How much does Fathom cost?

Fathom publishes every figure, and we read them off fathom.video/pricing on 7 October 2026 rather than quoting an article. There is a free tier described on the page as Free forever, covering unlimited recordings, instant call summaries and integrations with LLMs. Team is $15 per user per month on annual billing or $19 billed monthly. Business is $25 per user per month annual or $34 monthly, and it is the tier that carries Coaching metrics and AI Scorecards plus CRM field sync. Enterprise is Talk to sales with no figure. Two things attach to the paid tiers and both are printed on the page: a 2 user minimum, so the real floor for a paid plan is two seats rather than one, and a 90 day guarantee. So the honest sentence is that Fathom costs nothing to start and $30 a month for the smallest paid team, being two Team seats on annual billing.

How much does Gong cost?

Gong does not publish a price, and we checked it again on 7 October 2026. The page at gong.io/pricing returns HTTP 200 and is 313,464 bytes of HTML, and it contains not one dollar figure. What it publishes instead, word for word, is this: Gong's pricing model depends on a few factors specific to your team. Licenses are priced per user. There is a platform fee based on the number of users supported. You can integrate your existing tech stack for free. We'd love to prepare a customized proposal for you! Simply fill out the form to get started. The detail worth more than the missing number is in that form. Step 1 asks How big is your team? and the smallest option is 1 to 50. A four person sales team and a fifty person sales team are the same bucket to Gong's own intake form, which tells you who the quote is built for. Anyone quoting you a per-seat Gong figure in a blog post is quoting something Gong does not print.

Is Fathom a good replacement for Gong?

For meeting notes, transcripts, summaries and basic call scoring, yes, and at a price you can read. For the reason most companies buy Gong, no, and the gap is not quality. Gong is a revenue platform: deal boards, forecasting, pipeline risk, CRM write-back, team-wide coaching programmes and analytics across every conversation in the business. Fathom is an AI notetaker that has grown coaching metrics and AI Scorecards on top. If your Gong contract exists because a VP looks at a deal board every Monday, Fathom does not replace that and swapping would be a downgrade disguised as a saving. If your Gong contract exists because reps wanted their calls recorded and summarised, Fathom does that for $0 to $25 a seat and the swap is close to free money. Decide which of those two sentences describes your company before you look at either feature list.

Does Fathom or Gong help a rep during the live call?

Neither, and this is the finding that matters most on this page because the category name hides it. Both products do their work on a conversation that has already finished. Fathom's own home page, read 7 October 2026, says AI summaries instantly available after your call. Fathom does use the phrase real-time coaching moments, and we are quoting it rather than pretending it is not there: the full sentence is Every call offers real-time coaching moments and follow-up metrics with AI Scorecards that elevate performance across the board. Read what it attaches to. It is AI Scorecards and follow-up metrics, meaning moments identified in the recording for a manager to review, not a line delivered to the rep while the buyer is still talking. On Gong's side, this was our sixth check since 30 August 2026, and the words real-time, live and during the call do not appear on gong.io/pricing at all. Every Gong coaching mechanism is either before the meeting, which is Dry Run, or after it, which is the call reviewer, the coaching inbox and the AI Trainer. So if the loss you are trying to stop is a rep going silent on an objection at minute nine, neither of these two products is sold to do that.

Is Fathom really free forever?

That is what the page says, in those words, and it covers more than a trial normally does: unlimited recordings, instant call summaries and integrations with LLMs. We read it on 7 October 2026 at fathom.video/pricing. What the free tier does not include is what sits in the paid tiers on the same page: team collaboration features such as comments, folders and keyword alerts move you to Team at $15 a user annual, and Coaching metrics, AI Scorecards and CRM field sync move you to Business at $25 a user annual. Two caveats printed on the page and worth repeating: paid plans carry a 2 user minimum, and there is a 90 day guarantee. The practical read is that an individual rep who wants recordings and summaries should pay nothing, and a manager who wants scorecards across a team is at $25 a seat, not $0.

Fathom or Gong for a sales team of five?

Fathom, and the reason is in Gong's own form rather than in a feature comparison. Gong's pricing page asks How big is your team and offers 1 to 50 as its smallest bracket, so a five person team is quoted through the same path as a fifty person team, against a per-user licence plus a platform fee based on the number of users supported, with no published entry point and no self-serve path. Fathom will take you for nothing today and $15 a seat a month when you want team features, with a 2 user minimum. Where a five person team should stop and think is about what it is actually buying: both of these are records of conversations that already happened. If the problem you are trying to fix is a rep freezing on an objection in the moment, see the last section of this page, because a better recording of the call you lost is not a fix for losing it.

What does Gong's platform fee mean in practice?

