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. Speechmatics
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for teams transcribing real conversations across accents and languages, including where the audio may not leave their own infrastructure.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Fathom | Speechmatics |
|---|---|---|
| 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 From $0.129 / hour of audio Pro tier rate, billed to the second with no commitment. Volume discounts of 20% apply automatically above 500 hours per month for each speech-to-text type, with further discounts above 24,000 hours a year. One credit equals one dollar. |
| Free trial | Free plan with unlimited recordings, transcription and AI summaries | Free tier with $100 in credit, no card required |
| Commercial use | Not stated | Yes, usage-based |
| Output | Transcripts, AI meeting summaries, action items and follow-up emails | Transcripts, translations and synthesised speech |
| API | Yes, a public REST API with webhooks and SDKs, plus an MCP server | Yes, batch and real-time speech-to-text, text-to-speech, translation and a management API |
| Languages | Transcripts in 38 languages; summaries auto-translated into six | 55+ languages and dialects for speech-to-text; translation across 69 language pairs |
| Hosting | Cloud, with a desktop app for bot-free capture | Cloud, CPU or GPU containers, Kubernetes, on-premises virtual appliance, or on-device |
| Made in | Not stated | United Kingdom |
| Voice cloning | No, Fathom records, transcribes and summarises meetings and does not synthesise or clone voices | No, the text-to-speech API ships four fixed voices, sarah and theo in British English and megan and jack in American English, and the documentation describes no custom or cloned voice; speed, pitch and emphasis are not adjustable either |
| 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, streaming transcription returned in under a second, alongside batch transcription of recorded files |
| Speech-to-speech and dubbing | No speech-to-speech or dubbing; the translation covers written summaries only | Audio translation across 69 language pairs, returned as translated transcript rather than dubbed audio; a Voice Agent API is in early access |
| 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 | Speaker diarization and identification, custom dictionary, language identification, background speech filtering, and speech intelligence for summaries, sentiment, topics and auto-chapters |
| 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 | Data is not logged as standard; container, Kubernetes, virtual appliance and on-device deployment keep audio inside your own infrastructure |
| MCP-ready | stated Yes | No |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise |
| Support | Email helpdesk | Email helpdesk |
| Onboarding | more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base |
| Company size | more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | more entries Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Asana, Zapier, Make, ChatGPT, Claude | LiveKit, Pipecat, Vapi, Zapier |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Fathom Free plan; Premium $20 / user / month Speechmatics From $0.129 / hour of audio
- Free trial Fathom Free plan with unlimited recordings, transcription and AI summaries Speechmatics Free tier with $100 in credit, no card required
- Deployment Fathom Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Speechmatics Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
- Company size Fathom Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Speechmatics Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
- Hosting Fathom Cloud, with a desktop app for bot-free capture Speechmatics Cloud, CPU or GPU containers, Kubernetes, on-premises virtual appliance, or on-device
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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
Speechmatics
Strengths
- 55+ languages with explicit accent, dialect and code-switching coverage
- Runs in the cloud, in containers, on-premises or on-device
- $100 in credit to start, with no card required
- Data is not logged as standard
Limitations
- A developer API rather than a ready-made voice studio
- Text-to-speech on the free tier covers English only
- The Voice Agent API is still in early access
- Volume discounts start at 500 hours a month, so small workloads pay the full rate
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.
Speechmatics
- Free $0 $100 in credit, no card required. 55+ languages for speech-to-text, 2 concurrent real-time sessions and low-latency English text-to-speech.
- Pro $0.129 Per hour of audio, billed to the second with no commitment. 50 concurrent real-time sessions, 10 file jobs per second and email support.
- Enterprise Not stated Volume-based pricing that scales with usage, unlimited concurrency and no rate limits, custom models, custom vocabularies and formatting rules, and SaaS or on-premises deployment.
What users say
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Fathom
- Ease of use
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Speechmatics
- Ease of use
- Not rated yet
- User interface
- Not rated yet
- Onboarding
- Not rated yet
- Support and service
- Not rated yet
- Value for money
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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
Speechmatics https://www.speechmatics.com · checked against the official source on 2026-08-30
This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.