# Krisp Alternatives: Noise Cancellation and AI Note Takers

> Krisp alternatives by the half you need: NVIDIA Broadcast, Teams, Meet or Discord for noise; Granola, Otter, Fireflies, Fathom or Read AI for notes.

_Source: https://professionalstoolkit.com/articles/krisp-alternatives — The Professional's Toolkit · updated November 2026_

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Krisp sells two jobs in one seat: an audio layer that strips noise, background voices and echo from almost any calling app, and an AI note taker that records without a bot by default. Most alternatives replace only one of those halves. For noise alone, NVIDIA Broadcast suits Windows PCs with an RTX graphics card, Teams and Google Meet ship their own suppression, and Discord includes Krisp at no charge inside Discord. For notes alone, Granola stays bot-free, while Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Fathom and Read AI keep free plans. Sanas covers accent work for contact centers. The benchmark: Krisp Core costs $8 per user per month billed annually, or $16 per user per month billed monthly.[1]


**$8** — Krisp Core per user per month billed annually ($16 billed monthly), the price each alternative is weighed against.



- **7 days** — Krisp free trial of paid features, no credit card; no free Meeting AI plan
- **RTX 2060** — Lowest GeForce card NVIDIA lists for NVIDIA Broadcast
- **30 days** — Note history shown on Granola's free Basic plan


## Quieter calls, no note taker attached

### NVIDIA Broadcast, for Windows PCs with an RTX card

This is the usual answer to *Krisp vs NVIDIA Broadcast*, and the hardware settles it. NVIDIA lists a GeForce RTX 2060, Quadro RTX 3000, TITAN RTX, RTX Spark or higher GPU, 8 GB of RAM and 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, or Windows 11 on Arm.[2] Beyond noise and room echo removal, it adds virtual backgrounds, eye contact, auto frame, studio voice and file processing. Its product page states no price. Its requirements name only Windows.

Krisp's January 2025 blog post claims Krisp HD scored about 10% higher on average than RTX Voice, now part of Broadcast, in a POLQA test Krisp ran itself. Read that as a competitor's claim. The practical split is plainer: Broadcast depends on the graphics card, while Krisp runs on any Mac or Windows machine that meets its recommended specs and cleans both directions through its Krisp Microphone and Krisp Speaker devices, with a paid plan once the 7-day trial ends.

### Settings already inside Teams and Google Meet

Microsoft Teams offers three noise suppression levels, Auto (the default), Low and High, on desktop, iOS, Android, Teams Rooms on Windows and Azure Virtual Desktop, with no plan gate named on its help page. Google Meet is uneven. Device-based cancellation works on most Android phones for every user, while cloud-based cancellation on desktop, Android and iOS depends on the Workspace edition (Business Standard and up, Enterprise, Frontline, Workspace Individual) or Google One with 2 TB or more.[3]

Meet removes typing and door slams, but TV voices and people talking stay in. That is the real gap. Krisp's voice isolation cancels nearby human voices when you wear a compatible headset, which counts in open offices and crowded homes, and it works in almost any calling app that lets you choose a microphone and speaker, rather than inside one. If you live in a single platform and the problem is a barking dog, the toggle you already have may be enough.

### Krisp inside Discord, at no charge

Discord builds Krisp's noise suppression into its own app and says it is free when used with Discord, while Krisp's pricing applies outside it.[4] Discord says it has also worked in Chrome and Firefox on desktop since October 2023. The limits are strict. It cleans only your own microphone, never the people you hear, and switches itself off when CPU use runs very high. You get no notes, recordings or accent conversion. For gaming and community voice chat, that often covers everything.


> 💡 **Check your graphics card first:** NVIDIA Broadcast needs a GeForce RTX 2060, Quadro RTX 3000, TITAN RTX, RTX Spark or higher GPU on 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, or Windows 11 on Arm. Without one of those, it is not an option.


## Granola, the bot-free route for notes

Krisp's note taker listens at the audio level on your computer, so nothing joins the call unless you send the optional Krisp Bot to record video. Granola copies that quiet capture on macOS and Windows, and no bot ever joins. The difference is audio. Granola never records or saves it, so there is no playback, and it accepts no uploaded files. Transcription starts from a reminder about a minute before a calendar meeting with two or more attendees, by opening a note or with New Note, never automatically for every meeting.

