# MeetGeek: reviews and analysis > The cheapest entry in the segment, with a Spanish-language site and an allowance counted in transcription hours. - Canonical: https://serchai.com/en/reviews/meetgeek/ - Site: Serchai (https://serchai.com) — AI tools comparator - Language: en - Updated: 2026-08-03 --- ## Verdict MeetGeek is the most literal one-for-one substitute for Otter and Fireflies and the only tool competing in their price bracket, from $9.99 per user per month billed annually, or $15.99 monthly. For Spanish speakers it is the best served in the segment, with a translated commercial site and more than twenty regional Spanish variants in its language list. Two things weigh against it. The allowance runs on transcription hours, three a month on free and twenty on paid, with fifty cents per extra hour, so the low price turns variable as soon as you chain meetings. And verified customer reviews report the bot failing to join some meetings and taking the wrong notes in others, which is the failure that cancels the reason for buying it. **Best for:** Anyone who wants what Otter or Fireflies deliver while paying less, and values the tool speaking Spanish. **Rating:** 3.6/5 ## Pros - It is by a distance the cheapest entry in the segment and does the whole job - The commercial site is available in Spanish and its help centre lists over twenty regional variants of the language - It records with and without a bot, and carries governance controls unusual at this price ## Cons - Verified customers report the bot failing to join some meetings and taking the wrong notes in others - The allowance is counted in hours and empties fast: three a month on free, twenty on paid, plus fifty cents per extra hour - The language count changes depending which page of its own site you read, and the 4.6 rating alongside it is self-declared ## Key facts - Price: Permanent free tier + paid from 9.99 USD - Free trial: Yes - Platforms: Web, iOS, Android, Chrome - Categories: [Office](https://serchai.com/en/best-ai/office/) - Official website: https://meetgeek.ai ## What the internet says (agentic sweep) MeetGeek is the most literal one-for-one substitute for Otter and Fireflies, and the only tool in the segment competing in their price bracket, from $9.99 per user per month billed annually. It is also the best positioned for Spanish-speaking buyers: its commercial site is translated into Spanish and its help centre lists more than twenty regional Spanish variants. It offers both capture modes, with and without a bot, and carries governance controls that are unusual at this price, such as private meetings by default, recording-consent notifications and zero retention on the higher tiers. Three objections weigh against it. One, quota: the model runs on transcription hours, three a month on the free plan and twenty on the paid one, charging fifty cents per extra hour, so a low price turns into a variable bill for anyone chaining meetings. Two, reliability, and this is the most serious because it touches the core function: verified customer reviews report the bot failing to join certain meetings and taking the wrong notes when it did. Three, the maker's own consistency: its language count swings between thirty and a hundred and thirty depending which page of its site you read, its pricing page quotes the Pro plan at two different figures in two places, and the 4.6 out of 450 rating that travels with it is written by the company itself in its own page markup rather than published by any independent platform. - Sweep date: 2026-08-03 - Derived score: 3.6/5 ### Axes - Results: 3.4/5 - Control: 3.9/5 - Real price: 3.6/5 - Integration: 4/5 - Support: 3.2/5 ### Recurring themes in favor - It is by a distance the cheapest entry in the segment and does the whole job, so it competes head on with the reference tools (strong theme) - The commercial site is translated into Spanish and the help centre lists more than twenty regional variants of the language (strong theme) - It offers recording both with a bot and without one, from the browser and the desktop app (present theme) - Governance controls that are unusual at this price: private meetings by default, exclusion rules and recording-consent notifications (present theme) - Open automation with Zapier, Make and n8n, plus API access even on the free plan (present theme) ### Recurring themes against - Verified customers report the bot failing to join some meetings and taking the wrong notes in others, which is the worst possible failure here (strong theme) - The quota runs on hours and empties fast: three a month on free, twenty on paid and fifty cents per extra hour (strong theme) - The language count it publishes swings between thirty and a hundred and thirty depending which page of its own site you consult (present theme) - The 4.6 out of 450 reviews rating is self-declared in its own page markup and comes from no independent platform (present theme) - A precedent of sending marketing messages through the chat and emails to the customer's own meeting participants (present theme) - There is no