10 条会议纪要工具记录：9 条有免费档，0 条告诉你免费额度是多少

The short version first: a free tier is standard in this category, a stated quota is not

Meeting-notes tools occupy 10 records in the directory. Nine are marked as having a free tier and nine carry a number in the pricing string, but not one states how many minutes or how many meetings the free plan covers. That is not us cutting corners — that is what the vendors publish.

1. The ten price strings, verbatim

The column below is each record's pricing.detail.zh, copied without editing (all verified 2026-08-29; the date is printed at the bottom of every detail page):

Three things you can read straight off that table:

1. Individual tiers cluster between $9 and $25 — seven of the nine priced records sit in that band, so for a single user this category has essentially been competed down to a floor.
2. Only two records write 'per user/month' (Avoma, and Otter's Business tier). For the rest, whether the price is per account or per seat is simply not stated — you have to ask.
3. The $1,140/mo line is a Team tier. Its difference from a $19/mo plan is not transcription quality but who needs to see the notes: teams, cross-functional review, searchable retention. Never read a single-seat price as a team budget; this record is the reminder.

2. Why per-minute tools leave the quota blank

Your consumption is not 'how many meetings you held' — it is 'meeting length × people in the room'. Five meetings a week at 30 minutes and five at two hours differ 8-fold before you count multi-speaker transcription, which costs more again. Writing 'Free' without minutes keeps the definition of 'enough' in the vendor's hands.

The contrast inside our own data makes it sharper: of 21 writing tools, exactly 1 states its free quota with a unit (Rytr's '免费10,000字符/月'), and of 25 coding tools, exactly 1 does ('免费200次生成'). Across all 376 records, the number of entries that spell out a quota as a number with a unit is in the single digits. This is how the industry publishes price, so your verification step has to be 'ask for the number', not 'find the page'.

3. Four questions that get the number out

1. How many minutes of transcription does the free plan include? Ask with the unit: minutes, not 'uses'.
2. What does overage bill on — minutes, hours, or meetings? The same meeting can cost several times more under different conventions.
3. Are multiple speakers billed repeatedly? Six people in one call: some charge per person, some per meeting.
4. Is history searchable? The value of meeting notes shows up in month three. A tool that lets you search old meetings and one that hands you only the latest transcript are different products, and the difference usually hides in a '90-day retention on paid plans' line rather than beside the price.

4. Making this easier with what is already on the site

/free-tools/subscription-tracker holds your own subscriptions and renewal dates — recording those four answers there beats remembering them. /free-tools/token-counter estimates how many tokens it takes to feed one meeting's full transcript to a model, which prices the hidden cost if you plan to have another model tidy up the notes.

And do not rely on any directory alone when shortlisting: two comparable products are reviewed by different people for different reasons. Opening both detail pages side by side is faster than reading another 'top ten' list.

5. What these records cannot do (stated plainly)

• Ten records are not the market; they are the ten entries in this category we verified one by one. Absence is not a judgement of quality.
• We have not benchmarked transcription quality or Chinese behaviour for any of them. That requires your own recording, and we will not guess it for you.
• The price strings expire: each record's verification date at the bottom is its shelf life.

One-sentence summary

In this category a free tier is the norm and a stated quota is the exception. Turn the free plan into a number with a unit (minutes), then decide whether the team tier is worth what it asks for.