Read AI
Joins your calls, transcribes them, and folds email and chat into the same feed — plus a score on how engaged the room actually was.
What it costs
| Tier | Price | For | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/month | Trying the tool on a handful of meetings before committing. | 5 meeting transcripts a month, unlimited search, summaries, meeting coach, 20+ languages. |
| Pro | $15/month billed annually, $19.75/month billed monthly | One person who wants every meeting covered, not just five a month. | Unlimited transcripts, priority processing, 100 file upload credits, premium integrations (Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier). |
| Enterprise | $22.50/month billed annually, $29.75/month billed monthly | A team that wants recordings, not just transcripts. | Everything in Pro plus audio and video playback, video highlights, 200 file upload credits. |
| Enterprise+ | $29.75/month billed annually, $39.75/month billed monthly (5-license minimum) | Organisations with compliance requirements around meeting data. | HIPAA compliance, SAML/SCIM, domain capture, custom data retention, workspace onboarding. |
Read from Read AI's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Where it breaks
The engagement score is the feature people either love or distrust on sight — it rates how attentive participants seemed, and it is a proxy, not a measurement, built from things like camera use and talk time. Treat it as a conversation starter, not a performance review.
Joins meetings as a bot on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams; browser dashboard for review afterward.
First entry in this reference. There is no previous check to compare it against.
Meeting-note bots stopped being novel a while ago; the field is crowded and most of them do the same three things — join, transcribe, summarise. Read AI’s actual differentiator is scope: it doesn’t stop at the call. Email and chat land in the same feed, so a decision made on a call and confirmed by email later shows up as one thread instead of two disconnected records.
The engagement score is the other thing that sets it apart, and it is the feature most likely to divide a team on first contact. It scores how attentive a meeting felt, meeting by meeting and person by person, built from proxies like camera-on time and speaking balance rather than anything read from someone’s actual attention. Useful as a rough signal about whether a recurring meeting has gone stale. Risky the moment anyone starts treating it as a verdict on a specific colleague.
What the free tier actually gets you
Five transcripts a month is enough to decide whether the tool fits your meeting rhythm, not enough to run it as your default note-taker — most people hit the Pro upgrade within the first couple of weeks of real use.
Against the alternatives
Against tl;dv, the difference is breadth: tl;dv stays focused on the call itself and clipping the important moments, while Read AI tries to be the single feed for everything that happened around a meeting, including the messages before and after it.
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