live transcription while people speak, and customers report the search and review platform loading slowly (present theme) - A small company, having raised €1.6 million in 2025, so continuity risk is real (present theme) ### Sweep sources - [Official pricing] https://meetgeek.ai/pricing — Página oficial de precios, leída tres veces de forma independiente, dos de ellas renderizando la página con un navegador para poder pulsar el conmutador y ver los dos estados. Las etiquetas literales son «Monthly billing» y «Annual billing» con la píldora «Save up to 40%», y la página carga mostrando el estado anual. Cifras literales de las tarjetas: BASIC «Free» con «3 hours of transcription / mo», «3 months transcript storage» y «1 month audio storage», PRO «$» «9.99» «per user per month» en anual y «15.99» en mensual, BUSINESS «17» y «27», y ENTERPRISE «Get in touch». El marcado lo confirma sin ambigüedad con «data-year="9.99" data-month="15.99"», y los datos estructurados lo rematan nombrando la oferta «Pro Plan (Annual)» con «price» de «9.99» y la descripción «Price per month when billed annually». El plan Pro publica además el sobrecoste literal «$0.5 per extra hour», que aparece una sola vez en toda la página. La prueba de catorce días, «Try 14 days for free», cuelga de la tarjeta de BUSINESS y no de la de PRO. Dos incoherencias del propio sitio que conviene dejar anotadas: la calculadora de suscripción que hay más abajo cotiza el plan Pro con cifras redondeadas distintas de las tarjetas, y el bloque de datos estructurados incluye una valoración de 4,6 sobre 450 que se pone la propia empresa y que por eso no se usa aquí como evidencia - [Docs] https://support.meetgeek.ai/en/articles/6011836-language-settings — Artículo oficial de configuración de idioma, leído para poder hablar del español con detalle en vez de repetir el reclamo comercial. Enumera más de ciento treinta entradas de idioma, entre ellas más de veinte variantes regionales de español que se listan por separado, de «Spanish (Spain)» a «Spanish (Mexico)» o «Spanish (Argentina)», y describe la detección automática diciendo que el sistema identificará el idioma hablado al principio de la reunión. Sirve también para calibrar el reclamo del fabricante, porque su página de precios anuncia más de cien idiomas mientras otra página de la misma web habla de treinta y tantos, y el total solo cuadra contando las variantes regionales como idiomas distintos - [Review sites] https://appsumo.com/products/meetgeek/ — Reseñas de compradores verificados de una oferta de pago único, que es un público con dinero puesto y por tanto poco complaciente. Datos comprobados hoy en el marcado de la propia página: 4,35 sobre 5 con 37 reseñas, cifra que conviene citar sin redondear a la baja. La reseña más útil para un comprador profesional se titula «Bad marketing practices», del 22 de diciembre de 2022, y dice literalmente que «they send marketing messages on chat and send emails to everyone at the meeting to market their own product. And there is no way to opt-out of that behavior». El fabricante respondió en el mismo hilo que esos mensajes y el envío a los participantes se pueden desactivar desde la configuración. Es un episodio antiguo y puede estar resuelto, pero describe un comportamiento que descalifica una herramienta ante un comprador corporativo, así que se recoge con su fecha - [Review sites] https://www.capterra.ie/software/1034933/meetgeek — Perfil de reseñas verificadas con 4,5 sobre 5 sobre una muestra de solo once reseñas, que es poco y hay que decirlo. El valor está en los contras textuales, no en la nota. El más grave, citado entero para no suavizarlo cortando el arranque, dice «The product hardly worked, it wouldn't join certain meetings and when it did join it took the wrong notes», que es exactamente el fallo que anula el motivo de contratar una herramienta de este segmento. Otros reparos recogidos en el mismo perfil son que la plataforma de búsqueda y revisión carga lenta, que el análisis de tono no acierta demasiado, que a veces la transcripción es inexacta y que no hay transcripción en tiempo real - [Press] https://zapier.com/blog/best-ai-meeting-assistant/ — Comparativa de diez asistentes de reuniones actualizada en abril de 2026, con declaración expresa de revisión independiente. Le da una categoría propia y muy concreta, la de los agentes de voz, y explica que permite crear agentes con instrucciones propias y plantillas para selección de personal, ventas o gestión de equipos, agentes que participan en la reunión en vez de limitarse a escuchar. Cita el plan gratuito con tres horas de transcripción y el Pro a 9,99 dólares por usuario y mes facturado anualmente, que coincide con la lectura de la web oficial y es una corroboración independiente del estado del conmutador. El reparo que aporta va justo sobre esa función estrella: «AI voice agents can sometimes be slow to start and slightly unpredictable» - [Press] https://www.vestbee.com/insights/articles/meetgeek-secures-1-6-m — Cobertura de la ronda de financiación del 2 de septiembre de 2025: 1,6 millones de