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Fathom vs Plaud Note
Fathom or Plaud Note? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Writes and edits, Summaries, Meeting notes, Searches your work, Automations, Connects your apps, Admin controls
- Only Fathom states: Real-time collaboration, API, Single sign-on
- Only Plaud Note states: AI agents, Mobile app
Fathom
Fathom records meetings, creates transcripts and summaries, identifies action items, and connects meeting insights to work tools.
Plans
Team
- $15 /month / per user
- $19 /month / per user
- Unlimited meetings captured & instant AI summaries
- AI generated action items
- Conversational meeting assistant
- Playlists of highlights from meetings
- Collaboration using comments, folders, keyword alerts, + more
Business
- $25 /month / per user
- $34 /month / per user
- Everything from Team
- CRM field sync, updating records after meetings automatically
- Deal View summarizing insights
- Coaching metrics & AI scorecards
- Advanced call summaries, including custom summaries*
Enterprise
Price on request
- Everything from Business
- Launch Assist Onboarding Program
- Organization-wide security controls
- SSO & SCIM provisioning
- Custom data retention programs
- Dedicated Success Manager & priority Support SLAs
Free
Free
- Unlimited recordings + transcriptions
- Choice of bot-free (in beta) or bot capture
- Instant AI call summaries
- Clips, playlists + search across calls
Premium
- $16 /month / per user
- $20 /month / per user
- Everything from Free
- Advanced call summaries
- AI-generated action items
- Conversational meeting assistant
- Custom meeting bot
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Writes and edits — “AI follow-up emails” source
- Summaries — “Fathom summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation.” source
- Meeting notes — “Automatic notes, summaries, and updates reduce follow-ups and admin across the team.” source
- Searches your work — “Clips, playlists + search across calls” source
- Automations — “Automate key meeting workflows using Zapier, Make.com, and more.” source
- Connects your apps — “Meeting notes, insights and action items sync automatically with your tools – Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Asana, and beyond – without you lifting a finger.” source
- Real-time collaboration — “Collaboration using comments, folders, keyword alerts, + more” source
- API — “Public API & MCP” source
- Single sign-on — “SSO & SCIM provisioning” source
- Admin controls — “Organization-wide security controls” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type II” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type II” source
- GDPR — “Data Processing Agreement (DPA)” source
- HIPAA — “SOC 2 Type II HIPAA GDPR CCPA” source
- Not trained on your data — “Forbidden from training AI on Fathom Customer Data” source
Plaud Note
Plaud Note is a hardware AI recorder that captures calls and meetings, then transcribes and summarizes them in Plaud apps.
Plans
Starter
Free
- 300 Transcription Minutes/Month
Pro
- $8.33 /month billed annually
- $17.99 /month
- 1,200 Transcription Minutes/Month
- For professionals streamlining work and communication.
Unlimited
- $19.99 /month billed annually
- $29.99 /month
- Unlimited Transcription Minutes (up to 24 hours/day)
- For experts deeply reliant on conversations.
Team
- $20 /user/month billed annually
- $28/user/month
- Unlimited Transcription Minutes (up to 24 hours/day)
- Shared Team Files
- Centralized Billing
- User & Seat Management
- Device Management
- Workspace-Level Data Residency
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Writes and edits — “Stay present with prospects while Plaud captures the call and drafts your follow-up.” source
- Summaries — “Plaud transcribes and summarizes” source
- Meeting notes — “Plaud turns your conversations into structured notes.” source
- Searches your work — “Ask Plaud — search and query across all your recordings using natural language” source
- Automations — “AutoFlow (auto transcribe, summarize, and send email)” source
- AI agents — “Plaud Agent plans and gets it done” source
- Connects your apps — “Google Calendar Integration” source
- Mobile app — “Download App App Store Google Play Android APK” source
- Admin controls — “For admin management features, you will need to purchase the Team plan.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “At this time, Plaud provides a multi-region cloud-hosted solution that meets the strictest global security & compliance standards, including GDPR, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA and EN 18031.” source
- SOC 2 — “At this time, Plaud provides a multi-region cloud-hosted solution that meets the strictest global security & compliance standards, including GDPR, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA and EN 18031.” source
- ISO 27001 — “At this time, Plaud provides a multi-region cloud-hosted solution that meets the strictest global security & compliance standards, including GDPR, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA and EN 18031.” source
- GDPR — “At this time, Plaud provides a multi-region cloud-hosted solution that meets the strictest global security & compliance standards, including GDPR, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA and EN 18031.” source
- HIPAA — “At this time, Plaud provides a multi-region cloud-hosted solution that meets the strictest global security & compliance standards, including GDPR, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA and EN 18031.” source
- Data kept in the EU — “Plaud currently has data centers in the US, Europe (Frankfurt), Singapore, and Japan.” source
- Not trained on your data — “Plaud will not train on your data by default — explicit opt-in is required.” source
Latest updates
- Team files enables easier collaboration in Plaud Team
A Team workspace has a shared Team files folder for recordings, transcripts, and summaries, with visibility across the whole team.
- New team workspaces will receive a welcome file
Every new Team workspace opens with a built-in welcome guide covering privacy, workspace setup, seat entitlements, and device binding.
- Memory personalizes your Ask Plaud responses
Memory lets Plaud learn and remember how you work: your role, industry, preferred reply format, and personal instructions.