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Solo-fit verdictSolo-ReadyThe measurement pick: $15 a month billed yearly for unlimited reports plus coaching and cross-tool search — just budget Enterprise if you need to replay calls.
True solo cost · low$0/mo$0/month on Free for 1 user at up to 5 meetings a month — the low scenario is real for light meeting loads; meetings are capped at 1 hour.
True solo cost · typical$15/mo$15/month for 1 user on Pro billed annually ($19.75 monthly) at typical solo load — unlimited transcripts and 4-hour meetings; budget $22.50 billed annually instead if you need to replay recordings, because playback is an Enterprise feature.
Rank #17 of 17 in Admin & SchedulingFree start Free plan availableSetup Under 1 hourControl Acts + logs everythingNo-code 5/5Checked · prices checked 2026-11-06
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The short version
Read AI joins your meetings visibly, reports on what was decided, coaches how you performed, and makes meetings, email and messages searchable as one memory.
Buy it if
You run recurring client calls and want coaching, pre-meeting briefs and cited answers across past conversations — not just another transcript — for $15 a month yearly.
Skip it if
You need playback on the first paid tier, a bot-free recorder, or any scheduling help — Read offers none of those.
What Read AI does — the jobs it finishes
Workflows are built only from verified capabilities in our listing research — no vendor copy, nothing invented.
Walk in knowing what was promised
Starts A meeting with an existing client approaches
- Read assembles context from calendar, email, past meetings and CRM
- Open items and last-time promises are surfaced
- The brief is delivered to your inbox, tailored to you
You get A pre-meeting brief before the call starts
No more re-reading three threads to remember where things stand
Report and coaching after every call
Starts A Zoom, Meet or Teams meeting ends
- Read generates the report: summary, topics, action items, key questions
- Your coaching metrics — talk speed, filler words, engagement — are attached
- Action items are routed to the tools your team works in
You get A report with action items and a coaching readout
Every call documented, and your delivery measurably improves over time
Ask what was decided, get a citation
Starts You need a decision, owner or open item from any past conversation
- Ask Read across meetings, emails and messages
- It answers with citations to the underlying content
You get An answer you can trace back to its source
Follow-through questions stop becoming archaeology
Spot the theme across a month of calls
Starts The same topic keeps surfacing with clients
- Topic Readouts rank topics by your engagement
- For You insights surface what is trending across your meetings
You get A ranked view of what your meetings are actually about
Patterns a single transcript would never show you
Where it stops
- No audio or video playback on Pro — playback and video highlights start on Enterprise
- Does not schedule meetings, send booking links, plan your day or reshuffle tasks
- Enterprise+ is not a solo plan: it requires a minimum of 5 licences
- Free plan caps at 5 meeting transcripts a month in meetings of up to 1 hour
Getting started
Before you start
- A Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams account for the assistant to join
- No credit card and no install required to start free
The ongoing admin
- Watch the free meter: 5 transcripts a month, and shared reports count toward it
- Decide your playback needs early — the Pro-to-Enterprise step is a feature gate, not a usage one
Step 1Start free
5 meeting transcripts a month with search and coaching at $0 — enough to judge report quality.
Step 2Let Read join your real meetings
Add the assistant to Zoom, Meet or Teams calls; everyone in the meeting can see it is there.
Step 3Connect premium sources on Pro
Pro at $15/mo yearly unlocks premium integrations and sources for Ask Read, plus unlimited transcripts.
Step 4Check whether you need playback
If replaying recordings matters, skip straight to Enterprise at $22.50/mo yearly — Pro deliberately excludes it.
Time to first useful result: Under 1 hour · no-code 5/5
Full pricing — checked 2026-11-06
Per user per month, with an Annual/Monthly toggle — annual billing is 25% off the monthly rate. Free $0 — 5 meeting transcripts/month, 1-hour meetings, search, coaching, basic integrations. Pro $15/user/mo billed annually ($19.75 billed monthly) — unlimited transcripts, 4-hour meetings, 100 upload minutes/month, premium integrations. Enterprise $22.50 billed annually ($29.75 monthly) — adds audio/video playback, video highlights, 200 upload minutes, premium support. Enterprise+ $29.75 billed annually ($39.75 monthly) — HIPAA, SAML/SCIM, domain capture, custom retention, 300 upload minutes; requires 5+ licences. Volume discounts on annual billing at 100+ licences per the pricing reads.
