# Fathom vs Recall.ai (slim)

> Fathom and Recall.ai score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 59.7 (C) and 59.5 (C). Recall.ai leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do meetings transcript. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Fathom and Recall.ai score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 59.7 (C) and 59.5 (C). Recall.ai leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do meetings transcript.

- Fathom: C 59.7, rank #490 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fathom.min.md
- Recall.ai: C 59.5, rank #496 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recall-ai.min.md
- 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 50.
- Recall.ai, good for Developers building a notetaker or meeting agent who want one API across Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and Webex and will handle summaries, consent and per-customer access themselves. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 71 against 64; Security & auth, 54 against 42; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30.

| Category | Fathom | Recall.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 71 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 42 | 54 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 59 | 63 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Fathom | Recall.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Fathom Video Inc. | Hyperdoc Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.fathom.ai/external/v1` | `https://us-west-2.recall.ai` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under Recall.ai's terms of use. Sample apps on GitHub, some MIT and most with no licence file |
| Tools exposed | none | 45 |
| MCP registry | `ai.fathom.api/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-07-29 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-03-04 | 2026-10-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-16 | 2023-02-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 83k npm/wk, 58k PyPI/wk | 91k npm/wk |