Read AI Pricing: Every Plan and What a 10-Seat Team Pays

Read AI pricing ranges from a free plan with five monthly meetings to three paid tiers that cost $15, $22.50, and $29.75 per user per month on annual billing. At Layer3Labs, we build artificial intelligence (AI) workflow automation for small and mid-sized teams. On Read AI, the seat rules move a team's bill as much as the list price does.

Annual billing is about 25 percent cheaper than monthly, matching the 'Annual -25%' label on the pricing toggle. On monthly billing, Read AI charges $19.75 for Pro, $29.75 for Enterprise, and $39.75 for Enterprise+.

Read AI Pricing at a Glance

As of October 2026, Read AI pricing starts at $0 for the Free tier, $15 per user per month for Pro, $22.50 for Enterprise, and $29.75 for Enterprise+ when billed annually. Confirm current rates directly on the Read AI pricing page.

On monthly billing, Pro costs $19.75 per user per month, Enterprise $29.75, and Enterprise+ $39.75, so the annual rates are 24 to 25 percent lower.

Enterprise+ enforces a mandatory minimum of five licenses, making its true starting annual commitment $1,785 per year. Read AI accepts credit card payments for subscriptions, but does not accept PayPal.

• Free: $0 per month with 5 meeting transcripts and a 1-hour duration cap.
• Pro: $15 per seat per month billed annually, or $19.75 billed monthly, with unlimited transcripts and a 4-hour cap.
• Enterprise: $22.50 per seat per month billed annually, or $29.75 billed monthly, with audio and video playback.
• Enterprise+: $29.75 per seat per month billed annually, or $39.75 billed monthly, with HIPAA compliance and a 5-seat minimum.

Free Plan Features and Limits

The Read AI Free tier includes five meeting transcripts per month and caps individual meeting length at one hour. It also includes unlimited enterprise search across meetings, email and messages, though the Search Copilot's direct access to Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT models starts on paid plans.

Users on the Free plan receive basic integrations, topic readouts, support for 16+ languages (with pricing cards listing 20+ languages), and access to mobile and desktop apps. It also includes the personalized Meeting Coach, which analyzes talking speed, filler words, charisma, and bias.

New accounts automatically activate a free trial of Read Enterprise upon creation through the Read AI Self-Service Trial Center. Read AI does not publish the exact day duration of this trial, but accounts automatically revert to the Free plan once the trial expires without requiring a credit card.

• Meeting allowance: 5 meeting transcripts each month.
• Meeting length limit: 1 hour maximum per session.
• Search and insights: Unlimited enterprise search and basic Meeting Coach metrics.
• Automatic trial: Access to Enterprise features upon signup, with trial duration unpublished by Read AI.

Paid Tier Differences in Read AI Pricing

Every paid tier removes monthly transcription limits, adds unlimited storage, enables workspace collaboration, and extends meeting limits to at least four hours. Pro costs $15 per seat per month billed annually, or $19.75 billed monthly. It adds priority report processing, 100 file upload credits per month, and premium integrations for Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Zapier, and webhooks.

The Enterprise tier costs $22.50 per seat per month billed annually, or $29.75 billed monthly. It introduces audio and video playback, video highlights, 200 upload credits per month, and priority support. Audio and video playback is entirely absent from the Free and Pro tiers.

Enterprise+ costs $29.75 per seat per month billed annually, or $39.75 billed monthly, and requires at least five licenses. It provides enterprise security features including Single Sign-On (SSO) with SAML, automated provisioning via SCIM, domain capture, custom data retention policies, 300 upload credits per month, workspace onboarding, an 8-hour meeting limit, and support for HIPAA compliance.

• Pro tier: $15 per seat per month billed annually or $19.75 billed monthly, 4-hour meeting cap, 100 upload credits, and CRM integrations.
• Enterprise tier: $22.50 per seat per month billed annually or $29.75 billed monthly, audio and video playback, and 200 upload credits.
• Enterprise+ tier: $29.75 per seat per month billed annually or $39.75 billed monthly, 5-seat minimum, HIPAA support, SSO, and SCIM.

Team Cost Calculations and Billing Math

A 10-seat deployment on Read AI Pro costs $1,800 per year on annual billing or $2,370 per year on monthly billing. At $15 per seat per month billed annually, the team pays $150 per month, totaling $1,800 across 12 months. On monthly billing at $19.75 per seat, the expense rises to $197.50 per month, creating an annual difference of $570.

