Is Bluedot or Fathom cheaper?

Bluedot starts at $0 (Free, 5 meetings lifetime), then $14 per user per month billed annually (Basic) (free plan available). Fathom starts at $0 (Free plan, unlimited recording and transcription) (free plan available).

Bluedot vs Fathom

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Editorial assessment

Bluedot compared with Fathom

Fathom records video too and has a genuinely generous free tier, but it does it with a bot in the participant list. Bluedot has almost no free tier and a much smaller company behind it, but nothing appears in your client's call. If the bot is acceptable, Fathom is the better value; if it is not, Bluedot is the closest thing to Fathom's capability without one.

Choose Bluedot if

Recruiters, consultants, and client-facing teams who need a recording they can replay and clip but cannot put a bot in front of the person they are talking to, and privacy-sensitive buyers who want a written no-training guarantee rather than a data processing agreement they have to negotiate.

Choose Fathom if

Startups and small GTM teams that want a competent notetaker with zero budget on day one and a credible upgrade path to call coaching and CRM sync as the sales team grows past a couple of reps.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Bluedot	Fathom
Category	Meeting Notes	Meeting Notes
Starting price	$0 (Free, 5 meetings lifetime), then $14 per user per month billed annually (Basic) (free plan available)	$0 (Free plan, unlimited recording and transcription) (free plan available)
Pricing model	Per-user-per-month subscription with no minute or meeting meter on paid plans. Capability is tiered by recording type (audio versus video), recording length, template customisation, and integration depth.	Freemium, with individual plans and separate per-seat team plans (minimum two users); annual billing discounts run 20 to 26 percent depending on tier.
Free plan	Five meetings for the lifetime of the account, one hour maximum per recording, with the Chrome extension, desktop and mobile apps, and basic integrations including Slack, Notion, Zapier, and Make.	Unlimited recordings and transcriptions, bot or bot-free capture, instant AI summaries, clips, playlists, and search, with no monthly minute cap.
Free trial	No fixed-length trial; the free plan's five lifetime meetings serve as the evaluation	Free trial available on paid plans, plus a 90 day guarantee advertised across tiers
Best for	Recruiters, consultants, and client-facing teams who need a recording they can replay and clip but cannot put a bot in front of the person they are talking to, and privacy-sensitive buyers who want a written no-training guarantee rather than a data processing agreement they have to negotiate.	Startups and small GTM teams that want a competent notetaker with zero budget on day one and a credible upgrade path to call coaching and CRM sync as the sales team grows past a couple of reps.
Setup time	Under ten minutes. Install the Chrome extension for browser calls or the desktop app for Zoom, Teams, and Slack, grant permissions, and record with one click. There is no calendar bot to configure.	Under ten minutes. Sign up, connect Google Calendar or Microsoft 365, install the desktop app if you want bot-free capture, and the next meeting on your calendar is covered.
Learning curve	Very low. The only thing worth deliberate attention is template design on the Pro tier, because the difference between a default summary and a template shaped for your meeting type is most of the perceived quality of the product.	Minimal for individual use. The Business features (CRM field mapping, scorecard rubrics, custom summary templates) need someone to think about the sales process for a few hours, but nothing here requires a specialist.
Platforms	Chrome extension, macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS and Android, Apple Watch, Web	Web app, macOS and Windows desktop apps, iOS app, Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, Public API, MCP server
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II (independently audited), GDPR-compliant data processing controls	SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, Passed Zoom's vendor security review
Founded	2022	2020
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom, with operations in Dusseldorf, Germany	San Francisco, California, United States
Ownership	Angel-funded	Venture-backed

Strengths and limitations

Bluedot

Strengths

Bot-free capture that still keeps the video, which is a combination Granola and Circleback deliberately do not offer and bot-based tools cannot offer without a participant in the room.
The clearest published privacy position in the category: no training on customer data, no retention by AI providers, immediate deletion with backups cleared within thirty days, all stated on the security page rather than buried in a DPA.
SOC 2 Type II with annual third-party penetration testing and AES-256 encryption, which is stronger assurance than most companies this size can show.
No minute, meeting, or storage meter on paid plans, so the bill does not move with usage.

Limitations

A twenty-person company with roughly 560,000 euros of angel funding. The product is good and the balance sheet is thin, which is a genuine continuity risk for anything you plan to depend on for years.
The free plan is five meetings for the lifetime of the account, which is the stingiest free offer here by a wide margin.
Basic at $14 is audio only with a one-hour cap, so the advertised advantage of the product costs $20 rather than $14.
CRM and ATS integrations, SSO, and custom retention are all on the $32 Business tier, which is expensive relative to what larger vendors include lower down.

