The 11 Best Avoma Alternatives in 2026

We checked every price in this guide against the vendors' own pricing pages in October 2026. That matters more than usual this year: Sembly dropped its free plan in March, Notion retired its $10 AI add-on, and tl;dv has repriced its Business tier more than once since 2024. Most Avoma roundups still quote 2024 numbers.

Avoma itself runs $19 to $39 per recorder seat per month billed annually (https://www.avoma.com/pricing), and the Conversation Intelligence and Revenue Intelligence add-ons cost $29 per seat each on top. A fully loaded seat lands near $87 a month. That's usually the point where teams start asking what else is out there.

The issue usually is friction. Dashboards pile up, reps feel monitored instead of supported, and a tool meant to help sales teams sell starts to slow them down. Some teams want more execution: faster follow-ups, cleaner CRM updates, fewer clicks. Others want less complexity: simpler summaries, lighter note-taking, and tools reps actually enjoy using.

Those are very different upgrade paths, and most comparison posts don't acknowledge that. So we compared the top Avoma alternatives of 2026, 11 tools in all, by the path each one serves, with verified pricing for every tool.

How we put this list together: This guide is published by Cirrus Insight, and our own product is on it, ranked first for the execution use case. Judge that placement with the same skepticism you'd bring to any vendor's list. To keep the comparison honest, we hold every tool, ours included, to the same checks: pricing read from each vendor's own pricing page, the same entry structure, and real cons on every entry, Cirrus Insight's included. Where we couldn't verify a number, we say so instead of guessing.

What Counts as an Avoma Alternative

Avoma is an all-in-one platform bundling four jobs: an AI meeting assistant for recording and transcription across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams; conversation intelligence for call scoring and coaching; revenue intelligence for pipeline and forecasting; and a scheduler that covers the whole meeting lifecycle. Almost nothing on the market replaces all four at once. The practical question is which part of Avoma you're replacing.

The 11 tools below fall into five groups:

• Execution and CRM automation: Cirrus Insight
• Revenue intelligence platforms: Gong, ZoomInfo Chorus
• Lightweight capture and transcription: Fireflies.ai, Otter.ai, Fathom
• Async highlights and SMB conversation intelligence: tl;dv, Grain
• Summary and documentation tools: Jamie, Sembly, Notion AI

Each entry carries a category label, so you can skip straight to your upgrade path.

How We Evaluated These Tools

Same four checks for every tool on the list:

• Verified pricing. Read from each vendor's pricing page with annual and monthly rates separated. Hedged prices ("around $20") didn't make the cut because several of this year's pricing changes broke them.
• Execution fit. Does the tool move work forward after the meeting (CRM updates, follow-ups, next steps), or does it stop at analysis? This is the friction that pushes most teams off Avoma in the first place.
• Depth versus overhead. Coaching and analytics depth, weighed against the setup and review time it demands from sales reps.
• Ease of rollout. Free plan or trial, seat minimums, and whether teammates who don't record can view notes for free.

Avoma Alternatives at a Glance

Starting prices are per user per month on annual billing, verified October 8, 2026 (Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai verified October 7, 2026).

The 11 Best Avoma Alternatives, Compared

Jump to the tool that fits your upgrade path:

1. Cirrus Insight: best for sales execution inside Salesforce
2. Gong: best for enterprise revenue intelligence
3. ZoomInfo Chorus: best for manager-led call coaching
4. Fireflies.ai: best for low-cost meeting capture
5. Otter.ai: best for real-time transcription
6. Fathom: best free Avoma alternative
7. tl;dv: best for async video highlights
8. Grain: best budget conversation intelligence
9. Jamie: best bot-free summaries
10. Sembly: best for action and decision tracking
11. Notion AI: best for summaries inside your docs

Best for Sales Execution Inside Salesforce

1. Cirrus Insight

Category: Execution and CRM automation

Avoma tells you what happened in a meeting. Cirrus Insight is built for what happens because of that meeting.

Teams pick it when meetings need to drive follow-ups, outbound activity, and pipeline movement without burying reps in dashboards. Where Avoma leans into analysis and coaching, Cirrus Insight embeds meeting insights directly into Salesforce and the daily sales workflow. If Gong or Avoma felt like homework, this is the opposite bet: fewer dashboards, more finished follow-ups.

