Fellow vs Tactiq
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 assessedFellow compared with Tactiq
Tactiq is a single-purpose bot-free transcript engine at $8 to $16.67 with SOC 2 Type II plus ISO 27001, and it keeps text only. Fellow is a meeting workflow platform with agendas, one-on-ones, both capture modes, mobile in-person recording, and compliance controls, starting at $7 but realistically $15. Choose Tactiq if all you want is a searchable record; choose Fellow if the meetings themselves need managing.
Tactiq compared with Fellow
Fellow is a meeting operating system with agendas, one-on-one templates, both bot and botless recording, 90-plus languages, and a compliance stack aimed at regulated finance. Tactiq is a single-purpose transcript engine. Fellow Team at $7 per user per month annually undercuts Tactiq Pro but caps you at 10 AI notes a month; Tactiq gives unlimited transcripts at $8. Take Fellow if you want meeting workflow and governance, Tactiq if you only want the record.
Choose Fellow if
Managers and teams that want meeting workflow rather than just transcription, and regulated organizations in finance, legal, or healthcare that need retention controls, redaction, information barriers, and auditable archiving alongside AI notes.
Choose Tactiq if
Browser-first teams on Google Meet who want a bot-free transcript of every call for eight dollars a seat, plus consultants, recruiters, and support leads who care more about a searchable written record than about video playback or sales coaching.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Fellow | Tactiq |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Meeting Notes | Meeting Notes |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then $7 per user per month billed annually (Team) (free plan available) | $0 (Free), then $8 per user per month billed annually (Pro) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Freemium per-seat subscription metered by AI note and AI recording counts, with unlimited AI from the Business tier and a 10-user minimum on Enterprise. | Freemium per-seat subscription metered by transcript count on free and by AI credit on paid plans, with seat-band gating between Team and Business. |
| Free plan | 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings in total, not per month, plus audio and video uploads, summaries, transcription, action items, AskFellow, and Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, and Slack integrations. | 10 transcripts and 5 AI credits per month, with AI insights, in-meeting AI access, and transcript sharing and export included. |
| Free trial | No fixed-length trial is published; the free plan is the evaluation path but is capped at lifetime rather than monthly usage | No fixed-length trial is published; the free plan is the evaluation path and needs no credit card |
| Best for | Managers and teams that want meeting workflow rather than just transcription, and regulated organizations in finance, legal, or healthcare that need retention controls, redaction, information barriers, and auditable archiving alongside AI notes. | Browser-first teams on Google Meet who want a bot-free transcript of every call for eight dollars a seat, plus consultants, recruiters, and support leads who care more about a searchable written record than about video playback or sales coaching. |
| Setup time | Fifteen to thirty minutes for an individual: connect a calendar, install the desktop app if you want botless capture, and pick your default capture mode. A team rollout takes longer because agendas and one-on-one templates deserve configuration, and an Enterprise deployment with SSO, provisioning, retention policy, and redaction rules is a multi-week project with the vendor. | Under ten minutes. Install the Chrome extension, sign in with Google or Microsoft, grant calendar access, and the next browser meeting is transcribed. There is no desktop install and no bot to authorize per platform. |
| Learning curve | Moderate, and higher than pure notetakers, because Fellow is two products stacked: a meeting workflow tool and an AI assistant. Teams that adopt only the AI half get a fine notetaker and wonder why they are paying for the rest. | Very low for transcription, moderate for the parts that pay off. Custom AI prompts and AI Workflows are where Tactiq gets good, and most users never open them, which is why some reviews describe it as a plain captioning tool. |
| Platforms | macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS, Android, Web, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex | Chrome extension, Web app, Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, MCP server (beta, Business tier) |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, Global Relay archiving for SEC and FINRA record-keeping | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA compliance stated |
| Founded | 2017 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Sydney, Australia |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Fellow
Strengths
- The only product in this batch that offers both bot-based and botless capture with the choice made per meeting, which resolves the client-call awkwardness without giving up proxy attendance.
- A genuine meeting workflow layer with collaborative agendas, one-on-one templates, and persistent action items, built over eight years rather than bolted on last quarter.
- Regulated-industry controls that nothing else here comes close to: zero-day retention, transcript redaction of MNPI and account numbers, information barriers, and Global Relay archiving.
- Conference-room speaker diarization, which is the scenario where system-audio-only competitors produce an unusable single-speaker transcript.
Limitations
- The free plan's 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings are lifetime allowances, which is close to misleading and makes free evaluation genuinely difficult.
- The $7 Team tier's 10 AI notes and 10 AI recordings per user per month is a light allowance that most buyers will exhaust within two weeks.
