Is Oliv AI a serious alternative to Gong?

Yes for a small or mid-sized team that wants meeting capture, CRM hygiene and forecasting without a platform negotiation, and no for a company buying Gong as a system of record with thousands of seats. Oliv describes itself on its homepage, read 29 September 2026, as an Agent OS for Revenue Teams with the line Your Revenue Org, Powered by Autonomous Agents, and it ships named agents: Olivia, Oliver, Prospector, CRM Manager, Deal Driver, Forecaster, Meeting Assistant and Content Curator. That is a different product shape from Gong's, not a smaller copy of it. What we cannot compare like for like is scale. Oliv publishes customer logos rather than a customer count; the logos on its homepage on 29 September 2026 are Whatfix, Netsmart, AdvancedMD, Insurify, Rootly, GlossGenius, HyperVerge, TruVideo and Onyx. Gong's pricing page publishes review-platform scores, 4.8 on Gartner, 4.8 on G2 and 9.2 on TrustRadius, plus a 3x Leader badge, and its team-size form runs up to a 10,000 or more band. Neither publishes a figure the other publishes, so we will not rank them by size.

Does Oliv AI coach a rep during a live call?

Oliv's own pages do not agree with each other on this, and that is worth knowing before you sign. On the homepage and on the pricing page, read 29 September 2026, there is not one sentence containing real-time, live, in the moment or during the call. On the features page, read the same day, there is a block that names Live Scorecard, Live Transcription, AI Guidance During Meetings, Instant Call Highlights, Live CRM Sync and Live Deals Dashboard, with the sentence Oliv provides live prompts and insights to keep your meetings productive. And the Meeting Assistant page, the page for the agent that handles meetings, is entirely before and after: it sends you a full brief 30 minutes before every call and drafts your follow-up before the hour is done. So the live prompts exist in the feature list and are absent from the plan bullets. Not one bullet on any of the four published plans mentions live prompts or AI guidance during meetings. If in-call help is the reason you are buying, get the plan that includes it named in writing.

Does Gong coach a rep during a live call?

Gong does not claim to on the pages we read, and we went looking for the claim on purpose. The Gong Enable page, read 28 September 2026, lists AI Call Reviewer and a Coaching inbox to pinpoint skill gaps from real conversations, AI Trainer and AI Coach to turn past conversations into realistic training scenarios, Lessons, Initiative Tracking, and Dry Run. The only feature on that page carrying the word live is Dry Run, and Gong's own sentence puts it before the real meeting: practice every upcoming customer meeting through live AI role-play before it happens. So Gong's live moment is a rehearsal. If Gong ships an in-call prompt we will rewrite this page.

What does Oliv AI cost compared to Gong?

Oliv publishes four plans on its pricing page, read 29 September 2026. Converse is 19 dollars per user per month and covers online meeting capture botless or bot based, email capture and optional Slack capture, and in-person meeting capture. Sell is 49 dollars per user per month and adds the Forecast app plus sales methodologies and deal risks. Grow is 79 dollars per user per month and adds the Retain app plus customer health scorecards and churn risks. Amplify is 0 dollars per user per month and covers the Super Agents Oliver and Olivia, asking questions across conversations, opportunities and accounts, and building custom agents. There are two add-ons: Engage at 29 dollars per user per month and Agent Actions at 0.01 dollars per credit. Gong publishes nothing comparable. Its pricing page carries no dollar figure; it says licenses are priced per user, there is a platform fee based on the number of users supported, and you can integrate your existing tech stack for free, and its form opens with how big is your team across bands of 1 to 50, 51 to 1,000, 1,001 to 9,999 and 10,000 or more.

Oliv's plan names changed. Which prices are current?

