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FreemiumSelf-Hosted
Recording a meeting is the easy part — the hard part is when the transcript bot joins the call as an uninvited guest, someone has to admit it, and the audio still misses half the room. Doculigent sidesteps that entirely by running transcription on-device, without a bot in the meeting at all.
$19/mo · Free tier: Unlimited local recording and transcription with bring your own S3 bucket for storage, 100+ languages, unlimited teams, unlimited AI project manager · Checked Oct 28, 2026
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Summary
Doculigent records screen and camera, streams a live diarized transcript for Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet by listening locally rather than injecting a bot, and hands you an AI summary before the tab is closed. Whisper runs on-device, which means your recordings and chat queries never leave the machine unless you choose cloud sync — and even then you can point it at your own S3-compatible bucket. The AI PM feature scans uploaded recordings across a team and rolls them into a single project status: blocked, at risk, on track. Where it strains: teams that need a hosted, zero-install experience for non-technical members will hit friction fast, and there is no public API, so anything downstream requires manual export rather than pipeline integration.
Bottom line: Pick Doculigent when your compliance posture or trust model rules out third-party transcription servers; look elsewhere when your team needs a hosted SaaS with no local setup and a REST API to wire recordings into existing tooling.
Pricing Plans
SubscriptionLast verified 4 days ago- Price
- $19/mo
- Free Tier
- Unlimited local recording and transcription with bring your own S3 bucket for storage, 100+ languages, unlimited teams, unlimited AI project manager
Free
Free
Doculigent desktop app with unlimited local recording and transcription
- Unlimited screen + camera recording
- Unlimited meeting recording
- Unlimited local transcription & summaries
- 100+ languages
- Bring your own key (BYOK)
- Google Drive support (coming soon)
- Unlimited teams
- Unlimited AI project manager
Starter
$19per month
Doculigent Cloud with managed storage and cloud transcription
- 10 GB storage
- Everything in Free
- 10 hours of cloud transcription / month
- 1,000 AI credits / month
- Create or join 2 cloud teams
- 2 cloud AI project managers
Pro
$49per month
Doculigent Cloud with increased storage and transcription hours
- 50 GB storage
- Everything in Starter
- 25 hours of cloud transcription / month
- 2,500 AI credits / month
- Create or join 5 cloud teams
- 5 cloud AI project managers
- Priority processing
Scale
$99per month
Doculigent Cloud with enterprise features
- 200 GB storage
- Everything in Pro
- 100 hours of cloud transcription / month
- 10,000 AI credits / month
- Create or join 25 cloud teams
- 25 cloud AI project managers
- Priority support
- SSO & SAML
- Admin controls
- Audit logs
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Pros
- On-device transcription via Whisper with local LLM or bring-your-own-key support, so recordings and chat queries never touch an external server by default — which means organizations with strict data residency requirements can use it without a legal review cycle.
- Live diarized transcription without a bot joining the call, so the participant list stays clean and no one has to approve an unknown attendee before the meeting can start.
- Configurable storage pointing to any S3-compatible bucket, which means teams already running their own object storage do not hand a third party control over where recordings live.
- Chat-with-recording tied to timestamps, so finding the moment a decision was made in a 90-minute call is a question rather than a scrubbing session.
- AI PM status rollup across team recordings, so project leads get a blocked/at-risk/on-track read without scheduling a status meeting to collect updates.
Cons
- No public API is described anywhere on the vendor page — teams that need transcripts routed automatically to a data warehouse, a ticketing system, or a CI pipeline are stuck with manual export, and that wall appears the moment the first automated workflow is scoped.
- The desktop install requirement is a hard stop for non-technical teams or organizations with locked-down endpoints where users cannot install software; teams in that situation move to a fully hosted browser-based transcription service instead.
- The AI PM and team collaboration features require cloud account setup and connecting third-party apps, which introduces a separate configuration surface alongside the local desktop client — teams expecting a single unified experience find themselves managing two environments.
About
- Platforms
- Desktop app
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- Yes
- Last Updated
- August 16, 2026
Best For
Who it's for
- Users needing unlimited local transcription
- Teams requiring diarized meeting records
- Organizations wanting BYO storage and keys
- Content creators producing transcribed video
What it does well
- Screen and meeting recording with diarized transcripts
- Local transcription and AI summaries of recordings
- Chat with video content
- Team collaboration on transcribed projects
Integrations
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Doculigent free?
- Doculigent offers a free option alongside paid upgrades. Pricing: $19/mo. Check the current allowances and terms before choosing a plan.
- Can I self-host Doculigent?
- Yes. Doculigent supports self-hosting on your own infrastructure.
- What platforms does Doculigent support?
- Doculigent is available on: Desktop app.
Meeting bots that join as uninvited guests
Recording a meeting is the easy part — the hard part is when the transcript bot joins the call as an uninvited guest, someone has to admit it, and the audio still misses half the room. Doculigent sidesteps that entirely by running transcription on-device, without a bot in the meeting at all.
Core capabilities
Doculigent records screen and camera, streams a live diarized transcript for Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet by listening locally rather than injecting a bot, and hands you an AI summary before the tab is closed. Whisper runs on-device, which means your recordings and chat queries never leave the machine unless you choose cloud sync — and even then you can point it at your own S3-compatible bucket. The AI PM feature scans uploaded recordings across a team and rolls them into a single project status: blocked, at risk, on track.
The vendor states on-device transcription via Whisper with local LLM or bring-your-own-key support keeps data off external servers by default. Live diarized transcription without a bot keeps the participant list clean. Storage points to any S3-compatible bucket.
Use cases and trade-offs
Use cases cover screen and meeting recording with diarized transcripts, local transcription and AI summaries of recordings, chat with video content, and team collaboration on transcribed projects. It runs on desktop with S3 storage and Google Drive integration coming soon. Pricing is subscription with unlimited local recording, transcription and summaries on the free tier, BYO S3 storage, and unlimited teams. No public API is described, and the desktop install requirement blocks teams on locked-down endpoints.
Who it is for / who should skip it
Best for users needing unlimited local transcription, teams requiring diarized meeting records, organizations wanting BYO storage and keys, and content creators producing transcribed video. Skip it if you need a hosted zero-install experience or automated routing via API.
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