Pricing
Every recording, transcription, search and retention feature is in the AGPL build, for unlimited users, forever. What the paid tiers add is a licence that is not AGPL, the things a company of a thousand needs, and somebody to call.
Community
Run it yourself, on your hardware, for as many people as it fits. This is the whole product.
$0forever
Enterprise
Still yours, still on your hardware — with the licence, the scale features and the phone number a procurement form asks for.
$7/ user / month, billed annually
Cloud
We run the servers. You still own the recordings — they are written to a bucket in your account, not ours.
$14/ user / month
Enterprise is free for registered non-profits, accredited educational institutions and open-source projects. Write to hello@meetnix.ai and say which one you are; there is no form and no sales call.
Minimum 25 users on Enterprise, and volume pricing from 250. A flat site licence is available for organisations that would rather not count seats — which is most of the ones who ask.
What actually differs
The line is drawn where it is honest to draw it: licensing, multi-organisation scale, and the operational commitments only a company can make. Everything about capturing and understanding a meeting is on the left-hand column.
| Community | Enterprise | Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per-track recording, manifests, signatures | |||
| Transcription, captions, search, summaries | |||
| Retention policy and audit log | |||
| User cap | None | None | None |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Commercial | Commercial |
| SAML, SCIM, multi-tenancy | |||
| HA clustering, multi-region SFU | |||
| Legal hold, SIEM export, SIP, translation | |||
| Who runs the servers | You | You | Us |
| Where the media is written | Your disk | Your disk | Your bucket |
| Support | Community | 4 h, named engineer | 1 h, 99.9% SLA |
The licence, plainly
The AGPL is a strong copyleft. For almost everyone reading this it changes nothing, and for a few it changes something specific. Rather than let a lawyer discover the difference in month four, here it is.
Nothing is required of you. Deploy it, brand it, patch it, run it for ten thousand employees. §13 is triggered by offering the software's functionality to third parties over a network — your own employees using your own instance is not that.
Then §13 applies: users interacting with it over a network must be offered the corresponding source of your modified version. Meetnix already ships the machinery for this — an in-app source offer with the exact revision — so complying is a config value, not a project.
If you would rather not, that is exactly what the commercial licence is for, and it is a normal thing to want.
Take the commercial licence. It removes the copyleft obligation and includes an IP indemnity, which is the part your counsel will actually ask about.
Anything shipped under the AGPL stays under the AGPL — that is not a promise we make, it is arithmetic; the licence already granted it and cannot be withdrawn from a release that exists.
What we will commit to beyond that: capturing, transcribing and searching a meeting is the free product, permanently. If we ever break that, the last free release is still there, and forking us would be the correct response.
Yes, a DCO plus a copyright assignment covering the dual licence — because we cannot sell a commercial licence to code we do not have the rights to relicense. It is the unglamorous price of the model, and we would rather say so here than in a pull-request comment.
services.meetnix.branding = {
# AGPL §13, satisfied by an option rather
# than by remembering.
sourceURL = "https://git.acme.com/meetnix";
revision = "a41f9c2";
};Shipped in the free build, because a copyleft licence you cannot comply with easily is a trap rather than a freedom.
Questions
There is no trial, because there is nothing to trial — run Community, which is the same software, for as long as you like. When you need the licence or the SLA, that is the moment to buy one, and not before.
A person with an account in your directory who joined at least one meeting in the billing month. Guests joining by invite are free and always will be — charging for the outside party in a diligence call would be absurd.
No, and it is structurally difficult for us to: the media is written to a bucket in your account. Transcription runs on our hardware in your region, and summaries use whichever model provider you nominate under your own terms. We do not read your recordings and we do not have a business reason to.
You keep it, and you can still read it. The archive is media
files plus JSON on a filesystem you control; nothing about
reading it requires our software to exist. On Cloud, the media
is already in your bucket and the fallback is a
docker compose up.
This is worth asking every vendor, and it is the question the self-hosted answer wins by default.
Yes, for organisations that cannot run a subscription through procurement — a perpetual licence for the version you bought, with a separate annual fee for updates and support. Ask.
Often, yes. If it belongs in the product it goes into the free build under the AGPL and you get it first. If it is specific to your estate it is consulting. We will tell you which one we think it is before quoting.
It is the same software. If it turns out you need a licence, we will still be here.