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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.
All-in-one video bar and meeting-room hardware.
Best for enterprises deploying premium Zoom Rooms or Microsoft Teams Rooms hardware. Pricing: hardware purchase.
What it is
Neat is a Norwegian premium meeting-room hardware vendor that makes all-in-one video bars and tabletop devices for Zoom Rooms, Microsoft Teams Rooms, and Google Meet Rooms. The hardware includes AI features for camera framing, speaker tracking, and noise reduction; software-level transcription and meeting AI are provided by the connected meeting platform. Neat is widely deployed in enterprise conference rooms and is positioned at the premium end of the meeting-room hardware market alongside Logitech and Poly. Pricing and product details listed here were last reviewed by Neugence on 2026-05-12; check the vendor site for current values before quoting.
Watch out for: Hardware-only; AI features depend on connected platform.
Install / use
neat.no — Hardware purchase from $3,500 per room
What people actually do with Neat-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 | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Neat vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Neat | 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 | Hardware | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Neat
Frequently asked about Neat
What do I need to run Neat?
Neat is hardware — a physical device rather than software you install.
How do I get started with Neat?
There is nothing to install — Neat is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Neat?
Hardware-only; AI features depend on connected platform.
Who is Neat best for?
Enterprises deploying premium Zoom Rooms or Microsoft Teams Rooms hardware.
Is Neat open source?
No. Neat is a proprietary product from Neat AS. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Who makes Neat?
Neat is made by Neat AS.
What kind of tool is Neat?
In this directory Neat is filed under meetings, hardware, room system as a product.
What are the alternatives to Neat?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/neat-rooms-alternatives comparing Neat with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Neat-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 Neat?
Neat 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 Neat?
$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 Neat 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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