tl;dv Review: Pricing, AI Limits, and Use Cases
tl;dv records and transcribes calls on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, then helps turn them into notes, action items, and searchable archives. Its Free plan is useful for testing, but the five-query multi-meeting Ask AI cap on Pro makes Business the tier to consider for teams analyzing calls at scale.
What it is
tl;dv records and transcribes Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls through a visible participant bot. It can generate notes from custom templates, identify speakers, capture action items, draft follow-up emails, create clips, and search meeting archives. A desktop app is available when the bot cannot join. The vendor says recordings are private by default, the service is GDPR-compliant and SOC 2 certified, and customer data is not used to train its AI; AI processing uses Anthropic with anonymized metadata (tl;dv site). Treat the privacy and security statements as vendor claims when assessing sensitive calls.
Pricing
The Free plan costs $0 with no credit card required. It includes unlimited video recordings and transcription in 30+ languages, email and calendar integrations, and mobile apps. Its limits matter: 10 meetings with AI notes, 10 Ask AI queries, up to three months of data retention, five uploads, and clips that cannot be downloaded (tl;dv pricing page; official tl;dv review).
Pro is $18 per seat/month billed annually, or $29 per seat/month billed monthly. It adds premium transcription quality, unlimited meetings with AI notes, custom templates, action-item assignment, unlimited single-meeting Ask AI, follow-up drafting, 5,000+ integrations, transcript search, unlimited uploads and storage, an API, webhooks, and an MCP server. Business is $29 per seat/month billed annually, or $39 billed monthly. It adds custom vocabulary, unlimited multi-meeting AI insights, scheduled reports, sales playbook monitoring, and team management. The live pricing page labels Business "No usage-based AI fees." Enterprise pricing is custom, with options including SCIM, custom SSO, privately hosted AI, and a dedicated success manager (tl;dv pricing page; official tl;dv review).
The AI-usage-gating reality
The main upgrade distinction is not simply "more AI." Free and Pro both cap multi-meeting Ask AI at five queries; only Business makes multi-meeting queries unlimited (official tl;dv review). Pro does provide unlimited single-meeting Ask AI and removes Free's 10-meeting cap on AI notes, but it is not the tier for frequent cross-call analysis. Free and Pro also allow different AI-note volumes, so check the plan details against how often your team actually reviews calls.
Capability boundaries
Every plan caps recordings at three hours per meeting. The listed simultaneous-meeting allowance is two on Free and three on paid Pro and Business; weekly web recording capacity varies by tier. Pro and Business offer custom retention in the pricing table, while Free retention is up to three months. Transcript export lacks structured formats such as DOCX, SRT, and VTT (official tl;dv review). The vendor publishes accuracy benchmarks across eight languages, but teams with demanding multilingual work should test their own calls before relying on the results. The listed meeting platforms are Zoom, Meet, and Teams, not Webex. Because the bot is visible, this is also a poor fit for calls where participants should not see a recording bot.
Who should choose it
Choose tl;dv if your team wants recorded calls turned into searchable notes, action items, and follow-up, and already works on supported meeting platforms. Sales teams may benefit from Business's coaching analytics, including talk-time ratio, objection handling, and playbook adherence. Product researchers and customer-facing teams can also use clips and archive search to revisit specific moments rather than replaying whole calls.
Who should look elsewhere
Look elsewhere if you need long-term Free-plan archives, structured transcript exports, Webex support, or bot-free recording for sensitive conversations. If your team needs unlimited multi-meeting AI analysis, budget for Business rather than assuming Pro removes that cap. For multilingual accuracy requirements, run a real-world test before committing to a paid plan.
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- Works with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, with a desktop app option when a bot cannot join.
- Custom note templates, action items, speaker identification, and follow-up drafting turn calls into usable next steps.
- Free includes unlimited video recordings and transcription in 30+ languages, subject to its AI and retention limits.
- Pro includes unlimited AI notes, single-meeting Ask AI, uploads, and storage.
- Business adds sales coaching analytics and unlimited multi-meeting AI insights.
- Free-plan recordings are retained for up to three months, and the plan allows only five uploads.
- Free clips cannot be downloaded, and AI notes are limited to 10 meetings.
- Multi-meeting Ask AI is capped at five queries on both Free and Pro; unlimited use requires Business.
- Recordings require a visible bot on Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams; Webex is not listed.
- Transcript exports do not include structured formats such as DOCX, SRT, or VTT.