We measured the change ourselves rather than reading it somewhere, and it matters if you are working off an older comparison article. On 10 September 2026 we recorded Oliv's plans as Notetaker at 19 dollars, Meeting Insights at 29 dollars and Deal Insights at 29 dollars per user per month, and a Real-time Answer Assistant listed inside the 29 dollar Meeting Insights pack. On 29 September 2026 none of those three plan names is on the pricing page. The plans are Converse, Sell, Grow and Amplify, and there is no Real-time Answer Assistant line on the pricing page at all. Nineteen days, a new plan ladder and a repositioning to Agent OS for Revenue Teams. Any article quoting Notetaker or Meeting Insights prices is out of date, including the older table on our own Gong alternatives page, which we are correcting. Check the vendor's page yourself on the day you decide.

If neither of them helps during the call, what does?

That is the gap this page exists to name, and Objeq is our answer to it, so read the bias. Objeq is a Chrome extension that listens to the browser tab the call is playing in and writes one line on the rep's screen when the buyer says something hard. It has no dialer, no sequences, no forecasting and no CRM writes, so it replaces neither Gong nor Oliv. Three things about it are checkable rather than positioning. It publishes its price, 99 dollars a seat a month for Starter and 149 for Pro. It has no card library to maintain, because it reads the sentence that was actually said instead of matching a card somebody wrote in advance. And it runs in Hebrew end to end, which is the reason the product exists. If your problem is that nobody knows what happened on the calls, buy Gong or Oliv. If your problem is that deals die at minute four while the rep hunts for an answer, that is a different purchase.

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Is Oliv AI a good replacement for Gong? Only for the half of Gong that writes things down

Q: Is Oliv AI a good replacement for Gong?

It is a real replacement for the half of Gong that records the meeting, writes the recap and updates the CRM, and it is not a replacement for Gong's forecasting and analytics depth or its enterprise footprint. Oliv frames that split itself. Its Meeting Assistant page, read on 29 September 2026, names Gong in its own comparison line: Gong shows you what happened. Meeting Assistant prepares you for what's next. So Oliv is positioning on preparation and follow-through, not on being a bigger version of Gong's analytics. The practical decider is money. Oliv prints per-user prices on its pricing page: Converse at 19 dollars per user per month, Sell at 49, Grow at 79, Amplify at 0, an Engage add-on at 29 and Agent Actions at 0.01 dollars per credit. Gong's pricing page on the same day carries no dollar figure anywhere; it says licenses are priced per user and there is a platform fee based on the number of users supported. If you need a number before a sales call, only one of these two gives you one.

Every claim below read off oliv.ai and gong.io on September 29, 2026, and quoted rather than summarised · By the Objeq team

Short answer. Yes for the recording, the recap and the CRM hygiene. No for Gong's analytics depth and its enterprise footprint. And Oliv draws that line itself, on its own Meeting Assistant page: "Gong shows you what happened. Meeting Assistant prepares you for what's next." The decider for most teams is money, because only one of these two prints a number. Oliv publishes $19, $49 and $79 per user per month (Converse, Sell, Grow), a $0 Amplify tier, a $29 Engage add-on and Agent Actions at $0.01 a credit. Gong's pricing page carries no dollar figure at all: "Licenses are priced per user. There is a platform fee based on the number of users supported." One thing to watch either way: neither one's plan bullets promise help while the call is still running. Oliv's feature page names "AI Guidance During Meetings" and Gong's only "live" word is a rehearsal before the meeting.