Key Features

• AI meeting prep with account and attendee context pulled from Salesforce and email
• Post-meeting summaries that surface clear next steps instead of generic recaps
• Automatic Salesforce updates after every meeting
• Meeting capture connected to prospecting and outbound execution

Pros

• AI meeting prep gives reps account and attendee context before the call
• Automatic Salesforce updates cut post-meeting admin
• Modular pricing, so you only pay for the pieces you use

Cons

• Requires Salesforce to unlock full value
• Less depth in call scoring and rep performance analytics than Avoma, Gong, or ZoomInfo Chorus
• Meeting Capture pools 6 recorded hours per user per week, so heavy callers should check the math

Pricing: A la carte, published at https://www.cirrusinsight.com/pricing: Meeting Capture $39, Salesforce Sidebar $11, Email Sync $5, and Buyer Signals $10 per user per month. Free trial available.

Best For: Sales teams that want meetings to move deals forward, not just generate insights. Schedule a demo to see how Cirrus Insight fits into your sales workflow.

Best for Enterprise Revenue Intelligence

2. Gong

Category: Revenue intelligence platform

Gong is what you reach for when meetings become data at scale. Teams choose it for enterprise-grade visibility into deals, forecasting, and rep performance.

Where Avoma summarizes meetings, Gong analyzes patterns across thousands of customer conversations and ties them to revenue outcomes. The trade-off is weight: cost, implementation time, and admin overhead that only pays off past a certain team size. Competitors have noticed; Fathom runs a standing migration offer for exactly this switch.

Key Features

• Deal inspection and forecasting built on meeting data
• Coaching and enablement workflows for managers
• Deep CRM integrations and reporting

Pros

• Powerful deal inspection and forecasting insights
• Strong coaching and enablement features for managers
• Deep CRM integrations and reporting

Cons

• No pricing published on gong.io; custom enterprise quotes only
• Expensive and complex to implement
• Overkill for smaller or execution-focused teams

Pricing: Custom enterprise pricing.

Best For: Large sales organizations focused on revenue intelligence and forecasting.

We compared this category in more depth in our guide to the best Gong alternatives: https://www.cirrusinsight.com/gong-alternatives

Best for Manager-Led Call Coaching

3. ZoomInfo Chorus

Category: Revenue intelligence platform

Chorus, part of ZoomInfo since 2021, is built for teams that want structured coaching without going fully enterprise-heavy. It offers strong call analysis with a slightly lighter footprint than Gong, and it emphasizes manager-led call reviews over meeting summaries.

Key Features

• Call tagging and structured coaching workflows
• Call libraries for onboarding and rep development
• Salesforce integration

Pros

• Clear call tagging and coaching workflows
• Useful for onboarding and rep development
• Strong Salesforce integration

Cons

• Less emphasis on execution or follow-ups
• Still feels heavy for small teams
• Pricing requires a ZoomInfo sales conversation; no public rates

Pricing: Custom pricing through ZoomInfo.

Best For: Sales managers focused on rep coaching and call quality.

Best for Low-Cost Meeting Capture

4. Fireflies.ai

Category: Lightweight capture and transcription

Fireflies is what teams pick when they want simplicity back. It focuses on recording, transcription, and summaries rather than deep sales analytics, and it rolls out across a team in an afternoon.

The free plan is more generous than most roundups say: transcription itself is unlimited, with storage capped at 400 minutes per team. For sales and customer success teams, know that conversation intelligence (talk time, sentiment, topic trackers) sits on the Business plan, not Pro.

Key Features

• Unlimited transcription on the free plan, with 400 minutes of team storage
• Search across every captured meeting
• Transcription in 100+ languages
• Conversation intelligence and team insights on the Business plan

Pros

• Easy to deploy across teams
• Strong search across meetings
• Free tier includes unlimited transcription

Cons

• Summaries can feel generic
• Limited support for sales execution or prospecting
• Conversation intelligence requires the Business plan

Pricing: Free; Pro $10 per user per month billed annually or $18 monthly; Business $19 annually or $29 monthly; Enterprise $39, annual only.

Best For: Teams that want basic meeting capture without complexity.

If Fireflies is your shortlist leader, we broke down its closest rivals here: https://www.cirrusinsight.com/fireflies-ai-alternatives

Best for Real-Time Transcription

5. Otter.ai

Category: Lightweight capture and transcription

Otter is the name most people learn first in meeting transcription, and live transcription is still its strongest card: you watch the transcript build during the call instead of waiting for a recap.

For sales teams, the fine print matters more than the brand. CRM sync to Salesforce and HubSpot is capped at 1 user on Pro and 5 users on Business; only Enterprise removes the cap and adds the Sales Notetaker agent. Language coverage is the other gap: Otter supports 6 transcription languages against 100+ for Fireflies.

