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$10 per user per month
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  1. Education and training
  2. Real estate and property management
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What is Zoom AI Companion

Zoom AI Companion is an AI assistant embedded across the Zoom platform that helps users summarize meetings, draft messages, and surface action items from Zoom Meetings, Team Chat, and related Zoom workflows. It targets knowledge workers, managers, and customer-facing teams that run frequent video meetings and need faster follow-up and documentation. The product is designed to work natively with Zoom’s meeting artifacts (transcripts, recordings, chat) and can be administered through Zoom’s enterprise controls. Capabilities and availability vary by Zoom plan and by which Zoom products an organization has enabled.

pros

Native to Zoom workflows

AI Companion operates inside Zoom Meetings and other Zoom surfaces, reducing the need to export recordings or transcripts to a separate tool. This tight integration supports common meeting-assistant tasks such as summaries, highlights, and next steps using Zoom-generated artifacts. For organizations standardized on Zoom, this can simplify user adoption compared with deploying a standalone meeting assistant. It also benefits from Zoom’s existing identity, scheduling, and meeting controls.

Cross-surface content assistance

Beyond meeting summaries, AI Companion also supports writing and rewriting assistance for communications in Zoom’s collaboration experiences (for example, chat and follow-up messages). This broadens usage from post-meeting notes to day-to-day drafting and refinement tasks. Teams can use it to turn meeting outcomes into structured updates and action lists without switching applications. The result is a more unified experience than point solutions focused only on call recording and analysis.

Enterprise administration alignment

Because it is delivered as part of the Zoom platform, AI Companion aligns with Zoom’s centralized admin model for user management and feature enablement. Organizations can manage access through existing Zoom account settings rather than provisioning a separate vendor. This can reduce operational overhead for IT and security teams compared with adding another system that stores meeting data. It also supports consistent governance across Zoom meetings, recordings, and collaboration features.

cons

Best fit for Zoom-first

AI Companion’s value is highest when meetings and collaboration already occur in Zoom. If an organization runs a mixed environment (multiple meeting platforms or heavy reliance on external dialers), coverage can be uneven and may require additional tools. This can limit standardization for teams that need consistent note-taking and summaries across all call types. Buyers should validate which Zoom products and meeting modalities are supported in their environment.

Sales intelligence depth varies

While it can help with meeting summaries and follow-ups, it may not provide the same depth of conversation intelligence features some dedicated revenue tools emphasize (for example, advanced deal coaching workflows, extensive sales methodology scoring, or highly specialized analytics). Teams looking for end-to-end sales acceleration may still need separate systems for pipeline inspection and rep coaching at scale. The practical gap depends on required analytics, CRM workflows, and reporting granularity. Evaluation should include the specific sales use cases (coaching, forecasting support, compliance) rather than general summarization.

AI output requires validation

As with other generative AI assistants, summaries and action items can omit context or misattribute details, especially in noisy meetings or when multiple topics overlap. Users often need to review outputs against the transcript or recording before sharing externally or logging to systems of record. This adds a human verification step for high-stakes customer or legal communications. Organizations should define guidance for acceptable use and review processes.

Plan & Pricing

Plan Price Key features & notes
AI Companion Basic (included with Zoom Workplace Basic) Free Limited in-meeting use (meeting summaries and in‑meeting questions); limited side‑panel/web queries; 40-minute meetings; 100 participants.
AI Companion (included with Zoom Workplace Pro) $13.32 per user/month (annual) Full AI Companion across Zoom Workplace & web: meeting summaries in Zoom Meetings, in‑meeting questions, side‑panel queries, writing mode, ability to send summaries to Slack automatically.
AI Companion (included with Zoom Workplace Business / Enterprise) Included with paid plans (contact sales for plan pricing) Expanded capacity and enterprise features; availability and exact pricing vary by plan/region—contact Sales.
AI Companion Standalone $10 per user/month Standalone subscription (no paid Zoom Workplace license required) giving access to AI Companion capabilities.
Custom AI Companion add-on $12 per user/month Paid add-on to customize and extend AI Companion (knowledge collections, third‑party integrations, agentic skills, Slack integration).

Seller details

Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
San Jose, CA, USA
2011
Public
https://www.zoom.com/
https://x.com/Zoom
https://www.linkedin.com/company/zoom-video-communications/

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