MeetGeek vs Spinach 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 Spinach AI
Both meter by time. Spinach charges $2.90 per meeting hour with unlimited users, which is cheaper for a team that records rarely and far more expensive for a full calendar. MeetGeek charges per seat with a $0.50 overage and includes an API on the free plan where Spinach gates its API behind Enterprise. Spinach for selective recording across a whole team; MeetGeek for individuals with heavy calendars.
Spinach AI compared with MeetGeek
Both meter by time. MeetGeek charges $9.99 a seat for 20 transcription hours with a published $0.50 overage rate, so a heavy user is capped in a predictable way. Spinach charges $2.90 an hour with unlimited users, which is far better for a team that meets rarely and far worse for one that meets constantly. MeetGeek for individuals with full calendars; Spinach for teams with selective recording.
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 Spinach AI if
Engineering and project teams who want standups, retros, and planning meetings turned into tickets automatically, and small teams with a modest number of important meetings a week who would rather pay by the hour than per seat.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | MeetGeek | Spinach AI |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Meeting Notes | Meeting Notes |
| Starting price | $0 (Basic), then $9.99 per user per month (Pro) (free plan available) | $0 (Starter), then $2.90 per meeting hour (Pro) (free plan available) |
| 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. | Three self-serve structures in one table: a free company-wide plan, a pay-as-you-go tier billed at $2.90 per meeting hour with unlimited users and no seat minimum, and a per-seat Business tier with a 50-seat minimum. Enterprise is quoted. |
| 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. | Starter is free and company-wide: recordings, transcripts, basic AI summaries, 100-plus languages, Google or Microsoft Calendar and Slack integration, and seven days of recording retention. |
| Free trial | 14 days on Pro | No fixed-length trial; the free Starter plan is company-wide and serves as the evaluation |
| 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. | Engineering and project teams who want standups, retros, and planning meetings turned into tickets automatically, and small teams with a modest number of important meetings a week who would rather pay by the hour than per seat. |
| 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. | Ten minutes. Sign in with Google or Microsoft, connect the calendar, add Slack, and choose which meetings the bot attends. Configuring the project management and CRM connectors takes another half hour and is where the product's actual value is unlocked. |
| 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. | Low for capture. The part that takes deliberate work is deciding which meetings should create tickets and where, because an over-eager integration will fill a Jira board with noise faster than a human ever could. |
| Platforms | Web, Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, Mobile access, Upload for other recordings | Web, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack Huddles (beta), In-person capture |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA (BAA available on Enterprise) |
| Founded | 2020 | 2021 |
| Headquarters | Bucharest, Romania | Remote-first; the operating company is StayIn, Inc., incorporated in the United States |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Venture-backed, Y Combinator alumnus |
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.
Spinach AI
Strengths
- The pay-per-meeting-hour tier with unlimited users and no seat minimum is unique here and is the right shape for a small team that records selectively.
- The free Starter plan is company-wide rather than single-user, so a whole team can evaluate or even operate on it if seven-day retention is enough.
- Ticket creation into Jira, Monday, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, and Trello is deeper than any other notetaker on this list, reflecting the product's agile origins.
- Slack Huddles support, even in beta, covers a conversation surface almost nobody else in this category captures.
Limitations
- The $19 Business tier carries a 50-seat minimum, which reads as a small-business plan and is not one. This is the most misleading thing in the pricing table.
- At $2.90 per meeting hour, Pro becomes expensive quickly; a single heavy calendar can cost more than three seats of a flat-rate competitor.
- Bot-based capture only, with a vendor-named participant visible in every call and no local silent path for client-facing work.
- Free-plan recordings are deleted after seven days, and there is no cheap middle tier between that and hourly billing.
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.
Spinach AI
Three self-serve structures in one table: a free company-wide plan, a pay-as-you-go tier billed at $2.90 per meeting hour with unlimited users and no seat minimum, and a per-seat Business tier with a 50-seat minimum. Enterprise is quoted.
- Starter$0
- Pro$2.90
- Business$19
- EnterpriseCustom
The hourly meter is the whole story and it cuts both ways. Someone in 20 meetings a week averaging 45 minutes consumes about 65 meeting hours a month, which at $2.90 an hour is roughly $190 a month for that one person's calendar. That is more than three seats of Granola Business, or nine seats of Krisp Core. Pro is therefore a bad deal for a busy calendar and an excellent one for a team with, say, six recorded hours a week: about $75 a month covering unlimited users, with advanced summaries, MCP connectors, CRM and Jira integration, and a year of retention. Because the meter counts meeting hours rather than people, a ten-person agency that only records client calls can cover everybody for less than the cost of two seats elsewhere. The free Starter plan is also unusually good for a whole company to sit on if seven-day retention is acceptable. Just do the multiplication before you sign up, because $2.90 an hour compounds fast.
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 profileSpinach AI
Spinach is worth shortlisting for one of two reasons and dismissing for everything else. The first reason is agile ceremonies: nothing else on this list turns a standup into Jira, Linear, or Asana tickets as directly, and if your meetings are engineering rituals that should produce work items, that is a real advantage. The second is the pricing shape: a free company-wide plan and a $2.90 per meeting hour tier with unlimited users lets a small firm cover everybody for the price of a couple of seats elsewhere, provided you record selectively. Do the multiplication first, though, because a full calendar costs about $190 a month on that meter, and the $19 Business plan that looks like the sensible answer carries a 50-seat minimum that puts it out of reach. Add a visible bot in every call, Enterprise-gated API and SSO, and a company that has not announced funding since 2022, and Spinach becomes a good fit for a narrow set of teams rather than a general recommendation.
Read the full Spinach AI profileMeetGeek profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Spinach AI last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.