Free
$0 — always free, no credit card required
Per seat / month · $0/mo for one person
- 5 meeting transcripts per month
- Unlimited enterprise search and best-in-class summaries
- Personalised meeting coach and Topic Readouts
- Basic integrations; 20+ languages; Windows, macOS, Android and iOS apps
Allowance 5 meeting transcripts/month; maximum meeting length 1 hour
Limit No file uploads on Free
Limit Reports shared with you count toward the 5 in corroborating reads of the official help centre
Solo pickPro
$15 per user/month billed annually ($19.75 billed monthly)
Per seat / month · $15/mo for one person
- Unlimited meeting transcripts and meeting reports
- 100 file-upload credits per month
- Premium integrations: Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier, webhooks
- Custom assistant branding, unlimited storage and workspace access
Allowance Unlimited transcripts; maximum meeting length 4 hours
Limit No audio/video playback or video highlights — those are Enterprise features
Enterprise
$22.50 per user/month billed annually ($29.75 billed monthly)
Per seat / month
- Everything in Pro
- Audio and video playback and video highlights
- 200 file-upload credits per month
- Premium support
Limit Governance features (SAML, SCIM, HIPAA, custom retention) remain Enterprise-only-plus
Enterprise+
$29.75 per user/month billed annually ($39.75 billed monthly) — requires 5+ licences
Per seat / month
- Everything in Enterprise
- HIPAA compliance, SAML and SCIM, domain capture
- Custom data retention policy and workspace onboarding
- 300 file-upload credits per month; 8-hour meetings
Limit Minimum of 5 licences — a solo cannot buy a single Enterprise+ seat
What could make the bill jump?
Feature gates, not usage: transcripts are unlimited from Pro, so the bill jumps only when you need playback — an Enterprise step from $15 to $22.50 billed annually. Enterprise+ adds a 5-licence minimum, which multiplies the entry cost for small teams.
Billing unitper user per month
Free tier / trialYes — Free is $0 with no credit card: 5 meeting transcripts a month, unlimited enterprise search, summaries for meetings, email and messaging, and a personalised meeting coach.
Pricing clarityClear flat price
Price record · 2026-11-06: First listing check, 2026-11-06, on read.ai/plans-pricing. The page was read directly in full: Free $0 with 5 meeting transcripts/month; Pro shown at both $15 (annual, -25%) and $19.75 monthly per user; Enterprise $22.50 annual / $29.75 monthly; Enterprise+ $29.75 annual / $39.75 monthly with a 5+ licence requirement — and the comparison table confirms the 1/4/4/8-hour meeting caps and 100/200/300 monthly upload minutes. Read's own official help centre states the same four price pairs and the 5-licence Enterprise+ minimum. A 7-day Enterprise trial at signup, with no card, is reported in dated reads of the official pages from October–November 2026.
At a glance — the standard checklist
The same fields on every deep listing in this job, so agents compare field by field. “Not verified” means our research has not confirmed it yet — it never means “doesn't have it.”
- Platforms✓ IncludedWeb · Windows · macOS · iOS · Android apps per the pricing page.
- Key integrations✓ IncludedNotion · Salesforce · HubSpot · Jira · Confluence · Zapier · Slack · Webhooks — premium integrations on paid plans; basic on Free.
- Languages✓ Included20+ languages on the plan cards; the comparison table details support for 16+ languages for meeting reports.
- Support channels? Not verifiedPremium support is an Enterprise feature per the pricing page; general support channels were not verified in this check.
- Help centre / documentation? Not verifiedRead's help centre exists and states its plan details, but its contents were not audited in this check.
- Free plan✓ IncludedFree at $0, no credit card: 5 transcripts/month, search, summaries and coaching.
- Free trial✓ IncludedA 7-day trial of Enterprise at signup is reported in dated reads of Read's official pages (October–November 2026); the free plan is the standing evaluation route.
- Human control model✓ IncludedActs + logs everything: the assistant joins and reports automatically under the joining and sharing rules you set; its presence in meetings is visible to participants.
- Approval controls? Not verifiedWorkspace controls over which meetings Read joins and how reports are distributed are described on the pricing page, but per-action approval controls were not verified in this check.
- Data export / exit route? Not verifiedNot stated in the verified listing research — needs backfill.
- Setup model✓ IncludedNo-code and self-serve — no install required to start; no-code score 5/5.
- Inbox management— Not includedRead searches and summarises email and messages, but it does not triage or manage your inbox.
