Bridge vs Zoho Meeting: large free calls or AI notes on every meeting?

The short answer

Bridge publishes this comparison. It compares both products' public documentation and pricing pages, not hands-on testing.

Zoho Meeting is a video meeting and webinar platform from Zoho. Bridge is a meeting workspace: you host meetings on Bridge or capture them on other platforms, and get notes, a transcript and AI around each one.

Choose Zoho Meeting if your free calls regularly have more than 5 people. Its free plan allows up to 100.
Choose Zoho Meeting if some attendees join by phone, or if you already run other Zoho apps.
Choose Bridge if you want a speaker-labeled transcript, AI notes and a recording on the free plan.
Choose Bridge if you also meet on Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams and want every call's notes in one place.

Plans and limits side by side

Bridge charges per user per month on its paid plans. Zoho Meeting prices its paid plans by participant tier, from 10 to 250 participants, with monthly or yearly billing. Its pricing page lists the price for each tier.

	Bridge	Zoho Meeting
Free plan	Starter: 5 participants, 60 minutes per meeting	Free: up to 100 participants, up to 60 minutes per meeting
Paid plans	Professional, $20 per user: 25 participants, 8 hours. Business, $30 per user: 200 participants, 24 hours	Standard and Professional, each sold in tiers from 10 to 250 participants, with meetings up to 24 hours
Free trial	14-day Professional trial, no credit card	14-day trial, no credit card
Recording	Recording on every plan	Cloud recording from Standard, 5 GB per host, downloadable as MP4
Transcripts	Live and saved speaker-labeled transcript on every plan; export on paid plans	Recording transcripts on Professional
AI notes	Summary, decisions and action items after every meeting	AI-generated keynotes: transcripts and key highlights of past recordings, on Professional

During the call

Both run in the browser, so guests can join without installing anything. Zoho Meeting also has mobile apps. Bridge runs in any browser, including mobile web, and has a desktop app for Apple Silicon Macs.

Zoho Meeting focuses on running the session. Its feature page lists a whiteboard, live polls, moderator controls, lock meeting, co-hosts and breakout rooms. It also lists AI-powered real-time transcription.

Bridge adds AI to the call itself. A live transcript appears in the Conversation panel on every plan. On paid plans, artifacts build structured notes as people talk, and agents and the Bridge Assistant can join Bridge-hosted meetings as voice participants.

After the call

This is where the two differ most. Every Bridge meeting ends with structured notes: a summary, decisions and action items. You also get the speaker-labeled transcript and the recording under Meetings → Past.

On paid Bridge plans you can export the transcript as PDF, Word or Markdown, and send action items to connected apps, such as a Notion database.

Zoho Meeting stores recordings in the Zoho cloud, where you can stream, share or download them. Recording transcripts and AI keynotes are part of its Professional plan.

When Zoho Meeting is the right pick

Large free meetings. Zoho Meeting's free plan allows up to 100 participants. Bridge Starter allows 5.
Phone access. On paid plans, attendees can join by phone. Zoho lists over 100 local dial-in numbers, plus toll-free numbers in over 55 countries as an add-on.
Webinars. Zoho sells Zoho Webinar for one-to-many sessions. Bridge is built for meetings, not broadcasts.
Session tools. Breakout rooms, live polls and a built-in whiteboard are listed on Zoho's plans.
Zoho customers. If your team already works in Zoho apps, Zoho Meeting sits in the same suite.

When Bridge is the right pick

Notes on every plan. Starter includes a speaker-labeled transcript, AI notes and recording for every meeting.
AI during the call. Live transcription works on every plan. On paid plans, artifacts build notes as people talk and agents can join as voice participants.
Meetings on other platforms. Bridge Agent can join Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls, so those notes land next to your Bridge meetings.
Follow-up. Action items come with every meeting. On paid plans, connected apps and automatic briefs before the next meeting keep work moving.

If you keep Zoho Meeting

Bridge capture supports Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Huddles, WebEx and GoTo Meeting, not Zoho Meeting. You can still bring Zoho meetings into Bridge after the call.

Download the recording as an MP4 from Zoho, then upload it in Bridge. Uploading audio or video needs a paid Bridge plan. The meeting then sits in your inbox with your other conversations.

How to decide in a week

List your three most common meetings and the largest number of people in each.
Check whether anyone joins by phone today.
Run one real meeting on each platform with the same people.
Compare what you have an hour later: the recording, the transcript and a list of who owns which next step.

Sources & further reading

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