Comparisons

Krisp vs Read AI

Compare pricing, recording options, notes, and follow-up—with the plan limits and tradeoffs that matter to your team.

At a glance

Krisp

Bot-free notes with real-time audio cleanup

Price

Core $8 and Advanced $15/user/month with annual billing

Pricing details

Prices are per user/month. Core is $8 with annual billing or $16 month-to-month and includes unlimited bot-free notes, audio recording, screen/video recording, optional bot video, in-person capture, AI chat, MCP, webhooks, integrations, and 10 GB storage. Advanced is $15 or $30 and adds Salesforce, manager/deal views, policy enforcement, team webhooks, and 60 GB. Enterprise is custom.

Free option: No permanent free plan is shown; a seven-day trial is available.

Good for

  • Noise removal and call clarity
  • Low-cost bot-free capture

Watch for

  • Mobile lacks its noise cancellation
  • US cloud; HIPAA starts at 100 seats

Read AI

Live engagement, sentiment, and speaker analytics

Price

Free for 5 meetings/month; Pro from $15/user/month annually

Pricing details

Prices are per user/month: Pro is $15 with annual billing or $19.75 month-to-month; Enterprise is $22.50 or $29.75 and adds playback; Enterprise+ is $29.75 or $39.75 and adds advanced retention, domain, SAML, and HIPAA-related options, with a five-license minimum.

Free option: Yes: five meetings per month.

Good for

  • Manager coaching signals
  • Cross-tool workplace search

Watch for

  • Playback requires Enterprise
  • API/MCP beta; no static keys

Features and limits

Ratings show documented breadth, not overall product quality. Open a row for specifics.

Capture options

KrispBroad support
Read AIBroad support

Krisp

Bot-free system-audio capture

Krisp records through the device without joining as a meeting participant. Its audio processing works across desktop calling apps.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp bot-free screen recording

Read AI

Meeting bot, macOS/Windows desktop, and mobile

The assistant can join scheduled calls, while desktop records device audio without relying solely on a bot. Disclosure and opt-out flows remain part of the participant experience.

EvidenceRead AI desktop app

Desktop and mobile

KrispBroad support
Read AIBroad support

Krisp

macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android

Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp mobile recording

Read AI

Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android

Desktop captures device audio for online meetings. The iPhone and Android apps record in-person conversations and put their reports beside Zoom, Meet, and Teams meetings; neither mobile app can record another app or phone call using the same microphone.

EvidenceRead AI desktop appRead AI iPhone appRead AI Android app

In-person capture and speaker labels

KrispBroad support
Read AIBroad support

Krisp

Native iOS and Android room capture

Mobile apps record and upload in-person conversations, but Krisp only documents automatic calendar-based speaker names for one-on-one meetings; ad-hoc meetings need manual assignment. The flagship noise-cancellation capability is also unavailable on mobile.

EvidenceKrisp mobile recordingKrisp calendar and speaker naming

Read AI

iOS and Android real-time transcript and summary

Both mobile apps record room conversations with a live transcript and summary. They do not capture phone calls, FaceTime, or a virtual-meeting app on the same device. In shared-room audio, distinct voices may begin as Conference Room — Speaker 1, Speaker 2, and so on; owners and editors can rename or reassign them afterward.

EvidenceRead AI iPhone appRead AI Android appRead AI mobile capture limitsRead AI speaker editing

Recordings, playback, and clips

KrispBroad support
Read AINarrow or indirect

Krisp

Bot-free audio and screen/video; optional bot video

Krisp supports bot-free screen and video recording on supported macOS and Windows versions. An optional bot can also retain meeting video. Advanced adds trimming, comments, and more storage. Check storage quotas if your team keeps many recordings.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp recording FAQKrisp bot-free screen recording

Read AI

Playback only on Enterprise and Enterprise+

Pro and free users can receive notes and transcripts, but source media is not a durable playback library. Read documents a 30-day grace period before lower-tier media deletion.

EvidenceRead AI recording availabilityRead AI pricing

Notes, action items, and search

KrispBroad support
Read AIBroad support

Krisp

AI notes plus a centralized, assigned action-item tracker

Krisp automatically generates and assigns action items when calendar identity or transcript speaker identity is available. The workspace action center supports all-team and assigned-to-me views, reassignment, due dates, priority, status, and completion. The shared action center helps teams track follow-up; broader person and company histories are more limited.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp centralized action items

Read AI

Summaries, action items, Search Copilot, and coaching analytics

Read analyzes meetings live and afterward: engagement, sentiment, speaker stats, action items, and search across connected content. Recommendations can resurface recent work assigned to the user, but Read does not document a full workspace-wide task board with assignee and completion management comparable to dedicated action trackers.

EvidenceRead AI pricingRead AI report distribution

People, companies, and context

KrispNarrow or indirect
Read AIBroad support

Krisp

Meeting library and AI chat

Meetings are searchable and available through AI chat, but the product does not emphasize combined email, calendar, person, and company relationship pages.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp MCP

Read AI

Cross-source Search Copilot

Search can span meetings, email, messages, and documents, which is broader than a transcript library. This supports search across work, but not dedicated relationship timelines or upcoming-event pages.

EvidenceRead AI pricing

Automatic sharing and workspace defaults

KrispBroad support
Read AIBroad support

Krisp

Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing

Krisp auto-shares transcripts, notes, and recordings to same-workspace calendar invitees when its calendar and join prerequisites are met; the setting defaults on during rollout. Advanced can also route selected users’ external meetings to managers, and recurring meetings can post to Teams channels. The audience logic is useful but narrower than a general title, participant, domain, tag, and destination rule builder.

