Google Meet's AI Notes Now Cost $20 a Month

Google expanded its Gemini-powered “Take notes for me” feature in Google Meet on June 29, 2026. It’s now open to individual Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers. Before this, the tool only worked for Workspace business customers on Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, or Enterprise Plus plans.

What the feature actually does

Once the host turns it on, Gemini listens in the background and transcribes the call in real time. When the meeting ends, it produces a summary with action items. The notes save automatically as a Google Doc in the host’s Drive, and a recap email goes out afterward.

Every participant sees a pencil icon the moment note-taking starts. It’s never silent.

The feature works in eight languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. One at a time, though, so a meeting that switches languages mid-conversation will still need a human to clean up the notes after.

The monthly price of Google AI Pro is now $19.99, the cheapest plan that now includes automatic meeting notes in Meet

Where it sits against the competition

That price is below Microsoft’s comparable offer. Copilot in Teams handles similar transcription and recap work, but it requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license starting around $30 a user per month, stacked on top of an existing Microsoft 365 subscription. Zoom has its own AI Companion. Standalone tools like Otter.ai and Fireflies have offered cross-platform meeting notes for years, often cheaper than either Google or Microsoft.

Google’s real advantage isn’t the feature itself. It’s that anyone already living inside Gmail, Drive, and Calendar gets the notes showing up exactly where they’d expect them, no third-party app required.

There’s a gap worth knowing about before you sign up, though. Workspace business accounts come with admin-level audit and retention controls over what Gemini records and keeps. Personal AI Pro subscribers don’t have that same documented control. The notes go to Google’s servers, and Google hasn’t published detailed consumer-facing terms on how long that data sits there or who can access it. Free Google accounts get none of this at all. A Google spokesperson said only that the company is “evaluating feedback to shape future availability” for lower tiers.

The feature is built for meetings between 15 minutes and 8 hours long, which covers most client calls, standups, and sales pitches a small business owner sits through in a week. Only the host can turn it on, and it can be preset to run automatically on future meetings, so it doesn’t need switching on manually every time.