Fathom records, transcribes and summarises meetings, and its current release adds bot-free capture through a desktop app alongside ChatGPT and Claude integrations, a public API and MCP support.
Bot-free capture is the change worth understanding. Meeting notetakers normally join the call as a visible participant, which is awkward in a client meeting, unwelcome in a sensitive one, and outright prohibited by some organisations’ policies – so the tool that works well internally is often the one you cannot use externally. Capturing from the desktop removes the extra attendee entirely.
That convenience sharpens the consent obligation rather than removing it. The visible bot was, incidentally, doing useful work: it told everyone in the room that the call was being recorded. Without it, nobody knows unless you say so – and recording consent requirements vary by jurisdiction, with several requiring all parties to agree. Tell people you are recording. The integrations with ChatGPT, Claude, Salesforce and HubSpot are what make the transcript useful afterwards rather than another archive nobody opens.
Free
$0
- Unlimited recordings and transcripts
- Instant AI call summaries
- Clips, playlists and search across calls
Premium
$20/mo, or $16/mo billed yearly
- Advanced call summaries
- AI action items
- Conversational meeting assistant
- Custom meeting bot
Team
$19 per user/mo, or $15 billed yearly; 2-user minimum
- Everything in Premium
- Global search across the team's calls
- Highlight playlists, comments, folders and keyword alerts
Business
$34 per user/mo, or $25 billed yearly; 2-user minimum
- CRM field sync after every meeting
- Deal View summaries
- Coaching metrics and AI scorecards
- Custom call summaries
Enterprise
Quote only (talk to sales)
- SSO and SCIM provisioning
- Organization-wide security controls
- Custom data retention
- Dedicated success manager
Checked against Fathom’s pricing page on 24 September 2026. Prices change, so confirm on the official site before you buy.
Fathom starts at $15, which is 29% above the Productivity median of $11.6 a month across the 165 priced tools we list in that category.
The cheapest paid option in Productivity starts at $0.29 and the most expensive at $165.
72% of Productivity tools in the directory offer a free tier, and this is one of them.
Compared against every priced listing in Productivity, recalculated as the catalogue changes. Method and the full market breakdown are in our AI tool pricing study.
