Zoom AI Companion

by Zoom Communications Inc.

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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.

Native AI assistant across Zoom meetings, chat, and phone.

Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android  ·  bundled with paid Zoom

TL;DR

Best for zoom-standard customers who want AI summaries, smart compose, and meeting-recap features without adding a third-party notetaker. Pricing: bundled with paid Zoom.

Category
Products
Pricing
bundled with paid Zoom
Platforms
Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android

What it is

Zoom AI Companion is Zoom's native AI layer across Zoom Meetings, Zoom Phone, Zoom Team Chat, and Zoom Mail. In meetings, it produces AI summaries, smart-recording highlights, next steps, and a chat assistant that can answer questions about a missed meeting. Zoom Companion is included with paid Zoom Workplace plans at no extra charge — a 2023 strategic move to keep customers from churning to third-party notetakers. The product is the default zero-friction choice for Zoom-heavy customers, though many teams continue to stack Otter, Fathom, or Gong on top.

Best for: Zoom-standard customers who want AI summaries, smart compose, and meeting-recap features without adding a third-party notetaker.
Watch out for: Quality varies by language; less granular than dedicated notetakers; bundled rather than best-in-class.

Install / use

zoom.us — Included with paid Zoom Workplace plans

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.

Wire it into ZoomSlackNotionAirtableLoomMake.com

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

Zoom AI Companion vs Whipscribe

FeatureZoom AI CompanionWhipscribe
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
PlatformsWeb, macOS, Windows, iOS, AndroidWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Zoom AI Companion

Frequently asked about Zoom AI Companion

How much does Zoom AI Companion cost?

Zoom AI Companion is a paid product — published pricing: bundled with paid Zoom. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

Does Zoom AI Companion work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Zoom AI Companion runs on Web, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.

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?

Quality varies by language; less granular than dedicated notetakers; bundled rather than best-in-class.

Who is Zoom AI Companion best for?

Zoom-standard customers who want AI summaries, smart compose, and meeting-recap features without adding a third-party notetaker.

Is Zoom AI Companion open source?

No. Zoom AI Companion is a proprietary product from Zoom Communications Inc.. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Who makes Zoom AI Companion?

Zoom AI Companion is made by Zoom Communications Inc..

What kind of tool is Zoom AI Companion?

In this directory Zoom AI Companion is filed under meetings, platform native as a product.

What are the alternatives to Zoom AI Companion?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/zoom-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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