MeetGeek vs Sembly AI
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 assessedMeetGeek compared with Sembly AI
Both are bot-based European-flavoured products at similar prices. Sembly has no free plan but ships consent tracking, retention settings, and automatic risk and issue detection aimed at project governance. MeetGeek is cheaper at $17 for unlimited transcription and video, covers 100-plus languages against Sembly's 40-plus, offers EU data residency, and gives away its public API. MeetGeek for value and openness; Sembly for professional services firms that need the governance trail.
Sembly AI compared with MeetGeek
MeetGeek is cheaper at $17 for unlimited transcription and video, covers 100-plus languages against Sembly's 40-plus, offers EU data residency, and gives away its API on the free tier. Sembly has no free plan but ships consent tracking, risk and issue detection, and retention settings that MeetGeek does not. MeetGeek for value and openness; Sembly for governance and structured process output.
Choose MeetGeek if
Small and mid-sized teams, particularly European ones, who want cheap per-seat meeting notes with real compliance credentials, EU data residency, video recording, and an API they can build on, and who do not mind a bot in the call.
Choose Sembly AI if
Project management offices, consultancies, agencies, and IT outsourcing firms who need structured meeting records with tasks, risks, and issues detected automatically, plus a documented consent trail, and who do not need a free plan to get started.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | MeetGeek | Sembly AI |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Meeting Notes | Meeting Notes |
| Starting price | $0 (Basic), then $9.99 per user per month (Pro) (free plan available) | $10 per month billed annually (Basic, single user), $17 month to month (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Per-seat subscription metered in transcription hours per user per month, with a published overage rate of $0.50 per extra hour on Pro. Storage windows for transcripts and media are tiered separately. | Per-seat subscription with unlimited meetings and unlimited transcription on every tier. What is metered is AI output: AI-generated documents and AI insights per month, plus a count of native automations per user and a meeting history window. |
| Free plan | Basic gives 3 hours of transcription a month, 3 months of transcript storage, 1 month of audio storage, a 2-hour cap per meeting, 100-plus languages, audio and video upload, and API and MCP access. | No |
| Free trial | 14 days on Pro | Free trial available on all three tiers |
| Best for | Small and mid-sized teams, particularly European ones, who want cheap per-seat meeting notes with real compliance credentials, EU data residency, video recording, and an API they can build on, and who do not mind a bot in the call. | Project management offices, consultancies, agencies, and IT outsourcing firms who need structured meeting records with tasks, risks, and issues detected automatically, plus a documented consent trail, and who do not need a free plan to get started. |
| Setup time | Ten minutes. Connect your calendar, set the bot's auto-join policy, and the next meeting is captured. Choosing EU or US hosting is a decision worth making at signup rather than later. | Fifteen minutes to capture, longer to configure properly. Connect the calendar, set the bot's join policy, then spend time on custom note templates, custom vocabulary, and the automation library, because the default output is much less useful than a configured one. |
| Learning curve | Low. Templates on the Pro tier repay an hour of setup, and the automation layer via Zapier, Make, or n8n is where a technical team will spend real time, profitably. | Moderate, and higher than most of this category. The product's vocabulary is programme management vocabulary, and getting value from risk and issue detection means someone deciding what the workspace should do with a detected risk. |
| Platforms | Web, Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, Mobile access, Upload for other recordings | Web, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex, Mobile access, Microphone recording for in-person meetings, Philips SmartMeeting and VoiceTracer hardware partnership |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA | GDPR, HIPAA on the MAX tier, SOC 2 documentation published through the trust centre |
| Founded | 2020 | 2019 |
| Headquarters | Bucharest, Romania | New York, United States |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Venture-backed with an equity crowdfunding component |
Strengths and limitations
MeetGeek
Strengths
- The only published overage rate in the category at $0.50 per extra transcription hour, so exceeding your allowance costs money rather than blocking your recorder.
- EU or US data residency available to ordinary paying customers, which Granola, Otter, and Read AI do not offer at self-serve prices.
- SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and a stated zero data training policy, which is a stronger compliance package than most vendors ten times its size present.
- A public API and an MCP server available on the free plan, alongside Claude and ChatGPT integrations, making it the most technically open cheap product here.
Limitations
- Bot-based capture with a vendor-named participant visible in every call, and no local silent capture path for confidential client work.
- Storage windows on the cheap tiers are short: one month of audio on Basic and six months on Pro, so neither is a durable archive.
- Per-meeting duration caps of two hours on Basic and Pro will truncate a long workshop or board meeting regardless of your hour allowance.
- Video is Business-tier only, so the $9.99 Pro plan is audio and text.
