tl;dv vs Fathom (2026)

tl;dv

by tl;dv

Fathom

by Fathom Video

Pros

• ✓EU-based with all data centers in Europe (Google Cloud, AWS, Hetzner), EU AI Act compliance, GDPR compliance, and optional privately hosted AI on Enterprise: the strongest European data-residency story in the meeting intelligence category.
• ✓Business tier at $26 per seat per month billed annually includes AI sales-coaching playbooks, MEDDIC and BANT scoring, AI objection handling, and multi-meeting insights, competing directly with Gong at a fraction of the cost.
• ✓Free tier includes unlimited video recordings, iOS and Android mobile apps, Slack and calendar integrations, and 5,000-plus tool integrations on Pro: generous feature access at entry pricing.

Limitations

• ⚠No HIPAA compliance or BAA at any tier, so healthcare teams with strict compliance requirements must look elsewhere, for example Fireflies Enterprise.
• ⚠Free tier recordings are automatically deleted after three months with no grandfathering, so teams that discover a recording's value after the 90-day window have no recovery path without upgrading.
• ⚠Bot-free recording has no native seamless option, and achieving it requires configuring Zapier workflows to pull recordings from the conferencing platform, adding setup complexity versus bot-free-native competitors like Granola.

Pros

• ✓Number one AI notetaker on G2 with over 6,900 reviews at 5.0 stars, plus HubSpot Most Used App 2025: the strongest third-party validation track record in the meeting intelligence category.
• ✓Bot-free capture is generally available alongside the traditional meeting bot, with a generous free tier offering unlimited recordings, transcriptions, and AI summaries and no storage time limit.
• ✓Business-tier CRM field sync automatically maps and writes meeting insights into specific fields in Salesforce and HubSpot records, eliminating post-call manual CRM data entry for revenue teams.

Limitations

• ⚠CRM sync is capped at 3 users per domain across Free, Premium, and Team tiers, and advanced AI summaries and action items are limited to reduced usage on the free plan, driving upgrade pressure for teams relying on these features daily
• ⚠CRM field sync, Deal View, coaching metrics, and AI scorecards are all Business-tier only at $25 per user per month annually, pricing out smaller sales teams that need revenue intelligence without a full enterprise commitment
• ⚠De-identified meeting data may be used by default to train in-house AI models with opt-out available in account settings: teams in sensitive industries should verify opt-out is configured before deployment