# Spinach AI

> Spinach AI is a meeting assistant that joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack Huddles as a bot, records and transcribes in more than 100 languages, and turns the conversation into summaries, tickets, recap emails, and CRM updates; it is unusual in offering a free company-wide plan and a pay-as-you-go tier billed at $2.90 per meeting hour with unlimited users rather than per seat.

- Category: AI Meeting Note Takers (https://saastracker.org/categories/ai-meeting-notes)
- Website: https://www.spinach.ai
- Starting price: $0 (Starter), then $2.90 per meeting hour (Pro)
- Free plan: 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: No fixed-length trial; the free Starter plan is company-wide and serves as the evaluation
- Founded: 2021, HQ: Remote-first; the operating company is StayIn, Inc., incorporated in the United States, Ownership: Venture-backed, Y Combinator alumnus
- Profile last reviewed: 2026-08-22
- Canonical profile: https://saastracker.org/products/spinach-ai

## Overview

Spinach started life as a tool for agile ceremonies. It grew out of the observation that standups, retros, and sprint planning produce the same artefacts every time (blockers, decisions, tickets) and that a machine could produce them more reliably than a rotating scrum master. That heritage is still visible in the integration list, which leads with Jira, Monday, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, and Trello rather than with Salesforce, and it makes Spinach the most engineering-and-project-management-shaped product in this category.

The company is a Y Combinator alumnus founded in 2021 by Josh Willis, Yoav Grossman, and Matan Talmi, operating as StayIn, Inc., and has raised roughly $9.25M with a $6M seed in August 2022. It has since broadened its pitch well past scrum to a general meeting assistant with team-specific framing for product, engineering, marketing, HR, recruiting, finance, legal, customer success, sales, agencies, and venture capital, which is a lot of surface area for a company of this size.

The pricing is where Spinach becomes genuinely interesting to a small business, and also where it becomes dangerous. The free Starter plan is company-wide rather than single-user, includes recordings, transcripts, basic AI summaries, and 100-plus languages, and keeps recordings for seven days. Pro charges $2.90 per meeting hour with unlimited users and no seat minimum, and unlocks advanced summaries, AI chat, MCP connectors for Claude and ChatGPT, CRM and project tool integrations, and a year of retention. Business at $19 per user per month sounds like the small-business tier and carries a 50-seat minimum, which puts it out of reach entirely.

The consequence is that a small business evaluating Spinach really has two options: the free plan or the hourly meter. That meter is fine for a team with a handful of important meetings a week and brutal for anyone with a full calendar, in a way that is worth modelling before you commit. Against Granola, Spinach is bot-based, keeps the recording, and charges for consumption; Granola is silent, keeps nothing on desktop, and charges a flat $14. They are aimed at different problems and priced on opposite philosophies.

## How it works

1. You connect Google or Microsoft Calendar and Spinach schedules a bot to join upcoming calls on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, or Slack Huddles. The bot is a visible participant. In-person meetings are supported too.

2. Spinach records and transcribes across more than 100 languages, then produces a summary. On the free plan those summaries are basic; Pro and Business produce advanced summaries and allow reviewing and editing them before they go out.

3. The output is designed to leave the notetaker. Spinach creates tickets in Jira, Monday, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, or Trello, sends recap emails, and updates HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, or Zoho, and it can push into Confluence, Google Docs, or Notion as documentation. This is the part the product is actually about: the summary is the intermediate step, the ticket is the deliverable.

4. Ask Spinach answers questions across meetings, and MCP connectors expose meeting context to Claude and ChatGPT. Recordings are retained for seven days on the free plan and a year on Pro and Business, with custom retention available only on Enterprise.

## Best for

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.

## Not the right fit for

- Anyone in a full calendar; at $2.90 per meeting hour, a heavy user costs more per month on Pro than three seats of almost any per-seat competitor.
- Teams under 50 people who want the Business plan; the 50-seat minimum makes the $19 tier unbuyable for a small business regardless of budget.
- Anyone who cannot have a vendor-named bot in a client call; Spinach is bot-based with no local silent capture path.
- Buyers who need the API, SSO, custom retention, or HIPAA; all four are Enterprise-tier and require a sales conversation.
- Teams that need long recording retention on a budget; the free plan deletes recordings after seven days and there is no middle option between that and Pro.

