# tl;dv vs Krisp: pricing, features, and which is better

> tl;dv and Krisp compared across pricing, capture, speaker labels, recordings, notes, sharing, automations, integrations, AI-agent access, and administration.

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## Short answer

Choose tl;dv for a video library, clips, and recurring analysis. Choose Krisp when noise removal, voice isolation, bot-free device capture, and a shared action center come first.

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.

## tl;dv at a glance

tl;dv combines unlimited meeting recording on its free tier with clips, reels, recurring reports, playbooks, and sales coaching. Its newer bot-free desktop mode broadens capture, but that mode is audio-only and drops video, screen share, and chat.

**Best for:** Individuals and customer-facing teams that want a generous free recorder, easy clips, recurring multi-meeting reports, and optional sales playbooks.

**Less ideal for:** Teams that need a mature mobile rollout, video in bot-free mode, stable API contracts, durable free-plan retention, or one cross-functional company context layer.

**Price:** Free; Pro from $18/user/month annually; Business from $29 annually

Free includes unlimited recordings and transcripts, but recordings are retained for three months, older recordings are archived shortly after processing, advanced AI credits are lifetime-limited, and after the first ten meetings generated notes cover only the first ten minutes. Paid prices are per user/month: Pro is $18 with annual billing or $29 month-to-month; Business is $29 or $39. Enterprise is quoted separately.

**Free option:** Yes: unlimited recordings and transcripts, with retention, archive, AI-note, credit, duration, and concurrency limits.

### tl;dv strengths

- One of the broadest free recording and transcription allowances, despite meaningful retention and AI-output limits.
- Strong clips, reels, highlights, multi-meeting reports, playbooks, and sales coaching workflows.
- Bot and bot-free macOS/Windows capture now sit beside an early mobile recorder for in-person conversations.
- Recurring AI reports and conditional Slack workflows are particularly good at turning many calls into a compact digest with decisions and owner/deadline action lists.

### tl;dv tradeoffs

- Bot-free capture is audio-only: no video, screen sharing, or meeting chat is preserved.
- The newly documented mobile recorder is still described as an early-stage testing experience rather than a mature production path.
- Free recordings are retained for three months and quickly archived; after the first ten meetings, generated notes cover only the first ten minutes.
- The public API is labeled v1alpha1, and MCP searches typically return at most 50 meetings per query.
- There is no bulk meeting export in the product. Individual recording downloads require both owner and downloader to be on a paid plan, plus editor or admin access.
- The domain-level Organization is automatic rather than a governed tenant: any same-domain user can join it and the Organization itself cannot be deleted. Paid Teams provide the actual admin hierarchy.
- Several advanced AI, sales, and multilingual capabilities are reserved for higher plans.
- tl;dv can extract assigned action lists and send them elsewhere, but it does not document a native workspace-wide task system with assignee queues, status, due dates, and completion tracking.

### Choose tl;dv when

- Unlimited free recording matters more than unlimited AI notes.
- Your workflow revolves around clips, playlists, sales playbooks, and recurring topic reports.
- You are comfortable using a bot when video, screen share, and chat need to be retained.

## Krisp at a glance

Krisp’s differentiator is not another summary format—it is the audio layer. Noise cancellation, voice isolation, and accent conversion sit beside a capable bot-free note taker, recordings, mobile capture, MCP, and webhooks.

**Best for:** People who work in noisy environments, contact centers, or distributed teams where call clarity and bot-free capture matter as much as the notes.

**Less ideal for:** Teams that need 100+ languages, a broad company knowledge graph, deep multi-system automations, or advanced governance without an enterprise contract.

**Price:** Core from $8/user/month annually; Advanced from $15 annually

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.

### Krisp strengths

- Krisp’s clearest differentiator is real-time noise cancellation, voice isolation, and accent conversion across calling apps.
- Bot-free audio and screen/video capture, optional bot-based video, iOS/Android in-person support, AI chat, MCP, and webhooks come at a relatively low entry price.
- Action items are automatically generated and assigned, then managed workspace-wide with assignees, due dates, priority, and status.
- On-device and private deployment options for enterprise customers with strict audio requirements.
- Krisp says meeting data is not used to train its AI models; transcript-only audio can be processed on-device or deleted immediately after cloud transcription.

