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Fathom

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Fathom is an AI meeting notetaker that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings, generates action items, and now offers bot-free capture in addition to its original bot-based recording, with a permanently free individual plan and paid Team/Business/Enterprise tiers for CRM sync and coaching features.

Vendor's own claim
other/unknown

Core capabilities

Vendor's own claim
  • Bot-free or bot-based meeting capture (bot-free in beta for Mac)
  • Instant AI-generated meeting summaries and AI action items
  • Conversational meeting assistant ('Ask Fathom') to query past meetings
  • Playlists and clips of meeting highlights
  • CRM field sync - updates CRM records automatically after meetings (Business tier)
  • Deal View summarizing sales insights across a deal
  • Coaching metrics and AI scorecards
  • Meeting data surfaced inside ChatGPT and Claude via integrations
  • Public API and MCP server for developers

API & agent surface

From official docs
Authentication
API key generated via the Fathom website's settings area, sent as an authenticated header on REST API requests
Base URL
https://api.fathom.ai
Rate limits
60 calls/minute global limit for authenticated requests; heavy requests (summary/transcript/include_summary/include_transcript) limited to 30 calls/60s, sometimes lowered to 5/60s under load; recording downloads limited to 30 calls/60s; OAuth token endpoint limited to 60 requests/60s per app
Notable endpoints
  • List meetings
  • List meeting types
  • Get summary (recording)
  • Get transcript (recording)
  • Request a download (async video/audio generation)
  • Get download status
  • List team members / List teams
  • List users and their permissions
  • Create/Delete a webhook
Machine-readable spec
No OpenAPI link

Pricing

From official docs
PlanPriceIncludedNotable
Free (Individuals)$0Unlimited recordings + transcriptions, Choice of bot-free (beta) or bot capture, Instant AI call summaries
Premium (Individuals)$20/mo per user ($16/mo billed annually)Everything from Free, Advanced call summaries, AI-generated action items
Team$19/mo per user ($15/mo billed annually), 2 user minimumUnlimited meetings captured & instant AI summaries, AI generated action items, Conversational meeting assistant
Business$34/mo per user ($25/mo billed annually), 2 user minimumEverything from Team, CRM field sync, updating records after meetings automatically, Deal View summarizing insights
Enterprise$34/mo listed, but talk to salesEverything from Business, Launch Assist Onboarding Program, Organization-wide security controls

Checked 2026-08-07 against their pricing page. Vendors change pricing without notice.

What is Fathom

Vendor's own claim

Fathom is an AI notetaker used across individuals and teams (300K+ companies per the vendor) for recording and summarizing meetings. It publishes a full REST API (with API-key auth), webhooks, TypeScript/Python SDKs, and a documented MCP server, positioning itself as a developer platform in addition to an end-user product - the API/MCP surface lets other tools build directly on top of meeting recordings, summaries, and transcripts.

Ideal customer profile

Vendor's own claim

Individuals and sales teams who want automatic meeting notes and follow-ups; specifically called out are teams needing shared visibility across customer conversations, CRM sync, and coaching/scorecard features for revenue teams.

Who should look elsewhere

Our read

CRM field sync, Deal View, and coaching/AI scorecards - the features that make Fathom useful as a sales tool rather than a personal notetaker - only unlock on the Business tier ($34/mo/user list, often discounted). All paid team tiers carry a 2-user minimum, so true solo users pay individual-plan rates ($0 Free or $20/mo Premium) and cannot access CRM sync at all. Account-wide 'Ask Fathom' search across all team meetings has a limited lookback window that varies by plan tier, so teams wanting full historical search across all team meetings need to check their specific tier's lookback limit before assuming full history is searchable.

Fathom FAQ

Is Fathom free?

Yes, for individuals there is a permanently free plan with unlimited recordings and transcriptions and instant AI summaries, no credit card required.

From official docs
Does Fathom sync to my CRM?

CRM syncs and CRM field sync (auto-updating specific CRM fields from meeting insights) are listed as Business-tier features; lower tiers are capped at a max of 3 users per domain for some CRM sync functionality per the pricing feature table.

From official docs
Is there a published OpenAPI spec?

We could not retrieve one in our checks - openapi.json, swagger.json, and related paths all returned 404s. That is what we could not find, not evidence Fathom lacks a machine-readable spec; the docs do reference an internal 'openapi.yaml' source file for the API reference pages, so one likely exists but was not retrieved.

Our read
What's the difference between bot and bot-free capture?

Per the vendor, bot-based capture uses a meeting bot that joins calls (Zoom/Meet/Teams); bot-free capture (beta, Mac only per the pricing page) avoids a visible bot joining the meeting. Both are available even on the Free plan.

Vendor's own claim
Does Fathom integrate with ChatGPT and Claude?

Yes - the vendor advertises meeting data surfaced inside ChatGPT and Claude conversations 'on every plan' via dedicated workflow-automation integrations, separate from the developer MCP server.

Vendor's own claim
Is there a status page?

That means we could not retrieve it, not that no status page exists; confirm with the vendor.

Our read

Verify before you buy

  • No social links (LinkedIn/X/YouTube/GitHub) were in the confirmed set for this entity
  • A machine-readable OpenAPI specification was not included in the reviewed source set.

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