Vauta vs Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion)
Looking for an alternative to Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion) that keeps your meetings on your Mac? Vauta captures any call, transcribes it on your Mac and writes the minutes: decisions, tasks and open questions. No bot, no cloud, no account, and it is free and open source.
Side by side
Streams your audio to Zoom’s cloud, and the free plan stops at 3 meetings a month.
Vauta is ahead on 5 of 9 · level on 3 · behind on 1
Meeting notes cost (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Free
Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion): Free for 3 meetings a month, then paid
Open source (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Yes, Apache-2.0
Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion): No
Where your call is transcribed (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: On your Mac
Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion): Zoom’s cloud
Account (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: None
Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion): Zoom account
Run the AI on your own hardware (Vauta ahead)
Vauta: Yes: your Mac or your own server
Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion): No
Your meetings train their AI (Level)
Vauta: Never: nothing leaves your Mac or network
Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion): No
A bot in your call (Level)
Vauta: Never
Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion): No bot
Works with (Level)
Vauta: Any call app on your Mac
Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion): Zoom, and others with My Notes
Runs on (Rival ahead)
Vauta: Mac with Apple silicon
Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion): Windows, Mac, web and mobile
Sources · Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion): My Notes · Pricing · Terms · New names
Where Zoom AI (formerly AI Companion) is better
- Runs on: Windows, Mac, web and mobile (Vauta: Mac with Apple silicon)
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