How to record Google Meet depends on your plan: on a computer, click Meeting tools, then Recording, then Start recording, and everyone in the meeting is notified. Recording comes with Business Standard, Business Plus, Essentials and the Enterprise editions, with Workspace Individual Subscriber and with Google One plans of 2 TB or more. In Microsoft Teams, select More actions, then Record, then Confirm, and the recording is saved in the organizer's OneDrive. Both tools tell participants that a recording started, and an AI notetaker adds a transcript, a summary and action items on top.
If you want the steps first, jump to how to record Google Meet on a computer. If you use Teams, skip to how to record a meeting in Teams. If you want notes from an audio file, a room or a call, skip to turning Teams audio and room recordings into notes with Comu AI.
How to record Google Meet and Teams: methods at a glance
Google Meet and Teams each have a built-in recorder, and an AI notetaker or a recorder adds the transcript and the notes.
| Method | Best for | What you get | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comu recorder | Audio files, rooms and phone calls | Transcript, speaker labels, summary, action items | Note Pro $109.69, Action Pro $169.99 |
| Google Meet recording | Meetings on a Google Workspace edition that includes recording | Video with the active speaker and presented content, saved to Google Drive | Part of the Workspace edition |
| Microsoft Teams recording | Meetings with an organizer on a Microsoft 365 license | Audio, video and screen sharing, saved to OneDrive or SharePoint | Part of the Microsoft 365 license |
| Teams intelligent recap | Teams Premium or Copilot users | AI meeting notes, recommended tasks, chapters | Teams Premium add-on |
| AI notetaker app | Notes from Meet, Teams and Zoom | Transcript, summary, action items | Free plans, or $8 to $16 a month |
How to record Google Meet on a computer
To record Google Meet on a computer, join the meeting, click Meeting tools, click Recording and click Start recording. The host can record by default once recording is allowed for the account.
- In Google Meet, click Start or Join.
- At the bottom right, click Meeting tools, then Recording.
- To save the captions as well, select a language.
- Click Start recording, then click Start in the pop-up screen.
- Wait for the recording to start. Participants get a notification when it starts and when it stops.
- To stop, click Meeting tools, then Recording, then Stop recording, and click Stop recording in the pop-up screen.
A meeting records for a total of 8 hours before the recording stops automatically, and the recording also stops when everyone leaves. The recording includes the active speaker and anything presented. Other windows and notifications are left out, and pinning a participant on your screen does not change who appears in the recording.
Can you record a Google Meet? Editions and requirements
You can record a Google Meet on these Google Workspace editions: Business Plus, Business Standard, Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Starter, Education Plus with a Staff license, and Teaching and Learning Upgrade with its license. Workspace Individual Subscriber and Google One plans with 2 TB or more of storage also include recording.
A Google Workspace administrator must allow recording first, and you need free space in your Drive and in your organization's Drive. If your Drive is full, the meeting cannot be recorded, and Meet alerts you once you reach the quota.
Some organizations ask every participant to agree before recording, transcription or "take notes for me" starts. The prompt shows Start, Join and Continue buttons, and you click Leave if you do not agree. The setting is off by default and the administrator turns it on.
How to record on Google Meet when you are not the host
You can record on Google Meet when the host has permission to record and one of these is true:
- You are the meeting host.
- You are from outside the host's organization and the host promoted you to co-host.
- You are from the host's organization and Host Management is off.
- You are a teacher or co-teacher in a meeting created through Google Classroom.
Even with the right permissions, you cannot record when the host does not have them. If a host turns on Host controls, participants cannot change the record or transcript status. In Education Fundamentals and Education Standard accounts, teachers, staff and students cannot record meetings they organize, and in Teaching and Learning Upgrade accounts anyone in the organizer's organization can record.
How to record a Google Meet automatically
To record a Google Meet automatically, host the meeting and switch on recording when you create it. Click Video call options, then Meeting records, then Record the meeting.
The same settings start transcription and "Take notes with Gemini" automatically. Nothing starts until the host or a co-host joins the meeting on the web, and participants who join see an on-screen warning that the feature is on. Notes and recordings are shared with the hosts and co-hosts automatically.
Where Google Meet saves recordings
Google Meet saves each recording in the meeting organizer's Google Drive, in a folder named Google Meet with a sub-folder for each meeting. An email with the recording link goes to the organizer and to the person who started the recording, and the link is added to the Calendar event.
