An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and highlights key moments in real-time.
One of the most generous free tiers in the market, offering genuinely unlimited recording and transcription, but strictly limiting advanced AI synthesis.
Forever free
The individual power-user tier unlocking unlimited AI synthesis and 'Ask Fathom' queries, designed exclusively for solo professionals.
The collaborative baseline tier for agile operations, unlocking shared searchable repositories and centralized meeting playlists.
The enterprise-lite tier targeting sales leadership, gating essential coaching metrics and account-wide AI intelligence.
Unlike competitors (like tl;dv or Fireflies) that aggressively gate CRM integrations behind expensive Business plans, Fathom gives away native HubSpot, Salesforce, and Close syncing on its Free plan (limited to 3 users). This is a massive anomaly in the 2026 SaaS landscape, designed as an aggressive loss-leader to capture sales teams early in their growth cycle.
Fathom's conversational AI feature ('Ask Fathom') changes capabilities drastically depending on how much you pay. On Premium, you can only query a single call's transcript. On Team, you get a limited 'lookback' window to query across your colleagues' calls. Only on the $34/month Business plan do you unlock an unlimited Account-wide Ask Fathom, which is necessary to turn the tool from a personal note-taker into a fully searchable corporate knowledge base.
Fathom historically forced a visible 'Notetaker Bot' to join every call as a participant. In 2026, they introduced a 'bot-free' native capture method, but it is strictly restricted as a Beta feature for Mac users only. For high-ticket sales or sensitive client meetings where a visible bot creates friction and signals low trust, this hardware dependency forces Windows users to continue accepting the bot stigma.
Fathom does not limit your recording storage, but it aggressively caps your cognitive leverage. You only get advanced custom AI summaries, action items, and conversational 'Ask Fathom' queries for your first 5 calls of the month. Once consumed, you revert to basic generic summaries for the rest of your unlimited recordings.
Priced at $20/month, Premium is bizarrely more expensive on a per-user basis than the collaborative Team plan ($19/month). This explicitly penalizes solo operators who cannot meet the mandatory multi-user minimum of the higher tiers.
While marketed at an appealing $19/user/month (cheaper than Premium), the Team plan enforces a strict 2-user minimum. A solo founder cannot access team playlists or centralized repositories without paying a baseline of $38/month for a phantom second seat.
If a sales manager wants to use AI to track objection handling across their reps' calls (Keyword Alerts) or query the entire company's meeting history, they are forced into a massive 78% price hike (from $19 to $34/user/mo). Fathom gates true revenue intelligence entirely behind this Business tier.
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$16.99/monthly | An AI-powered meeting assistant that creates real-time transcripts and automated summaries for professional teams. | Read Review |
No. Fathom's Free plan offers genuinely unlimited lifetime storage and recordings [1.2.1]. They do not employ the aggressive 90-day auto-deletion tactics used by competitors like tl;dv, allowing you to build a permanent archive at zero cost.
No. The Team plan ($19/month) enforces a strict 2-user minimum. If you are a solo operator, you must either purchase two seats (costing you $38/month minimum) or downgrade to the single-user Premium plan ($20/month).
Yes, Fathom officially supports Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams across all tiers, including the Free plan.