euros liderados por Early Game Ventures, con Inspire Capital acompañando. Sirve para calibrar el tamaño de la casa, que es el dato que un comprador necesita antes de mudar el archivo de reuniones de su equipo, y la comparación es elocuente frente a los 125 millones de dólares de una rival directa del mismo segmento. Anotación de honestidad sobre el año de fundación: esta fuente lo sitúa en 2024 y las bases de datos de empresas lo sitúan en 2020, la web oficial de MeetGeek no declara ni año ni ciudad en ninguna de sus páginas, y por esa contradicción aquí no se publica ninguna fecha de fundación. Lo que sí consta es que la herramienta ya recibía reseñas de compradores en 2022 > **TLDR:** MeetGeek is the most direct substitute for Otter and Fireflies, and the only tool in the segment competing in their price bracket: from $9.99 per user per month billed annually. It is also the best set up for Spanish-speaking buyers, with a translated commercial site and regional Spanish variants in its language list. Two things to weigh before subscribing: the quota runs on transcription hours and empties faster than it looks, and there are verified customer complaints about bot reliability that should not be waved away. ## What MeetGeek is and how it works MeetGeek does what most of this segment does, and that is precisely its pitch: an assistant that joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls, records, transcribes and returns a summary with the topics covered and the action items it spotted. Coming from Otter or Fireflies, there is nothing to relearn. What sets it apart is not a headline feature but the price and its treatment of language. It is by a distance the cheapest entry in the segment, and it is the only one whose commercial site is translated into Spanish, with a selector that also covers Brazilian Portuguese, French and German. In a market where nearly all software of this kind sells in English only, that is not cosmetic: it signals that Spanish-speaking buyers are a declared target rather than an accident. It also has two capture modes, like the best in the segment. It can send the bot into the call or record without one from the browser and the desktop app, so anyone who would rather not have an extra guest on a client call has a way out. There is one layer that is genuinely its own and uncommon at this price: governance controls that normally appear only on enterprise plans. Private meetings by default, rules for excluding meetings, recording-consent notifications and, on the higher tiers, zero-retention policies and self-hosted storage. For a European buyer worried about who keeps what, that carries weight. On company size it is worth being plain. This is a small outfit: it raised €1.6 million in September 2025 in a round led by Early Game Ventures. Set that against the $125 million raised by one of its direct rivals and the continuity risk is clear. It is not disqualifying, but it is worth knowing before moving your team's meeting archive across. ## What it is like to use day to day Getting started is easy and the free plan is enough to test the workflow. What runs out quickly is the quota, and this is the thing that decides whether the tool works for you: the free tier gives three hours of transcription a month and keeps transcripts for three months and audio for one. The paid plan rises to a year of transcripts and six months of audio, and beyond its allowance charges fifty cents per extra hour. That mechanism makes the headline price misleading if you hold a lot of meetings. Nine dollars ninety-nine a month is cheap until you exceed the allowance and start paying by the hour, at which point the next tier deserves a look. It is a different model from rivals who charge flat, and for heavy use it can work out worse. On languages, its own site complicates matters. The pricing page advertises over a hundred languages with automatic detection. Another page on the same site says thirty-something. And the help centre lists more than a hundred and thirty entries, though that number only adds up by counting regional variants, because Spanish alone appears broken out into more than twenty forms, from Spain to Mexico or Argentina. The honest reading is that Spanish coverage is good and granular, and that the total they publish depends on which page you read. The negatives come from verified customers and they are specific. Buyer reviews include reports that the bot would not join certain meetings and that, when it did, it took the wrong notes. That is the most serious complaint possible in this segment, because it hits the core function. Other objections on record are that the search and review platform loads slowly, that sentiment analysis is not especially accurate and that there is no live transcription while people speak. And there is an ugly precedent that deserves recording. A buyer complained in 2022 that MeetGeek sent marketing messages through the meeting chat and emails to every participant in their meetings to promote itself, with no way to switch it off. The maker replied that those