Recall.ai

What it does

Recall.ai is an API that takes in meetings from video conferencing platforms, phone calls, and in-person conversations and returns recordings, speaker-labeled transcripts, audio and video streams, participant details, and meeting metadata. Data can be retrieved in real time during a meeting or asynchronously after it ends. Its Output Media APIs can also send chat messages, audio, or video into a meeting.

Developers use it as the meeting data layer for notetakers, AI meeting agents, sales and recruiting tools, and compliance workflows. The Meeting Bot API joins a meeting as a visible bot, the Desktop Recording SDK records through an installed desktop app without a bot in the call, and the Calendar API supplies participant emails and meeting titles. Each speaker's audio is captured separately so transcripts attribute lines to the right person.

This suits engineering teams building meeting features rather than end users wanting a finished app. The Pay As You Go plan is priced at $0.50 per hour of recording, with 5 free hours on sign-up. The Desktop SDK requires a lightweight desktop app on the user's computer, and the Mobile Recording SDK is listed as coming soon.

What it can do

• Record and transcribe video conferences with a bot that joins the meeting
• Capture meeting recordings locally through a desktop app without a bot in the call
• Retrieve speaker-labeled transcripts, participant names, and emails in real time or asynchronously
• Access meeting metadata such as titles and participant lists through the Calendar API
• Send chat messages, audio, or video into meetings through Output Media APIs

Works with

• Zoom
• Google Meet
• Microsoft Teams
• Webex
• GoTo Meeting
• Slack Huddles
• Google Calendar
• Microsoft Calendar

Before you choose

• Desktop Recording SDK requires users to install a lightweight desktop app
• Mobile Recording SDK is listed as coming soon, so it is not currently available
• Standard bots are priced at the base rate, while 4-core bots add $0.10/hr and GPU bots add $1/hr

Listed under

• Productivity
• Meetings and notes
• API
• Conversation data
• Developer tools
• Meeting recording
• Notetaker infrastructure
• Speaker diarization

Get started

Start with a free account; the Pay As You Go plan includes 5 free hours of recording.

1. Sign up for an account using the Start for free link
2. Open the Getting Started guide in the API docs and choose a starting point such as Meeting Bots or the Desktop Recording SDK
3. Follow the quickstart to record a meeting using a bot

Billed to the second per hour of recording, regardless of participant count. Built-in transcription is $0.15 per hour. Recording storage: 7 days free, then $0.05 per hour retained for 30 days. Startup program rate of $0.25 per hour for first 10,000 hours applies to eligible early-stage startups. Free calendar API.

Source: recall.ai/pricing, checked 29 Oct 2026. Prices can change; check before you buy.

Sources for this overview

Product pages, documentation, and pricing checked 29 Oct 2026. Each source supports part of the overview; availability and prices can change.

• Recall.ai - The API for Meeting Recording ↗www.recall.ai
• AI Meeting Agent API ↗www.recall.ai
• Products | Recall.ai Meeting Recording Products ↗www.recall.ai
• Notetaker API | Get Meeting Notes, Summaries & Action Items ↗www.recall.ai
• Getting Started with Recall.ai ↗docs.recall.ai
• Pricing ↗www.recall.ai

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Last checked 29 Oct 2026. Every field keeps its source and date; unknown means we couldn’t confirm it.