### Krisp tradeoffs

- Mobile recording does not include Krisp’s signature noise cancellation.
- Core includes only 10 GB of storage, while Salesforce, policy enforcement, manager views, and stronger team workflows require Advanced.
- HIPAA/BAA is listed for enterprise deployments of 100+ seats.
- Its 16-language count is materially narrower than products advertising 75–100+ languages.
- Calendar-based speaker names are documented for one-on-one calls; group meetings still require a closer test of diarization and naming behavior.
- Standard cloud meeting data is stored in the United States with no general regional-storage option. Enterprise pricing advertises a negotiable data-center choice and on-device private processing, so residency-sensitive buyers should verify the deployed architecture.

### Choose Krisp when

- Call clarity and bot-free capture are the top requirements.
- You want AV recording, MCP, webhooks, and mobile capture at a low per-recorder price.
- Your enterprise may need private or on-device audio processing.

## Feature comparison

| What matters | tl;dv | Krisp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capture options | Broad support — Meeting bot or bot-free desktop recording. macOS and Windows can capture system audio from any meeting platform without a bot. The bot remains the richer mode for supported conferencing platforms. | Broad support — Bot-free system-audio capture. Krisp records through the device rather than joining meetings as a participant. Its audio-processing layer works across calling apps on desktop. |
| Desktop and mobile | Available with limits — Web, Chrome, macOS, Windows, and an early mobile app. Desktop capture is broad. tl;dv now documents a mobile app for in-person meetings, but describes it as recently launched, early-stage, and available for testing. | Broad support — macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation. |
| In-person capture and speaker labels | Available with limits — Desktop microphone or early-stage mobile recording. A laptop can capture room audio and the newer mobile app can record in-person meetings. tl;dv documents speaker identification generally but does not explain whether the early mobile path preserves the same naming behavior, so test it before a broad rollout. There is no documented Watch capture. | Broad support — 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. |
| Recordings, playback, and clips | Broad support — Rich playback, clips, and reels—with a botless video caveat. Bot recordings support video, transcript, clips, reels, and shareable moments. Bot-free recordings are audio-only and omit video, screen sharing, and chat. | Broad support — Bot-free audio and screen/video; optional bot video. Krisp now documents bot-free screen/video recording on supported macOS and Windows versions, correcting its older audio-only framing. An optional Krisp bot can also retain meeting video. Advanced adds richer collaboration such as trimming and comments plus more storage, and storage quotas matter for recording-heavy teams. |
| Notes, action items, and search | Broad support — AI notes, action digests, multi-meeting reports, and topic tracking. The product is particularly good at synthesizing multiple meetings and turning recurring prompts into reports, including action lists grouped by person and date. Those are report or checklist outputs rather than a native task lifecycle with workspace queues and completion state. Free accounts get a limited number of AI notes. | Broad support — 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. This is a real product strength, even though the broader relationship-memory layer remains thinner. |
| People, companies, and context | Available with limits — Meeting library and multi-meeting synthesis. tl;dv can query and report across accessible meetings, but it does not present a broader email/calendar/person/company relationship memory as its core model. | Narrow or indirect — 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. |
| Automatic sharing and workspace defaults | Broad support — Granular team privacy defaults and automatic sharing. Teams can automatically share with participants, publish to a team or organization library, and apply admin privacy rules using meeting context such as title, internal or external type, and team role. Sensitive categories can remain private by rule. | Broad support — 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. |
| Automations | Broad support — Recurring AI reports and sales workflows. Automated multi-meeting reports, playbooks, CRM updates, and conditional Slack posts are useful, especially for customer-facing teams. Slack workflows can format decisions and action items with owners and deadlines, but team workflow scope excludes team admins and billing-group admins, and the overall system is less open-ended than a general meeting condition/action builder. | Available with limits — 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. |
| Integrations | Available with limits — CRM and collaboration integrations on paid plans. tl;dv connects to common CRMs and work tools; exact access varies by plan. The catalog is oriented around GTM and collaboration workflows. | Available with limits — Common work tools; Salesforce on Advanced. Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced. |
| API, MCP, CLI, and data portability | Available with limits — MCP on Pro+ and a public alpha API. MCP can search meetings and participants, with typical result sets capped at 50. A subtle access rule matters: viewing a shared meeting is not enough if its organizer is on Free—the organizer must have Pro or higher before that meeting is available through MCP or the API. The API is documented as v1alpha1 and includes recording downloads, so integration teams should expect contract evolution. | Broad support — 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. |
| Security, privacy, and admin | Available with limits — Paid Team controls, with a looser domain Organization layer. Paid Teams add roles, billing administration, and forward-looking defaults; team settings do not override Team Admins. The separate domain-based Organization has no organization-wide admin defaults, any same-domain user can join it, and it cannot be deleted. Multi-team management is Business-only. | Available with limits — 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. |
| Languages | Available with limits — Multilingual transcription; advanced multilingual mode is plan-gated. Language selection behavior varies by capture mode, and the multilingual Whisper option is documented for Business and Enterprise. | Narrow or indirect — 16 transcription languages. Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages. |