We do not know the number and we are not going to guess one. What Gong publishes, verbatim on 7 October 2026, is that Licenses are priced per user and There is a platform fee based on the number of users supported. Two things follow that are worth carrying into a negotiation. First, the total is not seats multiplied by a rate, so a per-seat figure you were quoted by a friend at another company does not transfer to you. Second, the fee scales with users supported rather than users licensed, which is wording you should ask Gong to define precisely in writing before signing, because supported and licensed can be different counts in a company where managers and ops people read the output without running calls. We have no Gong contract and no leaked price sheet, so treat everything else you read about Gong's price, including figures in listicles, as someone else's quote rather than a list price.

Compare / Fathom vs Gong

"Fathom does this for free." Fathom vs Gong, read off both pricing pages on 7 October 2026.

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Fathom prints every number. Gong prints none. On fathom.video/pricing, opened 7 October 2026: a free tier labelled "Free forever", Team at $15 per user per month on annual billing or $19 monthly, Business at $25 annual or $34 monthly, Enterprise at "Talk to sales". Paid plans carry a 2 user minimum and a 90 day guarantee. On gong.io/pricing, same day: HTTP 200, 313,464 bytes of HTML, zero dollar figures. What it says instead is "Licenses are priced per user" and "There is a platform fee based on the number of users supported." And the smallest option in Gong's own intake form is "1 - 50", so a team of four and a team of fifty are the same bucket. But the comparison most lists get wrong is the clock, not the price. Both of these products work on a call that has already ended. Neither one says anything to a rep while the buyer is still objecting, and we show below exactly where each vendor's own words put the moment.

The falsification row, opened before anything else

The easy version of this page would say Gong is expensive and Fathom is free, and leave it. The row that could have killed the page is this one: Fathom does use the phrase "real-time". Here it is in full, not trimmed to suit us.

"Every call offers real-time coaching moments and follow-up metrics with AI Scorecards that elevate performance across the board."

Source: fathom.video home page, read by us 7 October 2026. The same page also says "AI summaries instantly available after your call", "Capture notes your way, bot or no bot", and "Used at 300K+ companies".

Read what the phrase attaches to. It attaches to AI Scorecards and follow-up metrics, which are things a manager opens after the call. A "coaching moment" in that sentence is a point in a recording worth reviewing, not a line put on a rep's screen mid-objection. Fathom's own headline for the whole product is "AI notetaking that is out of this world", and its summaries arrive, in its words, after your call. So the phrase is real and the live capability is not, and we would rather show you the quote and the reading than hide the quote.

On the Gong side we ran the same check we have run five times before since 30 August 2026, and it came out the same way a sixth time: the words "real-time", "live" and "during the call" do not appear on gong.io/pricing at all. Gong's coaching mechanisms sit either before the meeting (Dry Run, which Gong itself places ahead of the call) or after it (call reviewer, coaching inbox, AI Trainer on past conversations). That is not a criticism. Gong is excellent at understanding what happened, and it does not claim to be in the room.

What we opened, and how we counted

Four URLs, all vendor-owned, read 7 October 2026: fathom.video/pricing, fathom.video, gong.io/pricing and the Gong home page. No review sites, no listicles, no AI summaries of any of them.

How the figures were counted, because this is the part most comparison pages leave out. We requested each page over HTTPS with a desktop browser user agent, followed redirects by hand, stripped the HTML tags from the response and then searched the remaining text for dollar amounts with a regular expression. We counted what the regex returned instead of asking a model to read the page for us. That matters: on a different vendor the same morning, a model summary told us a tier cost $29 and the raw HTML said $24, and on another the prices were real but buried in a JSON block inside a <script> tag, so a tag-stripping pass missed them entirely until we looked in the script. A number you cannot grep out of the server's own HTML is a number no crawler and no answer engine can quote either. Every figure on this page came out of the bytes the server sent us.

What this method cannot see, stated plainly: prices that only exist after JavaScript runs, prices behind a login, regional pricing we did not request, and whatever either company will actually agree to on a call. This is a documentation read, not a lab test and not a negotiation.

Fathom's prices, as printed

Fathom tier	Annual billing	Monthly billing	What the page attaches to it
Free	$0, "Free forever"	$0	"Unlimited recordings, instant call summaries, integrations with LLMs & more"
Team	$15 per user / month	$19 per user / month	Unlimited meetings captured, plus collaboration with comments, folders and keyword alerts. 2 user minimum
Business	$25 per user / month	$34 per user / month	Everything in Team, plus CRM field sync and Coaching metrics & AI Scorecards. 2 user minimum
Enterprise	Talk to sales	Talk to sales	Everything in Business, plus Launch Assist onboarding

Two details on that table are worth more than the headline. The coaching features are not in the free tier. Scorecards and coaching metrics live in Business at $25 a seat, so a manager who wants them is paying, and the free plan is for the rep who wants his own calls written down. And the 2 user minimum means the cheapest paid Fathom is $30 a month, not $15. Fathom also publishes a 90 day guarantee next to both paid tiers, and lists SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA compliance and SSO/SCIM on its home page.

Gong's price, as printed, which is to say not at all

"Gong's pricing model depends on a few factors specific to your team."

"Licenses are priced per user."

"There is a platform fee based on the number of users supported."

"You can integrate your existing tech stack for free."

