Recall.ai

by Recall.ai

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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.

Universal meeting bot API for Zoom/Meet/Teams/Webex with transcription + raw audio.

API  ·  per-bot-minute + transcription minute

TL;DR

Best for aI-meeting startups that need a uniform API to put a bot in every major meeting platform. Pricing: per-bot-minute + transcription minute (see Recall.ai pricing).

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per-bot-minute + transcription minute (see Recall.ai pricing)
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What it is

Recall.ai exposes a single API that joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex meetings as a participant, records audio + video + screen, and routes audio to a transcription provider (Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Rev, Gladia, Whisper) of the developer's choice. It's the de-facto infra layer under many AI-notetaker SaaS products. Pricing is per-bot-minute plus the chosen transcription vendor's rate. Best fit: ai-meeting startups that need a uniform api to put a bot in every major meeting platform. Caveats: bot must be admitted; transcription is via partner vendors (deepgram, assemblyai etc.) — pick one at bot creation. Pricing as listed: per-bot-minute + transcription minute (see Recall.ai pricing). Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, streaming, HIPAA-eligible under BAA. Directory tags: voice-intel, meeting-bot. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12.

Best for: AI-meeting startups that need a uniform API to put a bot in every major meeting platform.
Watch out for: Bot must be admitted; transcription is via partner vendors (Deepgram, AssemblyAI etc.) — pick one at bot creation.

Install / use

What people actually do with Recall.ai-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.

Wire it into ZoomSlackNotionAirtableLoomMake.com

Features

Speaker diarizationYes
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleYes

Recall.ai vs Whipscribe

FeatureRecall.aiWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages—99
PlatformsAPIWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Recall.ai

Frequently asked about Recall.ai

How much does Recall.ai cost?

Recall.ai is a paid product — published pricing: per-bot-minute + transcription minute (see Recall.ai pricing). Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

What platforms does Recall.ai support?

Recall.ai is an API — you call it from whatever you build, on any platform with an HTTP client.

How do I get started with Recall.ai?

Recall.ai is used through its API: get a key from the vendor, then call it from your own code. There is no desktop app to install.

What are the limitations of Recall.ai?

Bot must be admitted; transcription is via partner vendors (Deepgram, AssemblyAI etc.) — pick one at bot creation.

Who is Recall.ai best for?

AI-meeting startups that need a uniform API to put a bot in every major meeting platform.

Is Recall.ai open source?

No. Recall.ai 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 Recall.ai?

In this directory Recall.ai is filed under voice intel, meeting bot as a product.

What are the alternatives to Recall.ai?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/recall-ai-alternatives comparing Recall.ai with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Recall.ai-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 Recall.ai?

Recall.ai 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 Recall.ai?

$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 Recall.ai 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.

Transcribe your recordings

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One file up to 10 hours, as an upload or a link: see how to transcribe an MP3 of any length, a podcast episode as text from its link and the SRT file generator.

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Free tools cost setup time. When you want a finished transcript instead: see an honest roundup of the best transcription services, cheap transcription services and the real cost per hour and transcription services from $6.