{
    "title": "Krisp Alternatives 2027: 10 Paid, Free & Open-Source",
    "url": "https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/krisp/",
    "summary": "The best Krisp alternatives in 2027 are Fireflies.ai (best overall, $18/seat/mo), Fathom (best free plan: Unlimited recordings and transcriptions) and Meetily (best open source, MIT). Krisp itself starts at $16/user/mo. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 11 Nov 2026; 7 more are compared below, including 5 with a free plan and 2 open source.",
    "tool": {
        "name": "Krisp",
        "starting_price": "$16/user/mo",
        "free_plan": "7-day trial of all features, no card",
        "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
        "pricing_url": "https://krisp.ai/pricing/"
    },
    "task": "AI meeting notes",
    "prices_checked": "2026-11-11",
    "date_modified": "2026-11-11",
    "alternatives": [
        {
            "name": "Fireflies.ai",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$18/seat/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Unlimited transcription, 400 minutes storage per team, 20 AI credits",
            "best_for": "Teams wanting searchable meeting libraries",
            "difference": "Free plan lists unlimited transcription with 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits; Krisp offers only a 7-day trial and adds real-time noise cancellation.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://fireflies.ai/pricing",
            "website": "https://fireflies.ai",
            "zekai_score": 9.3,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/fireflies/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Fathom",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$20/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Unlimited recordings and transcriptions",
            "best_for": "Individuals wanting free unlimited call recording",
            "difference": "Free plan lists unlimited recordings and transcriptions with instant AI summaries; Team starts at $19 per user monthly with a two-user minimum, while Krisp bundles noise cancellation.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.fathom.ai/pricing",
            "website": "https://fathom.ai",
            "zekai_score": 8.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/fathom/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Granola",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$14/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "AI notes with 30 days of meeting history",
            "best_for": "Bot-free notes with pre-meeting briefs",
            "difference": "Basic is free with 30 days of meeting history; Business at $14 per user monthly adds pre-meeting briefs, follow-up emails and Notion, HubSpot and Zapier integrations.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.granola.ai/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.granola.ai",
            "zekai_score": 8.6,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/granola-ai/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Otter.ai",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$16.99/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "300 monthly transcription minutes, 3 lifetime file imports",
            "best_for": "Live transcription with a free tier",
            "difference": "Basic is free with 300 monthly transcription minutes and 3 lifetime imports; Pro caps meetings at 90 minutes and Business raises that to 4 hours.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://otter.ai/pricing",
            "website": "https://otter.ai",
            "zekai_score": 8.6,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/otter-ai/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Read AI",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$19.75/user/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "5 meeting transcripts a month",
            "best_for": "Meeting reports with a coaching layer",
            "difference": "Free plan allows 5 meeting transcripts a month with a personalized meeting coach; Pro adds unlimited transcripts and 100 file upload credits a month.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.read.ai/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.read.ai",
            "zekai_score": 8.2,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/read-ai/"
        },
        {
            "name": "MeetGeek",
            "type": "Free",
            "starting_price": "Free plan; paid price not published",
            "free_plan_limit": "3 hours of transcription a month",
            "best_for": "Free users wanting stated retention periods",
            "difference": "Free Basic gives 3 hours of transcription a month; Pro lists 20 hours a month with one year of transcript storage, and Business lists unlimited transcription.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://meetgeek.ai/pricing",
            "website": "https://meetgeek.ai",
            "zekai_score": 7.5,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/meetgeek/"
        },
        {
            "name": "tl;dv",
            "type": "Free",
            "starting_price": "Free plan; paid price not published",
            "best_for": "Users wanting a free start and annual discounts",
            "difference": "The pricing page title says to start free and its description advertises 40% off annual plans; plan limits do not load without scripts, so none are stated here.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "pricing_url": "https://tldv.io/pricing/",
            "website": "https://tldv.io",
            "zekai_score": 8.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/tldv/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Meetily",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Local-first notes with no subscription",
            "difference": "Transcribes on your own machine with Whisper or Parakeet models and writes summaries through Ollama or a cloud provider; there is no per-user subscription.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "website": "https://meetily.ai",
            "repository": "https://github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/meetily/",
            "zekai_score": 8.4,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/meetily/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Muesli",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Mac users wanting local meeting transcription",
            "difference": "Captures microphone and system audio without a bot, adds dictation in any text field and imports audio or video, running on-device on Apple Silicon Macs only.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "website": "https://muesli.works",
            "repository": "https://github.com/Muesli-HQ/muesli",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/muesli/",
            "zekai_score": 6.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/muesli/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Vexa",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "Apache-2.0",
            "best_for": "Developers building transcription into products",
            "difference": "Meeting bots join Google Meet, Teams and Zoom and stream speaker-attributed transcripts through an API with an MCP endpoint, aimed at building into your own product.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-11",
            "website": "https://vexa.ai",
            "repository": "https://github.com/Vexa-ai/vexa",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/vexa/",
            "zekai_score": 7.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/vexa/"
        }
    ],
    "faq": [
        {
            "q": "What is the best alternative to Krisp in 2027?",
            "a": "Fireflies.ai is the best overall Krisp alternative on this page ($18/seat/mo). For no cost, Fathom has a free plan (Unlimited recordings and transcriptions). To self-host, Meetily is open source (MIT)."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a free version of Krisp?",
            "a": "Yes. Krisp has a free plan: 7-day trial of all features, no card. Paid plans start at $16/user/mo, checked on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a 100% free alternative to Krisp?",
            "a": "Yes. Meetily, Muesli, Vexa are open source and free to self-host. Fireflies.ai, Fathom, Granola, Otter.ai, Read AI, MeetGeek, tl;dv have a free plan with limits, shown in the table."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is cheaper than Krisp?",
            "a": "Granola starts at $14/user/mo, against $16/user/mo for Krisp, as listed on each vendor's pricing page on 11 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "How much do Krisp alternatives cost for a team of 5?",
            "a": "If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 11 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is Granola $70/mo, Otter.ai $84.95/mo, Fireflies.ai $90/mo, against Krisp $80/mo for Krisp. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size."
        },
        {
            "q": "Which is better, Fireflies.ai or Krisp?",
            "a": "Free plan lists unlimited transcription with 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits; Krisp offers only a 7-day trial and adds real-time noise cancellation. Choose Fireflies.ai if you want a permanent free plan and a meeting library searchable across the whole team. Stay with Krisp if you also need noise cancellation on live calls, which Fireflies does not list."
        },
        {
            "q": "Why are people leaving Krisp?",
            "a": "The documented reasons are: Krisp's current pricing page lists a 7-day Free Trial rather than a permanent free plan; Core is $16 per user monthly ($8 billed annually) and Advanced $30 ($15 annually) (11 Nov 2026); A Krisp help article states that from 2 February 2023 free-plan subscribers get a 7-day trial of Pro on signup and then return to the Free plan's daily minute limit (2 Feb 2023). Each is sourced in the section above."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is better than Krisp?",
            "a": "It depends on the job. Fathom and Fireflies.ai suit free note-taking, Granola suits bot-free notes with briefs, and none of them list Krisp's noise cancellation."
        }
    ],
    "publisher": "Zekai (zekaiwork.com) — independently reviewed; prices read on vendor pages on the dates shown.",
    "licence": "Free to quote with a link to https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/krisp/. Bulk copying or republishing the dataset is not permitted."
}