Fathom vs Gong (2026): Price, Free Plan, Bot and Sales Calls

Fathom vs Gong: pick Fathom if you want published prices, a free plan and call notes you can start today, and pick Gong if you run a sales team buying a full revenue platform on a custom quote. Fathom's Business plan, with CRM field sync and coaching metrics, is $25 per user per month billed annually, while Gong prices per user plus a platform fee and lists no free plan.

Scribbl is the pick over both. Fathom and Gong both send a bot into the call to record video. With Scribbl, nothing joins the call, and every sales call gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items, on Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with the follow-up email drafted and the CRM note logged. Every price and fact below was checked on Fathom's and Gong's official pages on October 19, 2026.

Start free: no bot for a prospect to notice, no quote to wait for, and the free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with 10 meetings a month.

Fathom vs Gong at a glance

	Scribbl (our pick)	Fathom	Gong
What it is	AI note taker for Google Meet, Zoom and Teams that does the follow-up	AI meeting note taker	"AI OS for Revenue Teams"
Bot in the call	No. Nothing joins the call	Yes, to record video; audio-only bot-free mode on Mac	Yes, a virtual participant; native recording on Zoom only
Free plan	The free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with 10 meetings a month	Unlimited recordings; advanced AI summaries on 5 calls a month	None listed
Price	$13 per user per month billed annually, $20 monthly	From $15 billed annually (Team, 2 users minimum) or $16 (Premium)	Not published: per-user licenses plus a platform fee, by quote
AI action items	Every plan	Paid plans	Not listed on its pricing page
CRM follow-up	Automations log notes in HubSpot or Pipedrive and draft the follow-up email	CRM sync on every plan, 3 users per domain below Business	Integrations free with a license

From Scribbl's, Fathom's and Gong's official pricing pages and the vendors' help pages, checked October 19, 2026. Prices are in US dollars per user per month.

Fathom vs Gong pricing

Fathom. Fathom publishes its prices:

Plan	Scribbl	Fathom
Free	10 meetings a month on Google Meet, Zoom and Teams, with the video, transcript, AI notes and action items	Free: unlimited recordings and transcription, advanced AI summaries on your first 5 calls a month
For one person	Pro: $13 billed annually, or $20 monthly. Unlimited meetings, ask ChatGPT or Claude about past calls	Premium: $16 billed annually, or $20 monthly. AI action items, follow-up emails, Ask Fathom
For teams		Team: $15 billed annually, or $19 monthly, 2 users minimum. Business: $25 billed annually, or $34 monthly, 2 users minimum, with CRM field sync, deal view and coaching metrics
Enterprise		Talk to sales

Gong. Gong's pricing page lists no prices and no free plan. It says licenses are priced per user, there is a platform fee based on the number of users supported, and you can integrate your existing tech stack for free. To get a price, you fill in a form starting with your team size for a customized proposal.

For every Fathom plan detail, see Fathom pricing. For sales teams that want call notes without a sales-platform contract, see the best Gong alternative for AI notes.

Free plans

• Fathom Free: unlimited recordings, storage and transcription, instant AI call summaries, advanced summaries on your first 5 calls a month, clips and search. AI action items and AI follow-up emails aren't included, and Ask Fathom is limited.
• Gong: no free plan is listed on its pricing page.
• Scribbl free plan: the free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with 10 meetings a month. Each one gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items, and nothing joins the call.

The bot on your sales calls

On sales calls, the bot is the part prospects see.

Fathom. Fathom's help center lists capture modes: "Audio & Video (Bot)", where a bot joins the meeting to record audio and video, and two bot-free modes that capture audio only or a transcript only. The bot-free modes need Fathom 3.0 on a Mac with macOS 14.2 or newer, and on Windows bot-free capture is limited to an early test on Microsoft Teams. Removing the in-meeting banner and a custom bot name start on Premium.

Gong. Gong's help center says Gong joins the meeting as a virtual participant and records the call, and that in Zoom the Gong recorder appears in the attendee list like any other participant. The bot is available on all of Gong's web conferencing integrations, including Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. Native recording, with no recorder in the meeting, is only available with Zoom. If a meeting has a waiting room, the host must admit the bot before recording starts.

Scribbl. Nothing joins the call, and you still get the video. On Google Meet it's a Chrome extension, and on Zoom and Teams it's Scribbl Desktop for Mac with Apple silicon and Windows. The prospect sees only the people they invited. Whatever tool you use, tell everyone you're recording at the start of the call.

Do it with Scribbl

No bot on the call, on Mac and on Windows, no quote, and AI action items on every plan. Three steps:

1. 1

   Add Scribbl

   Add the Chrome extension for Google Meet, or install Scribbl Desktop on your Mac (Apple silicon) or Windows computer for Zoom and Teams. Turn off Fathom's automatic recording, or ask your Gong admin to stop recording your calls, so only one tool takes notes.

2. 2

   Join the call as usual

   Nothing joins the call, and you don't need to be the host. Tell everyone you're recording at the start.

3. 3

   Open the notes when the call ends

   The video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items are on one page, and Automations draft the follow-up email and log the note in HubSpot or Pipedrive.

Every call gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items. The free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with 10 meetings a month. Start free.

CRM and integrations

Fathom. Fathom's pricing page lists Claude and ChatGPT integrations, Zapier and Make, Slack, and its public API and MCP on every plan. CRM sync, which pushes meeting summaries and notes into your CRM, is on every plan but limited to 3 users per domain on Free, Premium and Team. CRM field sync, which writes into specific CRM fields, starts on Business.