## Features

### Capture and coverage

Broad platform support including Slack Huddles, which most competitors miss.

- **Meeting bot**: Joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex calls from your calendar as a visible participant.
- **Slack Huddles support**: In beta, and one of very few bot-based tools that covers huddles at all, which matters for teams that hold most conversations in Slack.
- **In-person meetings**: Capture face-to-face conversations through the same product rather than needing a separate mobile workflow.
- **Concurrent meetings**: Unlimited concurrent meetings on Pro, two on Business, and none on the free Starter plan, which is a hard limit if the bot needs to cover parallel calls.
- **Recording uploads**: Unlimited uploads on Pro and 10 per day on Business; the free plan does not allow uploads at all.
- **Company-wide free account**: Unlike almost every free plan in this category, Starter is a company-wide account rather than a single-user one, so a whole team can trial it together.

### Transcription and summaries

Broad language coverage, with summary quality tiered.

- **100-plus languages**: Transcription across more than 100 languages, included on the free plan rather than reserved for paid tiers.
- **Basic versus advanced summaries**: Starter produces basic AI summaries; Pro, Business, and Enterprise produce advanced ones. This is the clearest quality gate in the pricing table.
- **Review and edit summaries**: Paid tiers let you correct a summary before it is distributed, which the free plan does not allow.
- **Ask Spinach AI assistant**: Limited on the free plan and full on paid tiers, answering questions across your meeting history rather than one call.
- **Custom sharing options**: Paid tiers control who receives what, rather than a single distribution behaviour.
- **Custom branding**: Pro and above remove Spinach's branding from output, which matters when recaps go to clients.

### Turning meetings into work

The reason Spinach exists, and the strongest part of the product.

- **Project management ticket creation**: Jira, Monday, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, and Trello integrations create tickets from what was decided, rather than leaving action items as text.
- **CRM updates**: HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, and Zoho receive meeting context automatically on paid tiers.
- **Knowledge base sync**: Confluence, Google Docs, and Notion receive meeting documentation so decisions land where people look for them.
- **Recap emails**: Automatic post-meeting emails distribute decisions and next steps without anyone writing them.
- **Slack delivery**: Summaries route into channels automatically, and Slack integration is included even on the free plan.
- **Agile ceremony framing**: The product's original job: standups, retros, and sprint planning produce blockers, decisions, and tickets in the shape those ceremonies expect.

### AI connectivity

Open at the Pro tier, closed below and above it.

- **MCP connector**: Available on Pro and Business, exposing meeting context through the Model Context Protocol.
- **Claude and ChatGPT connectors**: Named integrations for both assistants so meeting content is readable from inside the tools people already use.
- **API access**: Enterprise-tier only, which is a real constraint for a small team that wants to build on top of Spinach.
- **Cross-meeting search**: Ask Spinach searches the archive, subject to the retention window of your plan.

### Security, retention, and administration

Strong compliance claims, with the controls concentrated at Enterprise.

- **No training on customer data**: Spinach states on its marketing site that customer data is never used for AI model training, which is a clearer default than several larger competitors offer.
- **SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA**: The vendor states it is SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA compliant, with a security centre published; a signed BAA is an Enterprise feature.
- **Recording retention tiers**: Seven days on Starter, one year on Pro and Business, and custom on Enterprise. The seven-day free window is the sharpest constraint on the free plan.
- **Recording auto-save to Google Drive**: Paid tiers copy recordings into your own Drive, which is the practical way to escape the retention window.
- **SAML SSO and SCIM**: Enterprise-tier only, alongside admin settings and reporting.
- **Compliance agents and call-centre integration**: Enterprise-only capabilities aimed at regulated and high-volume contact environments.

