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Sembly AI review 2026

Sembly AI

4.0

Sembly AI turns meetings into structured minutes, decisions and tasks and offers a team workspace plus an AI chat over past meetings. It supports many languages and aims at organizations standardizing meeting documentation.

Free plan

Quick overview: Sembly AI vs. other AI meeting assistants

How Sembly AI stacks up against other tools.

Where Sembly AI shines

  • Structured AI meeting minutes are the real strength: notes broken into clear sections like objectives, decisions, risks and open issues, plus strong action-item extraction with due dates that push into Slack and task tools.
  • Cross-meeting AI chat searches your whole meeting archive, and Semblian can generate follow-up documents like proposals or project plans straight from a meeting.
  • Genuinely strong German: in a controlled German-language test it landed top of the field with correctly timestamped transcripts, and it carries an enterprise posture with SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA on the top tier.

What you should know

  • Recording reliability is the biggest complaint: the bot sometimes fails to record a meeting at all or captures only a fragment, and it drops a recurring series after a few failed lobby admits.
  • Quality degrades on long or messy meetings: long minutes drop key points, meetings fragment into segments you stitch back manually, and speaker labels slip to „Unknown Speaker“ on overlap.
  • Bot-only capture with no bot-free mode even on paid plans, and the bot's join announcement feels intrusive to participants.
  • The free tier is tight and confusing (around 60 minutes a month with short retention), the interface feels dated, and there is a strict no-refunds policy.

Who is Sembly AI for?

Sembly AI is built for these teams and needs.

Broad platform coverage

Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex, plus uploads

Multilingual teams

48 languages with speaker ID

Sales and consulting

Salesforce and HubSpot sync

Mobile and on-site meetings

iOS and Android app records in person

Less suitable if you require EU data residency or ISO 27001, which are not documented for Sembly.

Sembly AI pricing

Indicative prices in US dollars per user per month (annual billing). Enterprise with a customer-data training exclusion on request.

Basic

$10per user / month

  • Unlimited meeting recording
  • Transcription and AI notes
  • Single-meeting AI assistant
  • History up to 1 year
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Pro

$20per user / month

  • Multi-meeting AI chat
  • Unlimited video recording
  • Advanced search and analytics
  • Risk and issue detection

MAX

$30per user / month

  • Everything in Pro
  • Unlimited history and HD video
  • HIPAA compliance
  • Custom SSO and audit logging

How we assessed Sembly AI

Every criterion we assess, checked against the same public rubric. A checkmark means the AI assistant delivers it. Hard claims link to a source and carry a verification date. See the methodology for weights and scoring.

CriterionSembly AI LogoSembly AI
Security & compliance
ISO certificationsNo
SOC 2YesType II
Sourceverified 2026-06-01
GDPR compliantYes
Sourceverified 2026-06-01
Data processing agreement (DPA)Yes
Sourceverified 2026-06-01
Data residencyPartialUSA
Sourceverified 2026-06-01Google Cloud, no documented EU region.
Legal jurisdictionPartialUSA
On-premise deploymentNo
Customer data used for AI trainingPartialOpt-out
Sourceverified 2026-06-01Excluded for Enterprise customers; unclear for other plans.
Encryption (in transit & at rest)Yes
SSO / SAMLYes
Custom SSO from the MAX plan.
SCIM provisioningNo
Roles & permissions (RBAC)Yes
Access controls and audit logging from MAX.
Configurable retention / deletionYes
Sub-processor list publishedYes
Sourceverified 2026-06-01
Penetration test / bug bountyYes
Sourceverified 2026-06-01
Capture & transcription
Real-time transcriptionYes
Transcription after the meetingYes
Recording modeBot or bot-free
Customizable meeting botNo
In-person meetingsYes
Via the mobile app.
Speaker identificationYes
Transcription accuracyYesHigh
Vendor claims high accuracy; not independently verified.
Supported languages48+
Automatic language detectionNo
Custom vocabularyNo
AI insights
Automatic summaryYes
Action-item extractionYes
Decision detectionYes
Key items including risks and issues.
Custom summary templatesYes
Custom extraction fieldsYes
From Pro and MAX.
Chat / Q&A with the meetingYes
Single and multi-meeting AI chat.
Topic & chapter detectionYes
Conversation analyticsYes
Analytics dashboard from Pro.
Cross-meeting searchYes
Integrations & workflow
Video platformsZoomMicrosoft TeamsGoogle MeetWebex
CalendarGoogle CalendarOutlook
CRM & ERPSalesforceHubSpot
Collaboration & project managementSlackNotion
AutomationZapier
AI agents (MCP)No
WebhooksYes
Public APIYes
Usability & onboarding
Mobile appYes
Setup effortLow
Team & admin managementYes
Workspace controls and audit logging from MAX.
AccessibilityNo
Pricing & model
Permanent free planNo
Free trialYes
Entry price€10
Price transparencyYesPublic
Sourceverified 2026-06-01
Billing modelPer user
Vendor & trust
HeadquartersUSA
Founded2020
Support languagesNo
Support in German-speaking regionNo
Availability SLANo
Public reviews (G2, Capterra)G2CapterraOMR Reviews

Figures are indicative and may change. Last editorial review: 2026-06-01

Verdict: is Sembly AI worth it?

Sembly AI is a feature-rich meeting assistant with broad platform and CRM coverage, 48 languages and a strong compliance base (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA). It is a solid choice for sales and international teams on Salesforce or HubSpot. Teams that strictly require EU data residency or ISO 27001 will not find these documented for Sembly.

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Frequently asked questions about Sembly AI

Sembly AI is GDPR-compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified, with HIPAA support and a DPA. It hosts on Google Cloud without a documented EU region, and its no-training guarantee is worded for Enterprise customers.

Basic is around 10 US dollars per user per month (annual), Pro around 20 and MAX around 30 dollars. Enterprise is on request.

The former free plan has become a trial. Paid plans start with Basic at around 10 US dollars per user per month.

Sembly AI suits sales and international teams that want structured minutes, tasks and an AI chat across meetings, with Salesforce or HubSpot sync.

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