# Avoma vs Read AI: pricing, features, and which is better > Avoma and Read AI compared across pricing, capture, speaker labels, recordings, notes, sharing, automations, integrations, AI-agent access, and administration. - Canonical HTML: https://circleback.ai/compare/avoma-vs-read-ai - Structured JSON: https://circleback.ai/compare/avoma-vs-read-ai.json - Comparison directory: https://circleback.ai/compare - Language: en-US - Editorial perspective: Neutral competitor comparison. Circleback appears only as a clearly labeled third option. ## Short answer Avoma is stronger on CRM process, scheduling, coaching, and forecasting. Read AI is stronger on live behavioral analytics and search across meetings, email, messages, and docs. The useful buying test is to run both products on the same external call, internal planning session, and noisy in-person meeting. Compare the result, the sharing defaults, and the work that still has to happen by hand. ## Avoma at a glance Avoma spans meeting assistance, CRM hygiene, scheduling, conversation intelligence, and revenue intelligence. Its modular packaging lets sales teams buy depth, while making total cost and cross-company fit more complicated. **Best for:** Customer-facing teams that want notes and CRM sync today, then may add conversation coaching, forecasting, and lead routing without changing platforms. **Less ideal for:** Teams prioritizing in-person capture, simple predictable pricing, or a neutral company-wide memory rather than a revenue workflow. **Price:** Base recording plans from $19/recorder/month annually; intelligence add-ons cost extra Startup is $19/recorder/month with annual billing or $29 month-to-month. Conversation Intelligence and Revenue Intelligence each add $29/selected user/month annually or $35 month-to-month; Lead Router adds $19 annually or $25 month-to-month. Recorder users in a workspace share one base tier. Avoma’s live pricing page currently says Enterprise requires 10 paid seats, while its dedicated minimum-seat help article still says 20, so confirm the minimum in a quote. **Free option:** Free viewer users can consume shared content; recording requires a paid recorder seat. ### Avoma strengths - A broad GTM suite spanning scheduling, recording, CRM updates, coaching, forecast, and routing. - Free viewers let coworkers consume shared meetings without buying a recorder seat. - Strong CRM-oriented workflows, speaker analytics, playlists, scorecards, and enterprise controls. - Action items can be detected with owners and deadlines, tracked in task dashboards, prioritized, and synchronized with CRM and project tools. - Customer meeting data is not used to train AI models; recordings and transcripts can be downloaded in standard formats, and admins can set retention policies. ### Avoma tradeoffs - Conversation Intelligence and Revenue Intelligence are separate add-ons, so the attractive base price is not the full sales-platform price. - Enterprise has a meaningful recorder-seat minimum. Avoma’s current pricing page says 10 while its dedicated help article says 20, so a smaller team should confirm the requirement before evaluating its governance tier. - Avoma’s own help center says it does not fully support in-person meetings the way it supports virtual calls; speaker identification can be limited. - The product model is customer/revenue-centric, which can be awkward for product, engineering, recruiting, and internal meetings. ### Choose Avoma when - You want a modular revenue platform with scheduling and CRM workflow depth. - Free viewer access matters and most recorders are customer-facing employees. - You are comfortable adding paid coaching or forecasting modules as the team matures. ## Read AI at a glance Read AI goes beyond notes with live engagement, sentiment, speaker metrics, Search Copilot, and access across meetings and other work sources. Its pricing looks approachable until recording playback and governance requirements push a team into Enterprise tiers. **Best for:** Teams that value live engagement/sentiment signals, speaker analytics, coaching, and a search assistant spanning multiple workplace content sources. **Less ideal for:** Teams that want recordings on ordinary plans, dislike behavioral scoring in meetings, need free viewer economics, or want simple transparent governance below Enterprise+. **Price:** Free for 5 meetings/month; Pro from $15/user/month annually 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. ### Read AI strengths - Distinctive live engagement, sentiment, speaker, and meeting-quality analytics. - Search Copilot reaches beyond meetings into connected email, messaging, and document sources. - Automatic recaps and recurring-meeting pre-reads can carry action items and open questions into email, Slack, or Teams. - Current macOS/Windows desktop plus iOS and Android in-person capture broaden the product beyond a meeting bot. - Its open-beta REST API and MCP expose full speaker-labeled transcripts, summaries, actions, metrics, and recording download URLs for meetings the user can access. ### Read AI tradeoffs - Audio/video playback requires Enterprise or Enterprise+, while lower-tier source media is deleted after the documented grace period. - Advanced retention, SAML, domain controls, and HIPAA support require Enterprise+ and its license minimum. - Engagement and sentiment scoring can be useful for coaching but uncomfortable or noisy for some company