Read AI alternatives: note takers for teams, priced per seat

Read AI alternatives: the picks and their seat prices

The Read AI alternatives worth pricing for a team are Krisp, Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Fathom and Granola. Read AI Pro is $15 per user a month billed annually, or $19.75 billed monthly from Read AI's own page data, as read on October 29, 2026. Krisp Core is $8 per user a month billed annually, or $16 billed monthly.

Otter.ai's and Fathom's monthly figures, like Read AI's, come from each vendor's own page data. Granola prints one figure per plan with no monthly or annual basis, so it is never set beside the others as billed monthly or annually.

Read AI's limits: free transcripts, meeting length and licenses

Read AI describes its free plan as always free with no credit card required, and it stops at 5 meeting transcripts per month and a 1-hour maximum meeting length. Paid plans record up to 4 hours, and Enterprise+ up to 8 hours.

Enterprise+ requires 5 or more licenses. Read AI says all its licenses are individual, and every license in a workspace has to be on the same plan, so a workspace buys one plan for everyone. Its FAQ says it offers no refunds, with access to the workspace until the end of the billing period.

Alternatives with no assistant in the call

Read AI describes Read Assistant, which you add to a Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet meeting. Krisp, Granola and Otter.ai each describe a way to take notes with no assistant in the call.

• Krisp works at the audio level on your device by default; its bot is optional, from Core.
• Granola describes its capture as bot-free and taken from device audio, on all three plans.
• Otter.ai says its Mac and Windows desktop app records without bots joining the call.
• Fireflies.ai records through a Chrome extension without its bot, and Fathom offers a bot-free choice that is in beta on Mac.

Read AI alternatives for teams on Microsoft Teams

For a team that meets in Microsoft Teams, the built-in route is Copilot in Teams. Microsoft says intelligent recap comes with Teams Premium or a Microsoft Copilot license, and Copilot does not work in meetings hosted outside your organization, which rules it out for client calls that another company hosts.

Krisp works across Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and other calling apps, so one tool covers the team and its client calls. The best AI note taker for teams page sets the built-in assistants of Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams beside the separate tools.

Which team should pick which

• Krisp for a team that wants no assistant in the call. Krisp vs Read AI sets the two side by side.
• Otter.ai for a notetaker that joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, plus a free Basic plan of up to 5 members. Otter.ai alternatives lists what else to price against it.
• Fireflies.ai for a Chrome extension that records without its bot.
• Granola for bot-free capture on every plan, Basic included.
• Fathom for a free plan with unlimited recordings and transcriptions.

Krisp's pricing page offers 7 days free with no credit card required, which gives time to try notes with no assistant in the call.