notifications can be disabled in settings. It is old and may be resolved, but for a professional buyer it is exactly the sort of behaviour that disqualifies a tool, so it is worth checking on day one. A note for anyone comparing scores: the 4.6 out of 450 reviews that circulates alongside this tool is written by the maker itself in its own page markup, not published by any independent platform. It is not a usable reference. The ones that are usable come from verified buyers, smaller in volume and considerably more useful in content. ## Pricing and plans The Basic plan is free and permanent, with the three transcription hours a month and the short retention windows described above. It is for testing, not for working. The entry paid tier is Pro, from $9.99 per user per month, and that figure corresponds to annual billing, which is the state the page shows on load. Month to month the same plan is $15.99. It carries twenty hours of transcription a month and charges fifty cents per additional hour. Above it sits Business at $17 annually and $27 monthly, which removes the transcription limit and the cap on transcript storage. There is also an enterprise tier with no public figure that points to sales. Two pieces of small print. First: the fourteen-day free trial belongs to the Business plan, not to Pro. Second: the pricing page is not consistent with itself, because further down it carries a subscription calculator quoting the Pro plan at rounded figures that differ from the cards. The cards are the ones to trust, and they match the page's own structured data. They also offer 30% off for startups, non-profits and education. Prices are published in dollars with no currency selector, so buyers outside the United States pay in dollars even though the site is available in Spanish. ## Who it is for (and who it is not for) MeetGeek is for anyone who wants what Otter or Fireflies deliver while paying less, and above all for anyone working in Spanish who appreciates the tool and its support speaking their language. With a handful of meetings a month, it is the cheapest option in the segment that does the whole job. It is not for anyone chaining meetings all day, because the hourly quota turns a low price into a variable bill and forces an upgrade quickly. It is not for anyone who cannot afford the bot to fail on a given day, given there are verified complaints about exactly that, and there a better-resourced tool like [Fireflies](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/fireflies/) or [Otter.ai](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/otter-ai/) offers more assurance. And it is not for anyone wanting live transcription as people speak, which it does not have. If what you want is a genuinely generous free tier, [Fathom](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/fathom/) is the better front door. The full field is in the [best AI meeting notes tools](https://serchai.com/en/best-ai/meeting-notes/), and the wider category in the [best AI office tools](https://serchai.com/en/best-ai/office/). ## Alternatives to MeetGeek The split is clear. MeetGeek when price rules and you want the site in Spanish, Fathom when you want to start free with uncapped recording, Otter when you want live transcription, and Fireflies when you need a team archive across many languages. It is set out in [alternatives to MeetGeek](https://serchai.com/en/alternatives/meetgeek/). ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What does it actually cost? Nine dollars ninety-nine per user per month if you pay for the year, or $15.99 month to month. That plan carries twenty transcription hours a month and charges fifty cents for every hour beyond it, so the real cost depends on how many meetings you hold. ### What does the free plan give you? Three hours of transcription a month, with transcripts kept for three months and audio for one. Enough to see whether the workflow suits you, and clearly not enough to work with. ### Does the fourteen-day trial cover the cheap plan? No. The fourteen-day trial belongs to the Business plan. The Pro plan carries no trial badge at all on the pricing page. ### Does it handle Spanish well? Coverage is good and detailed, with more than twenty regional Spanish variants in its help centre list, and the commercial site is translated. What does not exist is any independent measurement of quality, and the total language count they publish varies depending on which page of their site you read. ### Is the meeting bot reliable? It is their most disputed point. Verified customer reviews report it failing to join some meetings and taking the wrong notes in others. Test it on low-stakes meetings before trusting it with anything important. ## Alternatives - [Otter.ai](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/otter-ai/) — The bot that joins your meetings on its own, transcribes live and leaves the notes with the action items. (3.7/5) - [Fireflies](https://serchai.com/en/reviews/fireflies/) — Records, transcribes and summarizes your meetings and interviews in 100+ languages. (3.7/5)