The best Krisp alternatives depend on what you use Krisp for. Otter and Fireflies have similar yearly prices and free plans. Fathom has a free plan with unlimited recording and transcription. Granola takes notes without a bot like Krisp. Avoma adds scorecards and CRM updates for sales teams. Plaud and Comu are recorders that capture in-person meetings and phone calls. Krisp starts with a 7-day trial and Core costs $8 a month billed yearly, and Comu Note Pro costs €139.99 for a device with a plan that transcribes without a minute limit. Comu prices are euro prices from the EU store (Nov 6, 2026); competitor prices are US dollar prices from each company's own site.
If you want the price comparison first, jump to the Krisp alternatives price table. If your meetings happen in a room or on the phone, skip to the Krisp alternative for in-person meetings, Comu AI.
What Krisp includes before you compare
Krisp Meeting AI combines noise cancellation with an AI note taker that works without a bot. Core costs $16 a month, or $8 billed yearly. It includes unlimited noise cancellation, transcription, audio and video recording, AI notes and action items, in-person meeting notes on the mobile app, outbound call recording, AI Chat, one hour a day of accent conversion and 10 GB of storage. Every Krisp plan and its price is broken down in Krisp pricing.
Advanced costs $30 a month, or $15 billed yearly, and adds unlimited accent conversion, Salesforce and ConnectWise integrations, advanced admin controls, a manager view, company deal grouping, clip trimming and commenting, team-level webhooks and 60 GB of storage. Enterprise is priced through sales and adds SSO, SCIM and unlimited storage. Krisp is SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliant, and it states that meeting data is not used to train its AI models.
Why people look for a Krisp alternative
People look for a Krisp alternative when the trial ends, the storage fills up or the meetings happen away from a screen. Five details of the Krisp plans send people to compare tools:
- Krisp starts with a 7-day trial. The trial includes all premium features and needs no credit card, and then you pick Core or Advanced.
- Storage is capped. Core includes 10 GB and Advanced includes 60 GB, and unlimited storage starts on Enterprise.
- Seats add up. Krisp bills per seat, and every member who joins the team counts as a seat. Teams with more than 50 members get a volume discount.
- Sales features sit on Advanced. Salesforce and ConnectWise integrations, the manager view and deal grouping start at $15 a month billed yearly.
- Calendar sign-up. Sign-up connects a Google or Outlook calendar by default.
Krisp alternatives compared by price
The eight Krisp alternatives in the table cost from $0 on a free plan to $19 a month for Avoma Startup billed yearly, and the two recorders add a device price.
| Tool | Type | Free option | Paid entry price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comu | Recorder | Free plan with the device, unlimited transcription | Note Pro €139.99, Action Pro €179.99 |
| Krisp (baseline) | App | 7-day free trial | Core $8 a month billed yearly |
| Otter | App | Basic, 300 minutes a month | Pro $8.33 a month billed yearly |
| Fireflies | App | Free, 400 minutes of storage per team | Pro $10 per seat a month billed yearly |
| Granola | App | Basic, 30 days of history | Business $14 per user a month |
| Read AI | App | Free, 5 meetings a month | Pro $15 a month billed yearly |
| Fathom | App | Free, unlimited recording and transcription | Premium $16 a month billed yearly |
| Avoma | App | 14-day trial of the Organization plan | Startup $19 a month billed yearly |
| Plaud | Recorder and plan | Starter, 300 minutes a month | Plaud Note $159, Pro plan $8.33 a month billed yearly |
Prices are in US dollars, checked Nov 2 and Nov 4, 2026. Yearly prices are the yearly total divided by 12.
Otter: a Krisp AI alternative with live transcripts and a free plan
Otter Basic costs $0 and gives 300 transcription minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation and the 25 most recent conversations, where Krisp starts with a 7-day trial. Otter Pro costs $8.33 a month billed yearly, which is close to Krisp Core at $8, and gives 1,200 minutes a month and conversations of up to 90 minutes. Pro costs $16.99 billed monthly, and Business costs $30 billed monthly, or $19.99 billed yearly.
Otter joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet meetings, transcribes in six languages and records in person through its iOS and Android apps. Choose Otter if you want a free plan to start on and live transcripts in online meetings.
Fathom: unlimited recording on a free plan
Fathom Free costs $0 and includes unlimited recording, storage and transcription plus an instant AI summary of each call. It works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, and it offers a bot or a bot-free capture mode that is in beta for Mac.
