# Vexa review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Open-source meeting bot API with real-time transcription Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Vexa sends a bot into Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls and streams the transcript in real time through a REST and WebSocket API. It also offers an MCP server so an agent such as Claude Code can read live meeting data. The code is Apache 2.0 licensed and can be self-hosted, or Vexa runs it for you. - **Category:** AI Meeting Notes - **Made by:** Vexa.ai Inc. - **Website:** https://vexa.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want summaries and action items, as the output is transcripts and a dashboard. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Vexa has a free plan, and paid plans start at $12 per seat / month. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Open-source edition, free to self-host with community support. - **Free trial:** New accounts get $2 of free bot credit, no card needed, about 4 hours of transcribed meetings. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Open source | $0 | Apache 2.0 licensed; you host it yourself on your own infrastructure, with community support. | | Individual | $12 per seat / month | One person and their agents over MCP; one concurrent bot, unlimited meetings and 12-month audio storage. | | Build on Vexa | $10 one-time top-up, used as you go | Pay as you go for the API with unlimited bots; $0.30 per bot-hour, $0.50 with real-time transcription. | | Enterprise | Custom | Self-hosted in your own cloud with dedicated support, volume pricing and a security and data-residency review. | Read from https://vexa.ai/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Vexa before buying. ## Key features - **Meeting bot API:** One API call sends a bot into Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom; the transcript is fetched over REST. - **Real-time transcripts:** Transcripts arrive while the meeting is running, with speaker names, over WebSocket, in the language set for each meeting. - **MCP server:** Claude Code, Codex and other MCP clients can read live meeting data through the Vexa MCP server. - **Webhooks and recording:** Signed events fire when a meeting starts, ends or fails, and meeting audio is stored and fetched over the API. - **Self-hosting:** Deploy with Docker Compose, Kubernetes or OpenShift and run your own transcription model so audio stays on your network. - **Dashboard:** An open-source web dashboard shows bots, transcripts and meetings, and can be forked and customized. ## Good for - Developers building meeting bots into a product - Teams that need transcripts to stay on their own servers - People who want live meeting data inside an AI agent ## Worth knowing - It is developer-facing; the output is an API, transcripts and a dashboard rather than polished summaries. - API usage is billed per bot-hour: $0.30 for the bot and $0.20 more for transcription. - The Individual seat includes one concurrent bot. - Shared workspaces and agents are described as early, self-hosted features. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Vexa is a meeting bot API that returns real-time transcripts, with an open-source edition you host yourself. The output is an API, transcripts and a dashboard, not polished summaries, and hosted use is billed per bot-hour. It is aimed at developers. - **Value for money: C.** Open source is free only if you host it yourself. Hosted is $12 a seat a month, the middle, with usage at $0.50 an hour. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan: new accounts get $2 of bot credit with no card, about 4 hours, and the open-source edition is self-hosted. - **Features: C.** Meeting bot API, real-time transcripts, an MCP server, webhooks, recording and a dashboard. It stops at the transcript, with no summaries. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. It is an API and a self-hosted edition, so it needs developer setup. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, an API and an MCP server, with Meet, Teams, Zoom, Claude Code and n8n. No desktop or phone app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Vexa's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI meeting note takers - Vexa's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 11 of the 89 other AI meeting note takers we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 16 of 89) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $12 a month for each person, against a middle price of $12 for the category: 37 of the 76 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 34 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-meeting-notes ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Vexa you would be making a bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 70 of the 89 other AI meeting note takers grade higher. It costs $144 a year. Vexa is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: A bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Claude Code, n8n **Tags:** Meeting notes, Transcription, Public API, Open source, Self-hostable, AI agents ## Alternatives - [Meetily](https://toolgpa.com/tools/meetily): Open-source meeting recorder that transcribes on your device. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/meetily-vs-vexa) - [Anarlog](https://toolgpa.com/tools/anarlog): Open-source, local-first AI meeting notepad with no bot. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anarlog-vs-vexa) - [Fireflies.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fireflies): Meeting notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes calls. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fireflies-vs-vexa) - [Otter.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otter): Live meeting transcription with summaries and AI chat. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/otter-vs-vexa) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://vexa.ai/pricing - https://vexa.ai/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/vexa Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).