Fathom is one of the best free AI meeting notetakers out there: fast, generous, and genuinely well built for solo call notes. Speak AI is the multimodal system of record: audio and video analysis, call scoring, uploads beyond meetings, and a queryable context engine your whole team can build on.
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Devin M.Fathom is one of the best free meeting notetakers available, and its 5.0 rating on G2 is well earned. It was built to summarize what was said in a live meeting. It was not built to score how something was said, read a shared screen, ingest a file that was not a meeting, or give a team a queryable context engine. Here is the direct comparison, as of August 2026.
| 기능 | AI 말하기 | 길 |
|---|---|---|
| Audio analysis (tone, emotion, energy) | Yes, on Scale plans | No. Fathom summarizes what was said, not how it was said |
| Video analysis (what’s on screen) | Yes, on Scale plans (reads slides and screens) | No screen or video content analysis |
| 무료 플랜 | Yes, trial with credits | Yes, unlimited recordings; advanced summaries capped at 5 calls/month |
| File upload (any audio/video format) | 예 | No, live meetings only (upload is on Fathom’s roadmap) |
| Embeddable recorder for participants | 예 | 아니요 |
| Call scoring / coaching scorecards | Yes, driven by tone and content signals together | Yes, on Business plan ($25/user/mo, annual) |
| NLP 분석 (키워드, 감정, 개체) | Yes, across your library | No analytics layer beyond per-call summaries |
| CRM field sync | Via API and Zapier automations | Yes, on Business plan (Salesforce, HubSpot) |
| 멀티 엔진 전사 | Multiple engines, routed per file | Single engine |
| AI chat across all recordings | Yes (Claude, GPT, Gemini) | Ask Fathom, per-meeting and limited on the free plan |
| 화이트 라벨 / 맞춤형 브랜딩 | 예 | 아니요 |
| 지원되는 언어 | 100+ | 38 |
| MCP tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor | 100+ tools, 7+ assistants | Public API + MCP server, meeting-data retrieval |
| AI 음성 에이전트 | 예 | 아니요 |
| G2 등급 | 4.9/5 | 5.0/5 (6,900+ reviews) |
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Fathom gives you words on a page, fast and for free. Speak AI reads the words, the voice, and the visuals together, then keeps all three searchable in one archive your whole team can query.
Speak AI scores how a call actually sounded, beyond what was said. Frustration, hesitation, and confidence get flagged automatically, so coaching and call scoring go beyond a text summary. Fathom’s summaries do not touch tone of voice or emotion in voice at all.
When a screen is shared, Speak AI reads what was on it, slides, dashboards, a competitor’s pricing page, and ties it to the moment in the transcript. Fathom has no video or screen-content analysis.
Speak AI ingests uploaded recordings, embeddable recorder sessions, URL imports, and live meetings. Fathom only captures live meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams; uploading an existing recording is still on Fathom’s roadmap.
Fathom’s AI Scorecards on its Business plan grade what was said. Speak AI’s scoring combines transcript content with tone and energy signals, so a rubric reflects how a call actually went, beyond its text.
Keywords, sentiment, entities, and topics are extracted automatically and tracked over time, so patterns show up as a report instead of a hunch across hundreds of calls.
Every transcript, audio signal, and screen read builds a context engine your team’s applications draw on, through the API, webhooks, or the MCP server, beyond a per-meeting summary.
Fathom and Speak AI solve different problems for different buyers. Here is the honest breakdown, including where Fathom genuinely wins.
Fathom is arguably the best free AI meeting notetaker on the market right now. Its free plan genuinely includes unlimited recordings and transcriptions with no time caps, instant AI call summaries, and search across calls, capped only on advanced-summary formatting after the first 5 calls each month. It has a real public API and MCP server for pulling meeting data into other tools, native CRM field sync with Salesforce and HubSpot on its Business plan, and a 5.0 rating from more than 6,900 G2 reviews, a genuinely stronger G2 score than Speak AI’s own 4.9. For an individual or a sales rep who just needs fast, accurate notes from a live call, Fathom is a very good choice and possibly the best free option available.
A meeting summary tells you what was said. It does not tell you that the prospect’s voice tightened when price came up, or that they pulled up a competitor’s pricing page mid-call. Understanding the words, the voice, and the visuals together is the categorical difference between a notetaker and a context engine. Speak AI’s audio analysis reads tone of voice, emotion in voice, and pacing, while its video analysis reads what’s on screen, so a call scoring rubric or a coaching workflow has something real to grade, instead of a paragraph of notes. This is multimodal analysis: the words, the tone of voice, and the body language on screen together give your team the full context a notetaker cannot capture.
Fathom’s core product only captures live meetings running on Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams; uploading an existing recording for analysis is not supported today. Speak AI is unified capture across a meeting bot, an embeddable recorder, file uploads, and voice agents, all landing in one searchable knowledge base. Sales teams, customer success, research teams, agencies, and operations groups all draw from the same system of record instead of a folder of individual meeting summaries.