Premium costs $20 a month, or $16 billed yearly, and adds advanced summaries, AI action items and AI follow-up emails. Team costs $15 a seat billed yearly and Business costs $25, both with a two-user minimum. Business adds CRM field sync, Deal View and coaching metrics. Fathom is SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliant. Choose Fathom if you want recording with no storage cap on a free plan.
Fireflies: 100+ languages and a searchable library
Fireflies transcribes in 100+ languages from its free plan. Fireflies Free costs $0 and includes real-time notes, meeting search, limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits once.
Pro costs $18 a month, or $10 billed yearly, and adds unlimited AI summaries, 8,000 minutes of storage per seat, video recording, downloads and unlimited integrations. Business costs $29 a month, or $19 billed yearly, with unlimited storage, conversation intelligence and team analytics. AI credits pay for advanced tools such as AI Skills and CRM autofill. Choose Fireflies if you need languages beyond a short list or video recording.
Read AI: playback, highlights and a free plan for light use
Read AI Free covers 5 meetings a month, with meetings up to 1 hour. Pro costs $19.75 a month, or $15 billed yearly, with unlimited meeting transcription, 100 file upload minutes a month and premium integrations with Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence and Zapier. Enterprise costs $22.50 billed yearly and adds audio and video playback and video highlights.
Enterprise+ costs $29.75 a seat billed yearly with at least five licenses, and it adds HIPAA, SAML and SCIM. Choose Read AI if you want playback and highlights.
Granola: the bot-free Krisp alternative with your own notes
Granola captures your computer's audio, so no bot joins the call, and it combines the notes you type with the transcript. Granola Basic costs $0 and keeps 30 days of meeting history. Business costs $14 per user per month and adds unlimited history, pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails and integrations with Notion, Zapier and HubSpot. Enterprise costs $35 per user per month.
Granola runs on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android, and its mobile apps take notes at walking meetings and conferences and cover phone calls. Students get Granola free for 12 months. Choose Granola if you want bot-free notes shaped around what you type.
Avoma: scorecards and CRM updates for sales teams
Avoma Startup costs $19 a seat a month billed yearly, or $29 billed monthly, and only the seats that record meetings are paid. Viewers and collaborators are free. Startup includes unlimited real-time transcription, unlimited AI summary notes, automatic video recording, Ask Avoma, AI follow-up emails, notes saved to CRM records and a dialer integration, for up to 25 paid seats.
Enterprise costs $39 a seat billed yearly with at least 10 paid seats. Revenue add-ons cost $29 a seat billed yearly, or $35 billed monthly, and cover AI coaching, automatic call scoring, scorecards for SPICED, Sandler and MEDDICC, sales forecasting and two-way CRM field updates. Avoma offers a 14-day trial of the Organization plan with all add-ons and no credit card. Choose Avoma if you run a sales team and want scorecards.
Plaud: a recorder alternative to Krisp
Plaud is a recorder that captures in-person meetings and phone calls and comes with a plan. Plaud Note costs $159 and Plaud Note Pro costs $189. Each comes with a free Starter plan of 300 transcription minutes a month. Pro costs $17.99 a month, or $8.33 billed yearly, with 1,200 minutes a month, and Unlimited costs $29.99 a month, or $20.00 billed yearly.
Ask Plaud work modes run on credits sold separately in the Plaud app, at $12.99 for 1,000 credits. Choose Plaud if you want a recorder and are fine with a monthly plan.
Krisp alternative for in-person meetings: Comu AI
Comu is a Krisp alternative for in-person meetings and phone calls: a pocket recorder with an app that captures the room and the call without a meeting link, a calendar connection or a computer. Comu Note Pro is €139.99 and Comu Action Pro is €179.99 (Nov 6, 2026). Over three years, Krisp Core billed yearly costs $288 and Krisp Advanced costs $540.
The free plan that comes with the device includes unlimited transcription, unlimited real-time transcription, speaker identification, AI summaries, action items and Comu AI for questions across your recordings. It has 30+ built-in templates and unlimited custom templates, supports 113 languages, imports external audio files and records phone calls. Comu exports text as TXT, Markdown, Word and PDF and audio as MP3 and WAV, and it is GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant.
| What you get | Comu (included with the device) | Krisp Core | Krisp Advanced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Note Pro €139.99, Action Pro €179.99 | $8 a month billed yearly | $15 a month billed yearly |
| Free option | Free plan with the device, unlimited transcription | 7-day trial | 7-day trial |
| Where it records | A recorder you carry, in person and on the phone | Online meetings, the mobile app and outbound calls | Online meetings, the mobile app and outbound calls |
| Languages | 113 | 16+ in meeting transcripts and summaries | 16+ in meeting transcripts and summaries |
Comu's included plan has unlimited transcription, summaries and action items for every recording, and the same device records the room and phone calls.
