Krisp vs Plaud
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
Plaud
Dedicated recorders, templates, and Agent workflows
Price
Devices list at $159–$189; AI plans priced separately
Pricing details
Standard device prices are $159 for Note or NotePin, $179 for NotePin S, and $189 for Note Pro; promotions may lower these prices. Pro costs $99.99/year or $17.99/month; Unlimited costs $239.99/year or $29.99/month. Team requires at least two seats and costs $25/user/month with annual billing or $35 with monthly billing. Launch offers reduce those rates to $20 for the first year or $28 through November 30, 2026, respectively. Agent credits are separate from transcription.
Free option: Starter is free with a device and includes 300 transcription minutes/month. Pro includes 1,200/month; Unlimited and Team allow up to 24 hours/day. Unused monthly minutes do not roll over. Paid Team users can record on desktop without buying hardware.
Good for
- Phone-mounted and wearable recorders
- Templates, Skills, and Routines
Watch for
- Separate Agent credit allowance
- Hardware for portable capture
Features and limits
Ratings show documented breadth, not overall product quality. Open a row for specifics.
What matters
Capture options
KrispBroad supportPlaudBroad supportCapture options
Krisp:Broad supportPlaud:Broad support
Capture options
Capture options
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.
Plaud
Dedicated recorders, bot-free desktop, and imports
Press and hold a device’s recording control to start. Note and Note Pro capture calls and room audio; NotePin and NotePin S capture in-person conversations. Desktop records computer audio without a meeting bot and offers manual, prompted, or automatic recording. Team users can record on desktop without hardware; individual Starter activation requires a bound device.
EvidencePlaud devicesPlaud recording controlsPlaud desktopPlaud desktop requirementsPlaud Team requirements
Desktop and mobile
KrispBroad supportPlaudAvailable with limitsDesktop and mobile
Krisp:Broad supportPlaud:Available with limits
Desktop and mobile
Desktop and mobile
Krisp
macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android
Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation.
Plaud
Recorders, iOS, Android, web, macOS, and Windows
Mobile apps manage devices and recordings; web and desktop provide access to the same account or workspace. Desktop records from a Mac or Windows computer. Without a Plaud device, Team capture is through desktop or audio imports. A native Apple Watch recorder is not documented; NotePin is separate wearable hardware.
EvidencePlaud desktopPlaud desktop requirementsPlaud Team requirements
In-person capture and speaker labels
KrispBroad supportPlaudBroad supportIn-person capture and speaker labels
Krisp:Broad supportPlaud:Broad support
In-person capture and speaker labels
In-person capture and speaker labels
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
Plaud
Portable hardware with automatic speaker labels
All four Note/NotePin models record in-person conversations and support speaker-labeled transcription. NotePin S has a tactile button and highlight control; the original NotePin uses a pressure-sensitive control and lacks device highlights. Both need charging and transfer recordings for processing. Neither NotePin model supports phone-call recording.
Recordings, playback, and clips
KrispBroad supportPlaudAvailable with limitsRecordings, playback, and clips
Krisp:Broad supportPlaud:Available with limits
Recordings, playback, and clips
Recordings, playback, and clips
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
Plaud
Saved audio, highlights, exports, and desktop screenshots
Keep and play back audio, export recordings and text, and mark important moments. Desktop can attach screenshots and typed notes to enrich summaries. Screenshots are not a continuous meeting-video recording. MCP and CLI can retrieve audio download links, full speaker-labeled transcripts, and generated notes.
EvidencePlaud devicesPlaud desktopPlaud plansPlaud Agent creditsPlaud MCPPlaud CLI
Notes, action items, and search
KrispBroad supportPlaudBroad supportNotes, action items, and search
Krisp:Broad supportPlaud:Broad support
Notes, action items, and search
Notes, action items, and search
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.
Plaud
Templates, action items, and questions across recordings
Plaud generates speaker-labeled transcripts, default summaries, and action items. Template summaries offer different views of a conversation. Ask Plaud searches across transcribed files with references; Agent can create documents and take actions in connected apps. Default meeting outputs use transcription allowances, while Agent questions and new work use separate credits.
