MeetGeek
Hourly metered notes with EU data residency and a public API on the free tier
MeetGeek is an AI meeting assistant from Bucharest that joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls as a bot, records and transcribes in more than 100 languages with automatic language detection, and produces summaries, templated notes, meeting analytics, and automations; it is metered in transcription hours per user per month with a published overage rate of $0.50 per extra hour, and it exposes a public API and MCP server from the free plan.
Overview
MeetGeek is the quiet European answer in a category dominated by American venture money. It was founded in 2020 in Bucharest by Dan Huru, Raluca-Stefania Risnoveanu, and Alexandru-Ionut Mindru, employs around twenty-five people, and has raised roughly $2.8M in total, most recently a 1.6 million euro round in September 2025 led by Early Game Ventures with Inspire Capital participating. It reports more than 50,000 teams across 100-plus countries using it, which is a striking ratio of customers to capital and suggests a business that grew on product rather than on paid acquisition.
Two things make it worth a serious look for a small business. The first is the meter: MeetGeek prices in transcription hours per user per month and publishes an overage rate of $0.50 per extra hour, which is the only honest overage number anyone in this category prints on their pricing page. Everyone else either stops transcribing or asks you to upgrade. The second is the compliance posture, which is disproportionate to the company's size: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, a stated zero data training policy, and a choice of EU or US data hosting.
That last point deserves emphasis. Granola hosts in a US AWS VPC with no regional option. Otter is US-hosted. Read AI is US-hosted. MeetGeek offers EU residency to ordinary paying customers, which for a European small business is the difference between a tool procurement will approve and one it will not. Combine that with a public API and an MCP server available from the free tier and the picture is a technically open, compliance-forward product at prices that undercut almost everyone.
The obvious contrast with Granola is architecture. MeetGeek is bot-based: a vendor-named participant appears in your call, which is exactly what Granola built its product to avoid. In exchange MeetGeek keeps the recording, records HD video on the Business tier, does meeting analytics across a team, and covers 100-plus languages. If a visible bot is acceptable in your meetings, MeetGeek gives you considerably more for $17 a seat than Granola does for $14. If it is not acceptable, no amount of feature comparison matters.
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.
Not the right fit for
- Anyone who cannot have a vendor-named participant visible in a client call; MeetGeek is bot-based with no local silent capture path.
- Buyers who need long-term storage on the cheap tiers; the free plan keeps transcripts three months and audio one month, and Pro keeps audio six months, which is not an archive.
- Teams wanting sales coaching, scorecards, or playbook adherence tracking; MeetGeek does team meeting analytics, not rep-level revenue intelligence.
- Organisations that need a large vendor behind the contract; twenty-five people and $2.8M raised is small even by this category's standards.
- Anyone hoping the free plan is workable; three transcription hours a month is roughly four meetings.
How it works
- 1
You connect your calendar and MeetGeek schedules a bot to join upcoming Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls. The bot is visible in the participant list. You can also upload existing audio and video for transcription, which is allowed even on the free plan.
- 2
Recording and transcription run in more than 100 languages with automatic language detection, so a call that switches language mid-conversation does not require you to have configured anything in advance.
- 3
After the meeting MeetGeek produces a summary, highlights, and action items shaped by a meeting template. Templates are a Pro-tier feature and there is a public template directory, so a sales discovery call, a candidate screen, and a project standup each produce the right shape of output.
- 4
Distribution is where the product spends its effort. Summaries and transcripts route into Slack, Notion, Asana, Confluence, and Google Drive, CRM records update in Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho, or Attio, and Zapier, Make, and n8n cover everything else. A public API and an MCP server let Claude, ChatGPT, and your own code read meeting content directly, and both are available on the free plan.
Feature breakdown
29 features in 5 modulesCapture and transcription
Conventional bot capture with unusually broad language handling.- Meeting bot
- Joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls from your calendar as a visible participant.
- 100-plus languages
- Transcription across more than 100 languages, included from the free plan rather than reserved for paid tiers.
