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Facts checked against both vendors on October 13, 2026.
Both record, transcribe and summarise your calls, both cover Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, and both have a genuinely unlimited free tier, which is unusual in this category and the reason the two are so often shortlisted together. Fathom is cheaper per seat and goes further on sales coaching, with scorecards, summary templates built around named sales frameworks and a bot free capture mode. tl;dv is the stronger pick if your calls are not in English, since it publishes transcription in more than 30 languages and dialects. Try both free before paying either, because the free plans are good enough that many teams never need to upgrade.
AI-driven tool for recording, transcribing, and summarizing meetings.
tl;dv and Fathom are AI meeting notetakers. Each one joins your call, records it, produces a transcript and writes a summary with action items, then pushes the result into your CRM and your chat tool.
The category has converged on features, so the useful differences are narrower than the marketing suggests: what the free tier actually includes, what a seat costs, how well each handles calls that are not in English, and how far each goes beyond note taking into sales coaching. This comparison covers what each vendor publishes today. Note that tl;dv publishes its prices in euros and Fathom in US dollars, so the per seat figures below are not directly comparable without converting.
This is the first thing to understand, because it may end the decision.
tl;dv calls its free tier Free Forever and states no time limit, listing unlimited recordings and transcriptions in more than 30 languages, unlimited meetings and no card required.
Fathom lists recordings, call storage, transcription and call downloads or clips as unlimited on every plan including Free, with no per plan caps given.
In most software categories the free tier is a trial with a wall in it. Here, both vendors let an individual record and transcribe an unlimited number of meetings without paying. What you buy when you upgrade is not capacity, it is the analysis layer: richer summaries, CRM field syncing, coaching metrics and team administration. A solo consultant who wants a transcript and a summary after every call can plausibly use either product indefinitely without paying.
Fathom is the cheaper product per seat on published prices. Its individual Premium plan is 20 US dollars a month, or 16 on annual billing. Its Team plan is 19 a month, or 15 annual, with a two seat minimum. Business is 34 a month, or 25 annual, also with a two seat minimum. Enterprise is sold through its sales team. The annual toggle is described as saving 25 percent or more.
tl;dv publishes in euros. Pro is 29 euros per seat a month, falling to 18 per seat on annual billing, which is billed as 216 euros a year. Business is 39 euros per seat a month, falling to 29 on annual, billed as 348 euros a year.
One caveat on tl;dv's annual pricing: the page headline advertises 40 percent off every annual plan, but the listed annual prices work out at roughly 38 percent below monthly on Pro and roughly 26 percent on Business. Read the figures rather than the banner.
Fathom's structure also separates an individual plan from team plans, where tl;dv prices purely per seat. If you are buying for one person, compare Fathom Premium against tl;dv Pro; if for a team, compare Fathom Team or Business against tl;dv Pro or Business.
tl;dv states AI transcription in more than 30 languages and dialects, with the product interface itself localised in seven. Its documentation gives examples spanning English, Spanish, Japanese and Hebrew, and it markets summaries built on sales frameworks delivered in other languages.
Fathom's home page and pricing page do not state how many languages it transcribes. That is not evidence it handles only English, but it is a notable absence on a page where a multilingual buyer would look for the claim, and it means the figure cannot be sourced here.
If your calls are mostly in English, this section does not affect your decision. If they are not, tl;dv is the one making an explicit, checkable commitment, and that is worth more than an unstated capability. Either way, test transcription quality on a real call in your own language before committing, because a published language list says nothing about accuracy on your accents, your jargon or your line quality.
Both connect to the two CRMs that matter for this category. Fathom publishes integration pages for Salesforce and HubSpot and states that it updates your CRM automatically. tl;dv lists HubSpot among its integrations and describes automatic logging of call notes and CRM outcomes, plus drafted follow up emails and next step tasks.
Fathom's wider list names Slack, Notion, Asana, ChatGPT, Claude and Zapier, and it publishes a public API and an MCP endpoint. That last point is worth noting if you are building anything agentic: MCP means your own assistant can query meeting data directly rather than through a scraped export.
tl;dv describes integrations with CRMs, ticketing systems and knowledge management platforms, and states more than 5,000 other tools, with HubSpot, Slack, Notion and Microsoft Teams shown by name.
On CRM depth, Fathom puts field level syncing on its Business tier, which writes meeting insights into specific CRM fields rather than dropping a summary into a notes box. Its feature table also carries a CRM sync restriction reading max three users per domain, which the page does not map clearly to a plan. Confirm that one with the vendor if CRM syncing is the reason you are buying.
Both products have pushed past note taking into reviewing how calls were conducted, which is where the higher tiers justify themselves.
Fathom is the more developed of the two here. Advanced summaries on Premium and above offer more than 15 meeting templates including BANT and Sandler. Custom summary templates arrive on Business, alongside coaching metrics and AI scorecards. Trackers flag chosen moments in future calls, such as a competitor being mentioned, and route an alert to Slack, email or the app. Account wide Ask Fathom, which answers questions across all your calls rather than one, is in beta.
tl;dv covers similar ground, with AI driven call analysis for tracking playbook adherence and improving objection handling, support for frameworks such as MEDDIC, AI selected clips for onboarding, and AI reports that aggregate across many meetings and arrive by email.
One structural difference: Fathom offers a bot free capture mode, currently in beta on Mac, as an alternative to sending a bot into the meeting. If a visible notetaker joining the call is awkward with your customers, that matters. One caution on Fathom's pricing page: several AI features are marked limited use without the limit being stated, and the feature table does not always make clear which plan includes what. Check the specific features you are buying for against your own account before committing to an annual term.
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Free Forever is 0 euros with unlimited recordings and transcriptions, unlimited meetings and no card required. Pro is 29 euros per seat a month, or 18 per seat on annual billing, billed as 216 euros a year. Business is 39 euros per seat a month, or 29 on annual, billed as 348 euros a year. The site advertises 40 percent off annual plans, though the published annual prices work out nearer 38 percent on Pro and 26 percent on Business.
Free is 0 US dollars and includes unlimited recordings, storage, transcription and downloads. Premium, for individuals, is 20 a month or 16 on annual billing. Team is 19 a month or 15 annual, with a two seat minimum. Business is 34 a month or 25 annual, also with a two seat minimum, and adds CRM field sync, custom summary templates, coaching metrics and AI scorecards. Enterprise is sold through sales. Annual billing is described as saving 25 percent or more.
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