Productivity · Head-to-head
Fathom vs Krisp
Fathom (freemium, AI Score 8.5/10) vs Krisp (freemium, AI Score 7.8/10). 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 7.8)
- →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.
- →you need: agents
Pick Krisp if…
- →your primary use case is remote workers and contact-center teams who take calls from noisy shared spaces and want noise removal plus meeting notes in one app, without their audio being uploaded to a cloud notetaker.
- →you need: support
Side-by-side specs
| Spec | Fathom | Krisp |
|---|---|---|
| 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) | Freemium — Free (60 min/day); Pro ~$8/mo billed annually; Business/Enterprise custom (check site) |
| Free tier | Unlimited recording, transcription and AI summaries for individual users; advanced summary templates, CRM sync and team analytics require a paid plan | Free tier with a daily noise-cancellation allowance (historically 60 minutes/day) and limited AI note usage — confirm current limits on krisp.ai/pricing |
| AI Score | 8.5/10 | 7.8/10 |
| 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. | Remote workers and contact-center teams who take calls from noisy shared spaces and want noise removal plus meeting notes in one app, without their audio being uploaded to a cloud notetaker. |
| Editor's pick | ✓ Yes | — |
| Use cases | productivity agents | productivity support |
| Date added | 2026-04-30 | 2026-04-30 |
Pros and cons
Fathom
Productivity · freemium
Pros
- ✓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
Cons
- ×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
Krisp
Productivity · freemium
Pros
- ✓System-level virtual mic and speaker works in every calling app with no per-app plugin or bot joining the meeting
- ✓Noise cancellation runs on-device, so the audio layer does not ship your call to a third-party cloud
- ✓Background Voice Cancellation removes other people's speech, which app-native suppressors generally do not attempt
- ✓Bundles clean audio, recording, transcription and AI summaries into one subscription instead of two tools
Cons
- ×Basic noise suppression is now free in Zoom, Teams, Meet, macOS Voice Isolation and Windows Studio Effects, so the core pitch is much weaker than it was in 2024
- ×The meeting-notes half is thinner than dedicated notetakers like Fathom or Granola on CRM integrations, cross-meeting search and templated outputs
- ×Always-on audio processing costs CPU and battery on laptops, and the free tier's daily cap runs out on a heavy meeting day
- ×The most differentiated technology — accent conversion, the voice SDK — sits behind enterprise sales and is not what an individual subscriber gets
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Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.