Claude Meetings is a beta feature on Claude Team and Enterprise plans that adds Claude to a Google Meet call as a visible participant. In the beta it supports Google Meet only. Claude joins when someone adds it from the Meetings calendar or when auto-join is on, then takes notes and action items and answers questions during the call (checked Nov 13, 2026).
Comu, which publishes this article, makes the Comu Action Pro and Comu Note Pro recorders. Claude Meetings saves a transcript, a summary and descriptions of what was shown on screen, and it does not save audio. If your conversation happens in a room, on a client visit or on a phone call, skip to how Comu AI records the room and the phone call.
What Is Claude Meetings?
Claude Meetings adds Claude to a video call. Anthropic's announcement is dated Nov 12, 2026, and TechCrunch reported the launch on Nov 10, 2026. Claude joins as a participant everyone can see, follows the conversation, answers questions, builds documents and whiteboards while the call runs, and writes notes and action items.
Claude Meetings is in beta, and it is offered on Team and Enterprise plans. The beta supports Google Meet only. Google Meet already has its own Gemini notes on eligible plans, and Microsoft Teams has Facilitator for shared live notes. Does Google Meet take notes automatically? covers Google's side.
The Claude meeting notes are what Claude Meetings writes, and the Claude notetaker is Claude sitting in the call as a visible participant.
What changes when Claude works during the meeting?
Anthropic says the work that comes out of a meeting usually starts after everyone hangs up, and that Claude Meetings lets teams turn discussions into actions in real time (TechCrunch, Nov 10, 2026). The notes are one result. The documents, whiteboards and plans that Claude builds while people talk are the others.
Anthropic's own example is a team planning a customer event. Someone says, "Claude, start a doc for this plan," and Claude writes up what the team has said so far while teammates on the invite edit it. When the talk turns to budget, someone asks what last year's event cost, Claude asks for approval to look it up, posts the figure in the meeting chat and compares it with the current plan. When the talk turns to timelines, someone asks Claude to put the schedule on a whiteboard. Before the call ends, someone asks Claude to share a recap with the team (Anthropic, Nov 12, 2026).
Claude Whiteboards, a beta feature on paid plans, also work inside Claude Meetings, so the board builds while people talk (TechCrunch, Nov 10, 2026).
How Does Claude Meetings Join a Call and What Does It Do?
Claude joins a Google Meet call in one of two ways: someone adds it from the Meetings calendar in claude.ai with Google Calendar connected, or auto-join is on.
| Join method | How it works |
|---|---|
| Added from the calendar | A person adds Claude to a meeting from the Meetings calendar in claude.ai |
| Auto-join | Claude joins all meetings, or all meetings except one-on-ones, depending on the setting |
Once Claude joins, it appears as a participant and posts a notice in the call chat, so everyone in the call can see that Claude is there. Claude can stay in a call for up to eight hours, and it warns before it leaves.
What does the Claude notetaker do during the call?
During the call Claude does four things:
- It follows the conversation.
- It answers questions that people ask it during the call.
- It builds documents and whiteboards while the call runs.
- It writes notes and action items.
What Does Claude Meetings Keep After the Call?
Claude Meetings keeps a transcript, a summary and descriptions of what was shown on screen. It does not keep audio.
| What Claude saves | Saved? |
|---|---|
| Transcript | Yes |
| Summary | Yes |
| Screen descriptions | Yes |
| Audio | No |
Where do Claude meeting notes go?
After the call, a meeting page appears in claude.ai. It holds the Claude meeting notes, the summary, the action items, the transcript and whatever Claude made during the call, such as a document or a whiteboard. People from the organization who were on the invite can open the page, and they get a recap email. Later, you can ask Claude about past meetings that you have access to.
Anthropic says it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter so that teams can soon send a meeting transcript to those tools.
Who Can Use Claude Meetings, and What Does the Beta Cost?