Gong. Gong's pricing page says you can integrate your existing tech stack for free. Its products include Gong Engage, Gong Forecast and Gong Enable, sold to revenue teams.

Scribbl. Scribbl's integrations do the follow-up after each sales call. Smart Collections sort your calls by themselves into the groups you describe. When a call lands in a collection, Automations draft the follow-up email (you copy it or open it in Gmail; it never sends by itself), log a note in HubSpot or Pipedrive, post to Slack or Microsoft Teams, open an Asana, Monday, Linear or Jira ticket, or add a row to a Google Sheet. They ask before they change anything by default. On Pro you can also connect Scribbl to ChatGPT or Claude and ask about past calls.

Privacy: AI training and your data

• Fathom. Fathom's privacy policy, last updated August 16, 2026, says it may use de-identified data from meeting content to improve its service, that you can opt out in your account settings, and that it doesn't let third parties such as OpenAI, Anthropic or Google train on your data.
• Gong. Gong's trust center says your data is never used to train generative AI models and is never shared with or exposed to the public domain.
• Scribbl. Recordings are private by default, and Scribbl doesn't use your meetings to train AI for anyone other than you.

Fathom or Gong: which should you choose?

Between the two: Fathom is a note taker with published prices and a free plan, and its sales features (CRM field sync, deal view, coaching metrics) are on Business. Gong is a revenue platform sold by quote, with a platform fee and no free plan. Both send a bot into the call to record video.

Scribbl is the pick for most teams comparing these two:

• Nothing joins the call on Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams, on Mac and on Windows.
• The video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items for every call, on every plan.
• Prices you can see. The free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with 10 meetings a month. Pro is $13 per user per month billed annually, or $20 monthly.
• The follow-up gets done. Automations draft the email and log the CRM note in HubSpot or Pipedrive.

For more, see Scribbl vs Fathom, Scribbl vs Gong, the best AI note taker for sales calls, Scribbl for sales, Gong vs Fireflies and Fathom vs Fireflies. If you mostly sell in one app, start from its page: Google Meet AI note taker, Zoom AI note taker or Microsoft Teams AI note taker.

The free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with 10 meetings a month. Start free, and nothing joins your next sales call.

FAQ

Is Fathom or Gong better?

Fathom is better if you want published prices, a free plan and call notes you can start today, and Gong is better if you run a sales team buying a full revenue platform on a custom quote. Fathom's Business plan, with CRM field sync and coaching metrics, is $25 per user per month billed annually, while Gong prices per user plus a platform fee and lists no free plan. Both record video with a bot in the call. Scribbl is the pick over both: nothing joins the call, and every sales call gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items.

How much does Fathom cost compared with Gong?

Fathom publishes its prices: Free, Premium at $16 per user per month billed annually or $20 monthly, Team at $15 or $19 and Business at $25 or $34, both with at least 2 users, and Enterprise through sales. Gong doesn't publish prices; its pricing page says licenses are priced per user, plus a platform fee based on the number of users, through a customized proposal. Scribbl Pro is $13 per user per month billed annually, or $20 monthly (all checked October 19, 2026).

Do Fathom and Gong put a bot in the call?

Yes, to record video. Fathom's bot joins to record audio and video; its bot-free modes capture audio only and need a Mac, with Windows limited to an early test on Teams. Gong joins as a virtual participant on every web conferencing integration and records natively, with no recorder in the meeting, only on Zoom. Scribbl never adds a participant on Google Meet, Zoom or Teams, and you still get the video.

Does Fathom or Gong have a free plan?

Fathom does: unlimited recordings and transcription, with advanced AI summaries on your first 5 calls a month; AI action items and follow-up emails are on paid plans. Gong lists no free plan. The free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams on Scribbl, with 10 meetings a month and the video, transcript, AI notes and action items for each one.

Which syncs with the CRM, Fathom or Gong?

Fathom lists CRM sync on every plan, limited to 3 users per domain on Free, Premium and Team, and CRM field sync on Business and Enterprise. Gong's pricing page says you can integrate your existing tech stack for free. Scribbl's Automations log a note in HubSpot or Pipedrive and draft the follow-up email when a sales call lands in a Smart Collection, asking before they change anything by default.

What is the best alternative to Fathom and Gong for sales calls?

Scribbl. Nothing joins the call on Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams, so prospects see only the people they invited, on Mac and Windows. Every call gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items, and Automations do the CRM follow-up. Pro is $13 per user per month billed annually, or $20 monthly.

Do I need to be the host to use Scribbl on sales calls?

No. Nothing joins the call, so there is no bot for the prospect to admit, and Scribbl works on calls the prospect set up. On Google Meet it's a Chrome extension, and on Zoom and Teams it's Scribbl Desktop for Mac with Apple silicon and Windows. The free plan includes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, with 10 meetings a month. Start free, and tell everyone you're recording at the start of the call.

Sources

Checked October 19, 2026.

• Scribbl: pricing, Scribbl Desktop, privacy policy
• Fathom: pricing, Free vs Premium, How to upgrade to Fathom 3.0 (capture modes), What devices is Fathom compatible with?, privacy policy (last updated August 16, 2026)
• Gong: pricing (the "AI OS for Revenue Teams" wording is Gong's own description of itself), How calls are recorded, Web conferencing integrations, trust center