Fellow vs Spinach AI
An independent, side-by-side comparison to help you pick the right tool. Pricing, features, strengths, and trade-offs.
Free / Team $7 annual ($11 monthly) / Business $15 annual ($23 monthly) / Enterprise $25 annual (10+ users)
Founded 2017
Ottawa, Canada
$30.5M
Starter free / Pro $2.90 per meeting hour (unlimited users) / Business $19/user/mo annual ($29 monthly) / Enterprise custom (50-seat minimum)
At a glance
| Fellow | Spinach AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free / Team $7 annual ($11 monthly) / Business $15 annual ($23 monthly) / Enterprise $25 annual (10+ users) | Starter free / Pro $2.90 per meeting hour (unlimited users) / Business $19/user/mo annual ($29 monthly) / Enterprise custom (50-seat minimum) |
| Type | AI Notetaker | Productivity |
| Founded | 2017 | n/a |
| Headquarters | Ottawa, Canada | n/a |
| Funding | $30.5M | n/a |
Feature comparison
| Feature | Fellow | Spinach AI |
|---|---|---|
| AI meeting recording, transcription (100+ languages) and summaries | No | |
| Bot or botless capture (Mac and Windows desktop app), plus in-person | No | |
| Collaborative meeting agendas | No | |
| Action item tracking with assignees | No | |
| Ask Fellow AI chat across meetings | No | |
| 1-on-1 meeting templates | No | |
| AI meeting notes and transcripts in 100 languages | No | |
| Jira, Monday, Asana, Linear, ClickUp and Trello ticket updates | No | |
| Slack summaries | No | |
| Action item tracking | No | |
| Standup, sprint planning and retrospective templates | No | |
| SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA (BAA on Enterprise) | No |
What makes each tool different
Fellow
Fellow is an AI meeting notetaker built for organizations that prioritize privacy, security, and data governance. It records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings with a bot, botless desktop capture, or in-person recording, and keeps its collaborative agendas and action item tracking from its meeting-management roots.
Spinach AI
Spinach started as an AI scrum master for engineering standups and is now a general AI meeting notetaker. It produces transcripts and summaries in 100 languages, suggests ticket updates in Jira, Monday, Asana, Linear, ClickUp, and Trello, and keeps standup, sprint planning, and retrospective templates.
Strengths and weaknesses
Strengths
- Strong meeting culture and accountability features
- Affordable pricing
- Good for manager-report 1-on-1s
Weaknesses
- Free plan is capped at 5 AI notes per user (lifetime)
- Unlimited AI notes start at Business ($15 annual, $23 monthly)
- Limited conversation intelligence compared with sales-focused tools
Strengths
- Built for any team, with strong standup templates
- Good project-tool integrations
- Pro priced per meeting hour with unlimited users
Weaknesses
- Per-hour Pro pricing is harder to predict
- Strongest in teams that already use project-management tools
- Enterprise plan requires 50 seats
Try both and decide
The best way to choose is to test each tool with your own workflow. Most offer free tiers or trials.