MeetGeek: reviews and analysis

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 or 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 is the better front door. The full field is in the best AI meeting notes tools, and the wider category in the best AI office tools.

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.

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.