Fathom vs Spinach AI

Fathom

• Individuals who want unlimited recording and transcription without paying
• Sales teams that log calls to HubSpot or Salesforce
• Teams that share clips and highlights from customer calls

Spinach AI

• Companies that would rather pay by meeting hour than per seat
• Product and engineering teams turning action items into tickets
• Teams that want to start on a free plan and trial the paid features

Fathom

• On the Free plan, advanced summaries cover only the first 5 calls each month, and action items and Ask Fathom are limited.
• Team and Business plans have a 2-user minimum.
• Bot-free capture is Mac only for now. There is no Android app, and Linux, Chromebooks and iPads are not supported.
• CRM field sync, deal view and coaching scorecards require the Business plan.

Spinach AI

• Starter keeps recordings for only 7 days, has basic summaries and lacks the CRM, ticketing and knowledge-base integrations.
• The Pro plan requires a work email domain; public addresses such as Gmail are not eligible.
• Meetings longer than 3 hours do not receive a summary, according to Spinach's FAQ.
• Spinach runs as a bot in the call plus a browser dashboard. SSO, SCIM and the API need Enterprise, which has a 50-seat minimum.

Fathom

Bot or bot-free capture

Record with a meeting bot that joins the call, or capture from the desktop app with nothing added to the meeting. Bot-free capture is in beta and currently works on Mac only.

AI summaries and action items

A summary is ready when the call ends. Free accounts get advanced summary templates on their first 5 calls each month; paid plans remove the cap and add AI action items.

Ask Fathom

Ask questions about a single call or across the calls in your account and get answers drawn from the transcripts. Use is limited on the Free plan.

Clips and playlists

Cut highlights out of a recording and group them into playlists to share with people who missed the meeting. Included on every plan.

CRM sync

Sends call notes to HubSpot, Salesforce or Close. The Business plan adds CRM field sync, a deal view, and coaching metrics with AI scorecards.

Team workspace

Team plans add global search across everyone's calls, comments, folders and keyword alerts that flag when chosen terms come up.

Spinach AI

Notetaker for video calls

Spinach joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex meetings from a connected Google or Microsoft calendar and records them. Slack Huddles support is in beta.

Summaries and templates

Sends a summary with action items and decisions a few minutes after the meeting, using meeting templates. Starter gets basic summaries; paid plans get advanced ones.

Ask Spinach

An AI chat that answers questions from meeting data. It is limited on Starter and included in full on Pro, Business and Enterprise.

Tickets and CRM updates

Paid plans connect to Jira, Linear, Asana, ClickUp, Trello and Monday for tickets, to HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio and Zoho, and to Confluence, Google Docs and Notion.

Pay-as-you-go Pro plan

Pro charges $2.90 per meeting hour for an unlimited number of users, billed on actual usage. A month with no meetings costs nothing.

Quick Record and uploads

Quick Record captures in-person conversations from the browser, and existing recordings can be uploaded for a summary on paid plans.

Fathom

• Free$0

  Unlimited recordings and transcription, instant AI summaries, clips, playlists and search across calls.

• Team$15

  per user / month, billed annually ($19 monthly), 2-user minimum

  Everything in Premium, plus global search across calls, comments, folders and keyword alerts.

• Premium$16

  per user / month, billed annually ($20 monthly)

  For individuals: advanced call summaries, AI action items, the conversational assistant and a custom meeting bot.

• Business$25

  per user / month, billed annually ($34 monthly), 2-user minimum

  Everything in Team, plus CRM field sync, deal view, coaching metrics with AI scorecards and custom summaries.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Everything in Business, plus SSO, SCIM provisioning, custom retention, dedicated support and an onboarding program.

Spinach AI

• Starter$0

  Recordings, transcripts and basic AI summaries in 100+ languages, with calendar and Slack integration and 7-day recording retention.

• Pro$2.90

  per meeting hour, pay as you go, unlimited users

  Company-wide account: advanced AI summaries, Ask Spinach, MCP connectors, CRM and task-tool integrations. Requires a work email domain.

• Business$19

  per user / month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly)

  No seat minimum: unlimited meetings, advanced AI summaries, Ask Spinach, MCP connectors, CRM and task-tool integrations, and custom branding.

• EnterpriseCustom

  50-seat minimum: SAML SSO and SCIM, admin settings and reporting, API, custom data retention, compliance agents and a HIPAA BAA.

Fathom

• Annual discount

  Lower per-user price on annual billing

  Fathom labels annual billing "save 25%+". At listed prices Premium drops from $20 to $16, Team from $19 to $15 and Business from $34 to $25 per user per month.

• Nonprofit

  10 free seats for nonprofits

  Fathom's pricing page offers nonprofits 10 free seats. An application is required.

• Startups

  Up to 2 years of Team free for startups

  Under the Qualified Portfolio Program, startups affiliated with select venture firms and accelerators get up to 2 years of Fathom Team free.

Spinach AI

• Annual discount

  Save $120 a year per user on annual billing

  The pricing page shows a $120 yearly saving on the Business plan with annual billing: $19 per user a month instead of $29 on monthly billing.