The recording file can be ready a few hours before the captions. People outside your organization, people on the mobile app and people who dial in by phone are notified when a recording starts or stops, and they cannot control it.
How to record a meeting in Teams
To record a meeting in Teams, start or join the meeting, select More actions, select Record, choose your spoken language and what to record, and select Confirm. Everyone in the meeting is notified automatically, and you can turn on live transcription at the same time.
- Start or join the Teams meeting.
- Select More actions, then Record, in your meeting controls.
- Specify your spoken language and what you want to record.
- Select Confirm.
- To stop, select More actions, then Recording, then Stop recording meeting. Choose Transcribing instead to stop only the live transcription while the recording continues.
To record audio only, select More actions, then Record, open the Choose what to record menu, select Audio only and select Confirm. Only one person can record at a time. The recording continues if the person who started it leaves, and it stops once everyone leaves. If someone forgets to leave, the recording ends and restarts every four hours until the last participant leaves.
A Teams recording leaves out more than four people's video streams at once, whiteboards and annotations, shared notes, content shared by an app, and videos or animations embedded in PowerPoint Live presentations.
Who can record a Teams meeting and where recordings are saved
Anyone in the organizer's organization with a qualifying license can start or stop a recording when the organizer's cloud recording policy is on, and the recording is saved in the organizer's OneDrive for Business. The qualifying licenses are Office 365 Enterprise E1, E3, E5, F3, A1, A3 and A5, and Microsoft 365 Business, Business Premium and Business Essentials. An IT admin must also turn on recording. The organizer does not need to be present.
| Type of user | Can start recording | Can stop recording |
|---|---|---|
| Meeting organizer | Yes | Yes |
| Person from the same organization | Yes | Yes |
| Person from another organization | No | No |
| Guest | No | No |
Federated users can record calls but not meetings. Teams recordings are saved in OneDrive for work or school and SharePoint. The recording is processed and saved in the meeting organizer's OneDrive for Business, and it appears in the meeting chat or in the channel conversation for channel meetings. Your admin settings set when a recording expires, and guests and external attendees can view a recording only when it is shared with them.
With a Teams Premium or Copilot license, an organizer can choose who records and transcribes: organizers and co-organizers, organizers, co-organizers and presenters, or no one. Open the event in your Teams calendar, select View event, then Options, then Recording and transcription, choose an option in Who can record and transcribe, and select Apply.
Microsoft Teams AI note taker: intelligent recap and Teams Premium
The Microsoft Teams AI note taker is intelligent recap, which is part of the Teams Premium add-on license. It turns a transcribed meeting into AI-generated meeting notes, recommended tasks, personalized timeline markers, speaker timeline markers, meeting chapters and an audio recap.
Organizers with a Microsoft Copilot license can also generate an AI summary of a scheduled meeting without saving a recording or a transcript. The summary is stored as a read-only Word document in the organizer's OneDrive, and attendees in the organization who have a Copilot license see it on the Recap tab. In Teams events, intelligent recap is available to organizers, co-organizers and presenters.
Teams AI meeting notes: who sees them and what they need
People in the organization who were invited to the event can open Teams AI meeting notes, and the notes need an English transcript of an event that lasted longer than five minutes. Anyone who was not invited, or who is outside the organization, cannot open it, even with the recording link or a Teams Premium license.
AI-generated notes and tasks are stored in an Exchange folder in the mailboxes of the meeting participants, and they expire according to your organization's policies. Deleting a recap permanently deletes all of its contents. AI-generated notes and tasks use a GPT model through Azure OpenAI Service.
AI notetakers for Google Meet and Teams compared by price
Paid AI notetaker plans for Meet and Teams cost $8 a month on Krisp Core up to $16 a month on Fathom Premium, billed yearly except Granola Business at $14 a month. Otter, Fathom, Fireflies and Read AI join Meet and Teams as a notetaker, and Granola and Krisp take notes without a bot.
| Tool | How it joins | Free option | Paid entry price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comu | Imports external audio files and records rooms and calls | Free plan with the device, unlimited transcription | Note Pro $109.69, Action Pro $169.99 |
| Krisp | No bot | 7-day free trial | Core $8 a month billed yearly |
| Otter | Joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet | Basic, 300 minutes a month | Pro $8.33 a month billed yearly |
| Fireflies | Joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams | Free, 400 minutes of storage per team | Pro $10 per seat a month billed yearly |
| Granola | Your computer's audio, no bot | Basic, 30 days of history | Business $14 per user a month |
| Read AI | Joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet | Free, 5 meetings a month | Pro $15 a month billed yearly |
| Fathom | Joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams | Free, unlimited recording and transcription | Premium $16 a month billed yearly |
Prices are in US dollars, checked Nov 2 and Nov 4, 2026. Yearly prices are the yearly total divided by 12. For a closer look at two of these tools, read our Otter AI review and Granola AI review.
