Claude Meetings: Google Meet Beta, Who Gets It, What's Free

November 13, 2026. Claude Meetings is Anthropic's new beta that puts Claude into a Google Meet call as a visible participant. It takes notes, answers questions and builds docs or whiteboards while the team talks. It is rolling out only on Claude Team and Enterprise plans, and Anthropic says notes, transcripts and in-call answers that do not use connected tools are free during the beta, with in-meeting docs and whiteboards free through February 10, 2027.

Anthropic first announced the feature on Tuesday, November 10, according to Axios, and published its product post on November 12. Below is what it does, who can turn it on, what it costs and one default that admins should check.

What Anthropic launched

1. Claude joins the call. Anthropic says Claude "can now join your video calls as a visible participant, follow the conversation and start on work during the meeting." It appears in the participant list and posts a notice in the call chat.
2. Google Meet first. "Support is currently available for Google Meet, with other platforms coming soon." Anthropic has not given a date for Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
3. Ask out loud or in chat. The Help Center guide says to say "Claude" and then the question, or type it in the Meet chat. By default Claude answers in writing.
4. Builds while you talk. Saying "Claude, make a doc" or "Claude, make a whiteboard" starts an artifact that teammates on the invite can edit during the call.
5. Uses connected tools with permission. Claude uses each person's connected tools, such as Slack, with that person's permission. It asks the first time, and a yes applies going forward.
6. A meeting page afterward. Notes, action items, the transcript and anything Claude built sit on a meeting page in Claude, and people from your organization on the invite get a recap email.
7. Partners coming. Anthropic says it is working with Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter and Plaud so teams will soon be able to send a meeting's transcript to those tools.

Who can use Claude Meetings

The beta covers Team and Enterprise plans only, so Free, Pro and Max users do not get it. On Team plans it is on by default and an owner can turn it off. On Enterprise plans it is off by default, and an owner turns it on for everyone or for custom roles in Organization settings, Products, Claude Meetings (beta).

During the beta it is not available to organizations with zero data retention (ZDR), HIPAA-ready configuration or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). Axios reports Anthropic tested it internally for about two months before launch.

What Claude Meetings costs

There is no separate price. You pay for the plan, and Anthropic's pricing terms for the beta decide what counts toward usage.

Seat prices are from Anthropic's pricing page on November 13. Team is for 2 to 150 people. On our arithmetic, a 10 person team on standard seats pays $2,400 a year billed annually or $3,000 billed monthly. The smallest Enterprise contract is 20 seats, or $4,800 a year before usage. VentureBeat notes that Anthropic has not said what in-meeting docs and whiteboards will cost after February 10, which is 90 days after the November 12 post.

How to add Claude to a Google Meet call

1. Open Meetings in Claude.
2. Connect Google Calendar. An owner must enable Google Calendar for the organization first.
3. Pick a meeting on your calendar and click "Add Claude."
4. Optional: turn on auto-join in Settings, Capabilities, Meetings, for all meetings or all except one-on-ones. Owners cannot set auto-join for you.

Claude can stay for up to eight hours and warns you before it leaves. To pause it, ask it to stop listening or use the meeting page; to end its visit, ask it to leave.

The outside guest default to check

Anthropic's product post says that by default Claude stays out of calls when someone from outside your organization is invited, and leaves if an outsider joins partway through. The Help Center gives a different default by plan: on Enterprise, meetings are internal only until an owner allows guests, but on Team plans "Claude can join calls with outside guests by default." When guests are allowed, Claude takes notes but does not reply in the call chat, and what guests say goes into the notes and transcript.

So if you run sales or client calls on a Team plan, check Organization settings before reps turn on auto-join. Anthropic also says Claude saves a transcript, summary and screen descriptions, not audio, and asks teams to make sure everyone on a call is OK with being transcribed. Recording consent rules vary by state and country. This is general information, not legal advice.

What it means for small teams

If your team already pays for Claude Team and meets on Google Meet, you can test this at no added cost until February 10. Try it on internal planning calls first, where the default rules are simplest, and see whether the action items it writes are ones you would keep. VentureBeat points out that Google Meet already offers Gemini note-taking on eligible plans, so compare the two on the same meeting before you pay for a third note-taker.

The value grows when notes turn into work: a follow-up email, a CRM update, a task in your project tool. That is the part most teams still wire up by hand. Our AI automation team can help wire up those handoffs, and our guide to sales automation software covers where call notes should land. For the other new Claude tools from the same week, see our Claude Sheets brief and Claude Team pricing guide. If you want Claude and other assistants to describe your business correctly when buyers research you, our AI search optimization work is aimed at that.