Three teams sit through the same one hour call. One pays nothing. One pays 8 dollars a seat a month. One pays 87. All three walk out with a transcript and an AI summary.
That spread is not a story about transcription quality. Every serious tool in this category is now good enough at turning speech into text that the difference rarely survives a side by side read of two transcripts. The spread is about what else the tool is trying to be — and, just as importantly, how it counts the people using it.
All pricing and feature details below were verified in August 2026 against each vendor’s own pricing page. Tactiq figures are annual billing, and all three price in US dollars.
The Quick Verdict
Pick Tactiq if your meetings live in a browser and you want to spend nothing. It is the only one here with a free plan that never expires.
Pick Avoma if the meeting is the raw material for a revenue process. Call scoring, deal risk alerts, forecasting, and CRM write-back are things the other two simply do not do.
Pick AmyNote if you need the conversation captured wherever it happens, in whatever language. It records in person, covers the widest language list here, and charges one flat account price instead of per seat.
What We Compared
Pricing, plan caps, language coverage, capture method, and platform availability — the five things that actually decide whether a tool fits, and the five things vendors are least eager to line up next to each other.
There is deliberately no accuracy benchmark here. Transcription quality depends far too much on your own audio — the room, the microphone, the accents, the vocabulary — to compress into one number that would survive contact with your actual meetings. What we can compare honestly is what each tool will and will not do, and what it charges to do it.
Tactiq: A Browser Tab That Takes Notes
Tactiq is a bot-free Chrome extension. It reads the meeting live in Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams, and the transcript is visible only to you unless you choose to tell the room. Nothing joins the participant list, because nothing needs to.
The free plan is genuinely free. No credit card, no time limit, 10 transcripts and 5 AI credits per month. Most rivals in this category label a 7 or 14 day trial a “free plan.” Tactiq does not, and that distinction matters more than any feature on its list.
Paid tiers are the cheapest here. Pro is 8 dollars a user a month annually for unlimited transcripts and 10 AI credits. Team is 16.67 for 1 to 20 users with unlimited credits. Business is 29.17 for 20 to 200 users and adds SAML SSO, advanced data retention, and beta MCP and Claude connectors. With over a million Chrome extension installs, it is also the most widely deployed tool in this comparison.
The weaknesses follow directly from the architecture, which is the honest way to read them — these are not oversights, they are the cost of being a browser extension.
It needs a browser. The native Mac app is explicitly beta and handles Zoom desktop calls only; Tactiq’s own download page says it cannot yet manage Google Meet or Teams. There is no iOS or Android app at all.
It cannot record a room. In-person capture is offered nowhere on the site. If the conversation is not inside a browser tab, Tactiq is not in it — which rules out the client lunch, the site visit, and the hallway decision that turns out to matter.
AI is metered separately from transcription. One credit equals one AI action, and hitting the cap on Free or Pro stops summaries and questions until the month resets, while transcription keeps running. Its 60 plus languages is also the narrowest list of the three.
Avoma: A Revenue Platform With a Recorder Attached
Avoma is not really a note-taker, and reading it as one is how teams end up surprised by the invoice. It is a revenue intelligence platform that happens to start with a recording, and the pricing reflects that ambition.
It captures more ways than anything else here. Bot-based and bot-free native recording across Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, WebEx, and GoToMeeting, plus dialer integrations. Transcription minutes and storage are unlimited.
The revenue features are real. AI call scoring against MEDDICC or SPICED, deal risk alerts, win-loss analysis, and forecasting, all writing back to Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, and Pipedrive. If that is the job, neither of the other two is a substitute at any price.
Viewers are free. You pay only for people who record, which matters a great deal in a large org where most people simply read the notes afterward. Avoma covers 70 plus languages for transcription and translation, and ships iPhone, Android, desktop, and Chrome apps.
The add-ons are where the money is. Startup is 19 dollars a recorder seat a month annually, capped at 25 seats. Organization is 29, capped at 100. Enterprise is 39, annual only. But Conversation Intelligence costs a separate 29 per seat and Revenue Intelligence another 29 — so the stack a sales team actually buys reaches 87 a seat a month. The number on the plan card is rarely the number on the invoice.
There is no free plan at all, only an unrestricted 14 day trial of Organization with the add-ons switched on. That trial is generous, and it is also a clock.
Compliance is walled off at the top. HIPAA, SSO, SCIM, signed DPAs, and custom retention are Enterprise-only, and onboarding can carry an optional one time fee of 1,000 dollars. Translation requires Organization: on Startup you can transcribe 70 plus languages but you cannot translate them, which is a distinction worth checking before you assume multilingual coverage is handled.
AmyNote: Built for Meetings Without a Join Link
AmyNote runs on the phone already in your pocket. No bot, no extension, no meeting link — so the hallway conversation and the client lunch are exactly as recordable as the video call. That is the whole design premise, and everything else follows from it.
The widest language coverage here. 140 plus languages transcribed and translation into 100 plus, tuned for East Asian and Arabic speech that thinner lists handle poorly.