cultures. - Workspace licensing does not offer the same free-viewer model as some competitors. - The API and MCP are open beta: OAuth tokens are short-lived, static keys/client credentials are not supported, and several app features and file upload are not exposed. - Read says meeting data is not used for AI training without explicit opt-in, but its Customer Experience Improvement Program is enabled on an opt-out basis for product evaluation. - Simply removing a person from a workspace does not revoke their account access or transfer their reports. Admins must deactivate the account and transfer workspace-owned reports as separate offboarding steps. ### Choose Read AI when - Live engagement and speaker analytics are genuinely useful to your managers or facilitators. - You want AI search across meetings plus connected workplace sources. - You are comfortable with Enterprise pricing for playback and Enterprise+ for stronger governance. ## Feature comparison | What matters | Avoma | Read AI | | --- | --- | --- | | Capture options | Broad support — Meeting bot, native cloud options, and bot-free desktop capture. Avoma can use a bot, supported native platform recording, or a desktop path. The bot appearance and consent messages are customizable. | Broad support — 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. | | Desktop and mobile | Available with limits — Web and desktop with a mobile app. The platform supports virtual-meeting workflows well. Mobile recording exists, but the company documents caveats for using it as a full in-person substitute. | Broad support — 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. | | In-person capture and speaker labels | Narrow or indirect — Possible, with explicit speaker and quality caveats. Avoma says it does not fully support in-person meetings in the same way as virtual calls. Mobile and conference-device workarounds can record audio, but reliable room speaker identification is a limitation. | Broad support — 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. | | Recordings, playback, and clips | Broad support — Audio/video playback, snippets, playlists, and coaching review. Virtual customer conversations get rich playback and revenue-review workflows. Hosts, participants, admins, and host managers can download video, audio, and VTT or TXT transcripts. Retention and access depend on workspace configuration and plan. | Narrow or indirect — 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. | | Notes, action items, and search | Broad support — AI notes, search, and assigned action-item dashboards. Notes and search are strong. Avoma detects action items with owners and deadlines, tracks them in default task dashboards, suggests priority from meeting and deal context, and flags overdue or at-risk work. Additional topic, scorecard, and coaching intelligence is available through the Conversation Intelligence add-on. | Broad support — Summaries, action items, Search Copilot, and coaching analytics. Read’s differentiated layer is live and post-meeting intelligence: 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. | | People, companies, and context | Available with limits — Customer-account and deal context. Avoma organizes history around meetings, accounts, and revenue workflows. It is less focused on a general person/company memory incorporating email, calendar, and internal context for every department. | Broad support — Cross-source Search Copilot. Search can span meetings, email, messages, and documents, which is broader than a transcript library. The experience is a search layer rather than explicit relationship timelines and upcoming-event pages. | | Automatic sharing and workspace defaults | Broad support — Meeting-type visibility defaults, teams, and free viewers. Internal meetings default to private and external meetings to organization visibility, with Primary Team and Public options available. Organization admins can instead choose internal/external defaults for participants, specific teams, or the organization and lock the rule against user changes. Free viewer seats, snippets, and playlists make broad consumption practical. | Broad support — 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. | | Automations | Broad support — Conditional CRM, task, privacy, scheduling, and routing workflows. Avoma has a real organization-level trigger/condition/action system. It can react to calendar, transcript, or note events; filter by title, team, participant domain, keyword, or meeting type; then set privacy or purpose, detect outcomes, update CRM data, and create tasks from action items. Manual rules start on the Startup plan and AI-powered rules require Organization or higher; coaching, forecasting, and lead routing remain separate modules. | Available with limits — 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. | | Integrations | Broad support — Deep CRM and sales-stack integrations. Avoma emphasizes CRM, conferencing, calendar, dialer, and sales tools. Action items can sync into HubSpot, Salesforce, ClickUp, Asana, and other destinations, with Zapier extending the catalog. It remains oriented around GTM rather than being a neutral engineering-workflow platform. | Broad support — Calendar, conferencing, email, messaging, documents, and premium connectors. Search Copilot’s cross-source coverage is a strength, although connector eligibility varies by paid plan. | | API, MCP, CLI, and data portability | Available with limits — API for recordings, transcripts, notes, and coaching data. Avoma documents API access to recordings, transcripts, summaries, notes, and coaching insights on selected plans. Keys are admin-created, requests are user- or organization-scoped, and the documented rate limit is 60 requests per minute. | Available with limits — 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. | | Security, privacy, and admin | Broad support — Strong enterprise controls on upper tiers. Admin, configurable retention, SSO, and compliance features are available as plans increase. Avoma says customer meeting data is never used to train AI models, and its DPA commits to deletion or return within 30 days after termination, subject to backups and legal obligations. The same-base-tier requirement for recorder users reduces mix-and-match flexibility. | Broad support — 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. | | Languages | Broad support — More than 60 documented languages and dialects. Avoma’s help page says it supports more than 60 languages and dialects, while its page title advertises 75+. Buyers should verify the exact language and whether the coaching or revenue-intelligence feature they need supports it. | Available with limits — 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. | Ratings describe documented breadth rather than overall product quality: - **Broad support:** Broad native support across the product or relevant paid plans. - **Available with limits:** Documented support with meaningful scope, mode, or plan limits. - **Narrow or indirect:** Narrow, indirect, beta, or substantially plan-gated support. - **Not documented:** No current first-party documentation for a native option. ## Detailed analysis ### Capture options **Both products document broad support for capture options, with different scope and plan limits.** **Avoma:** Meeting bot, native cloud options, and bot-free desktop capture. Avoma can use a bot, supported native platform recording, or a desktop path. The bot appearance and consent messages are customizable. Evidence: [Avoma recording](https://www.avoma.com/ai-meeting-assistant/meeting-recording-software). **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. Evidence: [Read AI desktop app](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/45911611006995-How-to-Use-Read-s-Desktop-App-for-Windows-and-Mac). ### Desktop and mobile **Read AI has broader documented support for desktop and mobile.** **Avoma:** Web and desktop with a mobile app. The platform supports virtual-meeting workflows well. Mobile recording exists, but the company documents caveats for using it as a full in-person substitute. Evidence: [Avoma recording](https://www.avoma.com/ai-meeting-assistant/meeting-recording-software), [Avoma in-person meeting support](https://help.avoma.com/can-avoma-help-with-an-in-person-meeting). **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. Evidence: [Read AI desktop app](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/45911611006995-How-to-Use-Read-s-Desktop-App-for-Windows-and-Mac), [Read AI iPhone app](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/34467337929107-Read-AI-App-for-iPhone), [Read AI Android app](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/51863250182291-Read-AI-App-for-Android). ### In-person capture and speaker labels **Read AI has broader documented support for in-person capture and speaker labels.** **Avoma:** Possible, with explicit speaker and quality caveats. Avoma says it does not fully support in-person meetings in the same way as virtual calls. Mobile and conference-device workarounds can record audio, but reliable room speaker identification is a limitation. Evidence: [Avoma in-person meeting support](https://help.avoma.com/can-avoma-help-with-an-in-person-meeting). **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. Evidence: [Read AI iPhone app](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/34467337929107-Read-AI-App-for-iPhone), [Read AI Android app](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/51863250182291-Read-AI-App-for-Android), [Read AI mobile capture limits](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/51863422605203-Can-I-use-Read-s-mobile-app-to-record-calls-from-my-phone), [Read AI speaker editing](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/36169538719379-Can-I-edit-text-and-speaker-names-in-my-meeting-report). ### Recordings, playback, and clips **Avoma has broader documented support for recordings, playback, and clips.** **Avoma:** Audio/video playback, snippets, playlists, and coaching review. Virtual customer conversations get rich playback and revenue-review workflows. Hosts, participants, admins, and host managers can download video, audio, and VTT or TXT transcripts. Retention and access depend on workspace configuration and plan. Evidence: [Avoma recording](https://www.avoma.com/ai-meeting-assistant/meeting-recording-software), [Avoma meeting downloads](https://help.avoma.com/downloading-a-meeting). **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. Evidence: [Read AI recording availability](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/15107171454739-Why-can-t-I-see-recordings-in-my-report-when-I-received-a-recording-notification-in-my-meeting), [Read AI pricing](https://www.read.ai/plans-pricing). ### Notes, action items, and search **Both products document broad support for notes, action items, and search, with different scope and plan limits.