Fathom

Strengths

The free plan is genuinely unlimited on recording and transcription, which removes the usual notetaker adoption barrier entirely for early-stage teams.
Three capture modes including two bot-free options, with speaker attribution preserved, gives real flexibility for client-facing work where a visible bot is a problem.
Ask Fathom returns citations that link back to specific transcript moments, so answers are checkable rather than plausible-sounding summaries you have to trust.
Team pricing at $15 to $19 per seat undercuts the individual Premium plan, an unusual structure that makes small-team adoption cheap.

Limitations

38 transcript languages is materially narrower than Fireflies or Circleback, both of which advertise 100-plus, so multilingual teams should verify their languages first.
The features that make Fathom useful to a sales org (CRM field sync, Deal View, scorecards) all live on the Business tier, so the cheap reputation stops applying the moment you buy it for revenue reasons.
Conversation intelligence depth is mid-tier: it will tell you talk-time ratios and score calls against a rubric, but it does not do pipeline-wide forecasting or deal-risk modelling.
No published data residency options outside the US, which is a blocker for some EU buyers regardless of GDPR compliance statements.

Pricing compared

Bluedot

Per-user-per-month subscription with no minute or meeting meter on paid plans. Capability is tiered by recording type (audio versus video), recording length, template customisation, and integration depth.

Free$0
Basic$14
Pro$20
Business$32

Priced against what it uniquely does, Bluedot is fair. Someone in 20 meetings a week pays exactly the same as someone in two, because nothing is metered: $20 per seat per month billed annually on Pro, about $240 a year, for bot-free capture that keeps unlimited-length video, custom templates, unlimited storage, an API, and MCP. Granola at $14 is cheaper and keeps no recording. Krisp at $8 keeps recordings but caps storage at 10 GB and writes weaker notes. Circleback at roughly $21 to $25 is bot-free with better language coverage but again no video. Bluedot is the only one of the four that lets you replay and clip a client call that had no bot in it, and $240 a year is a reasonable price for that specific capability. Where it is poor value is at the edges: $14 Basic withholds video and caps recordings at an hour, and $32 Business is a steep jump to get CRM writeback and SSO from a twenty-person company.

Fathom

Freemium, with individual plans and separate per-seat team plans (minimum two users); annual billing discounts run 20 to 26 percent depending on tier.

Free$0
Premium$20
Team$19
Business$34
EnterpriseCustom

Nobody in this category matches Fathom's price-to-capability ratio at the bottom. Unlimited recording and transcription for zero dollars means the burden of proof is on every competitor charging for the same thing, and a two-person startup on the Team plan gets shared search and playlists for $30 a month. The economics get ordinary at the top: Business at $25 to $34 per seat is priced against real conversation intelligence tools, and the coaching and deal features, while decent, are lighter than a dedicated revenue intelligence platform. Buy Fathom for the free and Team tiers with clear eyes; evaluate Business on its merits rather than on brand loyalty earned downstream.

Editorial verdict on each

Bluedot

Bluedot occupies a gap nobody else fills cleanly: bot-free capture that keeps the video. Granola will not store the recording, Circleback will not either, and every tool that does keep video puts a participant in your client's call to get it. If you are a recruiter, a consultant, or a customer success team who needs to replay and clip conversations that cannot have a bot in them, Bluedot at $20 a seat billed annually with unlimited storage, custom templates, an API, and MCP is the obvious answer, and its published no-training, immediate-deletion, SOC 2 Type II posture is the most straightforward privacy statement in the category. The two things to weigh honestly are the tiering, because $14 Basic withholds video and caps recordings at an hour and $32 Business is where CRM writeback and SSO live, and the company, because twenty people on angel funding is a real continuity risk. Buy it for what it uniquely does, on Pro, and keep your own copies through the API.

Read the full Bluedot profile

Fathom

Best Value

Fathom won the bottom of this market by refusing to charge for the thing everyone else charges for, and the strategy still holds: unlimited free recording and transcription, two credible bot-free capture modes, and a Team tier that costs less per seat than the individual plan. For a startup choosing a notetaker this week, it is the default recommendation and the burden falls on rivals to justify their price. The picture is less commanding higher up: 38 languages is thin, the Business tier is priced against tools with deeper revenue intelligence, and there is no data residency story for EU buyers who need one. Start free, upgrade to Team when there are two of you, and evaluate Business on evidence rather than habit.

Read the full Fathom profile

Bluedot profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Fathom last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.