This is a design mockup. The prices, plans, training answers, and every quote are real, checked on October 15, 2026. The ranks, moves, verdicts, and the wording of our picks are samples.
AI1000The Guide

Best AI tools for meeting notes.

AI notetakers listen to your calls and write up the notes and action items for you.

See what each of the 11 we rank costs for just you or your whole team, whether it trains on your recordings, and how we rank them. We checked every fact on October 15.

All 11, best first.

Ranks change every Monday. This week, tl;dv moved past Fathom.
How many people?
10

Pick the one that fits.

Best overall, with a free plan

Fireflies

$10 a seat a month on Pro, billed yearly.

It's our number one. It doesn't train on your meetings, and you can try the free plan before anyone pays.

fireflies.ai and its billing terms, checked Oct 15, 2026

The cheapest that doesn't train on your data

Krisp

$8 a seat a month on Core.

No model training: Your meeting data is never used to train Krisp’s AI models.

Krisp doesn't say whether $8 is the price when you pay yearly. Fireflies is next, at $10 billed yearly.

krisp.ai, checked Oct 15, 2026

If your data must stay in Europe

tl;dv

€18 a seat a month on Pro, billed yearly.

All our data centers are located in Europe.

You can also choose whether its AI runs in Europe or the US, and every user gets single sign-on, not just people on big plans.

tldv.io and its prices, checked Oct 15, 2026

If you need to know where it's stored

Read AI

$15 a seat a month on Pro, billed yearly.

Specifically, data captured is stored encrypted at rest within the AWS us-east-1 datacenter in Northern Virginia USA.

It also won't train on your meetings unless someone on your team opts in.

support.read.ai and its prices, checked Oct 15, 2026

If your calls already run on Zoom

Zoom

$14.16 a seat a month on Pro, billed yearly.

Nobody has a new app to learn, and Zoom doesn't train its AI on your audio, video, or chat.

support.zoom.com and its prices, checked Oct 15, 2026

If most of your calls are sales calls

Avoma

$19 a month for each person who records, billed yearly. Viewers are free.

Automate note-taking, scheduling, call coaching, CRM updates, and more.

We haven't checked what it does with your recordings yet, so ask before you sign.

avoma.com and its prices, checked Oct 15, 2026

See what moved, October 12 to 18.

Up

  • 41tl;dvNow #188 of all 1,000. It passed Fathom and is sixth here.
  • 26KrispNow #301 of all 1,000
  • 11GranolaNow #226 of all 1,000

Fireflies, Read AI, Otter, and Fathom didn't move.

Down

  • 3ZoomNow #31 of all 1,000
  • 9AvomaNow #97 of all 1,000
  • 2GrainNow #430 of all 1,000
  • 2GongNow #455 of all 1,000

Price and policy changes

  • Datatl;dvYou can now choose whether its AI runs in Europe or the US.tldv.io, checked Oct 15
  • DataGranolaTrains on your notes by default on Business, with names stripped out. You can switch it off in Settings.granola.ai, checked Oct 15
  • PriceZoomPro is $14.16 a person a month if you pay yearly, or $16.99 month to month.zoom.us, checked Oct 15
  • PriceAvomaStartup is $19 a month for each person who records, paid yearly. Everyone else watches free.avoma.com, checked Oct 15

See how we score them.

  • What it does with your recordings is a quarter of the score. A notetaker hears everything your team says, so if a company won't tell us whether it trains on that, we count it as a no.
  • What it costs your team is another quarter. We use the seat price on the plan a team would buy, not the cheapest single seat. A tool with no public team price loses places.
  • How well it does the job is another quarter.
  • Momentum and track record make up the rest.
  • We check every fact again each week, and every company sees its entry 7 days before it goes live.
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