Fathom

fathom.video
Sales Engagement
Weekend Project

Your brilliant AI meeting partner

How to Replace Fathom

Overview

Fathom is an AI-powered meeting recording and transcription platform that captures, summarizes, and analyzes video calls. It helps individuals and teams automatically generate insights, action items, and summaries from their meetings while enabling collaboration and CRM integration.

Features

36 features across 12 categories

AI Insights(7)

Advanced SummariesAIPremium

Choose from over 15 expert meeting templates, including BANT, Sandler, and more frameworks

AI Follow-up EmailsAIPremium

Generate follow-up emails from meeting summaries

AI-Generated Action ItemsAIPremium

Automatically generate action items from meeting content

Ask Fathom (Conversational AI)AIPremium

Engage with meetings in a ChatGPT-like interface to get instant answers, insights, and actions

Basic SummariesAI

Chronological AI-generated recap of your meeting

Custom Meeting BotAIPremium

Customizable AI bot for your meetings

Instant AI Call SummariesAI

AI-generated chronological recap of meetings

Analytics(2)

AI ScorecardsAIPremium

AI-powered performance scorecards for meeting coaching

Coaching MetricsAIPremium

Track speaking patterns and behaviors in meetings to improve performance and effectiveness

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Smartsheet

CRM Integration(2)

Customer ViewPremium

Single view showing a customer's meetings, summaries, and highlights for easy review and collaboration

Deal ViewPremium

Shared page bringing together all meetings, summaries, and key moments related to a specific sales deal

Also in: Data 360, Calendly, Chili Piper

Collaboration(4)

Comments & MentionsPremium

Collaborate on meetings with comments and mentions

Team FoldersPremium

Organize and manage team meetings with folder structures

Team PlaylistsPremium

Create playlists of highlights from all team meetings

Team WorkspacePremium

Shared workspace for team members to access and manage recordings

Also in: Notion, Airtable, Obsidian

Content Management(1)

Clips and PlaylistsAI

Create, organize, and share AI-generated clips and highlights from meetings

Also in: Juro, Notion, WordPress.com

Integration(5)

Automation IntegrationsPremium

Automate workflows using Zapier and Make.com

CRM SyncsPremium

Automatically push meeting summaries and notes into your CRM

Field SyncAIPremium

Automatically map and write meeting insights into specific CRM fields

Public APIPremium

Build custom integrations and workflows

Slack IntegrationPremium

Integrate with Slack for notifications and sharing

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Recording(3)

Call Downloads

Download and export call recordings

Unlimited Call Storage

Store unlimited recorded calls

Unlimited Recordings

Record unlimited video calls and meetings

Search & Discovery(4)

AI Search AlertsAIPremium

Automatically receive notifications when new meetings match your saved searches or topics

Attendee and Keyword Search

Search meetings by attendees and keywords

Global Team SearchPremium

Search across all shared team calls

Keyword AlertsPremium

Get notified when specific words or phrases are mentioned in meetings

Security(3)

Advanced Security ControlsPremium

Enterprise-grade security controls

Custom Data Retention PoliciesPremium

Set custom policies for how long meeting data is retained

Single Sign-On (SSO)Premium

Enterprise SSO integration for team management

Settings(2)

Custom Bot NamePremium

Customize the name of your Fathom bot

Disable In-Meeting BannerPremium

Option to hide the Fathom banner during calls

Support(1)

Professional ServicesPremium

Expert implementation team to set up, scale, and automate Fathom configuration

Transcription(2)

Customized Transcription VocabularyPremium

Customize transcription for industry-specific terminology

Unlimited TranscriptionsAI

Automatic transcription of all recorded meetings

Pricing

Free

Free
  • Unlimited recordings + transcriptions
  • Instant AI call summaries
  • Clips, playlists, + search across calls

Premium

$20/mo ($16/mo annual)
  • Everything from Free
  • Advanced call summaries
  • AI-generated action items
  • Conversational meeting assistant
  • Custom meeting bot

Team

Popular
$19/mo ($15/mo annual) per user (2 user min)
  • Everything from Premium
  • Global search across shared calls
  • Playlists of highlights from team meetings
  • Collaboration using comments, folders, keyword alerts, +more
  • Customized transcription vocabulary
  • Single sign-on (SSO)

Business

$29/mo ($20/mo annual) per user (2 user min)
  • Everything from Team
  • CRM field sync
  • Deal View summarizing insights
  • Coaching metrics and AI scorecards
  • Custom data retention policies
  • Professional services available

Cost Calculator

Keep Paying Fathom

Monthly$19/mo
Yearly$228/yr
5-Year Total$1.1k

Build It Yourself

Est. Build Time~3 hrs
Hosting$20/mo
DifficultyVery Easy

Total Cost Comparison

1 Year
SaaS
$228
DIY
$240
3 Years
SaaS
$684
DIY
$720
5 Years
SaaS
$1.1k
DIY
$1.2k

DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 36 features at very easy complexity.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Fathom alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 36 features.

Buy Fathom

Better Value
Monthly cost$190/mo
3-year total$6,840
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$24,000
Maintenance$360/mo
3-year total$36,960
Dev time~2 months

Buying Fathom saves ~$30,120 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 36 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

5 known integrations

CRM IntegrationsMake.comPublic APISlackZapier