How long can a Google Meet recording be? about eight hours, then into Drive.
Google's help pages have put the ceiling at about 8 hours per Google Meet recording, which is saved as an MP4 in the organiser's Drive, and recording itself is only offered on certain Workspace plans. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Your recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes.
From Meet to text
Where the recording goes and how it reaches us.
The eight-hour line
When a Meet recording reaches Google's limit it stops, even if the meeting carries on, and a new recording has to be started for the rest. Google adjusts Meet's features by plan and over time, so treat the figure as current guidance rather than a promise.
Find it in Drive
Recordings usually land in a Meet Recordings folder in the organiser's My Drive, and a link is often posted to the calendar event and emailed to the organiser. Whoever holds the file can share it with a link.
Paste the link, skip the download
A Google Drive share link goes straight in, so a multi-gigabyte MP4 never has to touch your laptop. Whole Drive folders of recordings work too. If you prefer to upload, this box takes 500 MB and bigger files continue on the upload page.
What you get back
A brief with the thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps across all eight hours, the names, numbers and dates said, and a chat to ask about any agenda item. Participants are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Long Meet calls
Eight hours of Meet is a lot to rewatch.
✗ Without a transcript
How long Meet recordings usually get used.
- Scrubbing a day-long video for one point
- Downloading gigabytes over hotel Wi-Fi
- Captions that were never saved
- Tools that reject files this long
- A second recording forgotten in Drive
- Notes taken by whoever was least busy
✓ With WhipScribe
The Drive link in, the text out.
- Drive links and folders accepted
- The whole recording in one file
- About 16 minutes for 8 hours
- Chapters across the day
- Speakers named in the summary
- TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON
Sample output
From a day-long remote training on Meet.
Illustrative lines written for this page; not from a real organisation or session.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $4 (300 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$4/300 min
5 hours of audio — $0.80 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 300 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$18/3,000 min
50 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 3,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$32/6,000 min
100 hours of audio — $0.32 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 6,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Google Meet recordings, answered.
Can I record a Meet call on a free Google account?
Recording has generally been tied to particular Google Workspace editions rather than free personal accounts, and free group calls have had a time limit of their own. Check Google's current plan comparison before you count on it.
Does the Drive link need special sharing settings?
The link has to open for someone outside your organisation, so set the file to be viewable by anyone with the link, at least while it transcribes. You can tighten the sharing again afterwards.
How big is an 8-hour Meet recording?
Usually well over a gigabyte and sometimes past 2 GB, depending on what was on screen. With a Drive link the size does not matter to you; a direct upload can be up to 5 GB, with or without a pack.
What if the meeting needed two recordings?
Transcribe each part as its own file; the minutes are the same either way. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Do I need consent to record?
Recording a call needs the consent the law where you and the participants are requires. Meet tells participants when recording starts, and saying so at the start removes any doubt. No bot joins; we only see the recording.
Where does the transcription happen?
On our own servers; recordings are never used for training. Twenty 90-minute Meet sessions a month come to 1,800 minutes, inside the $18 pack (3,000 minutes), with credits that never expire.
Related
More on Google Meet.
A long Meet recording in Drive? Paste the link.
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