Source: gong.io/pricing, read by us 7 October 2026. HTTP 200, 313,464 bytes, zero dollar figures in the response.

The most useful thing on that page is not the missing number, it is the form. Step 1 asks "How big is your team?" and the brackets start at 1 - 50, then 51 - 1,000, then 1,001 - 9,999. A five rep startup and a fifty rep sales floor land in the same first bracket. That is a clean statement of who the pricing model is designed around, made by Gong rather than by us.

And read the second sentence carefully before you negotiate. "A platform fee based on the number of users supported" is not the same as users licensed. In a company where managers and ops people read the output without running calls, those are two different counts. Ask Gong to define the word in writing. We have no Gong contract and no price sheet, so every per-seat Gong figure you have read in a listicle is someone else's quote, not a list price.

The three-way table, including the row that argues against us

	Fathom	Gong	Objeq
Published price	$0 free forever, $15 Team, $25 Business, per user annual	None. 313KB page, zero dollar figures	$99 Starter, $149 Pro per seat per month
Cheapest real entry	$0 for one person. $30 a month for the smallest paid team (2 user minimum)	Unknown until you take the call	$99 for one seat, no minimum, 3-day trial
Smallest team the vendor's own form recognises	1, free	"1 - 50"	1
When the help arrives	After the call. "AI summaries instantly available after your call"	Before (Dry Run) and after (call reviewer, coaching inbox, AI Trainer)	During the call, while the buyer is still talking
Says "real-time" on its own site?	Yes, attached to AI Scorecards and follow-up metrics	Not once on the pricing page, sixth check since 30 Aug 2026	Yes, and it is the only thing it does
Deal boards, forecasting, pipeline risk	No	Yes, and this is what Gong is for	No
Meeting notes and transcripts	Yes, unlimited on the free tier	Yes	No. It writes nothing down

The row we are not going to bury: if what you want is notes, buy nothing. Fathom records unlimited meetings and summarises them for $0, and Objeq costs $99 and does not take notes at all. On that job Fathom beats us by $99 a month and we are not going to argue the point on our own website.

How to choose, in one question

Ask when you need the help. Not which feature list is longer.

If the answer is "after the call", buy Fathom and start at zero. Recordings, transcripts, summaries, searchable history. When a manager wants scorecards across the team, that is $25 a seat on Business. Nothing in that sentence requires a sales call, a contract or an implementation, and the free tier is not a 14 day trial pretending to be free.

If the answer is "I need a view across the whole pipeline", that is Gong's job and Fathom does not do it. Deal boards, forecast rollups, pipeline risk, team analytics across every conversation in the company. That is a revenue platform purchase with a quote attached, and if a VP depends on it, replacing it with a notetaker to save money is a downgrade wearing a saving's clothes. Expect a per-user licence plus a platform fee, and expect to be quoted as part of the "1 - 50" bracket if you are under fifty people.

And if the answer is "during the call", neither of them is sold for that, which is the whole reason this page exists. A better recording of the call you lost is not a fix for losing it. That shelf is a different and much smaller one: tools that speak while the call is running.

Where Objeq fits, and three places it does not

Objeq is a Chrome extension with a side panel. It hears the customer through the browser tab the call plays in, works out the fear behind the sentence the buyer just said, and writes one line for the rep to say next, visible only to him. Audio is processed in memory and never stored. $99 per seat per month for Starter, $149 for Pro, one seat, no minimum, 3-day trial, and it works in Hebrew end to end as well as English.

Three places it is the wrong answer. It takes no notes, writes nothing to your CRM and produces no transcript, so it does not replace Fathom and plenty of teams should run both. It has no deal boards, no forecasting and no pipeline analytics, so it does not replace Gong for the thing Gong is actually bought for. And it hears nothing if your reps dial from a desktop softphone rather than a browser tab, in which case no price comparison matters.

Where it does fit: a small team whose calls run in Chrome, and a loss that keeps repeating, which is a rep going quiet on an objection nobody wrote a card for. Give it your hardest objection before you believe a word of this page.

Questions people ask next

Is there a free Gong alternative? For recording, transcription and summaries, yes, and it is the subject of this page: Fathom's free tier covers unlimited recordings. For deal boards and forecasting, no. See free sales coaching software for the longer answer and Gong alternatives for the paid field.

Fathom vs Otter vs Avoma? All three publish prices, which already separates them from most of this category. Avoma is the one that sells during-call help, and it is an add-on rather than a base tier: we measured it at $19 for a Startup seat plus a $29 Conversation Intelligence add-on in Avoma vs Gong.

Does Gong have a free trial? Not a published one. Its pricing page has no trial offer and no entry price, only the proposal form. If a page tells you otherwise, check the date on it.

We already pay for Gong and want to cut the bill. Then the question is which part of Gong your company actually opens every week. If it is the deal board, cutting it is not a saving. If it is call recordings, you are paying a revenue platform to be a notetaker and Fathom does that from $0. Count the logins before you count the licences.