Spinach AI vs tl;dv

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

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• Teams that want video recordings of calls, not only notes
• Free users who mainly need unlimited recordings and transcripts
• Sales teams that want CRM sync and call coaching
• Companies that prefer an EU-hosted vendor

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.

tl;dv

• Free limits AI notes to 10 meetings a month, with 10 Ask AI queries and 5 uploads, and keeps data for up to 3 months.
• Playbooks, AI coaching, scheduled reports and unlimited multi-meeting Ask AI need the Business plan.
• SCIM provisioning, custom SSO and privately hosted AI are Enterprise only.
• The Chrome extension covers Google Meet only, and mobile recordings are limited to 3 hours each.

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.

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Recording with or without a bot

The notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls as a visible participant. The desktop app for Mac and Windows records from system audio instead, with no bot in the call.

Transcripts in 30+ languages

Transcribes with automatic speaker recognition in more than 30 languages. Business adds premium transcription with multi-language support and custom vocabulary.

AI notes and templates

Summarizes each meeting into notes. Free covers 10 meetings a month; Pro lifts the limit and adds custom note templates, action item assignment and follow-up email drafts.

Ask AI across meetings

Ask questions about a recording and get answers from the transcript. Free includes 10 queries, and unlimited questions across many meetings come with Business.

Shareable clips

Highlight any part of a transcript to generate a clip of that moment in the recording, which can be shared without sending the whole meeting.

CRM sync and coaching

Pro syncs meeting notes to a CRM. Business adds team-wide CRM field mapping, playbooks with AI coaching and scheduled reports.

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.

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• Free$0

  Unlimited recordings and transcripts, AI notes for 10 meetings a month, 10 Ask AI queries and 3 months of data retention.

• Pro$18

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

  Removes the AI limits and adds custom note templates, follow-up email drafts, unlimited uploads and storage, CRM sync, API and webhooks.

• Business$29

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

  Adds unlimited multi-meeting Ask AI, playbooks and AI coaching, scheduled reports, CRM field mapping and custom vocabulary.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds SCIM provisioning, custom SSO, privately hosted AI and organization activity logs.

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.

tl;dv

• Annual discount

  Lower per-seat price on annual billing

  By tl;dv's listed prices, Pro is $18 per seat per month billed annually against $29 monthly (about 38% less), and Business is $29 against $39 (about 26% less).