Flat pricing, not per seat. 12.99 a week, 19.99 a month, or 99 a year — about 8.25 a month for an entire account rather than one seat. A 3 day free trial runs with no feature limits and no credit card.
Speaker identification carries across meetings, so someone recognized once stays recognized later instead of resetting to Speaker 1 every session.
The privacy architecture is the differentiator. Transcription runs through OpenAI’s Speech API and analysis through Anthropic’s Claude Opus. Both contractually guarantee zero training on user data. Audio is encrypted in transit and not retained after processing, and transcripts are stored locally on device with end to end encryption.
The limitations are real, and worth stating as plainly as the strengths.
It is iOS only. No Android, no desktop, no browser extension. Avoma ships on four platforms and Tactiq runs anywhere Chrome does. If your team is on Android, this comparison ends here and the answer is one of the other two.
There are no CRM integrations, so Avoma’s entire value proposition is unavailable. There is no video recording and no team tier, which means no admin controls, SSO, or shared workspaces. The trial is short at three days, against Avoma’s fourteen and a Tactiq free plan that never expires.
What the Money Actually Buys
| Plan | Price (annual billing) | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Tactiq Free | 0 | 10 transcripts and 5 AI credits per month, no expiry |
| Tactiq Pro | 8 / user / mo | Unlimited transcripts, 10 AI credits |
| Tactiq Team | 16.67 / user / mo | 1 to 20 users, unlimited AI credits |
| Tactiq Business | 29.17 / user / mo | 20 to 200 users, SAML SSO, advanced retention, beta MCP and Claude connectors |
| Avoma Startup | 19 / recorder seat / mo | Capped at 25 seats, no translation, no add-ons |
| Avoma Organization | 29 / recorder seat / mo | Capped at 100 seats, adds translation |
| Avoma Enterprise | 39 / recorder seat / mo | Annual only, HIPAA, SSO, SCIM, custom retention |
| Avoma Org + both add-ons | 87 / seat / mo | Organization plus Conversation Intelligence (29) and Revenue Intelligence (29) |
| AmyNote | 99 / year, about 8.25 / mo | Flat, whole account — also 19.99 monthly or 12.99 weekly |
Two of those columns scale with headcount and one does not, which is the single most consequential difference on the page. Multiply each by the number of people who need to record and the ranking reshuffles well before you reach a headcount most teams would call large.
Side by Side
- Cheapest real usage: Tactiq Free at zero, AmyNote at about 8.25 a month for the whole account, Avoma Startup at 19 a seat.
- Most expensive: Avoma Organization plus both add-ons, at 87 a seat a month.
- Languages: AmyNote 140 plus, Avoma 70 plus, Tactiq 60 plus.
- In-person capture: AmyNote only. Never-expiring free tier: Tactiq only. CRM and forecasting: Avoma only.
- Platforms: Avoma on iPhone, Android, desktop, and Chrome. Tactiq on Chrome plus a beta Zoom-only Mac app. AmyNote on iOS.
- Compliance: deepest at Avoma, and gated to Enterprise.
Three Teams, Three Answers
Feature matrices are easier to read as scenarios, so here are three, with the arithmetic done from the published prices above.
A five person sales team running pipeline through HubSpot. Avoma is the only tool here that can do the job, and the honest budget line is Organization plus both add-ons: 87 a seat, or 435 a month for five recorders. Tactiq Team would cost about 83 a month for the same five people and produce transcripts with no deal intelligence attached. That is not a price comparison, it is a different purchase.
A support team that lives in Google Meet all day. Tactiq Free covers 10 transcripts a month at no cost, and Pro at 8 a user removes the cap. Nothing joins the call, the transcript stays private by default, and there is no procurement conversation to have. If the meetings never leave the browser, paying more buys capability this team will not use.
A two person consultancy meeting clients in person, in two languages. Neither Avoma nor Tactiq advertises in-person capture, so the deciding constraint is settled before price enters the conversation. AmyNote is about 8.25 a month for the account rather than per person, and covers 140 plus languages. The catch is iOS: if either consultant carries an Android phone, this scenario needs a different answer.
The Bottom Line
The 10x price gap is a story about scope, not about value for money. Tactiq is priced like a utility because it does one job inside a browser and does it well. Avoma is priced like a revenue system because it is one, and the add-on stacking means the number on the plan card is rarely what a sales org actually pays.
AmyNote sits somewhere else entirely. It does not compete on CRM depth and is honest about having none. What it does is capture the conversations the other two structurally cannot reach, in more languages than either, at a price that does not multiply by headcount, while keeping the transcript on your own device.
If your meetings live in a browser and your budget is zero, Tactiq is the obvious answer. If your meetings are pipeline, Avoma earns its price. If they happen in rooms, in multiple languages, and you would rather not do seat math, AmyNote is worth the three day trial. Details are at amynote.app.
Originally published as an X Article by @AmyNoteApp.