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.**

**tl;dv:** Meeting bot or bot-free desktop recording. macOS and Windows can capture system audio from any meeting platform without a bot. The bot remains the richer mode for supported conferencing platforms.

Evidence: [tl;dv bot-free recording](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/14433337-recording-without-a-bot).

**Krisp:** Bot-free system-audio capture. Krisp records through the device rather than joining meetings as a participant. Its audio-processing layer works across calling apps on desktop.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp bot-free screen recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp).

### Desktop and mobile

**Krisp has broader documented support for desktop and mobile.**

**tl;dv:** Web, Chrome, macOS, Windows, and an early mobile app. Desktop capture is broad. tl;dv now documents a mobile app for in-person meetings, but describes it as recently launched, early-stage, and available for testing.

Evidence: [tl;dv bot-free recording](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/14433337-recording-without-a-bot), [tl;dv mobile app](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8490450-mobile-app).

**Krisp:** macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp mobile recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App).

### In-person capture and speaker labels

**Krisp has broader documented support for in-person capture and speaker labels.**

**tl;dv:** Desktop microphone or early-stage mobile recording. A laptop can capture room audio and the newer mobile app can record in-person meetings. tl;dv documents speaker identification generally but does not explain whether the early mobile path preserves the same naming behavior, so test it before a broad rollout. There is no documented Watch capture.

Evidence: [tl;dv mobile app](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8490450-mobile-app), [tl;dv speaker identification](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6171907-speaker-identification-in-transcript).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp mobile recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App), [Krisp calendar and speaker naming](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10277892556828-Connecting-your-Calendar-to-Krisp).

### Recordings, playback, and clips

**Both products document broad support for recordings, playback, and clips, with different scope and plan limits.**

**tl;dv:** Rich playback, clips, and reels—with a botless video caveat. Bot recordings support video, transcript, clips, reels, and shareable moments. Bot-free recordings are audio-only and omit video, screen sharing, and chat.

Evidence: [tl;dv bot-free recording](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/14433337-recording-without-a-bot), [tl;dv free-plan limits](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8919450-what-are-the-limits-of-the-free-plan).

**Krisp:** Bot-free audio and screen/video; optional bot video. Krisp now documents bot-free screen/video recording on supported macOS and Windows versions, correcting its older audio-only framing. An optional Krisp bot can also retain meeting video. Advanced adds richer collaboration such as trimming and comments plus more storage, and storage quotas matter for recording-heavy teams.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp recording FAQ](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/12216182124956-FAQ-about-Krisp-Recording-feature), [Krisp bot-free screen recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp).

### Notes, action items, and search

**Both products document broad support for notes, action items, and search, with different scope and plan limits.**

**tl;dv:** AI notes, action digests, multi-meeting reports, and topic tracking. The product is particularly good at synthesizing multiple meetings and turning recurring prompts into reports, including action lists grouped by person and date. Those are report or checklist outputs rather than a native task lifecycle with workspace queues and completion state. Free accounts get a limited number of AI notes.

Evidence: [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing), [tl;dv free-plan limits](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8919450-what-are-the-limits-of-the-free-plan), [tl;dv AI prompts](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/9235713-ai-prompts-inspiration).

**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. This is a real product strength, even though the broader relationship-memory layer remains thinner.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard).

### People, companies, and context

**tl;dv has broader documented support for people, companies, and context.**

**tl;dv:** Meeting library and multi-meeting synthesis. tl;dv can query and report across accessible meetings, but it does not present a broader email/calendar/person/company relationship memory as its core model.