** **Avoma:** AI notes, search, and assigned action-item dashboards. Notes and search are strong. Avoma detects action items with owners and deadlines, tracks them in default task dashboards, suggests priority from meeting and deal context, and flags overdue or at-risk work. Additional topic, scorecard, and coaching intelligence is available through the Conversation Intelligence add-on. Evidence: [Avoma pricing](https://www.avoma.com/pricing), [Avoma action-item tracking](https://www.avoma.com/ai-meeting-assistant/action-item-tracking-software). **Read AI:** Summaries, action items, Search Copilot, and coaching analytics. Read’s differentiated layer is live and post-meeting intelligence: 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. Evidence: [Read AI pricing](https://www.read.ai/plans-pricing), [Read AI report distribution](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/23219401248019-How-do-I-control-meeting-report-sharing-and-distribution). ### People, companies, and context **Read AI has broader documented support for people, companies, and context.** **Avoma:** Customer-account and deal context. Avoma organizes history around meetings, accounts, and revenue workflows. It is less focused on a general person/company memory incorporating email, calendar, and internal context for every department. Evidence: [Avoma pricing](https://www.avoma.com/pricing). **Read AI:** Cross-source Search Copilot. Search can span meetings, email, messages, and documents, which is broader than a transcript library. The experience is a search layer rather than explicit relationship timelines and upcoming-event pages. Evidence: [Read AI pricing](https://www.read.ai/plans-pricing). ### Automatic sharing and workspace defaults **Both products document broad support for automatic sharing and workspace defaults, with different scope and plan limits.** **Avoma:** Meeting-type visibility defaults, teams, and free viewers. Internal meetings default to private and external meetings to organization visibility, with Primary Team and Public options available. Organization admins can instead choose internal/external defaults for participants, specific teams, or the organization and lock the rule against user changes. Free viewer seats, snippets, and playlists make broad consumption practical. Evidence: [Avoma meeting privacy](https://help.avoma.com/meeting-privacy), [Avoma organization privacy policies](https://help.avoma.com/manage-organization-wide-privacy-and-security-settings). **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. Evidence: [Read AI workspace sharing settings](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/7962819152659-What-are-all-of-the-settings-and-permissions-available-with-Workspaces), [Read AI report distribution](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/23219401248019-How-do-I-control-meeting-report-sharing-and-distribution). ### Automations **Avoma has broader documented support for automations.** **Avoma:** Conditional CRM, task, privacy, scheduling, and routing workflows. Avoma has a real organization-level trigger/condition/action system. It can react to calendar, transcript, or note events; filter by title, team, participant domain, keyword, or meeting type; then set privacy or purpose, detect outcomes, update CRM data, and create tasks from action items. Manual rules start on the Startup plan and AI-powered rules require Organization or higher; coaching, forecasting, and lead routing remain separate modules. Evidence: [Avoma pricing](https://www.avoma.com/pricing), [Avoma automations](https://help.avoma.com/understanding-automations-in-avoma). **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. Evidence: [Read AI report distribution](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/23219401248019-How-do-I-control-meeting-report-sharing-and-distribution), [Read AI actions](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/48863788829971-Using-Ask-Read-actions). ### Integrations **Both products document broad support for integrations, with different scope and plan limits.** **Avoma:** Deep CRM and sales-stack integrations. Avoma emphasizes CRM, conferencing, calendar, dialer, and sales tools. Action items can sync into HubSpot, Salesforce, ClickUp, Asana, and other destinations, with Zapier extending the catalog. It remains oriented around GTM rather than being a neutral engineering-workflow platform. Evidence: [Avoma pricing](https://www.avoma.com/pricing), [Avoma action-item tracking](https://www.avoma.com/ai-meeting-assistant/action-item-tracking-software). **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. Evidence: [Read AI pricing](https://www.read.ai/plans-pricing). ### API, MCP, CLI, and data portability **Both products support API, MCP, CLI, and data portability, with different scope and plan limits.** **Avoma:** API for recordings, transcripts, notes, and coaching data. Avoma documents API access to recordings, transcripts, summaries, notes, and coaching insights on selected plans. Keys are admin-created, requests are user- or organization-scoped, and the documented rate limit is 60 requests per minute. Evidence: [Avoma API documentation](https://help.avoma.com/api-documentation), [Avoma meeting downloads](https://help.avoma.com/downloading-a-meeting). **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. Evidence: [Read AI API and MCP overview](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/49379985941523-Read-AI-API-and-MCP-Overview), [Read AI MCP tools](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/49381158409491-MCP-Server). ### Security, privacy, and admin **Both products document broad support for security, privacy, and admin, with different scope and plan limits.