Turn Teams audio and room recordings into notes with Comu AI
To turn a Teams meeting into notes, record it as audio only and import the audio file into the Comu app, which also records the room and phone calls. Comu Note Pro is $109.69 and Comu Action Pro is $169.99 (Nov 4, 2026).
The free plan that comes with the device includes unlimited transcription, unlimited real-time transcription, speaker identification, AI summaries, action items and Comu AI for questions across your recordings. It has 30+ built-in templates and unlimited custom templates, supports 113 languages, imports external audio files and records phone calls. Comu exports text as TXT, Markdown, Word and PDF and audio as MP3 and WAV, and it is GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant.
| What you get | Comu (included with the device) | Otter Basic | Fireflies Free |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Note Pro $109.69, Action Pro $169.99 | $0 | $0 |
| Transcription | Unlimited | 300 minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation | Unlimited, with 400 minutes of storage per team |
| Where it records | Audio files, the room and phone calls | Online meetings and the mobile apps | Online meetings, uploads and the mobile app |
| Languages | 113 | 6 | 100+ |
| Export | TXT, Markdown, Word and PDF for text; MP3 and WAV for audio | mp3 and txt | Downloads start on Pro |
Otter Basic costs $0 and stops at 300 transcription minutes a month and 30 minutes per conversation. Fireflies Free costs $0 and stores 400 minutes per team. Comu's included plan transcribes without a minute cap, so a day of long meetings does not use up a monthly allowance, and the same device records a hybrid meeting from the table in the room.
Comu suits an in-person interview, a client visit or a call. The transcript, speaker labels, summary and action items arrive in the app. To see every feature in the included plan, read our guide to the features that come with Comu, or look at Comu Note Pro and Comu Action Pro.
What it costs to add AI notes to Meet and Teams over three years
Over three years, one seat costs $288 on Krisp Core billed yearly, $299.88 on Otter Pro and $576 on Fathom Premium, against $109.69 for Comu Note Pro. The table shows one person's cost, using yearly billing where the company offers it. Google Meet and Teams recording come with your Workspace or Microsoft 365 plan, so the table prices only the notetaker.
The Comu rows use only what the free plan that comes with the device includes: unlimited transcription, unlimited real-time transcription, speaker identification, summaries, action items and templates. Fathom Free has no AI action items, Fireflies Free limits AI summaries and stores 400 minutes per team, Read AI Free covers 5 meetings a month and Otter Basic stops at 300 minutes a month. Krisp has no free plan, only a 7-day trial. The table therefore prices the paid plan of each tool.
| Cost for one person | Year 1 | Year 2 (total) | Year 3 (total) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comu Note Pro, free plan | $109.69 | $109.69 | $109.69 |
| Comu Action Pro, free plan | $169.99 | $169.99 | $169.99 |
| Krisp Core, $8 a month billed yearly | $96.00 | $192.00 | $288.00 |
| Otter Pro, $8.33 a month billed yearly | $99.96 | $199.92 | $299.88 |
| Fireflies Pro, $10 a month billed yearly | $120.00 | $240.00 | $360.00 |
| Granola Business, $14 a month | $168.00 | $336.00 | $504.00 |
| Read AI Pro, $15 a month billed yearly | $180.00 | $360.00 | $540.00 |
| Fathom Premium, $16 a month billed yearly | $192.00 | $384.00 | $576.00 |
Over three years, Krisp Core costs $178.31 more than Comu Note Pro, Otter Pro costs $190.19 more, Fireflies Pro costs $250.31 more and Granola Business costs $394.31 more. Read AI Pro costs $430.31 more and Fathom Premium costs $466.31 more. Against Comu Action Pro, Otter Pro costs $129.89 more and Fathom Premium costs $406.01 more.
Comu's included plan also records the room and phone calls.
