Is Krisp Free in 2026: No Free Plan, a 7-Day Trial, Paid Seats

No. Krisp's pricing page lists no free Meeting AI plan. What it does offer is a 7-day free trial of the paid features, with no credit card required ^[1]. When those seven days run out, Krisp's Terms of Use (March 2026) say access ends unless you have bought a subscription, and you keep 90 days to export your content. The cheapest way to stay is Core, at $8 per user per month billed annually or $16 per user per month billed monthly. Two things cost nothing, each with a catch: Krisp's noise suppression inside Discord, which cleans only your own microphone, and listener-side accent conversion on YouTube videos, which Krisp says is free. Everything else needs a paid seat.

Seven free days, then a decision

The single $0 card on Krisp's pricing page is the Free Trial, and it unlocks the premium tier rather than a cut-down edition. The card lists unlimited transcription, noise cancellation, audio and video recording, AI notes and action items, plus a limited allowance of accent conversion. The clock starts when you create the account. Krisp's Privacy Policy adds that you enter no card details until you choose to continue with a paid subscription, so there is no card on file for the trial to bill.

A few conditions shape the week. By default, sign-up asks you to connect a Google or Outlook calendar; Krisp also has a zero-calendar-permission option, but skipping the calendar step during a trial goes through its sales team. Krisp decides who is eligible for a trial and may end one early to prevent misuse, and during the trial the software comes as is, with no warranty or service level. You can add teammates while it runs. Seven days is short. Line the test up with a week of real calls, not a quiet one.

If you remember Krisp costing nothing, you are not imagining it. Krisp once sold free tiers with minute allowances, and in March 2020 it gave students, teachers, hospital and government workers six free months during COVID-19, an offer that ended in October 2020. Those plans are history. A handful of Krisp pages that have not been updated, such as its Zoom note-taker page and a June 2026 blog post about Mac apps, still mention a free plan. The current pricing page and the Terms decide the question, and neither offers one.

The day after the trial expires

Krisp's Terms are blunt about this. Unless you buy a paid subscription before the trial period ends, the trial expires and all access to Krisp stops ^[2]. You then keep access to your content for 90 days, solely to export it, and possibly without full functionality. After those 90 days Krisp may delete the account and its content, and it takes no responsibility for anything you did not export. Krisp's own product pages for Google Meet notes and Zoom meeting minutes say the same thing in plainer terms: after the trial, a paid plan is needed.

The iOS app's App Store listing describes the mobile side of that cutoff. Once the trial ends, call recording, in-person recording, bot recording and file import are disabled on the phone. In practice, the trial produces meetings you may want to keep, so plan the export before day seven rather than inside the 90-day window. Recordings download as MP3 files and transcripts export as .txt files with timestamps and speaker names, and meeting minutes can be copied to the clipboard. Export early.

Two things Krisp does give away

The first is Krisp inside Discord. Discord's own help article says Krisp is free when you use it with Discord, and that Krisp's pricing applies once you want it in other apps ^[3]. It is Discord's built-in noise suppression, separate from the Krisp app, and it runs on your device on Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iOS (Macs need Apple CPUs and OS 12 or later), plus Chrome and Firefox desktop browsers since October 2023. It filters only noise from your side. There are no meeting notes, no accent conversion and no cleaning of what other people send you, and it switches itself off when CPU use runs very high. Our Krisp in Discord guide covers the setup.

The second is narrower. Krisp says listener-side accent conversion on YouTube videos is free (November 2026) ^[4], and its Chrome Web Store listing says it needs no subscription or credit card. Listener side means Krisp adapts other speakers' accents only for you, with US English as the output; it does nothing to your own voice and is not the meeting feature sold on Core. The accent conversion guide explains both sides. The mobile apps are also free to download, but they work with an existing Krisp account, so a download is not a plan.

The cheapest way to keep Krisp after the trial

Core is the entry point, and it keeps most of what a solo user leans on during the trial: the bot-free note taker, recording, AI Chat across your meetings, the mobile app, the CRM and chat integrations below Advanced, the public API and MCP. Krisp's pricing FAQ says noise cancellation is built into every plan, so there is no cheaper noise-only tier to fall back on. Check which features you actually used during the week. If any of them sit on Advanced, such as manager view or commenting, Core will not include them.

The step from Core to Advanced is +$7 per user per month billed annually, or +$84 per user a year, by our arithmetic. Billed monthly, the step is +$14 per user per month, or +$168 per user a year, by our arithmetic. For one person on Core, that comes to $96 per user a year billed annually or $192 per user a year billed monthly, by our arithmetic. Every teammate you add to a Krisp team is a paid seat. By our arithmetic, five people on Core cost $480 a year billed annually ($96 per user) or $960 a year billed monthly ($192 per user). Seats are the bill.

Billing rules to read before the first charge

Choosing the term is simple arithmetic. By our arithmetic, Core costs $80 per user for five months billed monthly, still under the $96 per user that a year billed annually costs; at six months the two are equal. By our arithmetic, Advanced follows the same curve, with five monthly payments totaling $150 per user billed monthly against $180 per user for a year billed annually. So monthly billing only wins if you might stop within five months. If you are unsure after seven days, start monthly: a monthly Core plan can move to yearly from the Billing page, with the unused monthly amount subtracted.

The reverse move is harder. A yearly plan cannot be switched to monthly from the account; you cancel, wait for the cycle to end, then subscribe monthly. Subscriptions renew automatically for the same term, and fees are non-refundable except as Krisp's Terms state. Canceling is not immediate either: the paid features stay until the end of the billing cycle. Adding a seat is charged at once, pro rata for the days left in the cycle. The full rules sit in our Krisp pricing breakdown.

When free has to mean free

If a $0 budget is fixed, the meeting-notes tools in this category handle free very differently from Krisp. Fathom's Free plan has unlimited recordings, transcription and storage, with advanced AI summaries on the first five calls a month. Granola's Basic plan writes AI notes for unlimited meetings but keeps only the last 30 days of history in the app. Read AI's Free plan allows five meeting reports a month on meetings up to one hour, and Otter's Basic plan gives 300 transcription minutes per user a month, capped at 30 minutes per conversation.

Those plans are about notes. Krisp's argument for paying is the audio layer underneath them: two-way noise cancellation, voice isolation and accent conversion in almost any calling app that lets you choose a microphone and speaker. For noise alone, check what your calling app already does. Microsoft Teams has its own noise suppression, on by default with three levels. Google Meet's cloud noise cancellation covers certain Workspace editions and removes non-speech noise but not other voices.

The bottom line

Krisp is not free, and the honest summary fits in one line: a week of the paid product, then a subscription or an exit. The trial asks for no card, so trying it costs nothing but attention, yet the Terms end access when it expires and leave 90 days for exports. If the week convinces you, Core billed annually is the cheapest way to keep going, and monthly billing only pays off when you may stop inside five months. If you only want cleaner audio from your own microphone inside Discord, or easier-to-follow YouTube accents, which Krisp says are free, those two pieces cost nothing on their own.