Zoom AI Companion
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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.
Zoom's bundled meeting AI: transcripts, summaries, smart compose.
Best for zoom-first orgs that want meeting summaries without a third-party notetaker. Pricing: Included with paid Zoom Workplace plans.
What it is
Zoom AI Companion is Zoom's bundled meeting and chat AI: meeting transcripts and summaries, post-meeting follow-ups, smart recordings (chapters + highlights), Team Chat summarization, and email drafting in Zoom Mail. Included in paid Zoom Workplace seats rather than billed per-minute. Limited public-API surface compared with third-party notetakers. Best fit: zoom-first orgs that want meeting summaries without a third-party notetaker. Caveats: closed product, no public api for transcripts at parity with third-party notetakers; admin enablement required. Pricing as listed: Included with paid Zoom Workplace plans. Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, streaming, HIPAA-eligible under BAA. Directory tags: voice-intel, meeting-ai. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12.
Watch out for: Closed product, no public API for transcripts at parity with third-party notetakers; admin enablement required.
Install / use
Enable AI Companion in Zoom admin
What people actually do with Zoom AI Companion-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 | No |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | Yes |
Zoom AI Companion vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Zoom AI Companion | 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 |
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Frequently asked about Zoom AI Companion
How much does Zoom AI Companion cost?
Zoom AI Companion is a paid product — published pricing: Included with paid Zoom Workplace plans. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
How do I get started with Zoom AI Companion?
There is nothing to install — Zoom AI Companion is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Zoom AI Companion?
Closed product, no public API for transcripts at parity with third-party notetakers; admin enablement required.
Who is Zoom AI Companion best for?
Zoom-first orgs that want meeting summaries without a third-party notetaker.
Is Zoom AI Companion open source?
No. Zoom AI Companion 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 Zoom AI Companion?
In this directory Zoom AI Companion is filed under voice intel, meeting ai as a product.
What are the alternatives to Zoom AI Companion?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/zoom-ai-companion-alternatives comparing Zoom AI Companion with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Zoom AI Companion-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 Zoom AI Companion?
Zoom AI Companion 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 Zoom AI Companion?
$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 Zoom AI Companion 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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