Read AI pricing (2026): is Read AI free, and what Pro and Enterprise cost

Read AI has four plans: Free, Pro, Enterprise and Enterprise+. Read AI pricing per user is $0, $19.75, $29.75 and $39.75 a month, and paying annually brings the three paid plans down to $15, $22.50 and $29.75. Enterprise+ is the only plan with a minimum, 5 licenses. Read also has a 7-day trial, discounted plans for students and staff with a .edu address, and a free year for some Zoom customers.

The prices and limits below are from Read's pricing page and six articles in the Read help center, all checked on 30 October 2026. Plans change, so look at the page again before you pay. For what Read is like to use, see our Read AI review.

Read AI prices at a glance

Plan	Billed monthly	Billed annually	Meetings	Longest meeting	Uploads a month
Free	$0	$0	5 a month	1 hour	None
Pro	$19.75	$15	Unlimited	4 hours	100 minutes
Enterprise	$29.75	$22.50	Unlimited	4 hours	200 minutes
Enterprise+	$39.75	$29.75	Unlimited	8 hours	300 minutes

Prices are per user a month in US dollars. The page shows annual billing as "-25%", and the real saving is a little under that: 24% on Pro, 24% on Enterprise and 25% on Enterprise+. Over a year, one Pro license is $180 paid annually or $237 paid monthly. Enterprise is $270 or $357. Enterprise+ is $357 or $477.

Each license belongs to one person. The FAQ says you can't share an account, every license in a Workspace has to be on the same plan, and there are no admin-only seats, so the person running billing also needs a license. People who only attend your meetings don't need one.

Read discounts by annual license count: 10% at 100 licenses, 15% at 500 and 20% at 1,000. Payment is by credit card. The FAQ says PayPal isn't accepted.

Is Read AI free?

Yes. The free plan has no end date and doesn't ask for a card. Its limits are tight:

• 5 meeting reports and transcripts a month
• A 1-hour limit on each meeting
• No upload credits, so you can't turn your own recordings into reports
• Basic integrations only, and no Workspace

The free plan does include Ask Read search across your meetings, the speaker coaching report and the Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android apps. The pricing page lists "20+ languages" on the Free card and "16+ languages" in the comparison table further down. The table names 16, so I'd go by that.

If you have one call a day, five meetings is one working week. The paid plans article says that when you upgrade, Read reprocesses the last 30 days of meetings and unlocks reports that were over the free limit.

The 7-day trial starts when you sign up

The trial guide says every new account gets 7 days of Enterprise, which is the plan with video playback. No card is needed. When the week is up, the account moves to Free on its own, so there is nothing to cancel.

Two details are easy to miss. The trial starts the moment you create the account, and it can only run once per account, so Read itself suggests waiting to sign up until you can test it on real meetings. And during setup the Read Assistant is set to join all your calendar events by default. If you'd prefer it only in meetings you choose, change the setting to "Calendar events that Read is invited to" while you sign up.

Trials don't include upload credits either. To test uploads you have to buy credits.

What Read AI Pro includes for $19.75 a month

Pro is $19.75 a user a month, or $15 on annual billing. Over Free it adds:

• Unlimited meeting reports and transcripts
• A 4-hour limit per meeting
• Priority processing for reports
• 100 minutes of uploads a month
• Premium integrations: Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier and webhooks
• Direct access to Claude and GPT models inside Ask Read
• Workspace access and unlimited storage

At $15 a month on annual billing, Pro costs more than Fireflies Pro at $10 and Otter Pro at $8.33, going by our Fireflies pricing and Otter.ai pricing checks from 27 and 29 October. Billed monthly it's $19.75 against $18 for Fireflies and $16.99 for Otter. Read is not the cheap option in this group.

What Read AI Enterprise adds

Enterprise is $29.75 a month, or $22.50 billed annually. The step up from Pro is smaller than the name suggests:

• Audio and video playback of your meetings
• Video highlights
• 200 minutes of uploads a month
• Priority support

The meeting limit stays at 4 hours. On annual billing the extra cost is $7.50 a user a month, $90 a year. If you want to rewatch a call as well as read the transcript, this is the cheapest plan outside EDU with playback. Pro gives you the transcript and report but no playback.

Enterprise+ and HIPAA

Enterprise+ is $39.75 a user a month, or $29.75 billed annually, and you need at least 5 licenses. The smallest Enterprise+ account is $1,785 a year on annual billing, or $198.75 a month on monthly billing. It adds:

• HIPAA compliance listed in the plan table
• SAML single sign-on and SCIM provisioning
• Domain capture, which stops people on your domain from opening their own Read accounts
• Custom data retention, so reports are deleted after a set number of days
• Workspace onboarding with a specialist
• An 8-hour meeting limit and 300 upload minutes a month

The pricing page puts HIPAA in the Enterprise+ column only. Read's privacy page says healthcare teams "can request a Business Associates Agreement (BAA)" and doesn't name a plan there. I would take the pricing page at its word and ask sales in writing before buying Pro or Enterprise for clinical work. For how other tools handle this, see which AI notetakers are HIPAA compliant. Private Notetaker does not claim HIPAA certification.

