Fathom vs. Typecast

At a glance

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

Typecast

Best for

Best for creators who want expressive, emotion-controlled voiceover for video, audiobooks and podcasts.

Freelancers
Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

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Full Comparison

Criterion	Fathom	Typecast
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 tier; Basic from $5 / month Credit-based. The free tier offers trial voices only and requires attribution; commercial use starts on Basic.
Free trial	Free plan with unlimited recordings, transcription and AI summaries	Free tier with 3,000 lifetime credits (around 5 minutes), trial voices only
Commercial use	Not stated	Paid (Basic and above)
Output	Transcripts, AI meeting summaries, action items and follow-up emails	Expressive AI speech with emotion and dynamics control; video export on paid tiers
API	Yes, a public REST API with webhooks and SDKs, plus an MCP server	Yes
Hosting	Cloud, with a desktop app for bot-free capture	Not stated
Voice cloning	No, Fathom records, transcribes and summarises meetings and does not synthesise or clone voices	Yes, instant and professional cloning; slots scale from one to ten by plan
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, real-time generation via the API
Languages	Transcripts in 38 languages; summaries are automatically translated when a call is detected in Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian or Dutch, and can be switched between those six from a drop-down	35+ languages
Speech-to-speech and dubbing	No speech-to-speech or dubbing; the translation covers written summaries only	Not documented: the API covers text-to-speech, streaming playback, word- and character-level timestamps and voice cloning from a sample, with no voice-conversion or dubbing endpoint
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	Emotion, pitch, intensity, speed and dynamics
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	Every voice actor on the platform has agreed to the use cases for their voice and keeps ownership of the model. Uploading a sample requires confirming permission for any third-party voice in it, and cloned voices stay private
MCP-ready	stated Yes	No
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Email helpdesk	Email helpdesk
Onboarding	more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding	Documentation and knowledge base
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	Not stated

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Fathom Free plan; Premium $20 / user / month Typecast Free tier; Basic from $5 / month
Free trial Fathom Free plan with unlimited recordings, transcription and AI summaries Typecast Free tier with 3,000 lifetime credits (around 5 minutes), trial voices only
MCP-ready Fathom Yes Typecast No
Output Fathom Transcripts, AI meeting summaries, action items and follow-up emails Typecast Expressive AI speech with emotion and dynamics control; video export on paid tiers
API Fathom Yes, a public REST API with webhooks and SDKs, plus an MCP server Typecast Yes

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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

Typecast

Strengths

700+ voices with fine emotion and delivery control
Context-aware emotion model adapts tone to the script
Affordable entry with a commercial license from $5 per month

Limitations

Free tier is limited to trial voices and requires attribution
Credit allowances are modest on the lower tiers

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.

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Typecast

Free $0 3,000 lifetime credits (around 5 minutes), trial voices only, attribution required.
Basic $5 / month $54 / year. 30,000 credits per month (around 35 minutes), all AI voices, commercial license, 1 instant cloning slot.
Plus $19 / month $204 / year. 40,000 credits per month, speed control, 1 professional cloning slot.
Pro $29 / month $312 / year. 75,000 credits per month, emotion and intonation controls, 2 cloning slots.
Business $69 / month $744 / year. 200,000 credits per month, 10 cloning slots, additional credit purchases.
Enterprise Not stated Custom pricing.

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What users say

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Typecast

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Support and service: Not rated yet
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Where this comes from

Fathom https://fathom.video · checked against the official source on 2026-09-16

Typecast https://typecast.ai · no check date recorded yet

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.