For a team of five over three years, five Otter Pro seats billed yearly cost $1,499.40 and five Fathom Premium seats cost $2,880, while five Comu Note Pro devices cost $548.45.
Fixes when you cannot record a Google Meet or a Teams meeting
If the record option is missing, check the edition or license, the admin setting and your role in the meeting.
- No Recording option in Meet. Check that your edition is on the list, that your administrator allowed recording, and that you are the host, a co-host promoted from outside the organization, a member of the host's organization with Host Management off, or a teacher in a Google Classroom meeting.
- Recording will not start in Meet. Check that your Drive and your organization's Drive have free space.
- Nothing starts automatically in Meet. Automatic recording starts only after the host or a co-host joins on the web.
- No Record button in Teams. Check that you have a qualifying license, that your IT admin turned on recording, and that you are not a guest or from another organization.
- No AI notes in the Teams recap. Check that the meeting was transcribed, lasted longer than five minutes and was in English, and that you were invited and your organization has Teams Premium or Copilot.
- Captions arrive late in Meet. The recording file can be ready a few hours before the captions.
Before you record a Google Meet or Teams meeting
Tell the participants you are recording, even though both tools notify everyone, and check the recording rules where you and they are located. For a meeting in a room rather than on a call, read AI notetakers for in person meetings.
- Say it out loud. Both tools notify participants when recording starts, and saying it aloud makes sure nobody misses it.
- Check the rules. Some places need only one person's consent and others need everyone's. Our guide to recording calls in the US by state covers the basics.
- Share the file with care. Send recordings only to the people who need them. Teams limits viewing to your organization unless you share a recording.
- Using Zoom instead? Read our guide to recording and archiving Zoom meetings.
Which way to record Meet and Teams is right for you
Use the built-in recorder when your plan includes it, an AI notetaker when you want a transcript and action items, and a recorder such as Comu for audio files, rooms and calls.
| If you | Choose |
|---|---|
| Want notes from an audio file, a room or a phone call | Comu |
| Host Google Meet on a Workspace edition that includes recording | The built-in Meet recording |
| Organize Teams meetings on a Microsoft 365 license | The built-in Teams recording |
| Have Teams Premium or Copilot | Intelligent recap |
| Want a transcript and action items from Meet or Teams on a low yearly price | Krisp or Otter |
| Want unlimited free recording and transcription | Fathom |
Common questions about how to record Google Meet and Teams
How do I record Google Meet?
In Google Meet, click Meeting tools, then Recording, then Start recording, and click Start in the pop-up screen. Participants are notified, and you stop with Meeting tools, Recording, Stop recording.
Can you record a Google Meet without being the host?
Yes, when the host has permission to record and you are in the host's organization with Host Management off, you are a teacher or co-teacher in a Google Classroom meeting, or you are from outside the organization and the host promoted you to co-host.
Where does Google Meet save recordings?
Recordings go to the meeting organizer's Google Drive, in the Google Meet folder, and an email with the link goes to the organizer and the person who started the recording.
How do I record a meeting in Teams?
Join the meeting, select More actions, then Record, choose your spoken language and what to record, and select Confirm. To stop, select More actions, then Recording, then Stop recording meeting.
Where are Teams recordings saved?
Teams saves recordings in the meeting organizer's OneDrive for Business, and they appear in the meeting chat or in the channel conversation. Teams recordings are stored in OneDrive for work or school and SharePoint.
Does Teams have an AI note taker?
Yes. Intelligent recap in Teams Premium creates AI meeting notes and recommended tasks from a transcribed meeting, and organizers with a Copilot license can generate an AI summary without saving a recording or transcript.
Can an AI notetaker join Google Meet and Teams?
Yes. Otter, Fathom, Fireflies and Read AI join Meet and Teams as a notetaker, and Granola and Krisp take notes without a bot.
Is it legal to record a Google Meet or Teams meeting?
Some places need only one person's consent and others need everyone's, depending on where you and the participants are. Both tools notify participants, and you should also tell them before you record.
Related reading
- How to Record and Archive Zoom Meetings: Save Time with Tools and Tips
- How to Choose a Meeting Recording App for Work
- Best AI Note Taker in 2026: Five Types Compared by Use Case
- Otter AI Review (2026): Features, Pricing, Pros and Cons by Plan
- AI Notetaker for In Person Meetings (2026): 7 Options Compared by Price and Use Case
- How to Record a Phone Call on iPhone, Samsung and With a Recorder (2026)
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