Key Features

• Real-time transcription you can read during the meeting
• AI Chat across your meeting archive
• Salesforce and HubSpot sync, seat-capped by plan
• Sales Notetaker agent and HIPAA add-on on Enterprise

Pros

• Live transcripts during the meeting, not just after it
• Cheapest paid entry point on this list at $8.33 per user per month annually
• Free Basic plan (300 minutes per month) to test with

Cons

• Free plan caps meetings at 30 minutes; Pro caps them at 90
• CRM sync limited to 1 user on Pro and 5 on Business
• Supports 6 transcription languages

Pricing: Basic free; Pro $8.33 per user per month billed annually or $16.99 monthly; Business $19.99 annually or $30 monthly; Enterprise custom.

Best For: Individuals and small teams that want to read the conversation as it happens.

We compared Otter head-to-head with Fireflies here: https://www.cirrusinsight.com/otter-ai-vs-fireflies

And ranked its closest rivals here: https://www.cirrusinsight.com/otter-ai-alternatives

Best Free Avoma Alternative

6. Fathom

Category: Lightweight capture and transcription

Fathom runs the most generous free plan in this category: unlimited recordings and instant AI summaries at $0, forever. Most free tiers cap minutes; Fathom caps features instead and charges for team and CRM functionality.

It also de-risks the switch harder than anyone else here. Every paid plan carries a 90-day money-back guarantee, and Fathom runs a standing offer for teams leaving Gong: Business free through your remaining contract, plus data migration.

Key Features

• Unlimited free recordings, transcription, and AI summaries
• Bot-free capture option (beta, Mac)
• CRM field sync, Deal View, and AI scorecards on the Business plan
• Claude and ChatGPT integrations for meeting context

Pros

• Unlimited recordings and AI summaries on the free plan
• 90-day money-back guarantee on paid plans
• Coaching metrics and CRM field sync arrive at $25 per user, far below enterprise pricing

Cons

• CRM sync capped at 3 users per domain below the Business plan
• Team plans carry a 2-user minimum
• Coaching depth is a fraction of Avoma, Gong, or ZoomInfo Chorus

Pricing: Free forever; Premium $16 per month billed annually ($20 monthly); Team $15 per user annually ($19 monthly, 2-user minimum); Business $25 annually ($34 monthly); Enterprise custom.

Best For: Teams that want to test AI meeting notes at zero cost before committing anywhere.

Best for Async Video Highlights

7. tl;dv

Category: Async highlights and SMB conversation intelligence

tl;dv is for teams that want highlights, not homework. Instead of dashboards, it produces skimmable summaries tied to video clips, which makes meetings far easier to review and share across time zones.

One caution from our price check: tl;dv has repriced its Business tier more than once since 2024, and the trackers we cross-checked in October 2026 disagreed on the current figure. Pro has held steady; budget the Business tier against the live page, not a blog post, ours included.

Key Features

• AI summaries linked to video moments
• Clip and playlist sharing for async review
• Multi-meeting AI reports and CRM integrations on the Business plan

Pros

• Skimmable summaries tied to video clips
• Generous free plan
• Pro has held at $18 per user per month annually since 2024

Cons

• Limited tracking of action items
• Not built for sales execution
• Business-tier pricing has shifted repeatedly; verify on the live page before budgeting

Pricing: Free tier; Pro $18 per user per month billed annually ($29 monthly); Business priced above Pro, confirm on the live page; Enterprise custom.

Best For: Remote teams sharing meeting highlights asynchronously.

Best Budget Conversation Intelligence

8. Grain

Category: Async highlights and SMB conversation intelligence

Grain gives small sales teams the piece of Avoma they actually use, coaching on real calls, without the platform around it. Think of it as a conversation intelligence platform shrunk to SMB size: AI coaching, AI follow-up emails, and team interaction insights sit on the Business plan at $29 per seat per month billed annually.

The catch lives in Grain's help center rather than on the plan cards: every paid seat in a workspace must sit on the same plan tier. One rep who needs Business reprices the whole team. Unlimited free viewer seats soften the math, since teammates who don't record pay nothing.

Key Features

• Bot-free desktop capture across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack huddles
• AI notes, next steps, and recaps on every plan
• AI coaching and team interaction insights on the Business plan
• Unlimited free viewer seats

Pros

• AI coaching at SMB pricing on the Business plan
• Free viewer seats for everyone who doesn't record
• 30-day money-back guarantee

Cons

• All paid seats must sit on the same plan tier, so one upgrade reprices the team
• Free plan caps at 20 meetings
• Analytics depth trails Gong and ZoomInfo Chorus by a wide margin

Pricing: Free (20 meetings); Starter $15 per seat per month billed annually ($19 monthly); Business $29 annually ($39 monthly); Enterprise custom.

