How much does Recall cost?
- Free plan
- Yes
In your favor
- No long-term contract. No contract; cancel anytime and keep access until the end of the billing period
- Unlimited usage on Plus. A flat price with no cap on usage.
- Free plan. Free forever: 10 AI summaries per month, unlimited saves of articles, videos, podcasts and PDFs, unlimited notes, knowledge graph linking of notes, API and MCP access. Downgrading returns you to the Free summary limits; saved content is kept.
- Notice before price changes. Changes communicated in advance
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup, no credit card required "No credit card required"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Not stated
- Support
- 24 hour support "24 Hour Support"
- Support
- 1:1 onboarding from the founding team on Max "1:1 onboarding from the founding team"
What Recall does
Recall saves web content, YouTube videos, podcasts, PDFs and notes, then summarizes, tags and connects them in a knowledge graph. Users can chat with their saved knowledge, the web, or both, with quizzes and spaced repetition on paid plans.
- Good for
- Individual learners, researchers, analysts and power users who want a personal library of content they can summarize and chat with.
- Channels
- Web app, Chrome extension, Safari extension, Edge extension, Firefox extension, iOS app, Android app
- Main product
- Recall, a personal AI knowledge base and summarizer
- Also includes
- AI summaries of articles, YouTube videos, podcasts and PDFs, Smart auto-tagging, AI chat with saved knowledge, the internet, or both, Listen Mode text-to-speech with custom voices, Automatic knowledge graph and Augmented Browsing, Quizzes and spaced repetition
- Connects to
- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, MCP
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- PDF and document upload
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- Chat with documents
Chat with everything you have saved, search the open web, or combine both in one conversation across your whol
- Multi-document summaries
Bulk AI actions: summarize, tag, and connect up to 100 pieces of content at once
- Source citations
**6 sources** from your knowledge
- Team workspace plansNot stated
- Integrations or API
Connect your knowledge saved in Recall to the AI tools you already use with API and MCP.
- Adjustable summary length
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- Security and data privacy
Your data is private and we do not train AI models on your content.
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI summarizers. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | no | "Your data is private and we do not train AI models on your content."pricing |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | mentioned in privacy policy rights section | "## Your Rights (GDPR, CCPA, and similar laws)"privacy |
| CCPA | mentioned in privacy policy rights section | "## Your Rights (GDPR, CCPA, and similar laws)"privacy |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | – | 10 AI summaries per month | – | "10 AI summaries per month" |
| Plusper month | $12 | $10per month | Unlimited | – | "to build your own visual knowledge graph api and mcp access plus $12 per month for your li" "to build your own visual knowledge graph api and mcp access plus $10 per month, billed yea" |
| Maxper month | $48 | $38per month | Unlimited | – | "0 bookmarks or 10,000 markdown notes multi-language support max $48 per month for power us" "0 bookmarks or 10,000 markdown notes multi-language support max $38 per month, billed year" |
Free plan: Free forever: 10 AI summaries per month, unlimited saves of articles, videos, podcasts and PDFs, unlimited notes, knowledge graph linking of notes, API and MCP access. Downgrading returns you to the Free summary limits; saved content is kept.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- No contract; cancel anytime and keep access until the end of the billing period "Yes, you can cancel anytime. You'll keep access to your paid plan until the end of your current billing period, and your saved content stays in your account."
- Refunds
- 30-day refund for new users; may be denied if abuse is found "We offer a **30-day refund policy** for new users."
- Auto renew
- Subscriptions are billed in advance on a recurring basis (monthly or annually) "Subscriptions are billed in advance on a recurring basis (monthly or annually)."
- Price change notice
- Changes communicated in advance "We may adjust pricing and features periodically. Any changes will be communicated in advance."
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Online since
- Oct 10, 2023 Domain registration date
- Funding
- Received funding in less than 24 hours after a Hacker News post "the project trended for over 13 hours, received funding in less than 24 hours, and became the company the team is building today."
- Customers
- "Trusted by 700,000+ professionals" their claim
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Questions
Is Recall free?
Yes. Free forever: 10 AI summaries per month, unlimited saves of articles, videos, podcasts and PDFs, unlimited notes, knowledge graph linking of notes, API and MCP access. Downgrading returns you to the Free summary limits; saved content is kept. Paid plans start at $12/month.
How much does Recall cost?
Paid plans start at $10 per month billed yearly, or $12 billed monthly.
Does Recall train AI on your data?
No, according to Recall: "Your data is private and we do not train AI models on your content."