- No published EU or regional data residency, which is a hard stop for European buyers regardless of how good the compliance tooling is.
- The regulated-industry features that most distinguish Fellow all sit at Enterprise with a 10-user minimum, excluding the small advisory firms that need them.
Tactiq
Strengths
- Bot-free capture with no audio or video retained anywhere, which makes the security review short and keeps client calls free of vendor-branded participants.
- SOC 2 Type II plus ISO 27001 plus stated HIPAA compliance is an unusually complete certification stack for a product whose entry paid tier is eight dollars.
- Setup is a Chrome extension install, so there is no desktop agent, no admin package, and no operating system permission fight.
- Unlimited transcripts on the $8 Pro tier means the written archive is effectively free even before you consider AI features.
Limitations
- Browser-only capture is a real constraint: teams using the native Zoom or Teams desktop clients will find the workflow fights their habits.
- The AI credit meter on Pro is tight enough that heavy meeting attendees are effectively pushed to the Team tier, which doubles the price.
- No stored audio or video means no playback, no demo review, and no way to check tone or exact delivery after the fact.
- No sales coaching layer at all: no scorecards, no talk-time analytics, no deal intelligence, so revenue teams need a second vendor.
Pricing compared
Fellow
Freemium per-seat subscription metered by AI note and AI recording counts, with unlimited AI from the Business tier and a 10-user minimum on Enterprise.
- Free$0
- Team$7
- Business$15
- Enterprise$25
Fellow is priced sensibly if you buy the right tier and badly if you buy the cheap one. Model 20 meetings a week: roughly 80 a month, which blows past Team's 10-note ceiling on day three. That person needs Business at $15 per user per month annually, $180 a year per seat, with unlimited notes and recordings, org-wide templates, and real CRM integration. Against Granola Business at $14 and Tactiq Team at $16.67 that is competitively priced, and Fellow gives you an entire meeting workflow layer, both capture modes, mobile in-person recording, conference-room diarization, and 90-plus languages that neither competitor matches. Where the value gets genuinely strong is Enterprise at $25: zero-day retention, redaction, information barriers, and exam-ready audit export are worth several times that to a regulated firm, and the realistic alternative is not another notetaker but a bespoke compliance project. Just do not mistake the $7 tier for the product.
Tactiq
Freemium per-seat subscription metered by transcript count on free and by AI credit on paid plans, with seat-band gating between Team and Business.
- Free$0
- Pro$8
- Team$16.67
- Business$29.17
- EnterpriseCustom
Pro at $8 is the cheapest way to get a complete, searchable, bot-free written record of every meeting you attend, and for people who mostly want the transcript that is a bargain. The catch is that the useful half of the product, the AI generation, is rationed to 10 credits at that price. Model it honestly: someone in 20 meetings a week attends roughly 80 calls a month, and if they want a summary of each one, Pro covers about an eighth of their month. That person is really buying Team at $16.67 per user per month, or about $200 a year per seat, which is still under Fireflies Business and roughly level with Granola Business while giving unlimited AI generation. Judge Tactiq at $16.67, not at $8, and it is fairly priced rather than cheap.
Editorial verdict on each
Fellow
Fellow is the most complete product in this batch and the least fashionable, which is roughly the right description of a nine-year-old company selling to compliance officers. If your problem is meetings rather than transcripts, the agenda, one-on-one, and action item layer is worth more than any summarization improvement, and the per-meeting choice between bot and botless capture solves a problem the rest of the category makes you pick a side on. If you are a broker-dealer, an RIA, a law firm, or a healthcare provider, the zero-day retention, redaction, information barriers, and exam-ready audit export are genuinely unmatched here and make the $25 Enterprise tier a bargain against the alternative of doing it yourself. Two warnings. The free plan is a lifetime-capped trial and should not influence your evaluation, and the $7 Team tier's 10-note ceiling means the real price for a busy person is $15. And if you need EU data residency, Fellow cannot help you no matter how good its compliance tooling is.
Read the full Fellow profileTactiq
Tactiq is the pragmatic bot-free option: cheap, fast to deploy, seriously certified, and honest about what it is. If your work happens in a Chrome tab and you mainly want a permanent, searchable, audio-free record of everything you said in a meeting, nothing else gets you there for eight dollars with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 behind it. Two caveats decide the purchase. First, price it at the Team tier, not Pro, because 10 AI credits a month is not a real allowance for anyone in back-to-back calls. Second, if your team lives in native desktop meeting clients, the extension architecture will grind against you every day and you should look at Superpowered or Fellow's botless desktop path instead. Within its lane it is one of the best-value products in the category.
Read the full Tactiq profileFellow profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Tactiq last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.