Fathom Pricing in 2026: Free vs Premium vs Team vs Business

Fathom has the most generous free plan in the AI meeting assistant category. But the paid tiers are where things get interesting - and where the comparison with competitors becomes less clear-cut.

Here’s the full breakdown of what each plan includes, what the upgrade triggers are, and where Fathom’s pricing compares favorably (or not) against alternatives.

All Plans at a Glance

	Free	Premium	Team	Business
Monthly price	$0	$20/user	$19/user	$34/user
Annual price	$0	$16/user/mo	$15/user/mo	$25/user/mo
Annual savings	-	20%	21%	26%
For	Individuals	Individuals	Teams (2+ min)	Teams (2+ min)
Recordings	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Basic summaries	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Advanced summaries	No	Yes (15+ templates)	Yes	Yes
AI action items	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ask Fathom AI	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Team search	No	No	Yes	Yes
Playlists & clips	Basic	Enhanced	Team-wide	Team-wide
SSO	No	No	Yes	Yes
CRM field sync	No	No	No	Yes
Deal View	No	No	No	Yes
Coaching metrics	No	No	No	Yes
AI scorecards	No	No	No	Yes

Free Plan: The Real Deal

Fathom Free includes:

• Unlimited recordings and transcriptions (no caps, no storage limits)
• Basic chronological AI summaries
• Personal clips and playlists
• Search across your own meetings
• Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams support
• No credit card required

This is not a trial. There’s no 14-day window, no minute limit, no cap on how many meetings you can record. For individual users, Free covers the core meeting note-taking job completely.

When to stay on Free: You’re a solo professional who needs meeting notes for personal reference. You don’t need structured summaries, AI action items, or team collaboration features.

Premium ($16/month annual): For Power Individuals

Premium adds:

• Advanced summaries with 15+ templates. Instead of a basic chronological recap, you can choose summary formats: BANT, Sandler, general meeting notes, retrospective, and more. This is the feature that changes Fathom from “basic notes” to “structured intelligence.”
• AI-generated action items. Automatically extracted from your meeting conversations.
• Conversational AI assistant. Ask Fathom questions about your meetings in a ChatGPT-like interface.
• Custom meeting bot. Personalize the recording bot’s appearance.

Is $16/month worth it over Free? For anyone who runs structured meetings (sales calls, client sessions, project check-ins), the template-based summaries are a significant upgrade. Free gives you “here’s what happened in order.” Premium gives you “here are the action items, decisions, open questions, and next steps.”

Team ($15/month annual): For Collaborative Teams

Team adds:

• Global search across all team meetings. Search not just your own meetings, but everyone’s.
• Team playlists. Curate collections of meeting clips and highlights visible to the whole team.
• Collaboration. Comments, shared folders, keyword alerts.
• Custom transcription vocabulary. Add company jargon, product names, and acronyms for better accuracy.
• SSO. Single sign-on for enterprise security requirements.
• 2-user minimum

The pricing oddity: Team ($15/month annual) is cheaper per seat than Premium ($16/month annual), and includes everything Premium has plus team features. If you’re a 2-person team, Team is both cheaper and more feature-rich than two Premium seats.

When to choose Team: Any group of 2+ people who need shared meeting intelligence without CRM sync or coaching features.

Business ($25/month annual): For Sales Teams

Business adds the sales-specific features:

• CRM field sync. Automatically pushes meeting data to HubSpot and Salesforce. Not just a summary dump - actual field-level sync.
• Deal View. A single page showing all meetings, summaries, and key moments related to a specific deal. Useful for handoffs and deal reviews.
• Coaching metrics. Track speaking patterns, talk-time ratios, and behavioral signals across team meetings.
• AI scorecards. Automated call quality scoring.
• Custom data retention policies.
• 2-user minimum

How Business Compares

For a 10-person sales team needing CRM sync:

• Fathom Business: $250/month ($25/user annual)
• Fireflies Business: $190/month ($19/user annual)
• tl;dv Business: $590/month ($59/user annual)

Fathom Business sits between Fireflies and tl;dv in both price and feature depth. It costs $60/month more than Fireflies but includes coaching metrics and AI scorecards that Fireflies doesn’t offer. It costs $340/month less than tl;dv but lacks playbook adoption tracking and granular team performance comparisons.

Fathom Business is the right choice if: You want coaching analytics without paying tl;dv prices, and you’re willing to pay a modest premium over Fireflies for the coaching layer.

Switching From Gong?

Fathom offers a specific deal for teams migrating from Gong: free Business access through the remainder of your Gong contract, plus data migration assistance. If you’re locked into a Gong contract and want to switch, this removes the “double-paying” problem.

Hidden Costs and Notes

No per-meeting charges. Fathom doesn’t charge per meeting, per minute, or per recording. All plans include unlimited usage of core features.

Nonprofit discount. Qualifying nonprofits get 10 free Team seats. Apply through Fathom’s website.

VC portfolio program. Startups affiliated with select VCs and accelerators can get up to 2 years of Fathom Team free.

Platform limitation. All plans only support Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. No Webex, BlueJeans, or Skype.

Which Plan Should You Pick?

Solo professional, any budget: Free. No reason to pay until you need advanced summaries or team features.

Power individual who runs structured meetings: Premium ($16/month). The template-based summaries are worth the upgrade.

Small team (2-10) without sales-specific needs: Team ($15/month). Cheaper than Premium with more features.

Sales team needing CRM sync and coaching: Business ($25/month). Compare against Fireflies ($19/mo, less coaching) and tl;dv ($59/mo, more coaching).

Pricing last verified from fathom.ai/pricing on March 18, 2026. How I make money.