Best for
Best for sales and customer-facing teams who want every call recorded and summarised on a free plan, and the follow-up written back into the CRM once it is worth paying for.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
AI Voice & Speech Comparison
Fathom vs. Read AI
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for organisations that want meetings, email and messages searchable in one place, and metrics on how the meetings themselves are being run.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Fathom | Read AI |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free plan; Premium $20 / user / month Premium is $16 per user per month billed annually. For teams, Team is $19 per user per month ($15 annually) and Business $34 ($25 annually), both with a two-user minimum. Enterprise is quoted. | lower value Free plan; Pro $19.75 / user / month Pro is $15 per user per month billed annually. Enterprise is $29.75 monthly or $22.50 annually, Enterprise+ $39.75 monthly or $29.75 annually and requires five or more licences. Every plan is measured on 30 meetings a month. |
| Free trial | Free plan with unlimited recordings, transcription and AI summaries | Free plan with 5 meeting transcripts a month |
| Output | Transcripts, AI meeting summaries, action items and follow-up emails | Meeting reports with summary, topics, action items, key questions and a speaker-separated transcript |
| API | Yes, a public REST API with webhooks and SDKs, plus an MCP server | Yes, plus an MCP server and Claude and ChatGPT connectors |
| Languages | Transcripts in 38 languages; summaries auto-translated into six | Meeting reports in 16+ languages |
| Hosting | Cloud, with a desktop app for bot-free capture | Cloud, with Windows, macOS, Android and iOS apps and a Chrome extension |
| Voice cloning | No, Fathom records, transcribes and summarises meetings and does not synthesise or clone voices | No, Read AI transcribes, summarises and measures meetings and does not synthesise or clone voices |
| Real-time use | Yes in the new experience, which shows a live summary that updates as the meeting runs; in the previous experience summaries and transcripts are generated once the recording has been processed | Yes, an in-meeting dashboard with live notes, transcription, summaries and meeting metrics as the call runs, on Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet |
| Speech-to-speech and dubbing | No speech-to-speech or dubbing; the translation covers written summaries only | No dubbing or speech-to-speech translation |
| Editing and controls | Chronological and enhanced summaries, advanced summaries from over fifteen templates including BANT and Sandler, AI action items and follow-up emails, clips and playlists, Ask Fathom chat over a single call or the whole account, keyword and AI search alerts, custom summary templates and a custom bot name | Meeting reports with summary, topics, action items and key questions, a meeting coach scoring talking speed, filler words, bias and charisma with coaching trends, audio and video playback with highlights from the Enterprise plan, Ask Read search across meetings, email and messages with direct access to Anthropic and OpenAI models, audio and video uploads, and workspace rules controlling which meetings Read joins |
| Consent and trust | A choice of bot or bot-free capture, a custom bot name and the option to disable the in-meeting banner on paid plans; Enterprise adds SSO, Okta SCIM provisioning, organisation-wide security controls, custom data retention policies and a signed HIPAA BAA | Custom assistant branding, naming on all platforms and a logo on Zoom, plus workspace distribution and sharing rules; Enterprise+ adds SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, domain capture, a custom data retention policy and HIPAA compliance support |
| MCP-ready | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Support | Email helpdesk | Email helpdesk |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding |
| Company size | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Asana, Zapier, Make, ChatGPT, Claude | more entries Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, HubSpot, Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Asana, Slack, Zapier, ChatGPT, Claude |
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Key Differences
- Starting price Fathom Free plan; Premium $20 / user / month Read AI Free plan; Pro $19.75 / user / month
- Free trial Fathom Free plan with unlimited recordings, transcription and AI summaries Read AI Free plan with 5 meeting transcripts a month
- Hosting Fathom Cloud, with a desktop app for bot-free capture Read AI Cloud, with Windows, macOS, Android and iOS apps and a Chrome extension
- Languages Fathom Transcripts in 38 languages; summaries auto-translated into six Read AI Meeting reports in 16+ languages
- Output Fathom Transcripts, AI meeting summaries, action items and follow-up emails Read AI Meeting reports with summary, topics, action items, key questions and a speaker-separated transcript
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Fathom
Strengths
- Free plan carries unlimited recordings, transcription and AI summaries
- Records without a bot in the call from the desktop app, or with one
- Transcripts in 38 languages
- Documented REST API with webhooks, SDKs and an MCP server
Limitations
- Transcription and summarisation only, with no voice synthesis, cloning or dubbing
- Summary translation covers six languages against the 38 it transcribes
- Team and Business plans carry a two-user minimum
- CRM field sync, coaching metrics and custom summaries start on the Business plan
Read AI
Strengths
- Live notes and meeting metrics while the call is still running
- Meeting coach and trend reporting on how meetings themselves are run
- Search spans meetings, email and messages rather than calls alone
- MCP server with Claude and ChatGPT connectors
Limitations
- Free plan is capped at five meeting transcripts a month
- Audio and video playback only from the Enterprise plan up
- Meeting length is capped by plan, from one hour on Free to eight on Enterprise+
- SSO, SCIM, HIPAA support and data retention policies need Enterprise+ and five or more licences
Plans
Pricing
Fathom
- Free $0 Unlimited recordings and transcriptions, bot-free or bot capture, instant AI summaries, clips, playlists and search across calls.
- Premium $20 Per user per month, $16 billed annually. Adds advanced call summaries, AI action items, the conversational meeting assistant and a custom meeting bot.
- Team $19 Per user per month, $15 billed annually, two-user minimum. Adds global search across calls, team playlists and collaboration with comments, folders and keyword alerts.
- Business $34 Per user per month, $25 billed annually, two-user minimum. Adds CRM field sync, deal view, coaching metrics and AI scorecards and custom summaries.
- Enterprise Not stated Quoted. Adds the Launch Assist onboarding programme, organisation-wide security controls, SSO and SCIM provisioning, custom data retention and a dedicated success manager.
Read AI
- Free $0 Five meeting transcripts a month, best-in-class summaries for meetings, email and messaging, personalised meeting coach, basic integrations, topic readouts and one-hour maximum meeting length.
- Pro $19.75 Per user per month, $15 billed annually. Unlimited meeting transcripts and reports, priority report processing, 100 file upload credits a month and premium integrations including Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier and webhooks.
- Enterprise $29.75 Per user per month, $22.50 billed annually. Adds audio and video playback, video highlights, 200 file upload credits a month and premium support.
- Enterprise+ $39.75 Per user per month, $29.75 billed annually, five licences or more. Adds HIPAA compliance, SAML and SCIM, domain capture, a custom data retention policy, 300 file upload credits a month and workspace onboarding.
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Fathom
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Read AI
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Fathom https://fathom.video · checked against the official source on 2026-09-16
Read AI https://www.read.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-16
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