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tl;dv

Meeting bot that records and transcribes Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls. The free plan is unlimited on recording and transcription in 30+ languages and limited on AI, at 10 meetings with AI notes. Pro EUR 18 and Business EUR 29 per seat per month on annual billing.

Fathom

AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarises calls across Zoom, Meet and Teams, with an unusually generous free tier that includes Ask Fathom for searching across your whole history. Widely used in sales and workable for recruitment intake and interviews, but there is no ATS integration, folders and team search start on Team, and SSO, organisation-wide controls and custom retention sit on a quote-only Enterprise tier.

tl;dv vs Fathom

Decision guidance

tl;dv if you have international interviewers or candidates. Fathom if your team lives in Zoom and UX polish matters. Neither for structured TA.

Summary

Both compete on aggressive free tiers. tl;dv edges on multi-language (30+ languages); Fathom edges on Zoom-native UX. tl;dv Pro is slightly cheaper. Both share the same ceiling: fine for individuals, thin for hiring-team governance.

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Decision factor	tl;dv	Fathom
Pricing	Freemium (from Free, then from EUR 18/seat/month)	Freemium (from Free forever; paid from $16/user/month billed annually ($20 monthly), no seat minimum)
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Free trial	No	Yes
Key features	Unlimited video recordings and transcription in 30+ languages on the free plan AI notes, metered at 10 meetings free and unlimited from Pro Global transcript search and unlimited storage, from Pro Premium and multi-language transcription with custom vocabulary, from Business Team management and team-wide automations, from Business SCIM, custom SSO and privately hosted AI, on Enterprise	Unlimited recordings, transcripts and AI summaries on the free tier Records Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams; bot-free capture on Zoom, Meet and Slack Huddles Speaker-labelled transcripts with timestamps and search Executive and detailed summaries with extracted action items Ask Fathom querying your full meeting history, on every plan including free (limited use on free) Trackers and Highlights for recurring themes and shareable clips (paid tiers) Folders grouping calls by customer, deal or interview set, with sharing scoped per folder (Team tier and up) Coaching metrics and AI scorecards (Business tier) SSO/SCIM, org-wide security controls and custom data retention (Enterprise tier) Public Trust Center with SOC 2 Type II and penetration-test reports, per the vendor available on every plan Integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Notion, Asana and Zapier
Best for	Solo recruiters who want an accurate record of phone screens Multilingual desks, given 30+ transcription languages on the free plan Teams whose hiring judgement lives in another system	Solo recruiters capturing client intakes and candidate calls Small teams with no notetaker budget Recruiters who want a vacancy intake written up automatically
Pros	None listed	Free tier carries unlimited recordings, transcripts and summaries Strong summaries and automatic action items, with search across the whole history Broad integrations including HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Notion, Asana and Zapier
Trade-offs	Recording works by adding a visible bot to the meeting No scorecards, interview structure or listed ATS integration The free plan allows only 10 meetings with AI notes and 10 Ask AI queries Team-level controls start on Business; SCIM and SSO are Enterprise Retention and storage location for candidate recordings are not published	No ATS and no candidate record, which the vendor states itself SSO/SCIM, org-wide controls and custom data retention start at Enterprise, the only tier without a published price Bot-free recording covers Zoom, Meet and Slack Huddles but not Microsoft Teams, and is in beta Folders and team-wide search start on Team, so a free desk organises with playlists and search alone Transcript quality follows audio quality

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