MeetingBaaS
Source-available meeting bot as a service (BaaS) infrastructure that sends bots to meetings and returns recordings via API.
Quick take
MeetingBaaS is the budget alternative to Recall.ai with source-available credibility. The trade-offs are clear: lower price and more transparency, but fewer platforms, less maturity, and smaller scale. For cost-sensitive projects that only need Zoom, Meet, and Teams support, MeetingBaaS is worth evaluating.
MeetingBaaS compared head to head
MeetingBaaS scorecard
How we gradeOpen-source bot infrastructure undercutting Recall, still early.
Overview
MeetingBaaS (Meeting Bot as a Service) is a source-available meeting bot API that competes with Recall.ai. It sends recording bots into Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings, capturing audio, video, and transcripts. The source-available approach and lower pricing position it as the scrappy alternative for teams that want meeting recording infrastructure without Recall.ai pricing.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- +Source-available code gives full transparency (369 GitHub stars across the Meeting-Baas org)
- +Self-hosting option for privacy-sensitive use
- +Competitive pricing ($0.35-0.50/hr recording, $0.44-0.63/hr with Gladia transcription)
- +Free plan with 75 bots/day and 8 free hours
- +Six transcription providers selectable per bot
Limitations
- –Self-hosting requires DevOps investment
- –Newer and less battle-tested than Recall.ai
- –Smaller team and community
- –3 platforms vs Recall.ai's 6
Pricing
Token-based pricing. Raw recording costs 1 token per hour, Gladia transcription adds 0.25 tokens per hour, bring-your-own-key transcription adds 0.05, and streaming adds 0.10 per direction. Token packs run from $0.50 per token (Boost, $50 for 100) down to about $0.35 (Infinity, $1,500 for 4,250), so recording with Gladia transcription costs $0.44-$0.63/hour. Plans: Pay as You Go $0 (75 bots/day, 3-day retention, 8 free hours), Pro $99/month, Scale $199/month, Enterprise $299/month, which raise bot limits and retention. Tokens never expire. Self-hosting available for parts of the source-available stack.
Who it's for
Developers who want a cheaper alternative to Recall.ai for meeting recording infrastructure. Teams that value source-available transparency. Early-stage startups where per-hour savings on recording matter at volume. Not for teams that need Recall.ai's platform coverage or published compliance.
Verdict
B+ · 77/100MeetingBaaS is the budget alternative to Recall.ai with source-available credibility. The trade-offs are clear: lower price and more transparency, but fewer platforms, less maturity, and smaller scale. For cost-sensitive projects that only need Zoom, Meet, and Teams support, MeetingBaaS is worth evaluating.
Key features
- Source-available bot infrastructure
- Self-hosted or managed options
- Multi-platform bot support (Zoom, Meet, Teams)
- Webhook-based API
- Transcription via Gladia (built in) or bring your own key for Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Speechmatics, Soniox or ElevenLabs
- Calendar integration for auto-join
- Real-time WebSocket transcription
- Speaking bots API
- Send recordings to your own S3-compatible storage
- MCP servers
- Official TypeScript SDK (@meeting-baas/sdk)
