Attendee: Open-source, self-hostable meeting bot API that sends bots into Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams to capture recordings and transcripts. InnoCaption: InnoCaption is a real-time call and meeting captioning service for people with hearing loss, providing live captions for phone calls and video conferences via mobile apps and the web. This comparison weighs them on pricing, features, and everyday workflow fit.
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Shortlist Attendee when developers embedding meeting recording and transcription into their own saas products matters most, and InnoCaption when making and receiving captioned phone calls independently matters most. Run both through a week of actual calls to see which suits your workflow.
Open-source, self-hostable meeting bot API that sends bots into Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams to capture recordings and transcripts.
InnoCaption is a real-time call and meeting captioning service for people with hearing loss, providing live captions for phone calls and video conferences via mobile apps and the web.
Attendee is an open-source REST API, developed by Attendee Labs, that abstracts the engineering work of building meeting bots into a single developer-friendly interface. Instead of maintaining separate bot stacks for each video platform, developers send one API request and Attendee dispatches a bot that joins a Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams call, then returns recordings, transcripts, and real-time media streams. It is built on widely used, battle-tested technologies such as Django, PostgreSQL, and Redis, and is designed to run from a single Docker image so teams can self-host it on their own infrastructure for data residency, compliance, and cost control. The project documents real-time transcription, webhooks, calendar integration, scheduled meetings, and websocket audio input/output. Because it is open source and self-hosted, organizations in regulated industries can keep meeting audio and transcripts inside their own environment rather than routing them through a third-party vendor. The repository is actively maintained with frequent releases, and the project markets itself as a lower-cost alternative to closed-source meeting-bot platforms for developers who want to embed meeting capture and transcription into their own applications. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.
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InnoCaption is a captioning service built for deaf and hard-of-hearing users in the United States that displays real-time text of what others say during phone calls and video meetings. Users speak with their own voice and read captions generated either by live human stenographers or by automated speech recognition, switching between the two as needed. The mobile apps run on iOS and Android phones and tablets, and InnoCaption Web brings captioning to a browser. For virtual meetings, the InnoCaption Bot can join Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex calls from a pasted meeting link, showing live captions with speaker identification; a dial-in method is also supported. Past call and meeting transcripts are saved and can be reviewed, emailed, or shared via a live-caption link that others open in any browser without logging in. The service is FCC-certified and funded through the federal Telecommunications Relay Services Fund. It is aimed at individuals with hearing loss who need accessible phone and meeting communication.
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Attendee is a free tier with paid upgrades (freemium); InnoCaption is free (free). Always confirm current pricing on each vendor's site before buying.
| Feature | Attendee | InnoCaption |
|---|---|---|
| Core capability | Unified REST API for deploying bots to Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams | Real-time captioning of phone calls and video meetings |
| Standout feature | Meeting recording and transcript retrieval through API endpoints | Choice of live human stenographers or automated speech recognition |
| Team usage | Real-time media pipeline with websocket audio input/output | InnoCaption Bot joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex with speaker identification |
| Integrations | Webhooks for event-driven workflows | InnoCaption Web for captioning calls and meetings in a browser |
| Languages & capture | Calendar integration and scheduled-meeting support | Saved call and meeting transcripts that can be reviewed or emailed |
| Best-fit workflow | Single Docker image self-hosting built on Django, PostgreSQL, and Redis | Shareable live-caption link viewable in any browser without login |
Attendee
Choose Attendee if you need developers embedding meeting recording and transcription into their own saas products — strengths include fully open source and designed for convenient self-hosting, keeping meeting data on your own infrastructure.
InnoCaption
Choose InnoCaption if you need captioning work video meetings on zoom, teams, meet, or webex for hard-of-hearing participants — strengths include free to eligible users, funded by the fcc telecommunications relay services fund.
Attendee
InnoCaption
It depends on your workflow. Attendee is strong for developers embedding meeting recording and transcription into their own saas products, while InnoCaption is strong for captioning work video meetings on zoom, teams, meet, or webex for hard-of-hearing participants. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.
Attendee is a free tier with paid upgrades and InnoCaption is free. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest plans and free-tier limits.
You can — some teams pair them when each covers a different part of the meeting workflow.
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