Attendee
Source-available meeting bot API for Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, offered as a hosted service or for self-hosting.
Pricing 5 free hrs, then $0.50/hr (volume discounts to $0.35/hr) / Enterprise fixed monthly, self-hosted or cloud
Category Notetakers & Recording
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- +Self-hostable from public source code
- +$0.50/hr hosted, with volume discounts down to $0.35/hr
- +5 free hours on the hosted service
- +Bots can speak and display images in meetings
Limitations
- –Elastic License 2.0 is source-available, not an OSI-approved open-source license
- –3 platforms vs Recall.ai's 6 (Webex is on the roadmap)
- –Third-party transcription runs on your own provider key and is billed by that provider; the free alternative is lower-quality platform captions
- –Storage retention period not published
What makes Attendee different
Attendee is a meeting bot API whose full source code is public on GitHub under the Elastic License 2.0. It runs as a Django app in a single Docker image with Postgres and Redis, so teams can self-host it, while the hosted service charges $0.50 per hour after five free hours. Transcription runs through a third-party provider such as Deepgram on your own API key, billed by that provider, or through the meeting platform's closed captions at no extra cost.
Key features
- Meeting bot API (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams)
- Recording and storage
- Real-time and post-meeting transcription
- Transcription via your own key for Deepgram, OpenAI, Gladia, AssemblyAI, Sarvam, ElevenLabs or Kyutai, or free platform closed captions
- Bots can output audio and video (speech, avatar image)
- Audio input and output via WebSockets
- Attendee-managed calendar integration and scheduled bots
- Webhooks for bot state changes
- Self-hosting (single Docker image, Postgres, Redis)