Because Speak AI keeps transcript, audio signal, and screen content together, teams build custom applications on top of it: dashboards, scoring rubrics, research coding, and AI 음성 에이전트, through the API or the MCP server. Fathom’s public API and MCP server are built for retrieving meeting data; Speak AI’s 100+ tools work inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor across audio, video, and text signals, which is what context engineering on top of your conversations actually requires.
A national sports federation needed more than call summaries from its athlete and coach interviews.
“Speak AI helped us process hours of recorded athlete and coach interviews in multiple languages. We could finally identify themes and sentiment patterns across all our qualitative data in a fraction of the time.”
The federation was running multilingual athlete and coach interviews and needed to transcribe field recordings, analyze sentiment across hundreds of sessions, and share findings organization-wide. A meetings-only tool like Fathom could not touch the uploaded field recordings or the cross-session analytics. Speak AI handled both: transcribing uploaded files across languages and delivering a shared dashboard that saved the research team weeks of manual analysis.
Fathom’s public API and MCP server retrieve meeting data, summaries, and action items. Speak AI’s MCP server gives any assistant 100+ tools to search, analyze, and act on your full knowledge base, transcript, audio signals, and screen reads included, in about 60 seconds. No terminal, no npm, no config, backed by a full developer API.
Both are good products, and Fathom’s free plan is genuinely one of the best in the category. They are built for different jobs.
Speak AI starts free to evaluate and scales by use. Fathom’s free plan is genuinely generous; paid plans add coaching and CRM features. Prices as of August 2026.
Real feedback from teams using Speak AI for research, transcription, meetings, and client work.
Common questions when comparing Speak AI and Fathom.
Yes. Fathom’s free plan includes unlimited meeting recordings and transcriptions with no time caps, which is genuinely one of the more generous free tiers among AI notetakers. Advanced call summaries are capped at 5 calls per month on the free plan, after which only the standard summary template is available (as of August 2026). Speak AI also offers a trial with credits, plus audio analysis, video analysis, file uploads, and a 100+ tool MCP server that Fathom’s free plan does not include.
By all public information, yes: Fathom is a widely used, well-reviewed product with over 300,000 companies on it and a 5.0 rating across more than 6,900 G2 reviews. Speak AI takes the same approach to security and encrypts recordings and transcripts in your own workspace, with enterprise plans adding SSO and custom data controls.
Fathom is free for unlimited recordings and transcription. Premium is $20/month ($16/month billed annually) per user for individuals. Team is $19/month ($15/month annually) per user, and Business is $34/month ($25/month annually) per user, adding CRM field sync and AI coaching scorecards. Enterprise is custom-priced (as of August 2026). Speak AI’s pay-as-you-go and Individual/Team plans include audio and video analysis on Scale plans without an enterprise contract.
Yes, on live meetings. Fathom joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls (or captures bot-free, in beta) and produces an instant AI summary with action items. It does not currently support uploading a pre-recorded audio or video file for analysis; that is on Fathom’s roadmap. Speak AI supports both live capture and file upload of any length and format.
For live meeting notes alone, Fathom is generally rated higher for accuracy and speed, and its free tier is more generous than Otter’s. Neither Fathom nor Otter analyzes tone of voice, emotion, or on-screen visuals, and neither supports file uploads the way Speak AI does. If you need coaching signals beyond the transcript or a shared context engine across your team, Speak AI covers ground that both tools leave out.
Yes, especially once you need more than a live-meeting summary. Speak AI adds audio analysis, video analysis, file uploads, call scoring, NLP analytics across all recordings, multi-model AI chat, and a 100+ tool MCP server. If you want free, fast meeting notes and nothing more, Fathom is an excellent choice. If you need a queryable context engine your team and other applications can build on, Speak AI is the stronger fit.
No. Fathom produces a text summary and action items from what was said. It does not score tone of voice, emotion, or energy, and it has no video or screen-content analysis. Speak AI analyzes all three, audio, video, and text, and keeps them tied to the same moment in the transcript.
No, not today. Fathom only captures live meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams; uploading an existing recorded interview, podcast, or customer call is not supported and is listed as a future item on Fathom’s roadmap. Speak AI supports both live capture and uploads of any length and format right now.
Fathom is free for unlimited meeting recordings, with paid plans from $16 to $25 per user per month (annual) adding coaching scorecards and CRM sync. Speak AI offers a pay-as-you-go plan, an Individual plan, a Team plan, and a trial, with audio analysis and video analysis available on Scale plans, plus a 100+ tool MCP server, for teams that need more than meeting notes.
Audio analysis, video analysis, file uploads, call scoring, NLP analytics, multi-model AI chat, and 100+ languages, in one shared archive. Book a free consult and see it on your own recording.
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