- Calendar management✓ IncludedConnects to your calendar to join meetings and assemble pre-meeting briefs; it does not plan or optimise the calendar itself.
- Meeting notes✓ IncludedCore feature: reports with summaries, topics, action items, transcripts and live notes across Zoom, Meet and Teams.
- Task reshuffling— Not includedDoes not schedule or reshuffle tasks — action items are routed to external tools.
- Follow-up drafts— Not includedAction items are routed to your tools, but drafted follow-up emails were not verified as a Read feature in this check.
- Daily briefs & nudges✓ IncludedPre-meeting briefs are delivered to your inbox, and weekly briefing agents are a Pro feature in dated reads of the official pages.
Best for
- Solo founders running recurring client calls who want coaching, not just notes
- Anyone who needs cited answers across meetings, email and messages
- Light meeting loads who can live inside the free plan's 5 reports a month
Not for
- Anyone who needs recording playback on the first paid tier
- Clients or prospects who object to a visible bot in the call
- Founders who need scheduling, booking links or day planning
Our assessment of Read AI
Read AI is the analytics-minded notetaker in this job. A visible assistant joins your Zoom, Meet and Teams calls and produces meeting reports with summaries, topics, action items and key questions, plus a personalised meeting coach that scores talk speed, filler words and engagement. Around the reports sits enterprise search: Ask Read answers across your meetings, email and messages with citations, Topic Readouts track themes, and pre-meeting briefs pull what was promised last time from calendar, email, past meetings and CRM before you walk in. Its digital-twin assistant, Ada, extends that context toward workflow help. Pricing is per user with an annual toggle worth 25 percent off. Free covers 5 meeting transcripts a month in meetings up to an hour, with search, coaching and basic integrations. Pro at $15 per user a month billed yearly ($19.75 monthly) makes transcripts unlimited, stretches meetings to 4 hours and adds premium integrations (Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier, webhooks) and 100 monthly upload minutes. Playback is the trap for the unwary: audio and video playback and highlights sit on Enterprise at $22.50 yearly ($29.75 monthly), not Pro. Enterprise+ at $29.75 yearly adds HIPAA, SAML, SCIM and custom retention but requires at least five licences, so it is not a solo plan. Read does not book meetings, plan your day or reshuffle tasks; for a founder who wants to know not just what was said but how their meetings are going, it is the measurement pick.
Pros — our take
- Meeting coaching and analytics no rival here matches — you learn how your calls actually go
- Search across meetings, email and messages with citations turns scattered context into answers
- Free plan includes search and coaching, not just a transcript allowance
Cons — our take
- Playback is paywalled two tiers up — Pro users cannot rewatch their own recordings
- A visible bot assistant joins calls, which some clients dislike
- Enterprise+ has a 5-licence minimum, and refunds are not offered per dated pricing reads
Solo Fit input · no-code5/5 — can a non-technical owner run it?
Solo Fit input · setupUnder 1 hour to the first useful result
Solo Fit input · human controlActs + logs everything
Solo Fit input · pricing clarityClear flat price
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. Flat per-user pricing and a genuinely useful free tier carry it; the playback gate two tiers up is the watch-out.
Three to compare before you decide
The difference: Transcription-first with playback included on its plans and a cheaper Pro at $8.33/mo yearly — better if replay matters more than coaching and search.
The difference: A free notetaker with unlimited free meetings and summaries; Read's edge is coaching, analytics and cross-tool enterprise search.
The difference: Bot-free capture that expands your own jottings for $14/mo — the discreet alternative if a visible assistant joining calls is a problem.
Questions buyers ask about Read AI
What does Read AI cost for one person?
Free covers 5 meetings a month. Pro is $15 per user/month billed annually or $19.75 monthly with unlimited transcripts. Enterprise is $22.50 annually or $29.75 monthly. Prices checked Nov 6, 2026.
Can I watch my recordings on Pro?
No. Audio and video playback and video highlights start on Enterprise at $22.50 per user/month billed annually. Pro gives you reports and transcripts, not replay.
Why can't I just buy one Enterprise+ seat?
Enterprise+ requires a minimum of 5 licences, so a solo buyer cannot purchase it singly — its HIPAA, SAML, SCIM and custom-retention features are priced for organisations.
Does Read AI only do meetings?
Meetings are the core, but its search and readouts also span email and messages, and pre-meeting briefs pull CRM context — it is a memory layer across your conversations, not a scheduler.
Stacks & next steps
Read AI is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.
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