Upload credits cost extra

Uploads are how you get a Read report for a meeting Read didn't attend: an in-person conversation, or a call on a platform Read doesn't support. They're metered in minutes. The upload credits article says one minute of audio or video uses one credit.

Pro includes 100 minutes a month, Enterprise 200 and Enterprise+ 300. Monthly credits reset and don't carry over. Free accounts and trials get none. Anyone can buy more at $20 for 500 minutes, which works out to $0.04 a minute or $2.40 an hour, and bought credits don't expire.

The pricing page calls them "file upload credits" on the plan cards and minutes in the table. They're the same thing. 100 minutes is under two hours a month, so if you record a lot of in-person meetings, plan on buying credits.

Read AI student and Zoom pricing

The EDU plans are for students and staff at a college or university, and you sign up with a .edu email address. EDU is $60 a year, which the page describes as $5 a month, and includes unlimited reports and a 4-hour meeting limit. EDU + Video is $100 a year and adds playback and highlight reels. Both are billed annually with no monthly option. Neither can create or join a Workspace or use the premium integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier and webhooks).

Zoom customers whose plan includes Zoom Essential Apps (Read names Zoom One Pro, Business and Business Plus) can get Read's Zoom Apps plan free for 12 months. It is closer to Free than to Pro: reports for your first 5 meetings a month, a 60-minute limit per meeting and no playback. It adds a Workspace for up to 10 people and participant-level insights. After 12 months it drops to Free unless you upgrade.

Cancelling and refunds

Read doesn't offer refunds. The pricing FAQ says so directly, and adds that you keep access until the end of the billing period if you forgot to cancel in time. On an annual plan that means the whole year is spent once it renews, so set a reminder before the renewal date.

To cancel, the cancellation article says to open Plan & Billing, click Cancel plan, then Downgrade to Free. In a Workspace, only the owner can change billing. Owners can remove unused licenses, and the charge stops from the next billing cycle.

Does any plan change how Read joins your meetings?

No. On every plan the Read Assistant joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls, and the meeting is processed in Read's cloud and stored in your Read account. The privacy page says Read announces itself at the start of each meeting and that any participant can opt out, which deletes that meeting's data. It also says using your data to train AI is off by default.

One detail in the paid plans article matters for the price. On Google Meet and Teams, Read can join a meeting even when the person who owns the license isn't there. On Zoom it can only join if you've connected your Zoom account to Read and you're in the meeting yourself. If most of your calls are on Zoom, you won't get the "send Read in my place" use out of any plan.

The desktop and mobile apps can record a meeting from your computer or phone. The report is still produced by Read's service. If the bot is the issue, our guide on stopping notetaker bots from joining meetings covers Read's join settings.

Which Read AI plan to pick

If you have five or fewer calls a month and they run under an hour, Free covers you.

If you need every meeting transcribed, Pro on annual billing at $180 a year is the plan to price first. Check that your calls end inside 4 hours.

If you want to rewatch recordings, go to Enterprise. It is $90 a year more per person than Pro on annual billing.

If you need SSO, SCIM, custom retention or the HIPAA listing, only Enterprise+ has them, and you will pay for at least five people.

If you're a student, look at EDU before anything else. $60 a year is a third of Pro.

Read AI pricing compared with a local app

Private Notetaker is $15 a month, or $149 once for a lifetime license. The monthly price is below Read Pro billed monthly and the same as Pro billed annually. The lifetime license costs less than one year of Read Pro on annual billing ($180). There's no monthly meeting cap and no upload meter. The 7-day free trial needs no card, only your email, and purchases come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The bigger difference is where the meeting goes. Private Notetaker runs on a Mac with Apple Silicon or a 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PC. It records the call audio on that computer and writes the transcript, summary and action items there. The audio stays on the device and nothing joins the call. It also works with the Wi-Fi off.

Read does plenty that Private Notetaker doesn't. Its plan table lists 16 languages for meeting reports, and Private Notetaker is English only. Read has a team Workspace, CRM integrations, video playback and search across meetings, email and chat. If your team wants every call in one shared account with engagement scores, Read is built for that.

If you want notes from your own meetings, kept on your own computer, you can try Private Notetaker for 7 days.

For a side-by-side, see Private Notetaker vs Read AI and Read AI alternatives. If you're comparing prices across tools, we have breakdowns of Otter.ai pricing, Fireflies pricing, Fathom pricing, Granola pricing and Krisp pricing, and a list of the best AI meeting notetakers.

Read plan prices, the annual discount, meeting and length limits, upload allowances, plan features, the HIPAA column, the 16-language list, license rules, volume discounts, payment methods and the no-refund policy from read.ai/plans-pricing. Plan table, Zoom join rule and 30-day reprocessing on upgrade from "What are the different paid plans that Read offers?" Trial terms and the default join setting from "Self Service Trial Center" and "A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Read AI Account." Upload credit prices from "What are upload credits?" Cancellation steps from "How do I cancel my billing plan?" Zoom Apps plan from "What is included with the Zoom Essential Apps plan?" EDU plans from read.ai/edu-pricing. BAA, announcement, opt-out and AI training default from read.ai/privacy. Otter and Fireflies prices from our posts checked 29 and 27 October 2026. Read pages checked 30 October 2026. Plans change.