## Use cases

- **Engineering team running daily standups**: The standup produces blockers that nobody writes down, and the Jira board drifts out of sync with what the team actually said. Outcome: Spinach captures the ceremony, produces the blockers and decisions in the expected shape, and creates the Jira or Linear tickets directly, which is the job it was built for.
- **Small consultancy with a handful of important calls a week**: Only six or seven client calls a week matter enough to record, and paying per seat for a team of eight to capture them feels absurd. Outcome: Pro at $2.90 per meeting hour with unlimited users costs roughly $75 a month for 26 hours, and everyone in the firm has access without a licence conversation.
- **Team that lives in Slack Huddles**: Most real decisions happen in ad hoc huddles that no notetaker in the category covers, so the record of them is whatever someone remembers to type afterwards. Outcome: Spinach's Slack Huddles support, in beta, captures those conversations and routes the summary back into the channel automatically.
- **Product manager synthesising across teams**: Decisions are spread across engineering, design, and customer calls, and the documentation in Confluence is always a week behind. Outcome: Meeting documentation syncs into Confluence, Google Docs, or Notion automatically, and Ask Spinach answers cross-meeting questions from the archive.

## Pricing

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 company-wide. Record Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex, Slack Huddles (beta), and in-person; Recordings, accurate transcripts, and basic AI summaries; 100-plus languages; Google or Microsoft Calendar and Slack integration; 7-day recording retention. Company-wide rather than single-user, which is genuinely unusual. The seven-day retention and the absence of uploads and concurrent meetings are the limits.
- **Pro**: $2.90 per meeting hour, no seat minimum. Unlimited users; Advanced AI summaries and Ask Spinach AI chat; MCP, Claude, and ChatGPT connectors; CRM, project management, and knowledge base integrations; Unlimited concurrent meetings and uploads, 1-year retention, custom branding. Excellent for teams with few meetings and punishing for teams with many. Model your hours before choosing this.
- **Business**: $19 per user per month, 50 seat minimum. Everything in Pro on a fixed per-seat basis; Unlimited meetings; 2 concurrent meetings; 10 uploads per day; 1-year recording retention. The 50-seat minimum makes this irrelevant to small businesses. A 10-person team cannot buy it at any price.
- **Enterprise**: Custom quoted. SAML SSO and SCIM; Admin settings and reporting; API access; Custom data retention; Call-centre integration, compliance agents, HIPAA with a BAA.

Billing notes:

- The Business plan's 50-seat minimum is the single most important fact in this table for a small business: it means the practical self-serve choice is free Starter or hourly Pro.
- Pro is billed per meeting hour, not per seat, so cost scales with how much you meet rather than how many people you employ. Unlimited users on that tier is genuinely useful for a small firm.
- The Business plan advertises annual savings of $120 a year against monthly billing, but that is academic below 50 seats.
- Recording retention is seven days on Starter and one year on Pro and Business. Custom retention requires Enterprise.
- API access, SSO, and HIPAA with a BAA are all Enterprise-only, so any of those requirements ends the self-serve conversation.
- Auto-saving recordings to Google Drive is a paid feature and is the practical way to keep material beyond your plan's retention window.

Value assessment: 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.

## 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.
- More than 100 languages included on the free plan.
- A clear published statement that customer data is never used for AI model training, alongside SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA claims and a security centre.
- MCP plus named Claude and ChatGPT connectors on Pro, which is open for a company of this size.

## 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.
- API access, SSO and SCIM, custom retention, and a signed BAA are all Enterprise-only, so a growing small business hits a sales wall for basic governance.
- The company has raised roughly $9.25M since 2021 with no publicly reported round since 2022, which is thin for a product now claiming coverage across a dozen functions.
- The positioning has broadened from agile ceremonies to every department, and the marketing breadth outruns the depth in any single function.

