Productivity · Head-to-head

Fathom vs Hey Noah

Fathom (freemium, AI Score 8.5/10) vs Hey Noah (freemium, AI Score 7.5/10). Side-by-side pricing, features, pros and cons, and which to pick.

The verdict

Pick Fathom if…

→overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 8.5 vs 7.5)
→you want our editor's pick for this category
→your primary use case is founders, consultants and small sales teams living in zoom or google meet who want unlimited call recording and crm-synced summaries without a visible bot joining client calls.

Try Fathom →

Pick Hey Noah if…

→your primary use case is solo founders and small-team operators who lose deals and hires to unanswered threads across email and sms, and who want an assistant that chases follow-ups on its own rather than one they have to remember to prompt.

Try Hey Noah →

Spec	Fathom	Hey Noah
Category	Productivity	Productivity
Pricing model	freemium	freemium
Headline pricing	Freemium — generous free tier; paid Premium and Team plans priced per seat (check website for current rates)	Free tier + paid plans — check website for current pricing
Free tier	Unlimited recording, transcription and AI summaries for individual users; advanced summary templates, CRM sync and team analytics require a paid plan	Yes — a free tier is available, though its specific limits aren't documented publicly
AI Score	8.5/10	7.5/10
Best for	Founders, consultants and small sales teams living in Zoom or Google Meet who want unlimited call recording and CRM-synced summaries without a visible bot joining client calls.	Solo founders and small-team operators who lose deals and hires to unanswered threads across email and SMS, and who want an assistant that chases follow-ups on its own rather than one they have to remember to prompt.
Editor's pick	✓ Yes	—
Use cases	productivity agents	productivity agents
Date added	2026-04-30	2026-08-07

Productivity · freemium

✓Free tier still includes unlimited recording and transcription — Otter meters minutes and Fireflies meters credits
✓Records without a visible bot participant by default, with the bot available only when you need it
✓Ask Fathom searches the entire meeting archive rather than one transcript at a time
✓Auto-syncs summaries and action items into HubSpot and Salesforce, so reps never retype call notes
✓Multilingual transcription and summaries removed the old English-only ceiling

×Zoom AI Companion, Gemini in Google Meet and Teams Copilot recap now ship free inside platforms teams already pay for — Fathom has to beat 'good enough and already included'
×Priced per seat, so cost scales linearly with headcount while bundled platform notetakers do not
×Does not publish which foundation models generate its summaries, a gap enterprise procurement increasingly asks about
×The 'unlimited free' headline understates the gating — advanced summary templates, CRM sync and team analytics are all paid

Productivity · freemium

✓Proactive by design — acts on what it sees rather than waiting for a prompt, which is the actual gap in the AI-assistant category
✓Covers SMS as well as email and calendar, where most competitors stop at the inbox
✓Relationship memory makes follow-ups specific to a real conversation instead of a generic reminder
✓Free tier lets you evaluate its judgment before granting deeper account access

×Launched 4 August 2026 — effectively no track record, and no independent long-run reviews of how the autonomy behaves under real inbox load
×Requires broad read access to email, calendar and text messages, the largest privacy surface in this category, with no publicly documented retention policy
×Paid tier names, prices and usage limits are not published — you have to sign up to find out what you'd pay
×An agent that sends messages on your behalf fails loudly when it misjudges; a bad follow-up damages a relationship, it isn't an output you can delete

Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.