Which meetings does it join?

Every Teams meeting on your connected calendar. Once you connect, Meet3 watches your schedule and joins them automatically — there's no bot address to invite.

Who can see the notes?

Only people who were invited to the meeting. Access is enforced at the database with row-level security — signing in shows you your meetings and no one else's.

What languages are supported?

Transcription is multilingual and handles code-switching — English, Mandarin and Malay inside one sentence, without you selecting a language first. Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino and others work too.

No. There are no seats and no subscription. You buy credits and spend them on meeting-hours captured, so adding colleagues costs nothing — only meeting more does.

What if the notes are wrong, or the meeting never gets captured?

A meeting only costs credits once its summary is delivered. If the bot cannot join, the meeting is abandoned, or no summary is produced, you are not charged. Every set of minutes also carries a confidence score and a “needs review” list flagging the lines worth checking, so you can see how much to trust them before relying on them.

A credit is the unit you spend. Capturing a meeting (record, transcribe, summarize) costs 1 credit per hour of meeting, rounded up — a 45-minute call is 1 credit, 90 minutes is 2. A meeting only ever costs credits once its summary is generated; a meeting that never finishes costs nothing.

Where is my data stored?

Recordings, transcripts, and notes are stored in your Meet3 account and delivered in the portal. Nothing is shared outside the invited attendees.

Fireflies alternative for Southeast Asian teams (2026)

July 19, 2026 · comparison

You’re looking for a Fireflies alternative for one of two reasons: the per-seat bill stopped making sense, or the transcripts fall apart the moment a meeting stops being monolingual English. If your team is in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines or Thailand, it’s usually both at once. Here’s an honest look at where Fireflies, Otter and Fathom are genuinely strong — and where a Southeast Asian team on Microsoft Teams hits their limits.

What Fireflies, Otter and Fathom do well

Credit where due. Fireflies has the deepest integration catalog — if your workflow lives in Salesforce or HubSpot, its CRM sync is the draw. Otter is the strongest at real-time captions while the meeting is still running. Fathom has a genuinely generous free tier for personal use and very fast post-call summaries. For a US sales team meeting in English on Zoom, any of the three is a fine choice.

Where a Fireflies alternative earns its keep

1. Mixed-language meetings

The big three treat language as a setting: you pick one (or the tool detects one), and the transcript is built around it. A real Kuala Lumpur or Singapore meeting doesn’t work that way — a single sentence moves from English into Mandarin into Malay and back. Tools built on one-language-at-a-time recognition transcribe the dominant language and mangle the switches, which is precisely where the decisions and caveats live. Meet3 transcribes the switches inside the sentence with nothing to configure, because for this region “which language is the meeting in?” is the wrong question.

2. Per-seat pricing punishes big, quiet teams

As of July 2026, entry paid tiers run roughly $8–18 per user per month (Otter Pro from ~$8.33 annual, Fireflies Pro from ~$10 annual, Fathom team plans from $19), with business tiers at $19–30 per user per month. The number that matters is the multiplier: per user. Forty people who each sit in a few meetings a month cost forty subscriptions. Meet3 has no seats — you buy credits and spend 1 per hour of meeting captured. Invite the whole company; only meeting more costs more.

3. A meeting that isn’t captured shouldn’t cost anything

Subscription tools charge you whether or not this month’s meetings produced usable notes. Meet3 spends a credit only when a summary is delivered — if the bot can’t join or no summary is produced, that meeting is free. You pay for the record, not the attempt.

See how Meet3 handles Singapore’s four-language meetings →

Comparison at a glance

	Fireflies	Otter	Fathom	Meet3
Pricing model	Per seat/month	Per seat/month	Free personal; per seat for teams	Per meeting-hour captured
Typical paid cost (Jul 2026)	~$10–29/user/mo	~$8.33–30/user/mo	$0 personal; $19–28/user/mo teams	$0.73–0.76 per meeting-hour
Mid-sentence code-switching	No — language-first transcription	No — English-centric	No — language-first transcription	Yes — nothing to configure
Platforms	Zoom, Meet, Teams, more	Zoom, Meet, Teams, more	Zoom, Meet, Teams	Microsoft Teams (more by request)
Failed capture	Subscription runs regardless	Subscription runs regardless	Free tier softens it	Costs nothing

Competitor prices checked July 2026 and rounded; check their pricing pages for current numbers. Meet3 figures from our pricing.

Where Meet3 is the wrong choice

Honesty cuts both ways. Meet3 is Teams-only today — if your meetings are on Zoom or Google Meet, use Fathom or Fireflies and tell us where you meet so we build your platform next. And Meet3’s notes are participant-aware but not speaker-attributed: it knows who was invited and attributes action items when the transcript names someone, but it doesn’t label who spoke each line. If per-line speaker labels are your hard requirement, the incumbents do that.

Deciding on price alone? Run the numbers in pay-per-meeting vs per-seat: the math. Deciding on languages? Start with Singlish & Manglish transcription: what works.

FAQ

What is the best Fireflies alternative for Microsoft Teams?

If your meetings are English-only, Fathom's free tier is hard to argue with. If your meetings mix English with Mandarin, Malay, Thai or Bahasa Indonesia — or you don't want a per-seat bill — Meet3 is built for exactly that: it auto-joins Teams meetings from your calendar and charges per meeting-hour captured.

Does Meet3 need a bot invited to each meeting?

No. Connect your Microsoft calendar once and Meet3 joins the Teams meetings on it automatically — there's no bot address to remember.

Is there a subscription?

No. You buy a credit pack and spend 1 credit per hour of meeting captured, rounded up. Credits are only spent when notes are delivered.