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Avoma vs Fathom

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Avoma starts at $19, Fathom at $20. Only Fathom has a free tier. Both ship a public API.

AvomaRecords and transcribes sales meetings, then writes structured notes back to the CRMFathomMeeting recorder with instant summaries and CRM write-back

Side by side

FactAvomaFathom
CategoryMeeting AssistantsMeeting Assistants
Pricing modelPaidFreemium
Starts at$19 month$20 month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, macOS, API
CompanyAvomaFathom
Launched20172020
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Avoma

Avoma covers more of the revenue stack than a plain meeting recorder, taking a call from scheduling through transcription and coaching into forecasting. The catch is modular pricing: the advertised seat price buys only the meeting assistant, and the intelligence modules that justify the platform are billed separately.

Pros

  • Scheduling, recording, notes and CRM write-back in one subscription
  • Free viewer and collaborator seats keep non-recording colleagues off the bill
  • API and webhooks for exporting meeting data
  • In market since late 2017, with HIPAA compliance available on Enterprise

Cons

  • Conversation and revenue intelligence are extra per-seat add-ons
  • Startup tier caps at 25 paid seats, forcing an upgrade as teams grow
  • Enterprise requires a 10-seat minimum on annual billing

Fathom

The best free notetaker on the market, and the paid tiers are cheap enough that most sales teams can skip a dedicated revenue-intelligence platform. Pick it unless you need deep conversation analytics, in which case Gong is still a different class of product.

Pros

  • Free tier includes unlimited recordings, transcripts and clips, which competitors gate
  • Bot-free capture avoids the awkward third participant in the call
  • Public API and MCP server on paid plans, plus native Claude and ChatGPT integrations
  • Aggressive switching offers: free Business for Gong contract holders, 10 free nonprofit seats

Cons

  • CRM sync is capped at three users per domain on lower tiers
  • Team plan requires a two-seat minimum, so a solo user pays the $20 Premium rate
  • Advanced and custom summary templates sit behind the higher tiers
  • Account-wide Ask Fathom search is still marked beta and has lookback limits by tier

Which one fits

Choose Avoma if you need

  • Sales teams that want call notes landing in the CRM automatically
  • Managers who need call scoring and coaching rather than just recordings
  • Customer-success groups tracking account health from meeting content

Choose Fathom if you need

  • Individuals who want unlimited recording and summaries without paying anything
  • Small sales teams that need CRM notes written automatically after every call
  • Anyone who wants meeting context piped into ChatGPT or Claude via API/MCP

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