Comu records the room and the phone from a device you carry, so it works for an in-person interview, a client visit, a lecture or a call. The transcript, speaker labels, summary and action items arrive in the app. To see every feature in the included plan, read our guide to the features that come with Comu, or look at Comu Note Pro and Comu Action Pro.
Krisp competitors by team size
One person should start on a free plan or the Krisp trial, a team of five should compare per-seat totals, and a larger team should compare admin features.
One person. Fathom Free has unlimited recording, Otter Basic gives 300 minutes a month, Fireflies Free stores 400 minutes per team and Read AI Free covers 5 meetings a month. The lowest paid yearly prices are Krisp Core at $8, Otter Pro at $8.33 and Fireflies Pro at $10 a month.
Two to five people. Five Krisp Core seats on yearly billing cost $480 a year, five Krisp Advanced seats cost $900 a year, and five Otter Pro seats cost $499.80 a year. Five Fireflies Pro seats cost $600 a year. Five Comu Note Pro devices with the included plan cost €699.95, and each person carries their own.
Ten or more people. Admin features matter: SSO, SCIM, audit logs and a success manager. Krisp Enterprise, Fireflies Enterprise ($39 a seat billed yearly) and Fathom Enterprise include SSO and SCIM, Avoma Enterprise includes a designated success manager, and Comu is GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant.
Krisp AI alternatives free: what each free plan includes
Fathom Free has unlimited recording, storage and transcription, and Comu's included plan has unlimited transcription with a device. Krisp has no permanent free plan, only a 7-day trial.
| Free plan | What it includes |
|---|---|
| Comu, included with the device | Unlimited transcription and real-time transcription, speaker identification, summaries, action items, 30+ templates plus unlimited custom templates, 113 languages |
| Krisp trial | 7 days with all premium features, no credit card |
| Fathom Free | Unlimited recording, storage and transcription, instant AI summary, clips, playlists, search across calls |
| Fireflies Free | 400 minutes of storage per team, 20 AI credits once, limited AI summaries, 100+ languages |
| Otter Basic | 300 transcription minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation, 25 most recent conversations, six languages |
| Read AI Free | 5 meetings a month, meetings up to 1 hour |
| Granola Basic | 30 days of meeting history, AI meeting notes, speaker tagging, Slack integration |
| Avoma trial | 14 days of the Organization plan with all add-ons, no credit card |
| Plaud Starter | 300 transcription minutes a month with the device |
Comu's included plan transcribes without a minute cap, where Otter Basic stops at 300 minutes a month, Fireflies Free at 400 minutes of storage per team and Read AI Free at 5 meetings a month. Fathom Free transcribes without a minute cap too, and Comu's included plan records the room and phone calls from a device you carry. It transcribes in real time where Plaud does not.
Krisp competitors: what each costs over three years
Over three years, one seat costs $288 on Krisp Core billed yearly and $540 on Krisp Advanced, and the other paid plans in the table fall between $299.88 and $684.
The Comu rows use only what the free plan that comes with the device includes: unlimited transcription, unlimited real-time transcription, speaker identification, summaries, action items and templates. Krisp has no free plan, only a 7-day trial. Fathom Free has no AI action items, Fireflies Free limits AI summaries and stores 400 minutes per team, Otter Basic stops at 300 minutes a month and Read AI Free covers 5 meetings a month. The table therefore prices the paid plan of each tool.
| Cost for one person | Year 1 | Year 2 (total) | Year 3 (total) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comu Note Pro, free plan | €139.99 | €139.99 | €139.99 |
| Comu Action Pro, free plan | €179.99 | €179.99 | €179.99 |
| Krisp Core, $8 a month billed yearly | $96.00 | $192.00 | $288.00 |
| Otter Pro, $8.33 a month billed yearly | $99.96 | $199.92 | $299.88 |
| Fireflies Pro, $10 a month billed yearly | $120.00 | $240.00 | $360.00 |
| Plaud Note with Pro billed yearly | $258.99 | $358.98 | $458.97 |
| Granola Business, $14 a month | $168.00 | $336.00 | $504.00 |
| Krisp Advanced, $15 a month billed yearly | $180.00 | $360.00 | $540.00 |
| Read AI Pro, $15 a month billed yearly | $180.00 | $360.00 | $540.00 |
| Fathom Premium, $16 a month billed yearly | $192.00 | $384.00 | $576.00 |
| Avoma Startup, $19 a month billed yearly | $228.00 | $456.00 | $684.00 |
Billed monthly, Krisp Core costs $576 over three years and Krisp Advanced costs $1,080.
