About Recall.ai
Recall.ai is an infrastructure API for products that need conversation data from video calls. Instead of building separate recording integrations for each conferencing platform, a developer uses one interface to obtain recordings, transcripts and metadata from services such as Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams.
The platform offers several ways to capture meetings. The Meeting Bot API sends a bot into a call to record and transcribe, which suits cases where explicit consent matters or when building AI agents. The Desktop Recording SDK records on the device without a bot. A Calendar API adds participant and title metadata, and a Mobile Recording SDK for phone calls and in-person meetings is listed as coming soon.
Recall.ai is a hosted commercial product for teams building notetakers, sales tools and other meeting-aware software. The vendor lists a 99.9 percent SLA, publishes API documentation and case studies, and lets developers start for free or book a demo, with plan details on its pricing page.
Key features
- Meeting bots that join and record calls
- Transcripts and recordings from major platforms
- Bot-free recording through a desktop SDK
- Calendar API for meeting metadata
- Support for Zoom, Meet and Teams
- Participant names and meeting titles
Good fit for
- →Building an AI meeting notetaker
- →Capturing sales calls for CRM insights
- →Feeding call data to AI agents
- Tags
- meeting-recording
- transcription
- meeting-bot
- zoom
- google-meet
- developer-tools
- saas
Recall.ai: questions and answers
- What is Recall.ai used for?
- Recall.ai is an API for recording meetings and retrieving transcripts, video, audio and metadata from Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other conferencing platforms. It is a good fit for building an AI meeting notetaker, capturing sales calls for CRM insights and feeding call data to AI agents.
- How much does Recall.ai cost?
- Recall.ai is a paid product with no free plan. A free trial is available. Usage-based: Pay As You Go costs $0.50 per hour of recording, with the first 5 hours free. Launch and Enterprise plans are custom-priced through sales.
- Is Recall.ai open source?
- No. Recall.ai is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the API Tools category, open-source options include Hoppscotch, Insomnia and Scalar.
- What are some alternatives to Recall.ai?
- Recall.ai competes with AssemblyAI, Deepgram and Speechmatics.
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