Fellow vs Read AI
Fellow and Read AI side by side: what each one is, what it costs to start, and whether you can try it free. Everything below comes from the vendors' own sites and other public sources, not from hands-on testing.
Neither tool is ranked above the other here. These are research-based profiles, not hands-on tests. Starting price is the lowest listed paid plan per month (annual-billing equivalent where the vendor lists one), as shown on the vendor's own site when we last checked. Prices change, so confirm on the vendor's site. How this site works.
At a glance
| Fellow | Read AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Starting price | Free; paid plans from $7/mo (checked October 2026) | Free; paid plans from $15/mo (checked October 2026) |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Profile | Read profile | Read profile |
Prices are in US dollars unless shown otherwise. Confirm the current price on the vendor's site before you buy.
Key differences
Both list a free tier, so you can try each before paying.
Fellow has the lower starting price ($7/mo against $15/mo for Read AI). The cheapest plan rarely has the same limits or features, so compare plans before choosing on price.
Both are in our Productivity category.
About each tool
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Fellow
AI meeting note taker with transcripts, recaps and action items. Free plan available; paid plans start at $7 per user a month billed annually ($11 monthly).
Who it is for
Teams that hold recurring meetings and want notes, action items, recordings and a searchable meeting history in one place. Fellow lists sales note templates and Salesforce and HubSpot integrations on its Business plan, and SSO and HIPAA/BAA for Enterprise.
Strengths
- Fellow's help center says the note taker records, transcribes and summarizes meetings in 93 languages and produces a recap with a summary, transcript, decisions and action items.
- Fellow says it never uses meeting data to train AI models, and lists SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR compliance for its AI features.
- The help center describes Ask Fellow, a chat assistant that can search meeting history and draft summaries or docs for export to Notion, Confluence or Google Docs. It also lists pre-meeting briefs for recurring meetings.
- Fellow's help center says you can upload MP3, M4A, WAV or MP4 files to get AI notes, transcripts and recaps; the pricing page lists 5 lifetime uploads on Free.
- Fellow's features page lists note templates (1-on-1s, sales calls, project syncs, interviews, all-hands) and custom templates, plus integrations with Slack, Zapier, Notion, Confluence, Asana, Jira, Linear, ClickUp and Monday, a public API and an MCP server.
- Fellow says teams can record with a visible bot or without one (botless audio capture), and that IT admins control retention, access and sharing policies.
Limitations
- The Free plan allows up to 5 seats and 5 lifetime AI meeting notes, 5 lifetime recordings and 5 lifetime uploads per user, with limited notes history.
- Team is capped at 20 seats and 10 AI notes per month per user; the pricing page lists 10 recordings with no period stated. Unlimited AI notes and recordings start at Business.
- Prices are per user, and Fellow's pricing FAQ says billing is based on active users at the start of each billing cycle.
- Salesforce and HubSpot are listed on Business; Enterprise adds items such as domain control, user provisioning, transcript redaction and security and legal reviews. The feature table checkmarks for SOC 2, SSO and HIPAA/BAA could not be mapped to tiers.
- Fellow's own pages disagree in places: the pricing FAQ refers to a Pro plan that is not among the tiers, the help center says Free supports 10 enabled users while the pricing page says 5 seats, and Enterprise is shown as both starting at 10 users and unlimited seats.
- Fellow's help center says monthly subscriptions are not refundable and annual ones can be refunded within 14 days of purchase or renewal. The terms of use say subscriptions auto-renew and require 30 days' notice before the renewal anniversary to stop.
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Read AI
AI notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes meetings. Free plan has 5 reports a month; Pro is $15 per user a month billed annually ($19.75 monthly).
Strengths
- Read AI lists a Free plan with 5 meeting reports and transcripts a month, summaries for meetings, email and messaging, a personalized meeting coach, and basic integrations.
- All paid plans are listed with unlimited meeting reports, unlimited storage and workspace access; Pro adds priority report processing and 100 minutes of audio or video uploads a month.
- Premium integrations on paid plans are listed as Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier and webhooks; the page also mentions an API, an MCP server, Claude and ChatGPT.
- Enterprise adds audio and video playback, video highlights and dedicated support; Enterprise+ adds domain capture, SAML SSO, SCIM, a custom data retention policy, HIPAA compliance and workspace onboarding.
- Read AI's security overview says it holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification, is GDPR compliant, uses TLS 1.2 in transit and AES-256 at rest, and does not use customer data for model training unless a user opts in.
- Read AI lists annual volume discounts of 10% at 100+ licenses, 15% at 500+ and 20% at 1,000+, and separate education pricing.
Limitations
- The Free plan is capped at 5 meeting reports and transcripts a month and a 1-hour maximum meeting length; reports you own and reports shared with you both count, and reports over the cap show as out of quota until you upgrade (past 30 days are reprocessed on upgrade).
- On Free, text versions of reports are kept for at least 1 year and recordings are deleted 180 days after the meeting; downgrading to Free also removes integrations, webhooks and the For You page, and deactivates a workspace you own.
- Read AI's data page says its Customer Experience Improvement Program is opt-out by default, which sits awkwardly beside its statement that model training needs explicit opt-in. Data is stored in AWS us-east-1 (Northern Virginia).
