tl;dv alternatives when the pricing page will not load
I tried to open tldv.io/pricing twice on 6 September 2026, once with and once without the trailing slash, and both requests came back HTTP 404. The homepage had no pricing link either, just a line about a “Free Forever” plan and a jab at Gong needing a “$5,000+ upfront investment”. So this roundup of tldv alternatives starts with an admission: I can’t give you tl;dv’s current price, and I’m not going to copy one off a review site and pretend I checked.
Everything else here is a figure I pulled from the vendor’s own pricing page on the same day. Where a vendor published nothing, I say so.
What is actually knowable about tl;dv right now
A 404 on a pricing URL is almost always a routing change during a site rebuild, not a company hiding something, and there is a decent chance it resolves by the time you read this. Two things about tl;dv are safe to say without a price attached.
It’s a bot recorder. tl;dv joins Zoom, Meet and Teams calls as a participant, records, transcribes across a long list of languages, and produces clips and multi-meeting summaries. It’s always been aggressive on free usage, which is how it built its base among small sales teams, and its marketing leans hard on being the cheap answer to conversation intelligence.
The second thing is that its ceiling is lower than the enterprise revenue platforms it compares itself to. Clips and summaries are not forecasting. If you’re weighing tl;dv against Gong because a competitor page told you to, note that Gong publishes no public price at all, so that comparison’s being made against a number nobody outside a sales call can verify.
Six tldv alternatives that publish a real number
Fathom is the most direct swap. Its pricing page on 6 September 2026 listed Premium at $20 per user monthly or $16 annual, Team at $19 or $15, and Business at $34 or $25 with a two-seat minimum. CRM field sync, deal view and AI scorecards all sit on Business, so a sales team that wants writeback should budget the $25, not the $16.
The free Fathom tier records and transcribes without a meeting cap, which is the closest public match to tl;dv’s free-forever pitch.
Circleback priced Free at $0 with 30 days of history, Pro at $15 monthly or $11 annual, Business at $25 or $22, and Enterprise at $35 or $33. The differentiator is what happens after the call: action items with owners, routed into other tools by rule. Retention is one year on Pro and two on Business. Worth checking against your deal cycle before you commit.
Otter showed Basic free at 300 monthly transcription minutes, Pro at $16.99 monthly, and Business at $30 monthly with $19.99 annual. Its annual Pro figure appeared as both $8.49 and $8.33 in different places on the same page, which is a small thing, but it tells you how fast any price table goes stale. Otter is transcript-first. Good search, thin sales tooling.
Granola listed Basic at $0, Business at $14 per user per month, and Enterprise at $35, with no annual option shown anywhere. It runs on the Mac desktop rather than joining as a bot, and it blends your typed notes with what it hears. Account executives who like writing during a call tend to love it. Managers who want to review calls they did not attend get very little from it.
Avoma charges differently and it catches people out. Recorder seats were Startup $29 monthly or $19 annual, Organization $39 or $24, Enterprise $39 either way. Conversation Intelligence and Revenue Intelligence are separate add-ons at $35 monthly or $29 annual each. An Organization seat plus conversation intelligence is therefore about $53 a month on annual billing, which is roughly triple Circleback Pro and buys a genuinely different product.
Fireflies I could not price. Its pricing page returned Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise plan names with a complete feature grid and no numbers in the delivered page, because the figures are painted in by script after load. That’s two of the eight tools in this post with no verifiable public price, which is more than I’d expected.
The bot in the participant list is a sales problem, not an IT one
Every tool above except Granola and Craqly works the same way: a bot dials into the meeting and sits in the participant list with a name on it.
On internal calls nobody cares. On customer calls it changes the room. The prospect sees “tl;dv Notetaker has joined”, and depending on who they are, that produces a question about recording, a request to remove it, or nothing at all. All three outcomes cost you something at the top of a discovery call, and the first one is the expensive one, because you’re now negotiating permission instead of asking about their renewal date.
Then there is the harder version. Larger buyers switch off external app admission at the tenant level in Teams, and enterprise Zoom accounts can block unapproved apps outright. When that happens the bot never gets in, and you find out afterwards that your best call of the quarter wasn’t recorded at all. Coverage gaps like that skew every dashboard built on top of them, which is the part managers notice six weeks later.
To be clear about the other side: bots do something desktop capture cannot. They record a call the manager never joined, which matters if you are staffing a review programme across twenty reps. That’s a real reason to keep one.
Consent still applies whichever way you record
Removing the bot removes a notification, not a legal obligation. Recording law varies by jurisdiction and by who’s on the call, and two-party consent states in the US are the usual trap for teams selling nationally. The practical rule most sales orgs land on is to say out loud in the first thirty seconds that the call is being recorded and why, regardless of what the tool does or doesn’t display.
Say it as a statement rather than a question and almost nobody objects. Ask permission and about one in five will hesitate, which is a worse outcome for everyone.
Where Craqly sits among the tldv alternatives
Craqly is a desktop app rather than a meeting bot. It follows the call on Zoom, Teams or Google Meet from your machine, so there’s no participant to admit, no name in the list, and nothing for a tenant policy to block. Decisions and action items appear while the call is still running, which is the part that changes how you use it: you can correct a wrong summary line before the call ends rather than editing a document afterwards.
The free Starter plan is 20 credits a month, one credit being one minute of live session, and credits reset monthly. Paid starts at $19 a month billed yearly or $38 month to month, checked on 6 September 2026. Stealth is on every plan, the free one included.
It won’t solve manager-side coverage of calls you never joined. If that’s your main problem, buy a bot recorder and accept the admission failures. We covered the trade-off in more depth in the bot-free notetaker piece, and the wider category is in the meeting summariser roundup.
What the price spread says about the category
Put the verified annual figures in one line and they run from $11 to about $53 a seat. That range isn’t quality, it’s scope, and most of the tldv alternatives sitting at the cheap end aren’t worse tools. They’re smaller ones.
Under $16 you’re buying a record of the meeting: Granola, Circleback Pro, Otter Pro, Fathom Premium. Around $25 you add team collaboration and CRM writeback. Above $30 you stop buying a copy of the conversation and start buying analysis of it, which is where Avoma’s stacked add-ons, Sybill and Gong live. Teams over-buy here more often than they under-buy, partly because a coaching tier is easier to defend in a budget review than the admission that nobody has opened a scorecard since spring.
Picking one without a two-week bake-off
Sort by team shape rather than feature grid, because the grids are nearly identical and the shapes aren’t.
Solo founder or a two-person team doing discovery: Granola at $14 or Circleback Pro at $11 annual. Both are cheap enough that being wrong costs you a month. A sales team that needs CRM writeback: Fathom Business at $25 annual is the lowest price I could verify for that one feature, and the mechanics of getting notes into a CRM are worth reading before you buy, in the CRM notes guide. A team whose calls sit behind enterprise IT policy: a bot’s going to fail some percentage of the time, so test admission on two real customer calls before you sign anything.
And if tl;dv itself is still on your list, ask them for the price in writing. I couldn’t get it off their site on 6 September 2026, so I would want it on an email rather than in a comparison table, mine included.