A 10-seat deployment on Read AI Enterprise costs $2,700 per year on annual terms or $3,570 per year on monthly terms. Annual billing at $22.50 a seat is $225 a month. Monthly billing at $29.75 per seat totals $297.50 monthly, adding $870 in overhead over the year.

Read AI does not offer admin-only licenses, meaning every workspace member requires an individual paid seat. Free users cannot join a paid workspace, and every license within an active workspace must share the exact same subscription plan.

Volume Discounts and Education Pricing

Read AI offers structured enterprise discounts for large teams purchasing licenses on annual terms. Teams buying 100 or more licenses receive a 10 percent discount, teams with 500 or more licenses receive 15 percent, and teams with 1,000 or more licenses receive 20 percent off standard rates.

Academic users can access discounted annual rates outlined in the Read AI EDU pricing documentation. The EDU plan costs $60 per year and mirrors Pro features with unlimited reports across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, while the EDU + Video plan costs $100 per year and mirrors Enterprise video capabilities. Both require a verified .edu email address, are available only on annual billing, and exclude workspaces and premium integrations.

Read AI's premium features are also included at no cost in the Essential Apps bundle of Zoom One Pro, Business and Business Plus subscriptions.

• 100+ licenses: 10 percent volume discount on annual terms.
• 500+ licenses: 15 percent volume discount on annual terms.
• 1,000+ licenses: 20 percent volume discount on annual terms.
• EDU plan: $60 per year for verified higher education users.
• EDU + Video plan: $100 per year with video highlights included.

Subscription Cancellation Steps

Canceling a Read AI subscription takes three clicks from the Plan & Billing page, per the Read AI cancellation guide.

Read AI does not issue refunds for unused subscription periods. Account holders retain access to paid features until the final day of the active billing cycle. Members of an organization workspace cannot cancel individual seats directly and must ask the workspace owner to adjust billing.

• 1. Sign in and open the Plan and Billing settings page.
• 2. Click the Cancel plan button.
• 3. Select Downgrade to Free to stop future renewals.
• 4. Contact the workspace owner if your account belongs to a team workspace.

Bot Modes and Audio Capture Tradeoffs

Read AI has two capture modes. In standard web mode, an automated bot joins scheduled calendar calls across Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet, as detailed in the Read AI meeting platform guide. The bot appears in the participant list, may post a chat message announcing itself, and accepts the chat commands Read Stop and Opt Out.

In desktop local mode, Read AI captures computer audio directly without sending a bot to the call roster. According to the Read AI desktop app guide, local mode runs on 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 or macOS 14 Sonoma and later. Per the Read AI consent documentation, bot-free mode adds no AI participant, but the transcript has no speaker attribution because Read AI does not know who is talking.

For security and compliance, Read AI encrypts data in transit and at rest and holds SOC 2 Type II certification. The Read AI data policy states that AI model training is opt-in, except for the Customer Experience Improvement Program which is opt-out by default. On the pricing page, HIPAA compliance is an Enterprise+ feature.

Market Comparisons for Read AI Pricing

Comparing Read AI against alternatives depends on whether your organization requires video recording or prefers local, bot-free note capture. On Granola pricing, the Business plan costs $14 per user per month billed monthly and captures system audio without an AI bot while preserving speaker tags. Read AI Pro costs $15 per seat per month billed annually or $19.75 billed monthly, requiring a bot for speaker attribution while adding CRM integrations and search copilot capabilities.

You can review pricing mechanics and plan tiers in our guides to Otter AI pricing and Fireflies AI pricing, or examine local capture workflows in our Granola vs Read AI comparison.

If your team conducts calls across unsupported tools like Webex, Read AI requires audio file uploads or the desktop app, as documented in the Read AI Webex support guide.

Purchasing Verdict and Recommendations

Read AI Pro delivers the best balance of features and cost for individual operators and small teams that need CRM syncing without video storage. Teams needing full video recordings must budget for Enterprise at $22.50 per seat per month billed annually, while healthcare groups must select Enterprise+ to access HIPAA agreements.

This software is not for teams that require bot-free call capture with speaker identification, because Read AI strips speaker labels whenever its bot is excluded from the call. Organizations in that position should evaluate local audio notetakers such as Granola instead.

Our recommendation would change if Read AI allowed mixed workspace tiers or introduced speaker diarization to its desktop capture mode. Until then, calculate total team seats carefully on the Read AI pricing page before committing to an annual contract.