Is Bluedot or Krisp cheaper?

Bluedot starts at $0 (Free, 5 meetings lifetime), then $14 per user per month billed annually (Basic) (free plan available). Krisp starts at $8 per user per month billed annually (Core), $16 month to month (7 days trial).

Bluedot vs Krisp

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

Both sides assessed

Bluedot compared with Krisp

Both capture locally and keep recordings. Krisp is $8 a seat, adds noise cancellation and accent conversion, and caps storage at 10 GB on its entry tier. Bluedot is $20 on Pro with unlimited storage, custom templates, and clearly better notes and sharing. Krisp for the lowest price and the audio layer; Bluedot for better output, unlimited storage, and a published no-training guarantee.

Krisp compared with Bluedot

Both avoid the bot and both retain recordings. Bluedot is a Chrome-extension recorder built around Google Meet with a genuine free tier and custom templates, from $14 a seat annually. Krisp is an OS-level audio layer that covers every platform including dialers and in-person calls, from $8. Take Bluedot if you live in Google Meet and want better templates; take Krisp if you need coverage beyond the browser and value the noise cancellation.

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 Krisp if

Distributed teams, support and services organisations, and anyone working from a noisy environment who wants noise cancellation and bot-free meeting notes from one $8 per seat subscription, especially teams whose accents are a friction point with customers.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Bluedot	Krisp
Category	Meeting Notes	Meeting Notes
Starting price	$0 (Free, 5 meetings lifetime), then $14 per user per month billed annually (Basic) (free plan available)	$8 per user per month billed annually (Core), $16 month to month (7 days trial)
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.	Per-user-per-month subscription with unlimited transcription and recording. The meter is cloud storage per tier rather than minutes or meetings. Accent conversion is separately rate-limited by hours per day.
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.	No
Free trial	No fixed-length trial; the free plan's five lifetime meetings serve as the evaluation	7 days, all premium features, no credit card required
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.	Distributed teams, support and services organisations, and anyone working from a noisy environment who wants noise cancellation and bot-free meeting notes from one $8 per seat subscription, especially teams whose accents are a friction point with customers.
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. Install the desktop app, select Krisp as your microphone and speaker in your conferencing tool, and every call from then on is covered. There is no calendar integration to authorise and no bot behaviour to configure.
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.	Very low for noise cancellation, which is a toggle. The notetaker and accent conversion settings take a session to work through, and teams need a policy on when accent conversion is appropriate to use at all.
Platforms	Chrome extension, macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS and Android, Apple Watch, Web	macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS, Android, Web workspace, Krisp SDK for embedding
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II (independently audited), GDPR-compliant data processing controls	SOC 2 (report access on Enterprise), HIPAA with BAA signing on Enterprise for teams of 100 or more seats, GDPR
Founded	2022	2017
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom, with operations in Dusseldorf, Germany	Berkeley, California, United States, with a large research operation in Yerevan, Armenia
Ownership	Angel-funded	Venture-backed, and described by its co-founder as profitable

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.

Krisp

Strengths

Bot-free capture with the recording retained, which is a combination Granola deliberately does not offer and most bot-based tools cannot offer at all.
Best-in-class noise cancellation and echo removal that works with every meeting platform because it is an OS-level audio device, not an integration.
Real-time accent conversion is unique in this category and is a genuine business outcome for support, services, and outsourced teams.
No minute or meeting meter on any tier, so the bill is predictable regardless of how full your calendar gets.

Limitations

No free plan for Meeting AI; the evaluation window is seven days and then it is a paid product, which is stingy next to Fathom, Read AI, or MeetGeek.
Storage is the hidden meter and there is no published overage rate, so heavy video recorders on Core will hit a wall they did not plan for.
Note quality is good rather than exceptional; this is an audio company writing notes, and Granola, Circleback, and Bluedot all produce better prose.
No language count is published for transcription, so multilingual buyers cannot compare it against Notta's 58 or Fireflies' 100-plus without testing.

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.

Krisp

Per-user-per-month subscription with unlimited transcription and recording. The meter is cloud storage per tier rather than minutes or meetings. Accent conversion is separately rate-limited by hours per day.

Free Trial$0
Core$8
Advanced$15
EnterpriseCustom

Krisp is the cheapest way to get bot-free capture with a retained recording, and the value case is unusually easy to model because there is no minute meter. Someone in 20 meetings a week at 45 minutes generates about 65 hours a month of audio; on Core that is $8 a seat billed annually, $96 a year, and the transcription is unlimited, so the bill does not move. The thing to watch is storage, because 10 GB fills up fast if you record video rather than audio, and 65 hours a month will get you there inside a year. Against Granola at $14 a seat you get recordings and noise cancellation that Granola does not offer, and against Otter Business at $20 you get bot-free capture and an included MCP connector for less than half the price. What you do not get is Granola's writing quality, a free tier, or any coaching layer. If noise cancellation has any value to you at all, Krisp is the best price per unit of capability here.

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.

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Krisp

Krisp is the best-value bot-free notetaker in this category, and it gets there by selling you something else first. Because it already lives in your audio path as a noise cancellation engine, it can record and transcribe without a participant in the room, keep the media so you can replay a call, and charge $8 a seat annually with no minute meter and an MCP connector thrown in. For distributed teams, consultancies working from noisy places, and support or MSP organisations, that combination is very hard to beat, and the Enterprise on-device transcription option is the strongest privacy answer anyone in this category offers. The reasons not to buy it are equally clear: there is no free plan, storage rather than minutes is the meter and no overage rate is published, the integration list is two CRMs long, and the notes themselves are competent rather than beautiful. If you want prose, buy Granola. If you want the call to sound right and the notes to be free, buy Krisp.

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