Avoma vs Wudpecker (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Avoma if

• Fits if your sales or customer success team logs meeting notes to a CRM
• Works for companies where many people only watch recordings, since viewer seats are free

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you're one person who wants meeting notes, at $19 a month billed yearly or $29 monthly
• Not for you if you want a free plan, as the account turns view-only when the 14-day trial ends
• Skip it if you want coaching and forecasting in the base price, as those are $29-a-seat add-ons
• Tight if your team grows: Startup stops at 25 recorder seats and Organization at 100, and every recorder must share one plan
• Watch out: SSO and HIPAA need Enterprise, with a 10-seat minimum and yearly billing only

Pick Wudpecker if

• Fits if you want notes in your own layout, like a sales call format or a stand-up summary
• Works for someone who sits in under 10 bot meetings a month and wants it free

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you're on Free: 10 bot meetings a month and 3 Ask AI questions per recording
• Skip it if you edit transcripts by hand, as the FAQ says you can only re-run them in another language
• Watch out: meetings are capped at 2 hours 15 minutes, and one calendar and one workspace per account
• Watch out: the FAQ says no refunds after you cancel, though access runs to period end
• Pricey if you need more than 30 bot meetings a month, since that means Pro at $32

Avoma

• There is no free plan. When the 14-day trial ends, the account drops to a viewer role that cannot record new meetings.
• Call scoring, coaching, deal risk alerts and forecasting are add-ons at $29 per seat a month (annual), on top of a base plan.
• Startup is capped at 25 recorder seats and Organization at 100. Enterprise needs at least 10 seats and is billed annually only.
• Every recording user in an account must be on the same base plan.

Wudpecker

• Free allows 10 notetaker-bot meetings a month, Plus 30 and Pro 100; the bot stops recording past the limit.
• Meetings are capped at 2 hours 15 minutes, and one calendar and one workspace per account.
• The FAQ says transcripts cannot be edited by hand, only re-run in another language.
• The FAQ says refunds are not given after cancelling, though access runs to period end.

Avoma

Recording and live transcription

Records audio and video on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoToMeeting, with or without a bot, and transcribes in more than 70 languages with speakers named.

AI notes and templates

Notes come with key takeaways, action items and more than 40 default topics, using 10+ built-in templates such as MEDDIC and SPICED. Custom templates and topics start on Organization.

CRM note sync

Saves meeting notes to the matching account, opportunity or contact in Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive or Copper without manual entry.

Scheduler

Unlimited 1:1 scheduling links are on every plan. Group and round-robin scheduling need Organization, and rule-based lead routing is a separate add-on.

Ask Avoma

An AI assistant that answers questions about a single meeting on every plan. Asking across all conversations is listed with Enterprise and with the Conversation Intelligence add-on.

Conversation and revenue intelligence

Add-ons for AI call scoring, coaching recommendations, deal risk alerts, win-loss analysis and forecasting, each priced at $29 per seat a month on annual billing.

Wudpecker

Instruction-based notes

You tell Wudpecker the structure, details and language for the notes, and it can turn text into tables.

Notetaker bot and bot-free recording

A bot joins Zoom, Meet and Teams meetings; desktop apps on Mac and Windows and phone apps record without one.

Ask Wudpecker

A chat assistant for questions about meeting discussions; capped at 3 questions per recording on Free, unlimited on Plus.

Custom vocabulary

Set how special names and words are spelled so they are written the same way in later meetings.

Sharing and collections

Group calls into collections, share notes with another Wudpecker user or send a view-only link.

Notion, Slack and HubSpot

Plus and Pro connect meeting notes to Notion, Slack and HubSpot; more CRMs are listed as beta.

Avoma

• Startup$19

  per recorder seat / month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly)

  Up to 25 paid seats: video recording, unlimited transcription and AI notes, Ask Avoma for a meeting, CRM note sync and 1:1 scheduling.

• Organization$29

  per recorder seat / month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly)

  Up to 100 paid seats: adds custom AI topics and templates, group and round-robin scheduling, translation, API access and webhooks.

• Enterprise$39

  per recorder seat / month, billed annually only

  Minimum 10 paid seats: adds SAML or OIDC single sign-on, data retention policies, HIPAA compliance and a designated success manager.

Wudpecker

• Free$0

  10 notetaker-bot meetings a month, 3 Ask AI questions per recording, 39 languages, sharing and custom templates.

• Plus$19

  per month, billed annually ($23 billed monthly)

  30 bot meetings a month, unlimited Ask AI questions, auto-join rules, bot name and message, Notion, Slack and HubSpot.

• Pro$32

  per month, billed annually ($40 billed monthly)

  Everything in Plus, for 100 notetaker-bot meetings a month.

Avoma

• Annual discount

  Up to 33% off with yearly billing

  Avoma offers up to 33% off the base plan when paid yearly upfront: Startup is $19 instead of $29 per recorder seat a month, and Organization $29 instead of $39.

Wudpecker

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with annual billing

  Wudpecker's pricing page shows annual billing at 20% off: Plus $19 instead of $23 and Pro $32 instead of $40 a month.