MeetStream vs Nylas Notetaker
MeetStream is the meeting bot API with a voice agent runtime built in. Bot infrastructure is $0.35 an hour.
Nylas Notetaker publishes $0.70 an hour over its Pro plan. It records first, then hands the file back.
What an hour of meeting bot costs
One flat hourly rate against monthly plans with hours bundled in.
| MeetStream | Nylas Notetaker | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | An hour | A monthly plan, with hours in it |
| Bot infrastructure, per hour | $0.35 | $0.80 over the Essentials plan |
| All in, with transcription | $0.45 | $0.70 over Pro, on $49 a month |
| Storage | 30 days included | Held inside their platform |
Ours from the pricing page. Theirs checked on their published pages on 4 September 2026.
Their plans bundle hours. Ours bills the hours you run, with no plan under it.
A bot that speaks in the meeting
MeetStream ships an in-meeting voice agent runtime. The bot hears every speaker, reasons, and answers out loud.
Wake words, interruptions and an avatar are settings, not a build. It runs on the bot that records. See voice agents.
Built for agents to build with
One request puts a bot in the call. Media, transcripts and events come back on a webhook you name.
Live audio arrives about 200 milliseconds behind the room. See real-time audio.
An MCP server, a command line tool and a Claude skill ship with it. See developers.
Priced for a team that is still building
$5 of free credit, a key in under a minute, and no plan to pick before the first bot.
| MeetStream | Nylas Notetaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 100 bot-hours a month | $45 | $70 |
| 500 bot-hours a month | $225 | $350 |
| 1,000 bot-hours a month | $450 | $700 |
Ours at $0.45 all in. Theirs is $49 a month plus $0.70 an hour past 70, checked on their published pages on 4 September 2026.
The engineers who build it answer you
Teams on MeetStream get a shared Slack channel with our engineers in it. A webhook question reaches its author.
No support tier to buy, and no gate in front of it. Start on free credit and scale from there.
Your recordings, in your bucket
Thirty days of storage sit inside the rate. Point us at your own bucket and artefacts land there.
Write-only mode means we never read it back. Deletion is self-serve. Setup is on the S3 storage page.
The comparison, row by row
Their figures are the ones they publish, checked on their published pages on 4 September 2026. Not published means we could not find it.
Voice and agents in the meeting
| MeetStream | Nylas Notetaker | |
|---|---|---|
| In-meeting voice agent runtime | Yes On the bot that records | Not published |
| Wake words and interruption handling | Yes Barge-in and echo control, per voice agents | Not published |
| Avatar on the bot video tile | Yes Lip-synced, all three platforms | Not published |
| Tool calls from inside the meeting | Yes MCP servers and your functions | Not published |
| MCP server, CLI and agent skills | Yes On the developers page | Not published |
Real time, recording and transcription
| MeetStream | Nylas Notetaker | |
|---|---|---|
| Zoom, Google Meet and Teams bots | Yes | Yes |
| Whose bot joins | Yes Your own bot, your own name | Limited A managed bot, with a per-user grant |
| Real-time media to your server | Yes About 200 ms, per the real-time page | No Records first, then returns the file |
| Per-participant audio and video streams | Yes All three platforms | No One mixed recording and transcript |
| Transcription | Yes Six engines, per request | Yes Included, with speakers and summaries |
Price, storage and control
| MeetStream | Nylas Notetaker | |
|---|---|---|
| Volume and startup rate | Yes Toward $0.25, no application | Not published |
| Pay only for the hours you run | Yes No plan, no minimum | Limited Monthly plans, with hours included |
| Storage included | Yes 30 days | Limited Held inside their platform |
| Your own bucket, from the first byte | Yes S3 and S3-compatible, write-only | Not published |
Certifications move faster than a page like this, so they live on the security page.
The integration, one request
One request, on any of the three platforms. It takes a meeting link and a webhook.
curl -X POST https://api.meetstream.ai/api/v1/bots/create_bot \
-H "Authorization: Token $MEETSTREAM_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "meeting_link": "https://zoom.us/j/74648392", "bot_name": "Acme Notetaker",
"recording_config": {"transcript": {"provider": {"meetstream": {}}}},
"webhook_url": "https://your-app.example.com/meetstream" }'Run both for a week, compare the artefacts, then move the webhook.
Frequently asked questions
How do MeetStream and Nylas Notetaker prices compare?
As of 2 September 2026 Nylas prices Notetaker in plans: Free with 5 bot hours, Essentials at $15 a month with 10 hours and $0.80 per additional hour.
Pro is $49 a month with 70 hours and $0.70 per additional hour, $0.65 on annual billing. Enterprise is on quote.
MeetStream publishes $0.35 per hour, dropping toward $0.25 at volume, with $5 in free credit.
On the per-hour rate we are roughly half, though bundled hours can make Nylas the cheaper line item at very low volume.
Where can I read MeetStream security detail?
On the security page: ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 audit status, GDPR and the data residency options, kept current there.
Which platforms does MeetStream support?
Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. One API call with the meeting link joins the bot, and no host-side plan or admin install is required. Per-participant audio and video stream on all three platforms.
Can a MeetStream bot speak in the meeting?
Yes. A voice agent runs on the same bot that records. It hears each speaker, calls your tools and answers out loud.
Wake words, interruptions and an avatar are settings, described on the voice agents page.
Whose bot joins the meeting?
Yours. You name it, you decide when it joins, and the media, transcript and events belong to your account.
Can I keep recordings in my own bucket?
Yes. Point us at an S3 or S3-compatible bucket and artefacts land there from the first byte, in a write-only mode we never read back.
How current are these numbers?
Every Nylas figure here was read on their own published pages and checked 4 September 2026.
Tell us what changed and it gets fixed the same week.
Run the comparison yourself
$5 of free credit, a key in under a minute, and every figure above read off a published page.