Granola Basic is free, with AI notes for unlimited meetings but only the last 30 days of history in the app. Granola Business costs $14 per user per month, billed monthly only, so compare it with Krisp on monthly terms. Billed monthly, Krisp Core and Granola Business come to $192 and $168 per user a year, by our arithmetic. The extra buys stored recordings, uploads, an optional video bot and the noise layer. Our [Krisp vs Granola comparison](/articles/krisp-vs-granola) goes further.

## Free plans in exchange for a visible bot

Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Fathom and Read AI all keep a free plan. Krisp's pricing page shows a 7-day trial of paid features instead, with no credit card, and under its Terms access ends when the trial expires, leaving 90 days to export ([is Krisp free?](/articles/is-krisp-free)). Most of these four lean on a meeting bot, so check how each one captures before weighing dollars.

### Otter.ai

Otter's Notetaker joins calendar meetings with a video link by default once a calendar is connected, though a bot-free desktop app also exists. Otter Basic is free, with 300 transcription minutes per user a month and 30 viewable minutes per conversation. Otter Pro costs $8.33 per user per month billed annually or $16.99 per user per month billed monthly, for at most 5 billed users. On annual terms, Krisp Core and Otter Pro land at $96 and $99.96 per user a year, by our arithmetic. Otter transcribes six languages. Krisp lists 16.

### Fireflies.ai

Fireflies sends a visible bot to Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex and other platforms; its bot-free desktop Take Notes mode keeps no audio or video. The Free plan needs no card, while the 7-day Business trial does. Fireflies Pro costs $10 per seat per month billed annually or $18 per seat per month billed monthly. AI credits arrive as a one-time pool shared by the team. On annual billing, Krisp Core and Fireflies Pro come to $96 per user and $120 per seat a year, by our arithmetic.

### Fathom

Fathom Free records, transcribes and stores without limits, with advanced AI summaries on the first 5 calls a month. Capture runs through the Fathom Notetaker bot on Zoom, Meet and Teams, or a bot-free mode still in beta on Mac. Fathom Team costs $15 per user per month billed annually or $19 per user per month billed monthly, with a 2-user minimum. Billed annually, Krisp Core and Fathom Team come to $96 and $180 per user a year, by our arithmetic. Fathom takes no uploads or phone calls.

### Read AI

Read AI's Free plan allows 5 meeting reports a month and meetings up to 1 hour, and every new account starts with a 7-day Enterprise trial, no card. Capture is a visible bot on Zoom, Teams and Meet, plus bot-free Google Meet recording and an audio-only desktop app. Read AI Pro costs $15 per user per month billed annually or $19.75 per user per month billed monthly. Playback starts on Enterprise, and HIPAA only on Enterprise+ billed annually, with a BAA and a 5-license minimum.

Regulated teams should set that against Krisp's own position. Krisp says it complies with HIPAA; its pricing matrix lists HIPAA compliance on Enterprise only, and BAA signing is available for teams of 100 or more seats. Neither vendor puts HIPAA on its entry plan: Krisp's BAA needs 100 or more seats, and Read AI's HIPAA needs Enterprise+ billed annually with at least 5 licenses, so check the minimums first. Fathom says it complies with HIPAA and offers a standard BAA on Team and Business, both with a 2-user minimum.

## Two smaller note takers: Jamie and Bluedot

Two smaller tools round out the list. Jamie's Free plan gives 10 AI notes a month with a 30-minute meeting limit, and Jamie Team costs $37 per seat per month billed annually, with notes in 99+ languages and EU hosting. Bluedot's Free plan stops at 5 meetings over the account's lifetime, offers a Chrome extension plus desktop and mobile apps, and Bluedot charges only the users who record. Cancel Bluedot and recordings become inaccessible, with one month to restore the subscription.


> ⚠ **Export before removing teammates:** Removing a user from a Krisp team permanently deletes that user's data, including recordings, so export what you need before moving people to another tool.


## Accent conversion: Sanas or Krisp's call-center line

Sanas targets enterprise customer service, BPOs and developers with real-time accent translation, language translation across 25+ languages, speech enhancement and speech intelligence. It says it does not monitor, record or store call data, and it lists HITRUST, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, SOC 3, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. It publishes no prices.

