Zoom AI Companion
Native AI assistant across Zoom meetings, chat, and phone.
Native AI assistant across Zoom meetings, chat, and phone.
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.
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.
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 plansFeatures
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Zoom AI Companion vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Zoom AI Companion | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | bundled with paid Zoom | free beta |
| Speaker diarization | — | Yes |
| Word timestamps | — | Yes |
| Streaming | — | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android | Web, API, MCP |
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