Sembly AI
Strengths
- Unlimited meetings and unlimited transcription on every tier including the $10 Basic plan, so there is no meter to model at all.
- Consent tracking on the Pro tier is genuinely unique in this comparison set and is the only built-in answer to two-party consent requirements anyone here offers.
- Retention settings on Pro rather than gated behind an enterprise contract, which is unusually generous placement for a governance feature.
- Automatic risk, issue, and event detection reflects real programme management vocabulary and is not something a generic summarizer produces.
Limitations
- No free plan of any kind. For a category where nearly every competitor offers one, this is a real barrier to evaluation and adoption.
- AI-generated documents and insights are capped at five a month on Pro, which is stingy given that deliverable generation is one of the headline reasons to buy.
- Basic is one user per workspace, so the smallest team plan is $20 a seat with no intermediate step.
- Bot-based capture with a vendor-named participant visible in every call, and no local silent capture path.
Pricing compared
MeetGeek
Per-seat subscription metered in transcription hours per user per month, with a published overage rate of $0.50 per extra hour on Pro. Storage windows for transcripts and media are tiered separately.
- Basic$0
- Pro$9.99
- Business$17
- EnterpriseCustom
MeetGeek is the best-priced complete product in this category and the arithmetic is easy to check. Someone in 20 meetings a week at 45 minutes consumes roughly 65 transcription hours a month. On Pro that is $9.99 plus 45 overage hours at $0.50, about $32.49 a month, so heavy users should simply take Business at $17 a seat for unlimited transcription, unlimited transcript storage, HD video, team spaces, and meeting analytics. Seventeen dollars for that bundle is cheaper than Otter Business, cheaper than Read AI Enterprise where video first appears, and cheaper than Bluedot Pro, and it comes with SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, EU or US residency, a stated zero-training policy, a public API, and an MCP server. The reasons not to buy it are the bot in the room and the size of the company, not the price.
Sembly AI
Per-seat subscription with unlimited meetings and unlimited transcription on every tier. What is metered is AI output: AI-generated documents and AI insights per month, plus a count of native automations per user and a meeting history window.
- Basic$10
- Pro$20
- MAX$30
- EnterpriseCustom
Sembly is the rare product here where a heavy calendar costs exactly the same as a light one. Someone in 20 meetings a week pays $20 per seat per month billed annually on Pro, about $240 a year, with unlimited meetings, unlimited transcription across 40-plus languages, unlimited video recording, consent tracking, retention settings, risk and issue detection, MCP access, and a two-year archive. That is competitive with Otter Business and Bluedot Pro and comes with governance features neither of them ships. The catch is the AI output meter: five generated documents a month is not many if deliverables are your reason for buying, and the fix is MAX at $30 a seat, which is expensive. Judged as structured meeting intelligence for a professional services firm, Pro is good value. Judged as a general notetaker, it is more expensive than MeetGeek and less generous than Fathom, and the absence of any free plan means you cannot check before committing.
Editorial verdict on each
MeetGeek
MeetGeek is the value pick in this category and the compliance pick, which is an unusual combination. For $17 a seat you get unlimited transcription in more than 100 languages, HD video with twelve months of storage, team analytics, five CRM connectors, and three automation platforms, and it arrives with SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, a stated zero-training policy, and a choice of EU or US hosting that most of its larger American competitors simply cannot offer. Giving away public API and MCP access on the free tier is the kind of decision a company makes when it is confident in the product. The two honest caveats are the bot, which rules it out for anyone doing confidential client work where a visible recorder is unacceptable, and the size of the company, at roughly twenty-five people and $2.8M raised. Use the free API to keep your own copies, and MeetGeek is the sensible default for a cost-conscious European small business.
Read the full MeetGeek profileSembly AI
Sembly is the product to look at when the meeting record is a professional obligation rather than a convenience. Unlimited transcription on every tier means the bill never moves with your calendar, automatic risk and issue detection speaks the language of programme management rather than of summaries, and consent tracking on the $20 Pro tier is the only built-in answer to two-party consent that anyone in this category ships. Retention settings, custom SSO, audit logs, and HIPAA all available self-serve are more governance than most vendors twice its size will sell you without a contract. The reasons to hesitate are equally concrete: there is no free plan at all, the AI document allowance of five a month on Pro is too thin if deliverables are why you are buying, Basic is a one-person workspace, and the company has raised only about $4.6M. Consultancies, agencies, and project offices should trial it seriously. Everyone else will get more for less from MeetGeek or Granola.
Read the full Sembly AI profileMeetGeek profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Sembly AI last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.