# Attendee vs Read AI (slim)

> Read AI scores 50.4 (D) to Attendee's 49 (D) for meeting bots. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Read AI scores 50.4 (D) on agent readiness against Attendee's 49 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Attendee leads on schema & documentation, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do meeting bots.

- Attendee: D 49, rank #804 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/attendee.min.md
- Read AI: D 50.4, rank #770 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/read-ai.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 Schema & documentation, 73 against 51; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 70 against 31.
- Read AI, good for An agent working for a person or team that already records meetings with Read AI and wants transcripts, summaries and action items in context. Ahead on Reliability, 52 against 26; Security & auth, 54 against 33. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Attendee | Read AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 26 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 73 | 51 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 61 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 33 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 31 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Attendee | Read AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Attendee Labs, Inc. | Read AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.attendee.dev` | `https://api.read.ai/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP, HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for meeting bots | $0.0058 per minute of call | not published |
| 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 Read AI's terms of service |
| Tools exposed | none | 4 |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-06-01 | 2026-02-26 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-06-01 | 2026-06-29 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 752 stars | none |