Evidence: [tl;dv MCP](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15322415-mcp).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp MCP](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP).

### Automatic sharing and workspace defaults

**Both products document broad support for automatic sharing and workspace defaults, with different scope and plan limits.**

**tl;dv:** Granular team privacy defaults and automatic sharing. Teams can automatically share with participants, publish to a team or organization library, and apply admin privacy rules using meeting context such as title, internal or external type, and team role. Sensitive categories can remain private by rule.

Evidence: [tl;dv team privacy defaults](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15033798-team-privacy-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.

Evidence: [Krisp meeting sharing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10386573495196-Sharing-your-meetings-with-Krisp), [Krisp Manager View](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21142526003356-Manager-View), [Krisp Microsoft Teams integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26704048673436-Integrate-Krisp-with-Microsoft-Teams).

### Automations

**tl;dv has broader documented support for automations.**

**tl;dv:** Recurring AI reports and sales workflows. Automated multi-meeting reports, playbooks, CRM updates, and conditional Slack posts are useful, especially for customer-facing teams. Slack workflows can format decisions and action items with owners and deadlines, but team workflow scope excludes team admins and billing-group admins, and the overall system is less open-ended than a general meeting condition/action builder.

Evidence: [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing), [tl;dv Slack workflows](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/5946410-set-up-the-slack-integration).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard), [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API), [Krisp Zapier integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier), [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/).

### Integrations

**Both products support integrations, with different scope and plan limits.**

**tl;dv:** CRM and collaboration integrations on paid plans. tl;dv connects to common CRMs and work tools; exact access varies by plan. The catalog is oriented around GTM and collaboration workflows.

Evidence: [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing).

**Krisp:** Common work tools; Salesforce on Advanced. Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API), [Krisp Zapier integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier).

### API, MCP, CLI, and data portability

**Krisp has broader documented support for API, MCP, CLI, and data portability.**

**tl;dv:** MCP on Pro+ and a public alpha API. MCP can search meetings and participants, with typical result sets capped at 50. A subtle access rule matters: viewing a shared meeting is not enough if its organizer is on Free—the organizer must have Pro or higher before that meeting is available through MCP or the API. The API is documented as v1alpha1 and includes recording downloads, so integration teams should expect contract evolution.

Evidence: [tl;dv MCP](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15322415-mcp), [tl;dv API](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/11583137-api), [tl;dv download limits](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/5946213-how-to-download-your-recording).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp MCP](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP), [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard), [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API).

### Security, privacy, and admin

**Both products support security, privacy, and admin, with different scope and plan limits.**

**tl;dv:** Paid Team controls, with a looser domain Organization layer. Paid Teams add roles, billing administration, and forward-looking defaults; team settings do not override Team Admins. The separate domain-based Organization has no organization-wide admin defaults, any same-domain user can join it, and it cannot be deleted. Multi-team management is Business-only.

Evidence: [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing), [tl;dv team privacy defaults](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15033798-team-privacy-defaults), [tl;dv organization and team model](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8975481-organization-vs-team-what-s-the-difference), [tl;dv permission levels](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/10131073-understanding-permission-levels).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp security and data handling](https://krisp.ai/security-for-ai-meeting-assistant/), [Krisp cloud processing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012035500-What-data-Krisp-sends-to-the-cloud).

### Languages

**tl;dv has broader documented support for languages.**

**tl;dv:** Multilingual transcription; advanced multilingual mode is plan-gated. Language selection behavior varies by capture mode, and the multilingual Whisper option is documented for Business and Enterprise.

Evidence: [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing), [tl;dv bot-free recording](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/14433337-recording-without-a-bot).

**Krisp:** 16 transcription languages. Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages.

Evidence: [Krisp multilingual transcription](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13803811067292-Record-and-transcribe-multilingual-meetings).

## 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: tl;dv or Krisp?

Choose tl;dv for a video library, clips, and recurring analysis. Choose Krisp when noise removal, voice isolation, bot-free device capture, and a shared action center come first.

### Which is less expensive, tl;dv or Krisp?

tl;dv: Free; Pro from $18/user/month annually; Business from $29 annually. Krisp: Core from $8/user/month annually; Advanced from $15 annually. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need.