Best For: Sales teams under roughly 20 reps that want call coaching without an enterprise contract.

Best Bot-Free Summaries

9. jamie

Category: Summary and documentation

jamie (meetjamie.ai) is for people who want clean summaries without a bot in the room. It records from your device instead of joining the call as a participant, so in-person meetings work and nobody is stuck taking notes.

We'll correct our own earlier take here: a previous version of this guide called jamie's integrations limited, and that's no longer true. The Pro plan now connects Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Dynamics 365, plus Notion and an MCP connection for AI tools. What jamie still doesn't do is analyze: there's no conversation intelligence or coaching layer at all.

Key Features

• Bot-free, on-device recording, including in-person meetings
• Notes and transcripts in 99+ languages
• Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Dynamics 365 on the Pro plan
• EU hosting with GDPR compliance

Pros

• No bot joins the call, and in-person meetings work too
• Clear, readable summaries with minimal editing
• EU hosting and GDPR compliance, useful for European teams

Cons

• Free plan caps at 10 AI notes a month with a 30-minute meeting limit
• CRM integrations require the $46 Pro plan
• No conversation intelligence or coaching

Pricing: Free (10 AI notes per month); Plus $24 per month billed annually (20 notes, 2-hour meetings); Pro $46 annually (unlimited notes, 5-hour meetings, CRM integrations); Team $37 per user; Enterprise custom.

Best For: Professionals who want polished summaries without a visible recorder in the call.

Best for Action and Decision Tracking

10. Sembly

Category: Summary and documentation

Sembly is built for teams that care about outcomes, not transcripts. It organizes meetings by actions, risks, and decisions rather than performance metrics, and it turns meeting summaries and tasks into follow-on documents, which Sembly calls AI Artifacts.

One important 2026 change: Sembly discontinued its free Personal plan on March 1, 2026, replaced it with a limited trial, and is sunsetting legacy plans by December 2026. If a roundup tells you Sembly is free, it predates the restructure.

Key Features

• Action, decision, and risk extraction from every meeting
• AI Artifacts: generated documents, metered per plan (5 per user on Pro, 40 on MAX)
• 48 supported languages, including 32+ in beta
• SOC 2 Type II certified since 2022, GDPR compliant

Pros

• Strong action-item and decision extraction
• Useful for compliance-heavy environments
• 48 languages, the broadest beta coverage in this group

Cons

• No free plan since March 1, 2026
• AI Artifacts and Insights are metered per user
• MAX carries a 3-seat minimum, a $90 per month floor

Pricing: Basic $10 per month billed annually (single seat); Pro $20 per user per month annually ($29 monthly); MAX $30 annually ($39 monthly, 3-seat minimum); Enterprise custom.

Best For: Teams focused on follow-through and accountability.

Best for Summaries Inside Your Docs

11. Notion AI

Category: Summary and documentation

Notion AI isn't a meeting tool first, but it's where many teams finish the work. Meeting notes live next to the project docs they affect, and you control structure and reuse completely.

Two things changed since most roundups covered it. Notion retired the standalone $10 AI add-on; the full AI capabilities now come bundled with the Business plan at $20 per member per month billed annually. And the old "no automatic capture" complaint is out of date: AI Meeting Notes transcribes meetings through the Notion desktop app, so the copy-paste era is over.

Key Features

• AI Meeting Notes transcription through the desktop app
• Summaries editable inside the workspace your team already uses
• Notion Agent and connected-app search on the Business plan
• Custom Agents billed at $10 per 1,000 credits for heavier automation

Pros

• Summaries live inside the docs your team already works in
• Highly customizable structure and templates
• AI Meeting Notes now captures meetings directly

Cons

• Full AI requires the $20 Business plan for every member; the cheaper add-on no longer exists
• Not a sales tool: no CRM sync, coaching, or deal views
• Heavy automation bills extra through Custom Agent credits

Pricing: Business $20 per member per month billed annually (about $24 monthly), AI included; Enterprise custom; Custom Agents $10 per 1,000 credits.

Best For: Teams refining and reusing meeting summaries inside existing documentation workflows.

Avoma vs Alternatives by Use Case

The cleanest way to compare Avoma with the field is by use case. It's strong at analysis and coaching, but not every team needs that depth, and where alternatives win depends on how meetings actually support your workflow.

For Sales Coaching and Call Reviews

Avoma works best when the goal is improving rep performance over time: detailed call analytics, talk-track insights, structured coaching workflows, and trend analysis across calls.