Inside Krisp's meeting plans, accent conversion is capped. Core allows 1 hour per day, shared between the speaker and listener sides per Krisp's help; Advanced allows 4 hours per day on the speaker side and unlimited listener-side use. One universal model outputs US English. The contact-center product is separate: CC Core costs $15 per agent per month, billed annually, and its accent conversion sits in CC Advanced, which has no published price.

Voice translation is not part of the meeting plans at all. It is a Call Center AI add-on with no published price, and developers can also reach it through Krisp's Voice Translation API, which comes with 60 minutes of free translation credit. The API's Starter plan costs $249 per month billed monthly for 45 hours of translation a month. A larger tier with a published monthly price and a custom Enterprise plan sit above it.


> 💡 **Match billing terms before comparing:** Granola Business is billed monthly only, at $14 per user per month. Set it against Krisp Core billed monthly, at $16 per user per month, not against Core's annual rate.


## Matching the tool to the half you use

| If you mainly need | Look at | Check first |
|---|---|---|
| Noise removal on a gaming or streaming PC | NVIDIA Broadcast | RTX-class GPU, Windows only |
| Suppression inside your meeting app | Google Meet | Cloud option depends on Workspace edition; voices stay |
| A clean voice in voice chat | Krisp inside Discord | Your own microphone only |
| Bot-free notes, no stored audio | Granola | Business billed monthly only |
| Unlimited free recordings | Fathom | Bot, or Mac-only beta capture |
| Accent work for a contact center | Sanas | No published prices |

Staying put still has a case. A rep in a loud shared office who also needs notes pushed to a CRM gets both from one seat, one install and one set of audio devices. Splitting the job means two tools, two audio setups and often two bills. Before leaving, export what you want: recordings download as MP3 files and transcripts as .txt with timestamps and speakers. Salesforce, ConnectWise and manager view start on Advanced ([pricing details](/articles/krisp-pricing)).

Scores on review sites can blend two audiences: people rating a noise filter and people rating a note taker. Before you switch, read the recent written reviews for the half you plan to replace, and weigh complaints about the other half less. The scores below are a starting point for that reading.


**What users rate it, by platform**

| Platform | Rating | Reviews | As of |
|---|---|---|---|


_Rendered from our current record; these are other platforms' user scores, separate from our own Toolkit Score._



## FAQ

**Can I run Krisp and NVIDIA Broadcast at the same time?**

Krisp's help says its virtual devices do not work with other virtual microphones, and chaining Krisp with another virtual audio device can cause feedback, echo or double processing. Pick one noise filter per call.

**Should I keep Teams or Zoom noise suppression on while Krisp runs?**

Krisp's help advises turning Teams' own noise suppression off and setting Zoom's background noise removal to Low when Krisp Microphone and Krisp Speaker are selected, because Zoom's Medium and High settings may suppress your voice together with Krisp.

**When does Krisp billing stop if I switch to another tool?**

Canceling keeps Krisp's paid features until the end of the current billing cycle, and subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled before the renewal date. Krisp's Terms say fees are non-refundable except as the Terms state, and a yearly plan cannot be switched to monthly from the account.


## The bottom line

Replace only the half of Krisp you actually use. For noise, check the suppression already inside your meeting app, use the filter Discord builds in, or pick NVIDIA Broadcast on a Windows PC with an RTX card. For notes, Granola keeps the bot-free design without storing audio, while Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Fathom and Read AI trade a visible bot for a free plan. Stay with Krisp when one seat must clean the call, record it, write the notes and convert accents, within 1 hour per day across both sides on Core; Core costs $8 per user per month billed annually.



## Sources

[1] Krisp pricing plans — https://krisp.ai/pricing/ (2026-11)
[2] NVIDIA Broadcast App: AI-Powered Voice and Video — https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/broadcasting/broadcast-app/ (2026-11)
[3] Filter out noise from your meeting on Google Meet - Computer - Google Meet Help Skip to main content Google Meet Help Sign in Google Help — https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9919960 (2026-11)
[4] Discord support: Krisp FAQ — https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040843952-Krisp-FAQ (2026-11)
[5] Krisp help center — https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012035580-What-is-Krisp
[6] Krisp Terms of Use — https://krisp.ai/terms-of-use/
[7] Krisp Privacy Policy — https://krisp.ai/privacy-policy/