Circleback now has a free plan, and full API and MCP access starts at 15 dollars
The meeting note-taker replaced its lineup with four tiers: Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise. The free one records and transcribes without a cap on the number of meetings and keeps 30 days of history, and the release note says it is a plan rather than a trial. What it withholds is full access to the API, the Model Context Protocol server and the command-line tool. Those begin at $15 per user per month, which is where the line now runs for anyone feeding transcripts into an agent.
Circleback replaced its plans on August 31, 2026 with four tiers, and the first of them costs nothing. Free covers online and in-person meetings with no cap on how many, writes notes and action items, and labels who is speaking in the transcript. The company's release note states that this is a plan and not a trial period.
What the free tier covers
Free keeps 30 days of meeting and recording history. It includes the mobile and Apple Watch apps for in-person meetings, and for online calls it offers a choice between a bot that joins the meeting and a desktop app that records without one. Automatic tagging and sharing come with it, as do the Slack and Linear integrations.
- Notes and action items for an unlimited number of meetings, online and in person.
- Transcripts with each speaker identified, plus automatic tagging and sharing.
- Thirty days of meeting and recording history, against unlimited history on the paid tiers.
- Limited access to the API, the MCP server, the command-line tool and automations, and two teams.
Where the paid line runs
Pro costs $15 per user per month and is the first tier with full API, MCP and command-line access. It adds unlimited meeting history, a year of recording storage, five teams and every integration, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce and Attio among them. Business at $25 adds admin and member roles, enforceable workspace settings, custom data retention, a usage dashboard and two years of recording storage. Enterprise at $35 adds single sign-on, invoice billing, unlimited recording storage, priority support and HIPAA compliance.
For anyone building on the data rather than reading it, that split matters more than the amounts. One possible explanation is that Free is meant as a way in for people who read their notes inside the app, while everything that feeds another system starts at the first paid step.
The rest of August
The pricing change closes a month in which Circleback shipped the parts it now charges for. The Circleback API arrived on August 20, 2026 and returns notes, action items, transcripts, recordings, people and companies. On August 28, 2026 the company added import from other note-takers, which carries over notes, transcripts, attendees and recordings where those exist.
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