $15/user/mo billed annually.

How much does Read AI cost?

Read AI's cheapest paid plan, Pro, costs $19.75 per user a month billed monthly, or $15 billed annually. Unlimited meeting transcripts, 100 file upload credits per month. There is also an enterprise plan priced on request. Prices as published on Read AI's pricing page on 23 September 2026.

What is Read AI used for?

Read AI joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex calls to produce transcripts, recaps, action items and highlights. People use it for sending meeting recaps and action items to a team automatically, catching up on long email threads and message channels through summaries and finding what was agreed in past meetings with search.

What are the alternatives to Read AI?

Tools that do a similar job include Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Fathom, tl;dv and Fellow. Each has its own page here with its plans, limits and prices.

Who makes Read AI?

Read AI is made by Read AI, Inc., based in Seattle, Washington, US. The company was founded in 2021.

Sources

Every fact on this page comes from Read AI, Inc.'s own pages, read on the dates shown.

  1. read.ai/plans-pricing (pricing, plans, free plan limits, apps) read 23 September 2026
  2. read.ai/ (description, features, platforms, integrations) read 23 September 2026
  3. read.ai/about (founding year, headquarters, legal name) read 23 September 2026

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