Last updated: November 13, 2026
Claude Meetings is a beta feature from Anthropic, released November 12, 2026, that adds Claude to Google Meet calls as a visible participant. Claude takes notes and action items, answers questions, uses your connected tools with permission, and builds docs and whiteboards live. It is rolling out on Team and Enterprise plans.
Contents
- What Claude Meetings does
- Plans, platforms and exclusions
- How to add Claude to a call
- Working with Claude during the call
- Admin controls and outside guests
- Pricing during the beta
- Claude Meetings vs. Gemini “Take notes for me”
- Limitations
- Frequently asked questions
What Claude Meetings does
According to Anthropic’s launch post, Claude joins the call as a participant, follows the conversation and starts work during the meeting. The main capabilities are:
- Notes and action items: Claude writes the notes, a summary and action items, so no one on the call has to.
- Live answers: anyone can ask Claude a question out loud or in the Meet chat. By default, Claude answers in writing in the chat.
- Live artifacts: Claude can build docs, whiteboards, slides and other artifacts while teammates on the invite edit them.
- Connected tools: Claude can use your connected tools during the call, such as sending a Slack message, with each person’s permission.
- Meeting pages: each meeting gets its own page in claude.ai with the notes, transcript and everything Claude built.
Anthropic says transcript export to partners such as Gong, Granola, Fireflies.ai and Otter is coming soon.
Plans, platforms and exclusions
The Claude release notes for November 12, 2026 confirm that Claude Meetings is rolling out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans in Claude and Claude Desktop. The Help Center article adds these details:
| Item | Claude Meetings beta |
|---|---|
| Release | Beta, rolling out from November 12, 2026 |
| Plans | Team and Enterprise |
| Apps | Claude (web) and Claude Desktop |
| Video platform | Google Meet only; other platforms “coming soon” |
| Calendar | Google Calendar, which an owner must enable first |
| Default on Team plans | On; an owner can turn it off |
| Default on Enterprise plans | Off until an owner turns it on for all or part of the organization |
| Not available to | Organizations with zero data retention (ZDR), HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) |
| Maximum time in a call | Up to eight hours, with a warning before Claude leaves |
How to add Claude to a call
Anthropic advises that before you add Claude or turn on auto-join, you make sure everyone on the call is fine with being transcribed. Then follow these steps from the Help Center:
- Open Meetings in Claude.
- Connect your Google Calendar. An owner must enable Google Calendar for your organization first.
- Select a meeting on your calendar.
- Click Add Claude.
- Optional: turn on auto-join in Settings > Capabilities > Meetings > Auto-join. You can choose all meetings or all meetings except one-on-ones.
Owners cannot set auto-join for you. If Claude asks to join, the host can let it in; if the host declines, Claude does not retry unless someone adds it again.
Working with Claude during the call
Documented commands and controls:
- Ask a question: say “Claude” and then your question, or type it in the Meet chat.
- Build an artifact: say “Claude, make a doc” or “Claude, make a whiteboard.” Anyone on your team can ask, and all artifact types are supported.
- Pause: ask Claude to stop listening, or use the meeting page. You resume from the meeting page.
- Remove: ask Claude to leave, or select Remove Claude on the meeting page. If you add it again, it returns to the same page.
- Meeting page: open the link Claude posts in the Meet chat for the live transcript, an internal chat and its artifacts.
Claude asks permission the first time it uses a person’s connected tools, and a yes applies going forward. For spoken requests, it currently confirms who is speaking each time.
After the call, internal invitees get a recap email linking to the meeting page. Whiteboards are covered in our Claude Sheets and Whiteboards guide.
Admin controls and outside guests
Owners and Primary Owners manage the feature in Organization settings > Products > Claude Meetings (beta). There are three switches:
- Claude Meetings: off (Enterprise default), on for roles that include Meetings, or on for everyone (Team default).
- Meetings with external guests: internal meetings only (Enterprise default) or allowed (Team default).
- Members’ connectors in meetings: controls whether Claude can use members’ connected tools during meetings.
When outside guests are not allowed, Claude stays out of calls with outside invitees and leaves if an outsider, including another company’s notetaker bot, joins partway through. When they are allowed, Claude takes notes but does not reply in the call chat, guests’ speech is transcribed, and guests do not get the meeting page or recap email.
Team owners should review these defaults. The launch post and Help Center describe the outside-guest default differently, so check the setting directly.
Pricing during the beta
There is no separate price. Per the Help Center:
- Notes, transcripts and answers that do not use connected tools are included on Team and Enterprise plans.
- Docs and whiteboards made in a meeting are free through February 10, 2027.
- Using connected tools counts toward your own usage and can lead to charges for your organization.
Claude Meetings vs. Gemini “Take notes for me”
Google Meet already offers Gemini note-taking through “Take notes for me”. The two overlap on notes but differ on live work:
| Feature | Claude Meetings (beta) | Gemini “Take notes for me” |
|---|---|---|
| Plans | Claude Team and Enterprise | Eligible Google Workspace edition or Google AI plan |
| How it appears | Visible participant with its own tile | Built into Meet; a pencil icon shows notes are on |
| Where notes go | Meeting page in claude.ai, plus recap email | Google Doc in the organizer’s Drive, attached to the Calendar event |
| Live questions | Yes, spoken or in chat | “Summary so far” for late joiners |
| Live artifacts and tool actions | Docs, whiteboards, slides; connected tools with permission | Not described on the help page |
| Recommended length | Up to eight hours | 15 minutes to 8 hours |
If you only need notes in Google Docs, Gemini may already be in your Workspace plan. Claude Meetings suits teams that want work done during the call. See also our Grok Bot 1.0 and Copilot Workspaces guides.
Power-user workflows
- Planning calls: have Claude start a doc early so teammates can edit it as you talk.
- Data checks: ask a question that needs a connected tool, approve the lookup, and have Claude compare the result with the plan.
- Recaps: ask Claude to share a recap before the call ends, then ask about the meeting later in a regular chat.
- Connected apps: pair Meetings with interactive connectors and the unified Claude desktop app to keep follow-up work in one place.
Limitations
- Google Meet is the only supported platform for now.
- Spoken requests that use tools require a speaker confirmation each time.
- Answers in the Meet chat are visible to everyone on the call; the meeting-page chat stays internal.
- Anthropic’s pages do not state transcript retention periods or when the beta ends.
Frequently asked questions
What is Claude Meetings?
Claude Meetings is an Anthropic beta, released November 12, 2026, that adds Claude to Google Meet calls as a visible participant that takes notes, answers questions and builds docs, whiteboards and slides during the call.
Which plans include Claude Meetings?
Team and Enterprise plans, in Claude and Claude Desktop. It is on by default for Team plans and off for Enterprise plans until an owner turns it on. ZDR, HIPAA-ready and CMEK organizations are excluded during the beta.
Does Claude Meetings work with Zoom or Microsoft Teams?
Not yet. Only Google Meet is supported. Anthropic says other video platforms are coming soon but has not named them or given a date.
How much does Claude Meetings cost?
Notes, transcripts and answers without connected tools are included on Team and Enterprise plans. Docs and whiteboards made in meetings are free through February 10, 2027. Connected-tool use counts toward your usage.
Does Claude Meetings record audio?
No. Anthropic says Claude saves a transcript, summary and screen descriptions, not audio, and posts a notice in the call chat when it joins.
Sources
- Introducing Claude Meetings (Anthropic)
- Use Claude Meetings (Claude Help Center)
- Claude release notes (Claude Help Center)
- “Take notes for me” in Google Meet (Google Meet Help)