## Comparisons

- **Spinach AI vs Granola**: Granola charges a flat $14 per seat, captures silently with no bot, and keeps no desktop recording. Spinach charges $2.90 per meeting hour, sends a visible bot, and keeps the recording for a year on paid tiers. Choose Granola for confidential conversations and predictable per-seat billing; choose Spinach if you record selectively, want tickets created automatically, and would rather pay for consumption than headcount.
- **Spinach AI vs 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.
- **Spinach AI vs Fireflies.ai**: Fireflies is the broader platform: comparable language coverage, a far larger integration catalogue, conversation intelligence, and per-seat pricing metered by storage and AI credits. Spinach is narrower but better at turning a standup into Jira tickets and offers the hourly meter Fireflies does not. Fireflies for a team that wants one notetaker wired into everything; Spinach for engineering ceremonies and consumption-based billing.
- **Spinach AI vs Circleback**: Circleback is bot-free, writes better notes, covers 100-plus languages, and has a deep automation layer, at roughly $21 to $25 a seat. Spinach puts a bot in the room but has a free company-wide plan and an hourly tier that can cover an entire small firm for less than one Circleback seat. Circleback for note quality and client-facing discretion; Spinach for budget coverage across a whole team.
- **Spinach AI vs tl;dv**: tl;dv is the recorded-call platform for revenue teams with video reels, coaching, and CRM playbooks. Spinach's CRM integrations are shallower and it has no coaching layer, but it creates tickets in project tools that tl;dv does not touch. Sales floors take tl;dv; engineering and product organisations take Spinach.
- **Spinach AI vs Fathom**: Fathom's free tier gives unlimited recording and summaries for one user, where Spinach's free tier is company-wide but deletes recordings after seven days. Fathom is stronger for individuals and sales use; Spinach is stronger for spreading a free plan across a whole team and for creating tickets in engineering tools.

## Implementation

- Setup time: 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 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.
- Onboarding: Self-serve on Starter and Pro. Business requires 50 seats and Enterprise requires a sales conversation, so a small business never leaves the self-serve path.
- Migration: Recording uploads on Pro let you backfill from existing media, and auto-save to Google Drive gives you a copy outside the platform. There is no importer for another notetaker's archive, and because free-plan recordings are deleted after seven days you should not treat Starter as an archive at all. Leaving on the self-serve tiers is manual; the API is Enterprise-only.

## Platform, API & security

- Platforms: Web, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack Huddles (beta), In-person capture
- API: API access is Enterprise-tier only. MCP plus named Claude and ChatGPT connectors are available from the Pro tier.
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA (BAA available on Enterprise)
- Data residency: Not published as a self-serve option; custom data retention is Enterprise-only.
- SSO: SAML SSO and SCIM are Enterprise-tier features.
- Security notes: Spinach states that customer data is never used for AI model training and publishes a security centre alongside its SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA claims. Recording retention is seven days on the free plan, one year on Pro and Business, and custom on Enterprise. Auto-save to Google Drive on paid tiers lets you keep material under your own control beyond the platform's window.

## Support

- Channels: Email support, In-app help, Talk to Sales for Business and Enterprise
- Documentation: Help centre and FAQs on spinach.ai covering setup, integrations, summaries, and security.
- Community: Y Combinator network visibility; no significant official user forum.

## Company

- Founded: 2021
- Founders: Josh Willis, Yoav Grossman, Matan Talmi
- Headquarters: Remote-first; the operating company is StayIn, Inc., incorporated in the United States
- Ownership: Venture-backed, Y Combinator alumnus
- Employees: Not disclosed; a small team relative to the breadth of the product's positioning
- Funding: Approximately $9.25M raised across three rounds, including a $6M seed round in August 2022.

Funding history:

- Y Combinator and pre-seed (2021): Undisclosed. Founded and accelerated through Y Combinator as an agile ceremony assistant.
- Seed (2022): $6M. The last significant publicly reported round; total funding stands at roughly $9.25M.

Timeline:

- 2021: Founded by Josh Willis, Yoav Grossman, and Matan Talmi as a Y Combinator company automating agile ceremonies such as standups and retros.
- 2022: Raises a $6M seed round, taking total funding to roughly $9.25M, and expands from scrum ceremonies into general meeting summaries.
- 2024: Broadens positioning to a general meeting assistant with team-specific framing across engineering, product, sales, HR, recruiting, and finance.
- 2025: Adds Slack Huddles capture in beta and MCP plus Claude and ChatGPT connectors, and publishes SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance.
- 2026: Restructures pricing around a free company-wide Starter plan, a $2.90 per meeting hour Pro tier with unlimited users, and a $19 per seat Business tier with a 50-seat minimum.

