Zoom AI Companion turns meetings, notes, and ideas into action and impact — without limits or hidden features. See how it stacks up against the rest.
What sets AI Companion apart
“With every product, people always tell you this will save your time. But I actually have things I need to be doing. Now that we use Zoom AI Companion, I can say every month, in the second week I’m going to have a whole day – 8 full hours – when I can just focus on this exam. That’s huge. I wasn't able to do that before.”
Nancy Jozlol
Founder, Couch + Cork
Zoom vs. the competition
AI Companion can be your
ChatGPT alternative
Zoom AI Companion is a smart alternative to ChatGPT because it’s built right into Zoom Workplace—and also offers an easy-to-use web experience. It works across your meetings, chats, emails, and documents, giving you real-time, secure AI assistance without switching apps or losing context.
Zoom AI Companion
AI Companion included with paid plans
ChatGPT
Included at no additional cost with paid Zoom Workplace accounts starting at $14.16 per user per month billed annually or as a standalone license:
$8.33 per user per month billed annually for AI Companion standalone plan
$11-$250 per user per month for individuals, depending on the level of features and usage limits required.
Or $35 for Business plans for organizations.
Leverages data across Zoom Workplace as well as Google and Microsoft, if connected. Can also use web-based search.
Ability to use all of your context or selected context to get more specific results
No native support for Zoom Workplace, requires Zoom for ChatGPT app which helps bring Zoom’s post-meeting intelligence into ChatGPT, allowing users to access summaries, transcripts, recordings, documents, whiteboards, smart chapters, and searchable moments from their hosted meetings.
Unlimited with higher tier plans (system file size limitations apply)
Unlimited with paid upgrade
(billed monthly or annually)
Yes, supported across Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet.
No native support, may offer limited support with third party app integrations.
Create automated workflows that tackle your busywork and keep you informed. Build connections to third-party applications and trigger workflows manually, by events, or on schedules.
ChatGPT only supports some automation natively (scheduled tasks available with a paid plan), but it does not natively provide full workflow automation with third-party triggers and connections.
*Feature and price comparisons based on publicly available information as of March 2026.
AI Companion vs. other note-taking tools
Zoom AI Companion with Meeting summary, Meeting questions, and My notes
Otter.AI
Fathom
Granola
Zoom AI Companion is included in Zoom Workplace paid plans starting at $14.16 per user per month billed annually, as well as available as AI Companion standalone plans starting at $8.33 per user per month billed annually.
Workplace paid plans and AI Companion standalone plans include My notes, an AI note-taking tool for Zoom Meetings and third party meeting platforms and web apps (Microsoft Teams and Google Meet)
$8.33 or $19.99 per user, per month billed annually for Pro or Business plans
$16, $15, or $25 per user, per month billed annually for Premium, Team, or Business plans, respectively
$14 or $35 per user, per month for Business or Enterprise plans
Yes, with meeting questions
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Available only through web portal and monthly query limit depend on plan type
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Only available post meeting via web browser
Automate AI Companion with an intuitive onboarding flow that allows you to set it up and forget it, or have AI Companion join specific Zoom meetings as per your choice.
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Add AI bot as an extra participant or configure automatic join
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Add AI bot as an extra participant or configure automatic join
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Limited automation supported (detect upcoming meetings based on calendar integration), however requires manually enabling the ability to start transcribing and generate notes post meeting.
Over 30 languages for meeting summary; 9 languages supported with My notes
Supports 4 languages for meeting summary
Supports 6 languages for meeting summary
Supports 10 languages for transcription and meeting summaries
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Requires paid Business plan or above
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Requires paid Team Edition plan or above
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Only provides workspace-level admin controls, primarily in Enterprise plans.
10 pre-built templates available
Custom templates available with Custom AI Companion add-on
Yes with Zoom Workplace and AI Companion plans
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Based on plan tier:
Pro: 1200 minutes/month
Business and up: 6000 minutes/month
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Based on plan tier:
Pro: 90 minutes
Business and up: 4 hours
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Requires paid Enterprise plan
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Requires paid Team Edition plan and above
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Requires paid Enterprise plan
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Requires paid Enterprise plan
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Requires paid Team Edition plan and above
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Only manually share Notes.
On Enterprise plans, workspace admins can restrict how notes and folders are shared
Yes, for My notes within Zoom Meetings. Speaker identification also available with Microsoft Teams and Google Meet when using the third-party bot for Meeting summaries.
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Speaker identification requires post-processing and manual tagging for new speakers
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Speaker identification works only within supported meeting platforms
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No live speaker identification (only “Me” vs “Them” audio separation); Speaker identification only available when using the iPhone app for in-person meetings
Yes - Zoom AI Companion supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract readable text from screen share content during meetings (Supported only for AI Companion meeting summary feature)
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Otter supports the addition of screenshots of slides or screen shares during a meeting to generate summary with relevant context.
Each of the comparisons listed above show the features and capabilities available in the paid plans for each product. Free plans with limited capabilities are available across all products, including Zoom. Feature and price comparisons based on publicly available information as of March 2026.
Zoom vs. Microsoft 365 Copilot and
Google Gemini
Zoom Workplace and AI Companion are excellent Copilot and Gemini alternatives for all of your communication, collaboration, and scheduling needs.
Zoom AI Companion
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Google Gemini in Google Workspace
$14.16 per user per month for Zoom Workplace Pro including AI Companion, billed annually
$8.33 per user per month for AI Companion (standalone AI plan), billed annually
$36.00 per month, per user for Microsoft 365 Business Basic plus Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on, billed annually
$14 per month, per user for Google Workspace Business Standard, billed annually
Standalone chat
Meeting summary
In-Meeting Questions
Smart Recording
Chat Compose
Thread Summary
Quick Schedule
Whiteboard Content Generation
Generate title & description
Email Compose
Content generation
Summarize
Templates
Multi-Language Translation
Convert Meeting Summaries into Doc
Google Mail, Calendar, Drive
Microsoft Outlook, Calendar, OneDrive
Each of the comparisons listed above show the features and capabilities available in the paid plans for each product. Free plans with limited capabilities are available across all products, including Zoom. Feature and price comparisons based on publicly available information as of March 2026.
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Zoom AI Companion today
Zoom AI Companion is available with eligible paid Zoom Workplace plans. May not be available for all regions or industry verticals. Learn more.