EvidencePlaud plansPlaud cross-recording questionsPlaud Skills and RoutinesPlaud Agent credits
People, companies, and context
KrispNarrow or indirectPlaudAvailable with limitsPeople, companies, and context
Krisp:Narrow or indirectPlaud:Available with limits
People, companies, and context
People, companies, and context
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
Plaud
Recording knowledge base and connected Agent context
Plaud Intelligence organizes recordings into a searchable knowledge base. Agent can use shared Team recordings and connected tools to answer questions and complete tasks. The cited documentation does not establish dedicated person/company pages with rolling summaries and email relationship timelines.
EvidencePlaud cross-recording questionsPlaud Intelligence Team updatePlaud Skills and Routines
Automatic sharing and workspace defaults
KrispBroad supportPlaudAvailable with limitsAutomatic sharing and workspace defaults
Krisp:Broad supportPlaud:Available with limits
Automatic sharing and workspace defaults
Automatic sharing and workspace defaults
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
Plaud
Personal sharing, Team member access, and Routines
Personal plans include sharing and exports. Team files are private until shared with workspace members, with member-restricted links rather than public external links. Routines can deliver notes through connected tools, but this does not grant access to the source recording or establish workspace-wide sharing defaults.
EvidencePlaud plansPlaud Team sharingPlaud Intelligence Team updatePlaud Skills and Routines
Automations
KrispAvailable with limitsPlaudBroad supportAutomations
Krisp:Available with limitsPlaud:Broad support
Automations
Automations
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
Plaud
Conditional Routines, Skills, and connected actions
Plaud Intelligence replaces AutoFlow with Routines, which can run on schedules or conditions such as a completed recording. Skills define reusable tasks and can be shared on Team. Existing AutoFlows do not carry over automatically. Running Skills and Routines consumes Plaud Credits, separate from transcription minutes.
Integrations
KrispAvailable with limitsPlaudBroad supportIntegrations
Krisp:Available with limitsPlaud:Broad support
Integrations
Integrations
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
Plaud
Agent connectors, Zapier, and developer tools
Agent lists Slack, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Outlook, Notion, Linear, and Zapier connectors. More Microsoft 365 integrations and a Salesforce note-sync connector are described as upcoming. Connected Agent actions use credits. MCP and CLI provide another route for assistants and custom workflows.
EvidencePlaud Intelligence Team updatePlaud Skills and Routines
API, MCP, CLI, and data portability
KrispBroad supportPlaudAvailable with limitsAPI, MCP, CLI, and data portability
Krisp:Broad supportPlaud:Available with limits
API, MCP, CLI, and data portability
API, MCP, CLI, and data portability
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
Plaud
MCP and CLI retrieval; separate Embedded SDK/API
Plaud MCP and CLI retrieve recording metadata, speaker-labeled transcripts, summaries, and audio links. CLI search matches recording names across up to 500 recent files, rather than semantic transcript search. The Embedded device SDK and transcription API are separate offerings; the cited docs do not establish a full REST API for the consumer workspace.
Security, privacy, and admin
KrispAvailable with limitsPlaudAvailable with limitsSecurity, privacy, and admin
Krisp:Available with limitsPlaud:Available with limits
Security, privacy, and admin
Security, privacy, and admin
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
Plaud
Security certifications and Team administration
Plaud lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701, GDPR, and HIPAA support. Team adds billing, seat and device management, secure offboarding, and workspace-level data residency. Content remains private until shared. The Team FAQ says SSO is not yet supported; a workspace has a two-seat minimum.
EvidencePlaud Team requirementsPlaud Team administrationPlaud plans
Languages
KrispNarrow or indirectPlaudBroad supportLanguages
Krisp:Narrow or indirectPlaud:Broad support
Languages
Languages
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
Plaud
112 transcription languages
Plaud documents transcription in 112 languages with speaker labeling and custom vocabulary. Validate performance on the languages, accents, and specialized terminology you use; the supported-language count is not an independent accuracy comparison.