The comparison, one row per thing people actually decide on

	Oliv AI	Gong	Objeq
What it calls itself	"Agent OS for Revenue Teams." "Your Revenue Org, Powered by Autonomous Agents"	"Revenue AI OS." Engage, Forecast, Enable, Revenue Graph and AI agents	A Chrome extension that listens to the tab the call is in and writes one line on the rep's screen
Published price	Yes. $19 Converse, $49 Sell, $79 Grow, $0 Amplify, per user per month. Engage add-on $29, Agent Actions $0.01 / credit	No number on the page. "Licenses are priced per user" plus "a platform fee"	$99 Starter, $149 Pro, per seat per month, printed on the site
Helps during the live call	Feature page says yes ("AI Guidance During Meetings", "live prompts"). No plan bullet mentions it	Not claimed on any page we read	Yes, and it is the only thing it does
Where the product's weight sits	Before and after. Brief "30 minutes before every call", follow-up "before the hour is done"	After. Call analytics, Revenue Graph, Forecast, the category it built	During. Nothing before, a debrief after
Meeting capture	"Online meeting capture botless or bot based", email, optional Slack, and in-person	Yes, platform-wide	Only calls playing in a browser tab
Forecasting	Forecast app, from the $49 Sell plan. Forecaster agent	Forecast, a named pillar of the platform	None
Public scale evidence	Nine customer logos, no count published	"3x Leader", 4.8 Gartner, 4.8 G2, 9.2 TrustRadius. Team-size form goes to 10,000+	Neither. We are new and will not pretend otherwise
How it gets in	Self-serve price on the page, per user	Platform rollout, demo and quote	Install the extension, 3-day trial

Oliv and Gong cells are their own published words. Oliv read 29 September 2026; Gong pricing read 29 September 2026 and Gong Enable read 28 September 2026. Green marks the row winner on that row only, not overall.

The one line that decides this, and Oliv wrote it

We did not have to construct the axis for this comparison. Oliv publishes it, by name, on the page for the agent that handles meetings.

"Gong shows you what happened. Meeting Assistant prepares you for what's next."

"Meeting Assistant sends you a full brief, 30 minutes before every call" … "drafts your follow-up before the hour is done."

"Deal stage, close date, next steps, stakeholders, gaps, and recommended agenda — delivered before the meeting so reps do not walk in cold."

Oliv, Meeting Assistant, oliv.ai/agents/meeting-assistant, read 29 September 2026.

Read that as a buying instruction rather than as marketing. If the thing you are unhappy about is that nobody prepares and nobody follows up, Oliv is aimed straight at you and costs $19 to start. If the thing you are unhappy about is that you cannot see what is happening across hundreds of calls and your forecast is fiction, that is the sentence's first half, and the first half is Gong's.

Only one of them will tell you the price

This is the part most "Gong alternative" articles get wrong, usually by quoting a dollar figure for Gong with no source. We opened both pricing pages on the same morning.

Converse "$19 / user / per month" · Sell "$49 / user / per month" · Grow "$79 / user / per month" · Amplify "$0 / user / per month". Add-ons: Engage "$29 / user / month", Agent Actions "$0.01 per credit".

Oliv, oliv.ai/pricing, read 29 September 2026. Converse covers "online meeting capture botless or bot based", "email capture and optional Slack capture" and "in-person meeting capture". Sell adds the "Forecast app" and "sales methodologies and deal risks". Grow adds the "Retain app" and "customer health scorecards and churn risks". Amplify covers "Super Agents: Oliver and Olivia" and "Build custom agents".

"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."

Gong, gong.io/pricing, read 29 September 2026. No dollar figure appears on the page. Its first form question is "How big is your team?", with bands 1-50, 51-1,000, 1,001-9,999 and 10,000+.

So the honest comparison is $19 a user against a quote. That difference is not a feature gap, it is a procurement gap, and for a team of eight it is usually the whole decision.

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Oliv's plan names changed 19 days ago, and we measured it

If you are reading an older comparison of these two, the Oliv half of it is wrong. Here is the change, from our own notes rather than from somebody else's article.

Read 10 September 2026	Read 29 September 2026
Notetaker, $19 / user / mo	Converse, $19 / user / mo
Meeting Insights, $29 / user / mo	Sell, $49 / user / mo
Deal Insights, $29 / user / mo	Grow, $79 / user / mo
A "Real-time Answer Assistant" listed inside the $29 Meeting Insights pack	No "Real-time Answer Assistant" line anywhere on the pricing page

Three plan names retired, a new four-tier ladder, two higher price points and the removal of the one pricing-page line that promised help inside the call. We are also correcting our own older table on the Gong alternatives page, which still carries the September 10 figures. The lesson for a buyer is boring and useful: open the vendor's pricing page yourself on the day you decide, because in this category nineteen days is enough to invalidate a comparison.

