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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
AI notetaker focused on premium meeting summaries and CRM workflows.
Best for operators/founders who want very tight, actionable summaries and Zapier-friendly workflows. Pricing: paid tiers (see Circleback pricing).
What it is
Circleback is a paid AI notetaker emphasizing summary quality and workflow integration (Zapier, automations, CRM). It supports Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and uploaded audio. Differentiator vs free tools is more polished post-meeting outputs and an automations layer. Best fit: operators/founders who want very tight, actionable summaries and zapier-friendly workflows. Caveats: paid-only; not a free notetaker. Pricing as listed: paid tiers (see Circleback pricing). Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps. Directory tags: voice-intel, meeting-ai. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12.
Watch out for: Paid-only; not a free notetaker.
Install / use
Circleback web + Zoom/Meet/Teams bot
What people actually do with Circleback-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Circleback vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Circleback | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Vendor | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Circleback
Frequently asked about Circleback
How much does Circleback cost?
Circleback is a paid product — published pricing: paid tiers (see Circleback pricing). Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
How do I get started with Circleback?
There is nothing to install — Circleback is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Circleback?
Paid-only; not a free notetaker.
Who is Circleback best for?
Operators/founders who want very tight, actionable summaries and Zapier-friendly workflows.
Is Circleback open source?
No. Circleback is a proprietary product. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
What kind of tool is Circleback?
In this directory Circleback is filed under voice intel, meeting ai as a product.
What are the alternatives to Circleback?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/circleback-alternatives comparing Circleback with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Circleback-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from Circleback?
Circleback is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Circleback?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the Circleback category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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