- Automatic language detection
- The system identifies the spoken language rather than requiring you to set it in advance, which matters for teams whose calls switch language.
- Audio and video upload
- Transcribe recordings made elsewhere, allowed even on the free plan, which is more generous than Otter's three lifetime imports.
- HD video recording
- A Business-tier feature at $17 a seat, which is materially cheaper than Read AI's $22.50 video threshold.
- Meeting duration limits
- Two hours per meeting on Basic and Pro, three hours on Business, and four hours on Enterprise. A long workshop will be truncated on the lower tiers.
Notes, templates, and analytics
Templates on Pro are the quality gate; analytics are the team-level differentiator.- AI summaries and highlights
- Structured summaries with key moments surfaced rather than a single block of prose.
- Meeting templates
- A Pro-tier feature with a public template directory, letting a discovery call, a one-to-one, and a standup each produce a different output shape.
- Action items
- Commitments extracted and routed into task tools rather than left in the summary.
- Team meeting analytics
- Business-tier reporting across the team on how meetings are being run, which is closer to Read AI's territory than to a sales scorecard.
- AI chat over meetings
- Query the archive conversationally rather than reading transcripts, subject to your plan's storage window.
- AI-based team auto-sharing
- Business automatically routes the right meeting to the right people rather than requiring manual distribution.
Integrations and developer surface
The most open cheap product in this category.- Public API on the free plan
- Documented at docs.meetgeek.ai and available from the free tier, which is remarkable given Otter and Spinach both gate their APIs behind an enterprise quote.
- MCP server on the free plan
- Exposes meeting knowledge to AI assistants including named Claude and ChatGPT integrations, also available for free.
- CRM connectors
- Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, and Attio, which is a wider CRM list than most competitors offer.
- Documentation and task tools
- Notion, Confluence, Asana, and Google Drive receive summaries, pages, tasks, and stored recordings automatically.
- Slack
- Search and share meeting insights directly in channels.
- Zapier, Make, and n8n
- Three automation platforms rather than one, including the self-hostable n8n, which fits the product's technically open posture. Unlimited integrations are a Pro feature.
Storage and retention
The real constraint on the cheap tiers, and clearly published.- Tiered transcript storage
- Three months on Basic, one year on Pro, unlimited on Business and Enterprise.
- Tiered media storage
- One month of audio on Basic, six months on Pro, twelve months of video on Business, custom on Enterprise.
- Google Drive auto-storage
- Recordings and transcripts can be copied into your own Drive, which is the practical way to survive the retention windows.
- On-premise storage options
- An Enterprise-tier option, which very few competitors of any size offer at all.
- Customer-controlled retention
- The vendor states customers maintain control over access and data retention alongside the choice of EU or US hosting.
Security and compliance
Disproportionately strong for a twenty-five-person company.- SOC 2 Type II
- Published alongside a security portal at security.meetgeek.ai.
- HIPAA
- MeetGeek publishes a dedicated HIPAA page, putting healthcare-adjacent use within reach without an enterprise-only gate.
- GDPR and CCPA
- Both are stated, which reflects a European company selling into both markets.
- Zero data training
- The vendor states plainly that customer data is not used to train models, rather than offering an opt-out you have to find.
- EU and US data residency
- A genuine choice of hosting region for ordinary customers, which Granola, Otter, and Read AI do not offer at self-serve prices.
- AWS infrastructure with AES and TLS
- A private virtual network of microservices on AWS, with data encrypted at rest using AES and in transit using TLS.
Use cases
4 documentedEuropean small business with a procurement checklist
The finance director will not approve a notetaker that stores client conversations in the United States with no regional option.
MeetGeek offers EU data hosting, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and a stated zero-training policy at $17 a seat, which clears the checklist without an enterprise contract.
Developer wiring meetings into an internal system
The team wants meeting data in its own database and every notetaker they evaluate hides the API behind an enterprise quote.
MeetGeek's public API and MCP server are available on the free plan, so the integration can be prototyped before anyone pays for anything.