Does either of them help while the call is still running

This is the question we get asked most, and the answer for both is "not in the plan you are buying".

Oliv's pages disagree with each other. On the homepage and the pricing page, read 29 September 2026, there is not a single sentence containing "real-time", "live", "in the moment" or "during the call". On the features page, read the same day, there is a whole block of it:

"Oliv provides live prompts and insights to keep your meetings productive."

Feature names listed: "Live Scorecard", "Live Transcription", "AI Guidance During Meetings", "Instant Call Highlights", "Live CRM Sync", "Live Deals Dashboard".

Oliv, oliv.ai/features, read 29 September 2026. None of these six names appears in the bullets of any of the four plans on the pricing page read the same day.

Gong does not claim it at all. We opened the Gong Enable page looking specifically for an in-call claim, because finding one would have changed this page. The coaching mechanisms Gong names there are "AI Call Reviewer + Coaching inbox — Pinpoint skill gaps from real conversations", "AI Trainer + AI Coach + Lessons — Turn past conversations into realistic training scenarios", and "Dry Run — Practice every upcoming customer meeting through live AI role-play before it happens" (Gong Enable, read 28 September 2026). The only "live" on the page is a rehearsal.

If in-call help is the reason you are shortlisting either of them, get the plan name in writing before you sign. A feature on a features page is not a feature in a plan.

So which one should you buy

Buy against the failure you actually have. These two are not answering the same question, and neither is answering ours.

You have hundreds of calls a month, a forecast nobody trusts, and procurement. Gong. The analytics depth and the review footprint exist for exactly that, and nothing on this page tries to talk you out of it.

You have a small team, a dirty CRM, reps who walk into meetings cold, and no appetite for a platform negotiation. Oliv. $19 a user to start, per-user pricing on the page, and a product that is openly built for before and after the meeting.

Your reps are on plenty of calls and lose them at minute four. Neither of these is built for that minute, and that is the only thing Objeq does. It is a Chrome extension, it reads the objection that was actually said instead of matching a card written in advance, it publishes its price, and it runs in Hebrew end to end. It writes nothing to your CRM and replaces nothing on this page, so it sits next to whichever of these two you pick.

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Questions people ask next

Can you run Oliv and Gong together?

Technically yes, and Gong's own pricing page says you can integrate your existing tech stack for free. But the overlap is meeting capture and transcription, so you would be paying two vendors to record the same call. Decide which one owns the recording before you sign the second contract.

Is Oliv AI cheaper than Gong?

We cannot say, and neither can anyone who tells you they can. Oliv publishes $19, $49 and $79 per user per month. Gong publishes no figure, so the only honest comparison is "a published price against a quote". Get the Gong quote, then compare it to the Oliv tier you would actually need, which for forecasting is Sell at $49 rather than Converse at $19.

Does Oliv replace a notetaker like Otter or Fathom?

That is closer to what its $19 Converse tier is, and it adds email and optional Slack capture plus in-person meetings, which a browser notetaker does not do. We keep a head-to-head on each: Objeq vs Otter and Objeq vs Fathom.

Where can I read the head-to-head against Objeq?

Each one has its own page, with the same quote-and-date rule as this one: Objeq vs Oliv and Objeq vs Gong. The other competitor-against-competitor page is Gong vs Outreach.

Sources, all opened by us rather than quoted from a summary: oliv.ai/pricing, oliv.ai, oliv.ai Meeting Assistant and oliv.ai/features, all read 29 September 2026; gong.io/pricing read 29 September 2026 and gong.io Gong Enable read 28 September 2026. The September 10 Oliv prices are our own earlier reading of the same pricing page. Objeq's own prices are on our pricing page. Related: Gong alternatives, sales coaching software comparison, top sales coaching software.