Where alternatives are better: Gong and ZoomInfo Chorus offer deeper revenue and forecasting context, and they're the best Avoma alternatives for meeting intelligence at enterprise scale. Grain covers the same coaching job for smaller teams at $29 per seat.

Recommendation: If you regularly review calls with reps and coach at scale, it still makes sense. If coaching feels secondary to execution, keep reading.

For Meeting Summaries and Follow-Ups

Some teams just want clear notes they can act on quickly, and this is where the summaries can feel long or analytical, with reps reworking notes before sharing.

Better fits: jamie or tl;dv for cleaner, faster summaries, Sembly for the strongest action-item extraction, and Fathom if you want all of it free.

Recommendation: If meetings need to produce simple, shareable takeaways, choose a summary-first tool over an analytics-heavy one.

For Sales Execution and Prospecting

This is where most teams outgrow Avoma. Insights live separately from CRM and outbound workflows, and follow-ups and record updates still take manual work.

Better fit: Cirrus Insight connects meetings directly to Salesforce, follow-ups, and prospecting activity.

Recommendation: If meetings are a core input to pipeline movement, execution-focused tools outperform analysis-first platforms.

Free Avoma Alternatives in 2026

Avoma has a 14-day unrestricted trial of its Organization plan but no free plan. Among the alternatives, these free tiers were live on October 8, 2026:

• Fathom: unlimited recordings, transcription, and AI summaries, free forever
• Fireflies.ai: unlimited transcription, 400 minutes of team storage
• Otter.ai: 300 minutes per month, 30-minute meeting cap
• tl;dv: free plan for recordings and AI notes
• Grain: 20 meetings, plus unlimited free viewer seats on any plan
• jamie: 10 AI notes per month, 30-minute meetings
• No longer free: Sembly discontinued its free plan on March 1, 2026. Notion AI has no standalone free tier; it rides on Notion's plans.
• Cirrus Insight: free trial with full feature access, no credit card required

Free tiers usually include basic recording and summaries with limited history or storage. What gets held back is what sales teams need most: advanced features like CRM and workflow integrations, custom summaries and exports, and team-level analytics.

Pro tip: Use the free tier to judge summary quality and usability, not feature count. If you're editing notes after every meeting, it's time to upgrade. And free plans stop making sense the moment follow-ups must be consistent, several teammates rely on the same notes, or meetings must connect to execution.

How to Choose the Right Avoma Alternative

Most teams looking for an Avoma alternative aren't replacing features. They're fixing friction.

When Avoma Is Enough

You actively coach reps using conversation data, analytics drive your decisions, and the team is comfortable with complexity. At that point the $29 Organization seat plus the $29 add-ons buys real depth.

Signs You've Outgrown Avoma

Reps ignore the dashboards and summaries. Follow-ups still happen manually. Meetings don't clearly translate into action.

How to Test Alternatives Safely

Run tools in parallel for 1 to 2 weeks. Compare time saved after meetings, not feature counts. Then ask reps which tool they actually enjoy using; adoption decides these migrations, not demos.

Why Teams Choose Cirrus Insight After Avoma

There's no single best Avoma alternative. A team that lives in deal dashboards needs Gong. A founder who wants free notes needs Fathom. The deciding factor is which part of the meeting workflow is actually broken for you.

Avoma delivers deep insights. Cirrus Insight delivers momentum. As sales teams mature, the challenge shifts from understanding conversations to acting on them, and that's where Cirrus Insight stands apart: instead of adding more dashboards or analysis layers, it helps reps execute faster and keeps CRM data clean.

Teams move to Cirrus Insight because it:

• Prepares reps before meetings with AI-driven context from Salesforce and email
• Turns conversations into clear next steps, not long reports
• Automatically updates Salesforce, cutting post-meeting admin
• Connects meetings directly to prospecting and follow-ups, so nothing stalls

If your priority is coaching and analytics, Avoma can still be a strong fit. But if your goal is to turn meetings into pipeline movement and revenue with less friction for reps, Cirrus Insight is built for what comes next.

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Related Reading

• The Best Gong Alternatives for 2026: https://www.cirrusinsight.com/gong-alternatives
• Best Fireflies.ai Alternatives in 2026: https://www.cirrusinsight.com/fireflies-ai-alternatives
• 10 Best Otter.ai Alternatives: https://www.cirrusinsight.com/otter-ai-alternatives
• Otter AI vs Fireflies: Which AI Meeting Transcription Tool Wins in 2026: https://www.cirrusinsight.com/otter-ai-vs-fireflies