Claude Meetings is available to Team and Enterprise plans, and the two plan types start from different defaults.
| Plan | Default | Who changes it |
|---|---|---|
| Team | Claude Meetings is on by default | An owner can turn it off |
| Enterprise | Claude Meetings is off until an owner turns it on | An owner turns it on for all or part of the organization |
Organizations with zero data retention (ZDR), a HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) are not part of the beta.
The beta price has three parts:
- Notes, transcripts and answers that do not use connected tools are free on Team and Enterprise plans during the beta.
- Documents and whiteboards made in a meeting are free through Feb 10, 2027.
- Use of connected tools counts toward plan usage.
Claude Team standard seats cost $20 per user per month with annual billing, or $25 per user per month billed monthly (VentureBeat, quoting Anthropic's pricing page, read Nov 13, 2026).
Can Claude Meetings Join Calls With Outside Guests?
Claude Meetings stays out of calls with outside guests unless an owner allows it, and on Team plans the default setting allows it (Claude Help Center, Nov 13, 2026). The setting is called "Meetings with external guests", and it has two values.
| Plan | Default value of "Meetings with external guests" | What an owner does |
|---|---|---|
| Team | Allowed | Turns it off by choosing Internal meetings only |
| Enterprise | Internal meetings only | Allows it first, then Claude can join calls with outside guests |
When someone from outside the organization is invited and the setting is Internal meetings only, Claude is set to stay out of the call. It also leaves if someone from outside joins partway through, including another company's notetaker bot.
When outside guests are allowed, Claude listens and takes notes. It posts its notice in the call chat and does not reply there. What guests say appears in the notes and the transcript. Guests do not get the meeting page or the recap email.
Anthropic asks users to make sure everyone on the call is fine with being transcribed before they add Claude or turn on auto-join. Is an AI note taker legal? covers the consent rules.
Which Meetings Does Claude Meetings Not Cover?
The beta supports Google Meet only, and Claude joins video calls. Anthropic's announcement says support for other video conferencing platforms is coming soon.
Claude is added from a meeting on a connected Google Calendar, or it joins through auto-join, and in both cases the conversation is a Google Meet call. A conversation in a room, a visit or a phone call has no Google Meet call for Claude to join. The table shows how common situations line up.
| Conversation | Google Meet call for Claude to join? |
|---|---|
| Meeting in a conference room with everyone present | No call exists |
| Client visit at the client's office or at a customer's home | No call exists |
| Phone call | No Google Meet call exists |
| Video call on a platform other than Google Meet | No, the beta supports Google Meet only |
| Google Meet call on a Team or Enterprise plan | Yes, when someone adds Claude or auto-join is on |
What Records In-Person Meetings, Client Visits and Calls?
A recorder in the room covers conversations that Claude Meetings has no call to join. A recorder is a device or an app that captures sound from the place where the conversation happens. A meeting bot is a program that joins a call as a participant. The two do different jobs, and AI note taker: what it is, types and how to choose compares the bot, bot-free and recorder types.
| Situation | What fits | Read more |
|---|---|---|
| In-person meeting or client visit | A recorder in the room | In-room recorder vs meeting bot, Best voice recorder for a conference room |
| Phone call | A recorder that sits against the phone, or a phone call recording method | How to record a phone call |
| Video call on a platform other than Google Meet | An AI note taker | Is there a free AI note taker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams? |
A person whose week mixes Google Meet calls and client visits can use Claude Meetings for the calls and a recorder for the visits.
Is your AI voice recorder always listening? explains when a recorder captures sound.
How Do You Choose a Meeting Recorder for a Team?
Five questions show which tool fits a team.
- Which of your important conversations happen without a meeting link? List the in-person meetings, client visits and phone calls in a typical week. Claude Meetings supports Google Meet calls in the beta, so those conversations are outside it.
- Which situations does the tool cover? Check in-person meetings, phone calls and the video platforms you use against what the tool supports. A Comu device records a conversation in the room, and Comu Action Pro also records phone calls.