Consultant with a moderate meeting load
Twenty hours of calls a month need transcribing and the alternative tools either cap minutes without warning or charge $20 a seat for unlimited.
Pro at $9.99 covers 20 hours, and the published $0.50 per extra hour means a busy month costs a few dollars more rather than blocking the recorder.
Small team wanting video without paying enterprise prices
The team wants to rewatch demos and onboarding calls but every tool that records video wants $22 or more a seat.
Business at $17 a seat includes HD video recording with twelve months of video storage, team spaces, and meeting analytics.
Pricing
from $0 (Basic), then $9.99 per user per month (Pro)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.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 per user per month |
Three hours is about four meetings, but giving API and MCP access away on a free tier is genuinely unusual. |
| Pro | $9.99 per user per month |
The published overage rate is the honest part: you keep recording and pay 50 cents an hour rather than hitting a wall. |
| Business | $17 per user per month |
Unlimited transcription plus video at $17 undercuts Otter Business, Read AI Enterprise, and Bluedot Pro. |
| Enterprise | Custom quoted |
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Billing notes
- Pro publishes an overage rate of $0.50 per extra transcription hour, which is the only explicit overage price in this category. Everyone else simply stops recording.
- Annual billing is advertised with savings of up to 40 percent; the figures quoted here are the monthly list prices.
- Meeting duration caps are a separate limit from the hour meter: 2 hours on Basic and Pro, 3 on Business, 4 on Enterprise.
- Storage windows are the real constraint on the cheap tiers. Basic keeps audio for one month and Pro for six, so neither is an archive; auto-saving to Google Drive is the workaround.
- Video is a Business-tier feature with twelve months of video storage. Below that you get audio and text only.
- A 14-day free trial is available on Pro, in addition to the permanently free Basic plan.
Value assessment: 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.
Strengths & limitations
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.
- More than 100 languages with automatic language detection, included from the free tier.
- HD video recording at $17 a seat, which is the cheapest video in this comparison set.
- Five CRM connectors (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho, Attio) plus Zapier, Make, and the self-hostable n8n, which is a wider automation surface than most competitors.
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.
- Roughly twenty-five people and about $2.8M raised. The product is credible and the balance sheet is not deep, which is a continuity risk for a multi-year dependency.
- No sales coaching layer: team meeting analytics report on how meetings run, not on how reps perform, so revenue teams still need something else.
- The free plan's three transcription hours a month is too little to evaluate a real workload, though the 14-day Pro trial partly compensates.
Head-to-head comparisons
6 alternativesMeetGeek vs Otter.ai
from $0 (Basic), then $8.33 per user per month (Pro, billed annually)Both meter time and both are bot-based. Otter has better English recognition, a live transcript view, and a longer track record, and charges about $20 a seat annually for unlimited. MeetGeek covers 100-plus languages against Otter's six, publishes an overage rate, offers EU residency, and gives you the API for free. Otter for English transcription quality; MeetGeek for language coverage, compliance, and openness at a lower price.
Full MeetGeek vs Otter.ai comparisonMeetGeek vs Granola
from $0 (Basic), then $14 per user per month (Business)Granola captures silently with no bot at $14 a seat and stores no desktop recording. MeetGeek puts a bot in the room, keeps audio and video, covers far more languages, and offers EU data residency and an API. Choose Granola when a visible recorder would be unacceptable and the notes are the deliverable; choose MeetGeek when you need the recording, the language coverage, or the residency answer.
Full MeetGeek vs Granola comparisonMeetGeek vs Notta
from $0 (Free), then $8.17 per month billed annually (Pro)Two cheap non-US metered transcription tools. Notta covers 58 languages with simultaneous translation and generates decks and infographics, from $8.17 a month. MeetGeek covers 100-plus languages, publishes an overage rate, includes API and MCP on free, and offers EU residency plus HIPAA. Notta if translation is the job; MeetGeek if compliance, openness, and video matter more.