### Can tl;dv and Krisp record without a bot?

tl;dv: Meeting bot or bot-free desktop recording. Krisp: Bot-free system-audio capture. 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. tl;dv: Granular team privacy defaults and automatic sharing. Krisp: Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing.

### Can I access and move the full meeting data?

tl;dv: MCP on Pro+ and a public alpha API. Krisp: MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core. 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

### tl;dv sources

- [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing): Official Free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise pricing and plan scope.
- [tl;dv free-plan limits](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8919450-what-are-the-limits-of-the-free-plan): Recording retention, archive behavior, AI-note coverage, lifetime credits, meeting duration, and concurrency.
- [tl;dv mobile app](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8490450-mobile-app): Recently launched early-stage mobile recording for in-person meetings.
- [tl;dv speaker identification](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6171907-speaker-identification-in-transcript): General automatic speaker identification; the article does not document mobile-mode parity.
- [tl;dv bot-free recording](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/14433337-recording-without-a-bot): Desktop capture and the audio-only limitation.
- [tl;dv MCP](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15322415-mcp): Plan eligibility, tools, access model, and result behavior.
- [tl;dv API](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/11583137-api): Pro/Business eligibility and v1alpha1 status.
- [tl;dv team privacy defaults](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15033798-team-privacy-defaults): Admin-controlled automatic sharing, workspace-library publishing, and privacy rules for sensitive meetings.
- [tl;dv download limits](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/5946213-how-to-download-your-recording): No bulk export plus paid-plan, ownership, and permission requirements for individual recording downloads.
- [tl;dv organization and team model](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8975481-organization-vs-team-what-s-the-difference): Automatic same-domain Organization membership, absence of Organization-wide admin defaults, and the paid Team hierarchy.
- [tl;dv permission levels](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/10131073-understanding-permission-levels): Team roles, admin behavior, and the non-deletable domain Organization.
- [tl;dv AI prompts](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/9235713-ai-prompts-inspiration): Cross-meeting action-item reports grouped by participant and date plus common analysis workflows.
- [tl;dv Slack workflows](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/5946410-set-up-the-slack-integration): Conditional automatic summaries, decisions, and owner/deadline action lists plus the team-admin scope exception.

### Krisp sources

- [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/): Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates.
- [Krisp mobile recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App): iOS/Android in-person capture and mobile noise-cancellation limitation.
- [Krisp calendar and speaker naming](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10277892556828-Connecting-your-Calendar-to-Krisp): Calendar-based replacement of generic speaker labels with names is currently limited to one-on-one meetings.
- [Krisp meeting sharing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10386573495196-Sharing-your-meetings-with-Krisp): Automatic sharing to same-workspace calendar invitees, prerequisites, and rollout behavior.
- [Krisp Manager View](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21142526003356-Manager-View): Advanced-plan automatic sharing of selected team members' external meetings to chosen managers.
- [Krisp Microsoft Teams integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26704048673436-Integrate-Krisp-with-Microsoft-Teams): Automatic notes delivery for recurring meetings and manual channel sharing.
- [Krisp recording FAQ](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/12216182124956-FAQ-about-Krisp-Recording-feature): Audio recording and optional Krisp-bot video path; supplemented by the newer bot-free screen-recording guide.
- [Krisp bot-free screen recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp): Bot-free screen/video capture and supported macOS/Windows versions.
- [Krisp multilingual transcription](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13803811067292-Record-and-transcribe-multilingual-meetings): Current 16-language transcription list.
- [Krisp MCP](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP): OAuth MCP access to transcripts, summaries, key points, action items, and calendar context.
- [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard): Automatic task creation and assignment plus team-wide views, due dates, priorities, assignees, status, and completion.
- [Krisp Zapier integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier): Action-item, key-point, outline, and transcript triggers, including Jira task creation through Zapier.
- [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API): Core user webhooks and Advanced team webhook scope.
- [Krisp security and data handling](https://krisp.ai/security-for-ai-meeting-assistant/): No-training posture, US cloud storage, lack of standard regional residency, on-device transcription, encryption, and Enterprise controls.
- [Krisp cloud processing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012035500-What-data-Krisp-sends-to-the-cloud): Local noise cancellation plus on-device or transient cloud processing in transcript-only mode.