For a team of five over three years, five Krisp Core seats billed yearly cost $1,440 and five Krisp Advanced seats cost $2,700. Five Comu Note Pro devices with the included free plan cost €699.95.
Krisp alternative checklist: what to compare before you switch
Compare where you meet, bot or bot-free capture, free plan limits, storage, CRM and coaching, languages, privacy and total cost before you switch from Krisp.
- Where you meet. Online meetings suit app-based tools. Rooms, client visits and calls suit a recorder.
- Bot or bot-free. Granola, Krisp Core, Otter's desktop app and Fathom's Mac beta capture without a bot, and OtterPilot joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings from a connected calendar.
- Free plan limits. Fathom Free and Comu's included plan have no minute cap, Otter Basic gives 300 minutes a month, and Fireflies Free stores 400 minutes per team.
- Storage. Krisp Core includes 10 GB and Advanced includes 60 GB. Fireflies Business has unlimited storage, and Fireflies Free stores 400 minutes per team.
- CRM and coaching. Avoma and Fathom Business offer CRM sync, and Avoma adds call scoring and scorecards.
- Languages. Fireflies has 100+, Otter has six, and Comu has 113.
- Privacy. Krisp, Fathom and Fireflies are SOC 2 Type II compliant, and Comu is GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant.
- Total cost. Compare the three-year total, not the monthly price.
To switch, export the Krisp transcripts and recordings you need, and run the new tool on its free plan next to Krisp for a week. Tell the other person you are recording. Laws on recording calls differ by country, and you are responsible for following them.
Which alternative to Krisp should you choose?
Choose Otter or Fireflies for a similar yearly price with a free plan, Fathom for unlimited free recording, Granola for bot-free notes in your own structure, Avoma for scorecards, and Comu or Plaud for in-person meetings and calls.
| If you | Choose |
|---|---|
| Record in person or on the phone and want unlimited transcription with the device | Comu |
| Want a similar yearly price and a free plan to start on | Otter |
| Want unlimited free recording for online meetings | Fathom |
| Transcribe in 100+ languages | Fireflies |
| Want bot-free notes in your own structure | Granola |
| Run a sales team and want scorecards and CRM updates | Avoma |
| Want audio and video playback with highlights | Read AI |
| Want a recorder and are fine with a monthly plan | Plaud |
Common questions about Krisp alternatives
What is the best alternative to Krisp?
Choose Otter or Fireflies for a similar yearly price with a free plan, Fathom for unlimited free recording, Granola for bot-free notes, and Comu for in-person and phone conversations. Comu's included plan has unlimited transcription.
Is there a free alternative to Krisp?
Yes. Fathom Free costs $0 with unlimited recording, storage and transcription. Otter Basic, Fireflies Free, Read AI Free and Granola Basic also cost $0, and Comu's included plan has unlimited transcription with a device.
What are the best Krisp competitors for small teams?
Small teams can start on Otter Pro at $8.33 a month billed yearly, Fireflies Pro at $10 or Read AI Pro at $15, against Krisp Core at $8. Avoma Startup at $19 a seat covers up to 25 paid seats, and viewers are free.
Is there a Krisp AI alternative that does not join the call as a bot?
Yes. Granola captures your computer's audio, Fathom offers a bot-free capture mode in beta for Mac, and recorders such as Comu record the room and need no bot at all.
Is there a Krisp alternative for in-person meetings?
Yes. Plaud and Comu are recorders that capture in-person conversations and phone calls without a computer. Comu Note Pro is €139.99 and its included plan has unlimited transcription, speaker identification and AI summaries.
How much does Krisp cost?
Core costs $16 a month, or $8 billed yearly, and Advanced costs $30 a month, or $15 billed yearly. Krisp starts with a 7-day free trial, and Enterprise is priced through sales.
Related reading
- Krisp Pricing (2026): 7-Day Free Trial, Core at $8, Advanced at $15
- Granola Alternatives (2026): 7 AI Note Takers Compared by Price and Use Case
- Otter AI Review (2026): Features, Pricing, Pros and Cons by Plan
- Fathom AI Alternatives (2026): 8 Tools Compared by Price and Use Case
- AI Notetaker for In Person Meetings (2026): 7 Options Compared by Price and Use Case
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