Comparisons

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.

Capture options

KrispBroad support
PlaudBroad 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

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 support
PlaudAvailable with limits

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

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 support
PlaudBroad 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

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.

EvidencePlaud devicesPlaud recording controlsPlaud plans

Recordings, playback, and clips

KrispBroad support
PlaudAvailable with limits

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 support
PlaudBroad 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

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 indirect
PlaudAvailable with limits

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 support
PlaudAvailable with limits

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 limits
PlaudBroad support

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.

EvidencePlaud Skills and RoutinesPlaud Agent credits

Integrations

KrispAvailable with limits
PlaudBroad 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

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 support
PlaudAvailable 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

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.

EvidencePlaud MCPPlaud CLIPlaud developer platform

Security, privacy, and admin

KrispAvailable with limits
PlaudAvailable with limits

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 indirect
PlaudBroad support

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
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.