Full MeetGeek vs Notta comparisonMeetGeek vs Spinach AI
from $0 (Starter), then $2.90 per meeting hour (Pro)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.
Full MeetGeek vs Spinach AI comparisonMeetGeek vs Fireflies.ai
from $0 (Free), then $10 per user per month billed annually (Pro; $18 monthly)Fireflies is the bigger platform with comparable language coverage, a larger integration catalogue, and conversation intelligence, metered by storage minutes and AI credits at a higher price. MeetGeek is simpler, cheaper, more transparent about overages, and offers EU residency. Fireflies for breadth and scale; MeetGeek for value and compliance in a smaller organisation.
Full MeetGeek vs Fireflies.ai comparisonMeetGeek vs Sembly AI
from $10 per month billed annually (Basic, single user), $17 month to monthBoth 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.
Full MeetGeek vs Sembly AI comparisonImplementation & onboarding
- 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.
- 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.
- Onboarding
- Fully self-serve through Business, with a 14-day Pro trial alongside the permanently free Basic plan. Enterprise adds on-premise storage options and a sales process.
- Migration notes
- Audio and video upload is allowed on every tier including free, so backfilling an archive from another notetaker is practical if you kept the media. The public API on the free tier makes bulk export genuinely easy, which is the best insurance policy against the short storage windows on the cheap plans and against the vendor's small size.
Platform, API & security
- Platforms
- WebZoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft TeamsMobile accessUpload for other recordings
- API
- A documented public API at docs.meetgeek.ai and an MCP server, both available from the free plan, plus named Claude and ChatGPT integrations and Zapier, Make, and n8n automation.
- Compliance
- SOC 2 Type IIHIPAAGDPRCCPA
- Data residency
- Choice of EU or US data hosting, with on-premise storage options available on the Enterprise tier.
- SSO
- Handled through enterprise administration rather than published as a self-serve tier feature.
- Security notes
- Services run as a private virtual network of microservices on AWS, with data in transit encrypted using TLS and data at rest encrypted using AES under AWS key management. The vendor states zero data training on customer content and publishes a security portal at security.meetgeek.ai alongside a dedicated HIPAA page. Retention is tiered by plan and customers control access and retention settings.
Support & resources
- Channels
- Email supportIn-app helpLive office hours and expert sessions
- Documentation
- Support centre at support.meetgeek.ai plus developer documentation at docs.meetgeek.ai, a public template directory, and a security portal.
- Community
- More than 50,000 reported teams across 100-plus countries; regular office hours rather than a forum.
Company
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- Bucharest, Romania
- Ownership
- Venture-backed
- Founders
- Dan Huru, Raluca-Stefania Risnoveanu, Alexandru-Ionut Mindru
- Employees
- Approximately 25
- Funding
- Approximately $2.8M raised in total, including a 1.6 million euro round announced in September 2025 led by Early Game Ventures with Inspire Capital participating.
Funding history
| Round | Amount | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed and seed | Approximately $1.2M | 2021 | Early funding that took the product from launch to paying customers. |
| Funding round | 1.6 million euros | 2025 | Led by Early Game Ventures with Inspire Capital, funding the move towards agentic automation and deeper integrations. |
Timeline
- 2020Founded in Bucharest by Dan Huru, Raluca-Stefania Risnoveanu, and Alexandru-Ionut Mindru as an AI meeting assistant for recording, transcription, and summaries.
- 2022Expands transcription past 100 languages with automatic detection and builds out CRM and workflow integrations.
- 2024Publishes a public API and template directory, positioning as an automation platform rather than only a notetaker.
- 2025Raises 1.6 million euros led by Early Game Ventures, adds an MCP server with Claude and ChatGPT integrations, and passes 50,000 reported teams across 100-plus countries.
- 2026Runs a four-tier structure with a published $0.50 hourly overage, EU or US data residency, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and free-tier API access.