EvidencePlaud plans
A third option
Circleback
If neither Krisp nor Plaud 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
- Krisp pricing
Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates.
- Krisp mobile recording
iOS/Android in-person capture and mobile noise-cancellation limitation.
- Krisp calendar and speaker naming
Calendar-based replacement of generic speaker labels with names is currently limited to one-on-one meetings.
- Krisp meeting sharing
Automatic sharing to same-workspace calendar invitees, prerequisites, and rollout behavior.
- Krisp Manager View
Advanced-plan automatic sharing of selected team members' external meetings to chosen managers.
- Krisp Microsoft Teams integration
Automatic notes delivery for recurring meetings and manual channel sharing.
- Krisp recording FAQ
Audio recording and optional Krisp-bot video path; supplemented by the newer bot-free screen-recording guide.
- Krisp bot-free screen recording
Bot-free screen/video capture and supported macOS/Windows versions.
- Krisp multilingual transcription
Current 16-language transcription list.
- Krisp MCP
OAuth MCP access to transcripts, summaries, key points, action items, and calendar context.
- Krisp centralized action items
Automatic task creation and assignment plus team-wide views, due dates, priorities, assignees, status, and completion.
- Krisp Zapier integration
Action-item, key-point, outline, and transcript triggers, including Jira task creation through Zapier.
- Krisp webhook API
Core user webhooks and Advanced team webhook scope.
- Krisp security and data handling
No-training posture, US cloud storage, lack of standard regional residency, on-device transcription, encryption, and Enterprise controls.
- Krisp cloud processing
Local noise cancellation plus on-device or transient cloud processing in transcript-only mode.
Plaud sources15 first-party references
- Plaud devices
Model-specific controls, phone-call/in-person capture, charging, storage, and list prices.
- Plaud recording controls
Press-and-hold recording and model-specific highlight controls.
- Plaud plans
Individual and Team prices, transcription allowances, launch offers, and included features.
- Plaud desktop
Bot-free capture, meeting detection, recording modes, screenshots, highlights, and typed notes.
- Plaud desktop requirements
Individual Starter activation requires a device bound to the account.
- Plaud Team requirements
Two-seat minimum, roles, privacy, and Team desktop capture without hardware.
- Plaud Team administration
Team management, data residency, and the FAQ stating SSO is not yet supported.
- Plaud Team sharing
Private-by-default recordings and member-only file sharing and links.
- Plaud cross-recording questions
Questions across transcribed recordings and source-file references.
- Plaud Skills and Routines
Conditional automation, shared Skills, Agent credit costs, and AutoFlow migration limits.
- Plaud Intelligence Team update
Shared Agent context, launch connectors, forthcoming integrations, and account updates.
- Plaud Agent credits
Transcription versus Agent usage, nonrenewing launch grants, and paid credit top-ups.
- Plaud MCP
Recording, summary, transcript, and audio-link retrieval through authenticated MCP.
- Plaud CLI
Command-line retrieval and name-based search limited to 500 recent recordings.
- Plaud developer platform
Distinguishes the Embedded device SDK/transcription API from access to Plaud account data.
Frequently asked questions
Which is better: Krisp or Plaud?
Choose Krisp for live noise removal and accent conversion. Choose Plaud for dedicated portable recorders, desktop recording, and AI workflows using Skills and Routines.
Which is less expensive, Krisp or Plaud?
Krisp: Core $8 and Advanced $15/user/month with annual billing. Plaud: Devices list at $159–$189; AI plans priced separately. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need.
Can Krisp and Plaud record without a bot?
Krisp: Bot-free system-audio capture. Plaud: Dedicated recorders, bot-free desktop, and imports. Check whether your preferred recording method preserves video and speaker labels.
Which is better for a whole company?
Compare automatic sharing, permissions, retention, and the defaults admins can enforce. Krisp: Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing. Plaud: Personal sharing, Team member access, and Routines.
Can I access and move the full meeting data?
Krisp: MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core. Plaud: MCP and CLI retrieval; separate Embedded SDK/API. 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. Links appear in each feature comparison and in the Sources section.