## Integrations

Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack Huddles (beta), Google Calendar and Microsoft Calendar, Slack, Jira, Monday, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, and Trello, HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, and Zoho, Confluence, Google Docs, and Notion, Google Drive (recording auto-save), MCP, Claude, and ChatGPT connectors

## FAQ

### What is Spinach AI?

Spinach AI is a meeting assistant that joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack Huddles as a bot, records and transcribes in more than 100 languages, and turns the conversation into summaries, recap emails, tickets in project tools such as Jira and Linear, and CRM updates. It began as a tool for agile ceremonies and has broadened into a general notetaker.

### How much does Spinach AI cost?

Starter is free and company-wide, with recordings, transcripts, basic summaries, 100-plus languages, and seven-day retention. Pro is $2.90 per meeting hour with unlimited users and no seat minimum, adding advanced summaries, AI chat, MCP connectors, CRM and project tool integrations, and one-year retention. Business is $19 per user per month with a 50-seat minimum. Enterprise is quoted and adds SSO, the API, custom retention, and HIPAA with a BAA.

### How is Spinach metered, and what would 20 meetings a week cost?

Pro is metered by meeting hour rather than by user, which is the most unusual meter in this category. Someone in 20 meetings a week at 45 minutes each consumes roughly 65 meeting hours a month, which at $2.90 an hour is about $190 a month for that one calendar. That is more expensive than three seats of Granola Business. The meter is excellent if you record selectively (26 hours a month is about $75, covering unlimited users) and punishing if you record everything.

### Can a ten-person company buy the $19 Business plan?

No. The Business tier carries a 50-seat minimum, so it is not available to a small business at any price. That leaves two self-serve options for a small team: the free company-wide Starter plan, or Pro at $2.90 per meeting hour with unlimited users. This is the single most important thing to understand about Spinach's pricing, because the $19 figure looks like a small-business price and is not one.

### Does Spinach put a bot in my client calls?

Yes. A participant named after the vendor joins your call and is visible to everyone in the room. There is no local silent capture path of the kind Granola, Krisp, Bluedot, or Supernormal offer. Custom branding on paid tiers removes Spinach's branding from output documents, but it does not remove the bot from the meeting. If a visible recorder is a problem in front of clients, this is the wrong architecture.

### How long does Spinach keep my recordings?

Seven days on the free Starter plan, one year on Pro and Business, and custom windows only on Enterprise. That seven-day window is the sharpest limit on the free plan and means Starter is a working tool rather than an archive. Paid tiers can auto-save recordings to your own Google Drive, which is the practical way to keep material beyond the platform's window and to survive a downgrade.

### Does Spinach train its AI on my meetings?

Spinach states on its marketing site that customer data is never used for AI model training, and publishes SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance alongside a security centre. That is a clearer default than several larger competitors offer. As always, get the data processing agreement and confirm the statement contractually before rolling it out to a team, particularly if you plan to record anything regulated, since the signed BAA is an Enterprise-tier item.

### How does Spinach handle consent in two-party recording jurisdictions?

The bot's visible presence in the participant list is the built-in signal, which is not enough on its own in two-party consent states such as California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington, or under GDPR in the EU. Announce the recording and get agreement before you start. The Slack Huddles capture path deserves extra care, because huddles are informal and participants are much less likely to notice a recorder than they are in a scheduled video call.

### What makes Spinach different from other notetakers?

Two things. First, it creates tickets: Jira, Monday, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, and Trello integrations turn what was decided into work items, which reflects the product's origin in agile ceremonies and is deeper than any other notetaker on this list. Second, the pricing shape: a free company-wide plan and an hourly tier with unlimited users, rather than a per-seat licence for everyone who might attend a meeting.

### Does Spinach have an API?

Only on the Enterprise tier. Self-serve customers get MCP plus named Claude and ChatGPT connectors from the Pro tier, which covers reading meeting context into an assistant, but not programmatic integration into your own systems. If you need to build on top of a notetaker, Circleback, Bluedot, or Fireflies expose more at self-serve prices.

## Editorial verdict

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.

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