** **Avoma:** Strong enterprise controls on upper tiers. Admin, configurable retention, SSO, and compliance features are available as plans increase. Avoma says customer meeting data is never used to train AI models, and its DPA commits to deletion or return within 30 days after termination, subject to backups and legal obligations. The same-base-tier requirement for recorder users reduces mix-and-match flexibility. Evidence: [Avoma pricing](https://www.avoma.com/pricing), [Avoma seat minimums](https://help.avoma.com/is-there-a-minimum-seat-requirement-for-each-plan), [Avoma AI data handling](https://help.avoma.com/do-you-use-my-data-to-train-your-models), [Avoma data processing addendum](https://www.avoma.com/data-processing-addendum). **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. Evidence: [Read AI pricing](https://www.read.ai/plans-pricing), [Read AI workspace sharing settings](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/7962819152659-What-are-all-of-the-settings-and-permissions-available-with-Workspaces), [Read AI workspace offboarding](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/27433066427283-How-do-I-offboard-someone-from-my-Read-workspace), [Read AI data handling](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/52055801266579-What-Does-Read-AI-Do-With-My-Data-Read-AI). ### Languages **Avoma has broader documented support for languages.** **Avoma:** More than 60 documented languages and dialects. Avoma’s help page says it supports more than 60 languages and dialects, while its page title advertises 75+. Buyers should verify the exact language and whether the coaching or revenue-intelligence feature they need supports it. Evidence: [Avoma supported languages](https://help.avoma.com/does-avoma-support-other-languages). **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. Evidence: [Read AI pricing](https://www.read.ai/plans-pricing). ## A third option to consider: Circleback Circleback turns online meetings, in-person conversations, and imported calls into one shared company memory. Record with a bot, with the botless desktop app, from an iPhone or Android phone, or on Apple Watch. Every route produces the same speaker-labeled record, detailed notes designed to stand alone, and automatically assigned action items. Sharing rules and automations carry the useful parts into the teams and tools that need them. Circleback is built for people and AI agents: the complete meeting record available to a person is also available programmatically through its API, MCP, and CLI. Circleback can also search connected apps and take action in them. It is built for people and AI agents: the same complete meeting data available to a person is available programmatically to ChatGPT, Claude, other agents, and internal tools through the API, MCP, and CLI. Free; Pro from $15/user/month annually; Business from $25/user/month annually; Enterprise $35/user/month, billed annually. ## Frequently asked questions ### Which is better: Avoma or Read AI? Avoma is stronger on CRM process, scheduling, coaching, and forecasting. Read AI is stronger on live behavioral analytics and search across meetings, email, messages, and docs. ### Which is less expensive, Avoma or Read AI? Avoma: Base recording plans from $19/recorder/month annually; intelligence add-ons cost extra. 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. ### Can Avoma and Read AI record without a bot? Avoma: Meeting bot, native cloud options, and bot-free desktop capture. Read AI: Meeting bot, macOS/Windows desktop, and mobile. The useful check is whether your required capture mode keeps video, a recording, and speaker names. ### Which is better for a whole company? First ask who gets each note automatically; otherwise useful context stays with the recorder. Then compare permissions, retention, and enforced defaults. Avoma: Meeting-type visibility defaults, teams, and free viewers. Read AI: Workspace-wide participant and team report access. ### Can I access and move the full meeting data? Avoma: API for recordings, transcripts, notes, and coaching data. 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. ### How was this comparison researched? We use first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes for both products. The sources are linked below. ## Methodology Circleback reviews first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes. Prices and capabilities move, so check the linked sources when a detail is important to your decision. Every feature dimension links to the exact first-party documents used for that claim. Ratings describe documented breadth, not an overall score or winner. This page is a neutral competitor-to-competitor comparison. There are no paid placements or affiliate rankings. ## First-party sources ### Avoma sources - [Avoma pricing](https://www.avoma.com/pricing): Base plans, free viewers, minimums, and Conversation/Revenue Intelligence add-ons. - [Avoma seats and add-ons](https://help.avoma.com/avoma-pricing-recorder-seats-free-users-add-ons): Recorder-seat rules, viewer access, add-on