EvidenceKrisp meeting sharingKrisp Manager ViewKrisp Microsoft Teams integration

Read AI

Workspace-wide participant and team report access

Workspace admins can set automatic report access for internal or external participants and give teams role-based access to matching reports, including retroactive access. Owners can send recaps and recurring-meeting pre-reads through email, Slack, or Teams. Participant rules use calendar invitees, including no-shows, and the owner’s settings govern each report, so teams should configure workspace controls deliberately.

EvidenceRead AI workspace sharing settingsRead AI report distribution

Automations

KrispAvailable with limits
Read AIAvailable with limits

Krisp

Automatic action items, webhooks, and Zapier; fewer native rules

Core includes action-item, note, and transcript triggers through Zapier and webhooks; a generated action item can create a Jira task through Zapier. Advanced adds team webhooks. Krisp is still less centered on custom AI extraction and a native multi-step condition/action canvas.

EvidenceKrisp centralized action itemsKrisp webhook APIKrisp Zapier integrationKrisp pricing

Read AI

Recaps, pre-reads, scheduled updates, and agent actions

Read can send post-meeting recaps, recurring-meeting pre-reads, and scheduled topic updates, while Ask Read actions can draft and send email, create calendar events, and update HubSpot after user approval. It is more opinionated around its own agents and intelligence outputs than a general meeting trigger/condition/action canvas.

EvidenceRead AI report distributionRead AI actions

Integrations

KrispAvailable with limits
Read AIBroad support

Krisp

Common work tools; Salesforce on Advanced

Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp webhook APIKrisp Zapier integration

Read AI

Calendar, conferencing, email, messaging, documents, and premium connectors

Search Copilot’s cross-source coverage is a strength, although connector eligibility varies by paid plan.

EvidenceRead AI pricing

API, MCP, CLI, and data portability

KrispBroad support
Read AIAvailable with limits

Krisp

MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core

The hosted OAuth MCP can search meetings, fetch full transcripts and summaries, list action items by assignee or completion state, inspect activity, and read upcoming meetings. Agent access is unusually accessible at the entry tier. Teams needing centralized webhook management move to Advanced, while private deployment is Enterprise.

EvidenceKrisp MCPKrisp centralized action itemsKrisp webhook API

Read AI

Open-beta REST API and MCP with full meeting reports

Read’s API and remote MCP can return meeting metadata, participants, summaries, chapters, action items, topics, metrics, full speaker-labeled transcripts, and recording-download URLs. They are open beta, use browser OAuth with short-lived rotating tokens, lack service credentials and file upload, and only reach reports the user can access unless an admin enables global report access.

EvidenceRead AI API and MCP overviewRead AI MCP tools

Security, privacy, and admin

KrispAvailable with limits
Read AIBroad support

Krisp

Policy tools on Advanced; private deployment and compliance on Enterprise

Enforced modes and manager views require Advanced. SSO/SCIM, a negotiable data-center choice, unlimited storage, private/on-device options, and the documented 100+ seat HIPAA path are Enterprise. Krisp’s security page says standard cloud data is US-hosted with no regional option.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp security and data handlingKrisp cloud processing

Read AI

Core admin on Enterprise; advanced governance on Enterprise+

Retention, domain controls, SAML, and HIPAA-related capabilities are concentrated in Enterprise+. That plan currently carries a five-license minimum.

EvidenceRead AI pricingRead AI workspace sharing settingsRead AI workspace offboardingRead AI data handling

Languages

KrispNarrow or indirect
Read AIAvailable with limits

Krisp

16 transcription languages

Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages.

EvidenceKrisp multilingual transcription

Read AI

Read’s pricing page says 20+; its detail table says 16+

Read’s current pricing page uses “20+ languages” in the Free plan card but “16+ languages” in the detailed comparison table. The coverage is useful but materially narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+; verify the language you need rather than relying on the headline count.

EvidenceRead AI pricing

A third option

Circleback

If neither Krisp nor Read AI quite fits, consider Circleback for shared meeting notes, assigned follow-up, and automations across your team’s apps. Online and in-person meetings stay together, with the full record available to people and AI agents through the app, API, MCP, and CLI.

Every meeting

Online meetings with or without a bot, plus mobile and Apple Watch recording. Speaker-labeled transcripts every time; keep recordings if you need them.

Shared company memory

Detailed notes, automatic sharing, and meeting and email history for each person and company.

People and AI agents

Assigned actions and automations for people; the same full meeting data for agents through API, MCP, and CLI.

Sources

First-party pricing, product docs, help articles, and release notes.

Krisp sources15 first-party references
Read AI sources14 first-party references

Frequently asked questions

Krisp improves live call audio and produces notes and recordings. Read AI measures engagement, sentiment, and speaking patterns, and searches across connected work apps.

Krisp: Core $8 and Advanced $15/user/month with annual billing. Read AI: Free for 5 meetings/month; Pro from $15/user/month annually. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need.

Krisp: Bot-free system-audio capture. Read AI: Meeting bot, macOS/Windows desktop, and mobile. Check whether your preferred recording method preserves video and speaker labels.

Compare automatic sharing, permissions, retention, and the defaults admins can enforce. Krisp: Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing. Read AI: Workspace-wide participant and team report access.

Krisp: MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core. Read AI: Open-beta REST API and MCP with full meeting reports. Check the selected plan, authentication model, transcript scope, export format, and retention window for the workflow you need.

We use first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes for both products. Links appear in each feature comparison and in the Sources section.