Integrations
- Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams
- Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar
- Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, and Attio
- Slack
- Notion, Confluence, and Asana
- Google Drive
- Zapier, Make, and n8n
- Claude and ChatGPT
- MeetGeek MCP server
- Public API at docs.meetgeek.ai
Frequently asked questions
10 questionsWhat is MeetGeek?
MeetGeek is an AI meeting assistant from Bucharest that joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls as a bot, records and transcribes in more than 100 languages with automatic language detection, and produces summaries, templated notes, action items, and team meeting analytics. It also exposes a public API and an MCP server so meeting data can be pulled into other systems.
How much does MeetGeek cost?
Basic is free with 3 transcription hours a month. Pro is $9.99 per user per month for 20 hours, with a published overage of $0.50 per extra hour, plus meeting templates and unlimited integrations. Business is $17 per user per month for unlimited transcription, unlimited transcript storage, HD video recording, and team analytics. Enterprise is quoted and adds on-premise storage options. Annual billing is advertised with savings of up to 40 percent.
How is MeetGeek metered, and what would 20 meetings a week cost?
It meters transcription hours per user per month. Someone in 20 meetings a week at 45 minutes consumes about 65 hours a month. On Pro that is $9.99 plus 45 overage hours at $0.50, roughly $32.49 a month, so a heavy user should go straight to Business at $17 a seat for unlimited transcription. The overage rate matters because it is the only one published in this category: instead of being cut off, you keep recording and pay 50 cents an hour.
Does MeetGeek put a bot in my client calls?
Yes. A participant named after the vendor joins the meeting and everyone in the room can see it. There is no local silent capture option. If a visible recorder would be a problem for your clients or candidates, MeetGeek is architecturally the wrong choice and Granola, Krisp, Bluedot, Circleback, or Supernormal all avoid it.
How long does MeetGeek keep my audio and video?
Storage is tiered and clearly published. Basic keeps transcripts three months and audio one month. Pro keeps transcripts a year and audio six months. Business keeps transcripts indefinitely and video for twelve months, and only Business records HD video at all. Enterprise offers custom video storage and on-premise options. Auto-saving recordings and transcripts to your own Google Drive is the practical way to keep material past those windows.
Does MeetGeek train its AI on my meetings?
No. The vendor states zero data training on customer content as an explicit position rather than an opt-out you have to locate, alongside SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA compliance and a published security portal. As with any vendor, get the statement in the data processing agreement rather than relying on the marketing page, but MeetGeek's default posture is one of the clearer ones in this category.
Can I keep my meeting data in the EU?
Yes. MeetGeek offers a choice of EU or US data hosting to ordinary paying customers, and Enterprise adds on-premise storage options. This is a genuine differentiator: Granola hosts in a US AWS VPC with no regional option, and Otter and Read AI are US-hosted without self-serve residency choices. For a European small business with a procurement checklist, this is often the deciding factor.
How does MeetGeek handle consent in two-party recording jurisdictions?
The bot's visible presence in the participant list is the built-in notification, and that is not enough on its own in two-party consent states such as California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington, or under GDPR in the EU. You must announce the recording and get agreement before you start. MeetGeek's EU residency and retention controls help you answer the questions that follow disclosure, particularly with European counterparties, but they do not substitute for asking.
Does MeetGeek have an API?
Yes, and unusually it is available on the free plan. There is documented public API access at docs.meetgeek.ai plus an MCP server, named Claude and ChatGPT integrations, and Zapier, Make, and n8n automation. Otter's API is Enterprise-only and Spinach's is too, so being able to prototype against MeetGeek before paying anything is a real advantage for a technical team.
Is MeetGeek good for a sales team?
For capture and CRM hygiene, yes, and the CRM list is wider than most: Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho, and Attio. For coaching, no. Team meeting analytics report on how meetings are being run across the organisation, not on rep-level talk time, playbook adherence, or call scoring. A sales manager who wants to coach needs a conversation intelligence product; a sales team that wants every call logged and synced will find MeetGeek Business excellent value at $17.
Editorial verdict
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.
Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.