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Fathom vs Otter.ai vs Read AI

All three are meetings & notes tools. Here is what separates them.

	Fathom	Otter.ai	Read AI
What it is	Meeting notes with a free tier that is unusually complete, and summaries ready seconds after the call.	Otter AI Meeting Agent supports real-time transcription, live chat, automated summaries, insights, and action items.	Read AI, the fastest growing AI meeting assistant, ever, delivers real-time transcription, smart summaries, and enables AI search and discovery across all your content including meeting, messages, emails, CRM, and documents.
Category	Meetings & Notes	Meetings & Notes	Meetings & Notes
Pricing	Freemium · Free · from $19/user/mo	Freemium · Free · from $16.99/mo	Freemium · Free · from $19.75/user/mo
How it bills	Per seat	Flat monthly	Per seat
Free tier	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rating	Not yet rated	Not yet rated	Not yet rated
Features	Unlimited recording on the free plan Summaries within seconds of ending Highlight clipping during the call CRM sync on paid plans Zoom, Meet and Teams	Live transcription with speaker labels Automatic meeting summaries Action item extraction Zoom, Meet and Teams integration Searchable meeting archive	Engagement and sentiment scoring Speaker time analysis Transcripts and summaries Email and chat coverage Meeting recommendations
What works	Best free tier in the category Very fast summaries Simple to adopt	Most mature option in the category Joins meetings automatically Good searchable archive	Insight into how meetings actually go Broad coverage beyond meetings Useful for improving your own facilitation
What does not	Fewer analytics than rivals Team features need a paid plan Bot must join the call	Accuracy drops with accents and crosstalk Free tier minutes are tight Bot presence can unsettle guests	Raises legitimate surveillance concerns Sentiment scoring is crude Expensive per seat

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