# Attendee vs Fathom (slim)

> Fathom scores 59.7 (C) to Attendee's 49 (D) for meeting transcripts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Fathom scores 59.7 (C) on agent readiness against Attendee's 49 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Attendee leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do meeting transcripts.

- Attendee: D 49, rank #804 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/attendee.min.md
- Fathom: C 59.7, rank #540 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fathom.min.md
- Attendee, good for Developers building a notetaker or voice agent who want one API across Zoom, Google Meet and Teams with the option to run the code themselves. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 70 against 59.
- Fathom, good for Teams already recording meetings in Fathom who want an agent to read transcripts, summaries, action items and recordings. Ahead on Reliability, 71 against 26; Schema & documentation, 80 against 73; Security & auth, 42 against 33; Transparency & trust, 67 against 59.

| Category | Attendee | Fathom |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 26 | 71 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 73 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 61 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 33 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 59 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Attendee | Fathom |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Attendee Labs, Inc. | Fathom Video Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.attendee.dev` | `https://api.fathom.ai/external/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Elastic License 2.0 for the source in attendee-labs/attendee, which is source-available and not an OSI licence. The hosted service is under Attendee Labs' terms of service | Proprietary service under Fathom's terms of service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs are published on npm and PyPI with no licence in the package metadata |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.fathom.api/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-07-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-01 | 2026-03-04 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-06-01 | 2026-08-16 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 752 stars | 83k npm/wk, 58k PyPI/wk |