- Does it keep audio? Claude Meetings saves a transcript, a summary and screen descriptions, not audio. A Comu device keeps the recording, and during playback the transcript highlights in step with the audio.
- How does each tool show that it is recording? Claude appears as a participant and posts a notice in the call chat when it joins. Anthropic asks users to make sure everyone is fine with being transcribed. On Comu Action Pro the LED stays lit while it records, and the device vibrates and shows a recording animation when it starts. Is an AI note taker legal? covers the consent rules.
- Where does the output go next? Claude Meetings puts the notes, action items, documents and whiteboards on the meeting page in claude.ai, and Claude can use connected tools such as Slack with each person's permission. Comu AI can write a follow-up email with the recipient, subject, summary, decisions, action items and deadlines, and it can produce reports, editable slide decks, documents and action plans.
Claude Meetings vs Comu Devices: How Do They Compare?
Claude Meetings joins a Google Meet call, and Comu devices record the conversation in the room. The two cover different conversations. Comu prices are euro prices from the EU store (Nov 6, 2026); competitor prices are US dollar prices from each company's own site.
| Comu devices (Comu Action Pro, Comu Note Pro) | Claude Meetings | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it records | The device records the conversation in the room. Comu Action Pro also records phone calls with its bone-conduction microphone against the phone | Joins a Google Meet call as a visible participant |
| How it starts | You press the record key on the device | Someone adds Claude from the Meetings calendar, or auto-join is on |
| What it keeps | A recording with a transcript that has speaker labels and a summary | A transcript, a summary and screen descriptions, not audio |
| Who it is for and what it needs | A Comu device, or a subscription in the Comu app | Team and Enterprise plans, in a Google Meet call |
| Price | Comu Action Pro €179.99, Comu Note Pro €139.99 (EU store, Nov 6, 2026) | Free for notes and transcripts on Team and Enterprise plans during the beta; Team standard seats $20 per user per month with annual billing |
Let Comu AI Record the Room and the Phone Call
Comu records from a device in the room. The Comu device captures the conversation with its own microphones, and the Comu app turns the recording into a transcript and a summary. You press the record key and the device records.
Two recorders. Comu Action Pro costs €179.99, and Comu Note Pro costs €139.99 (EU store, Nov 6, 2026). Action Pro measures 91 by 60 by 5.5 mm and weighs 51.5 g, and it has 6 microphones, a 7 meter indoor pickup range, a 0.95 inch color OLED screen and up to 70 hours of continuous recording. Note Pro is credit-card sized at 85.7 by 51.7 by 3.1 mm and 27.6 g, with 2 MEMS microphones plus a bone-conduction VPU, a 5 meter indoor pickup range and 45 hours of continuous recording. Both devices have 16 GB of local storage. At 16 kbps the 16 GB on Action Pro holds about 1,000 hours of recording, and at 32 kbps the 16 GB on Note Pro holds about 500 hours. Standby lasts more than 60 days on Action Pro and 107 days on Note Pro. Action Pro charges over USB-C in about 2 hours, and Note Pro charges magnetically in about 1.5 hours. Both devices work with the same Comu app, so transcription, speaker identification and summaries run the same way on either one.
Starting a recording. On Comu Action Pro, a long press of the record key for 2 seconds starts a recording. The device vibrates once, shows a recording animation and starts a timer. A single press pauses and resumes, and another 2 second long press ends the recording with two vibrations and "Saved" on the screen. The LED stays lit while it records, and its brightness is adjustable. Comu Note Pro has one record key that starts and stops a recording.
Phone calls. Comu Action Pro records phone calls with its bone-conduction microphone. You place the device against the phone, and the call is recorded. The Comu app detects face-to-face and call recordings automatically and enhances the voice.
What the plan that comes with the device includes. Starter includes unlimited real-time transcription in 113 languages, speaker identification and basic summaries. On Starter you tap to transcribe and summarize a recording. Premium and Elite do it automatically. Subscriptions are bought inside the Comu app.