prices, and workspace base-tier behavior. - [Avoma seat minimums](https://help.avoma.com/is-there-a-minimum-seat-requirement-for-each-plan): This help article says Enterprise has a 20-recorder minimum, while the live pricing page says 10; verify the current requirement with Avoma. - [Avoma in-person meeting support](https://help.avoma.com/can-avoma-help-with-an-in-person-meeting): Official limitations and workarounds for room conversations. - [Avoma recording](https://www.avoma.com/ai-meeting-assistant/meeting-recording-software): Capture methods, languages, CRM workflow, and retention overview. - [Avoma meeting privacy](https://help.avoma.com/meeting-privacy): Automatic internal and external defaults plus Private, Primary Team, Organization, and Public access levels. - [Avoma organization privacy policies](https://help.avoma.com/manage-organization-wide-privacy-and-security-settings): Locked organization defaults for internal and external meeting visibility across participants, teams, or the whole organization. - [Avoma API documentation](https://help.avoma.com/api-documentation): Recording, transcript, summary, notes, coaching insight, scope, authentication, and rate-limit details. - [Avoma action-item tracking](https://www.avoma.com/ai-meeting-assistant/action-item-tracking-software): Automatic owner and deadline extraction, task dashboards, prioritization, at-risk flags, and CRM/project-tool synchronization. - [Avoma automations](https://help.avoma.com/understanding-automations-in-avoma): Organization-level triggers, conditions, plan gates, privacy rules, AI outcomes, CRM updates, and task creation from notes. - [Avoma meeting downloads](https://help.avoma.com/downloading-a-meeting): Recording downloads and transcript exports in VTT or TXT. - [Avoma supported languages](https://help.avoma.com/does-avoma-support-other-languages): Official multilingual transcription count and language list. - [Avoma AI data handling](https://help.avoma.com/do-you-use-my-data-to-train-your-models): Explicit statement that customer data is not used to train AI models. - [Avoma data processing addendum](https://www.avoma.com/data-processing-addendum): Subprocessor terms, transfer safeguards, and deletion or return within 30 days after service termination. ### Read AI sources - [Read AI pricing](https://www.read.ai/plans-pricing): Current meeting limits, prices, languages, playback gate, governance, and Enterprise+ minimum. - [Read AI desktop app](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/45911611006995-How-to-Use-Read-s-Desktop-App-for-Windows-and-Mac): Device-audio recording and participant disclosure behavior. - [Read AI iPhone app](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/34467337929107-Read-AI-App-for-iPhone): In-person real-time transcript and summary. - [Read AI Android app](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/51863250182291-Read-AI-App-for-Android): Android in-person capture, live transcript and summary, and report access. - [Read AI mobile capture limits](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/51863422605203-Can-I-use-Read-s-mobile-app-to-record-calls-from-my-phone): Phone-call and same-device virtual-meeting limitations across iOS and Android. - [Read AI speaker editing](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/36169538719379-Can-I-edit-text-and-speaker-names-in-my-meeting-report): Generic same-room labels plus transcript-wide speaker renaming and turn reassignment. - [Read AI recording availability](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/15107171454739-Why-can-t-I-see-recordings-in-my-report-when-I-received-a-recording-notification-in-my-meeting): Enterprise playback requirement and lower-plan source-media deletion. - [Read AI workspace sharing settings](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/7962819152659-What-are-all-of-the-settings-and-permissions-available-with-Workspaces): Participant auto-sharing, team report access, and workspace distribution controls. - [Read AI report distribution](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/23219401248019-How-do-I-control-meeting-report-sharing-and-distribution): Owner-level participant sharing, invitee behavior, email/Slack/Teams recaps, recurring-meeting pre-reads, and workspace controls. - [Read AI actions](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/48863788829971-Using-Ask-Read-actions): Agent actions for HubSpot updates, approved email sending, calendar creation, and scheduled reports. - [Read AI API and MCP overview](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/49379985941523-Read-AI-API-and-MCP-Overview): Open-beta scope, prerequisites, OAuth and rate-limit constraints, permissions, and current feature gaps. - [Read AI MCP tools](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/49381158409491-MCP-Server): Full transcript, summary, action, metric, recording-download, agent-dispatch, and sharing tools. - [Read AI data handling](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/52055801266579-What-Does-Read-AI-Do-With-My-Data-Read-AI): Storage, access, AI-training consent, and the opt-out Customer Experience Improvement Program. - [Read AI workspace offboarding](https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/articles/27433066427283-How-do-I-offboard-someone-from-my-Read-workspace): Account deactivation, report transfer, and the limits of simply removing a workspace member.