What you can do with a recording. During playback the transcript highlights in step with the audio, and you can play at 0.75x to 2.0x and jump back or forward 15 seconds. Summaries can follow a template for professions such as sales, insurance and real estate. Actions pull to-dos from a recording, with owners and deadlines. The app searches past conversations by keyword and sorts recordings into smart folders automatically.
Software only. You can subscribe in the Comu app without buying hardware and upload audio files, and MP4 files up to 500 MB are accepted.
Privacy. Comu does not sell your data to third parties and does not use it to train AI. You can delete your data at any time, files are encrypted, and Comu is GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant (knowledge base, Oct 27, 2026).
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Claude Meetings work on Zoom or Teams?
Claude Meetings supports Google Meet only in the beta. Anthropic's announcement says support for other video conferencing platforms is coming soon. Is there a free AI note taker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams? covers the options for Zoom and Teams calls.
Does Claude Meetings record audio?
Claude Meetings saves a transcript, a summary and screen descriptions, not audio. Claude posts a notice in the call chat when it joins, and it appears as a participant.
Is Claude Meetings free?
Claude Meetings is free for notes, transcripts and answers that do not use connected tools on Team and Enterprise plans during the beta. Documents and whiteboards made in a meeting are free through Feb 10, 2027, and connected-tool use counts toward plan usage. Team standard seats cost $20 per user per month with annual billing or $25 billed monthly.
Can Claude Meetings join calls with outside guests?
Claude Meetings stays out of calls with outside guests unless an owner allows it, and on Team plans the default setting allows it (Claude Help Center, Nov 13, 2026). On Enterprise plans an owner must allow it first. When guests are allowed, Claude takes notes but does not reply in the chat, and guests do not get the meeting page or the recap email.
Can Claude Meetings record an in-person meeting?
Claude Meetings joins Google Meet calls in the beta, so an in-person meeting is not a call it joins. A recorder in the room records it, and In-room recorder vs meeting bot: when each is allowed at work explains the options.
Which recorder works for in-person meetings and phone calls?
Comu Action Pro records in-person meetings and phone calls, and Comu Note Pro records in-person meetings. Action Pro records a conversation in the room with 6 microphones and a 7 meter indoor pickup range, and records phone calls with its bone-conduction microphone against the phone. Note Pro records a room with a 5 meter indoor pickup range. Best voice recorder for a conference room and How to record a phone call cover each case.
Does Claude Meetings replace a meeting recorder?
Claude Meetings joins Google Meet calls in the beta, and a recorder in the room records conversations that have no call to join. A person who has both kinds of conversations in a week can use both.
Related reading
- AI note taker: what it is, types and how to choose: the bot, bot-free and recorder types side by side.
- Is an AI note taker legal?: the consent rules behind any recording or transcription feature.
- In-room recorder vs meeting bot: when each is allowed at work: which route fits when a workplace controls bots in calls.
- Does Google Meet take notes automatically?: Google Meet's own notes, the platform Claude Meetings joins.
- Is there a free AI note taker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams?: free options for the video platforms Claude Meetings does not support.
- Best voice recorder for a conference room: choosing a recorder for the in-person meeting.
- How to record a phone call: the methods for the conversations that have no video call.
- Is your AI voice recorder always listening?: when a recorder captures sound and when it does not.
Sources
Checked Nov 13, 2026 unless noted.
- Anthropic, Introducing Claude Meetings, Nov 12, 2026
- Claude Help Center, Use Claude Meetings
- TechCrunch, Nov 10, 2026: Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks
- VentureBeat: Anthropic brings Claude into Google Meet to draft documents and whiteboards during your meetings
- Comu product knowledge base (Oct 27, 2026 edition, exported Nov 4, 2026): devices, plans, privacy. Comu prices from the Comu EU store, Nov 6, 2026: Comu Action Pro, Comu Note Pro
