Short answer: Recall has a Free plan with 10 AI summaries a month, Plus at $10 a month billed yearly, and Max at $38 a month billed yearly. Plus adds unlimited summaries and AI chat across what you saved. Max adds your choice of AI model, bulk actions and onboarding. Recall organizes what you save from the web. It does not take your own client files and answer in your voice.
Recall (recall.it) is a read-later and knowledge tool. You save YouTube videos, podcasts, articles and PDFs, and it summarizes them, tags them and lets you chat with the pile. The pricing is simple, but the yearly billing hides what you pay if you want to stay month to month. Below is each plan, the real cost over a year and three years, and the point where a different kind of tool is the better purchase.
Recall pricing by plan
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 10 AI summaries a month, unlimited saved content and notes, knowledge graph, API and MCP access |
| Plus | From $10 a month, billed yearly | Unlimited AI summaries, smart tags, AI chat with your knowledge or the web, listen mode, quizzes, bulk import |
| Max | From $38 a month, billed yearly | Everything in Plus, choice of ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini models, bulk AI actions on up to 100 items, 1:1 onboarding |
These are the figures on Recall's own pricing page. The page shows a monthly and a yearly toggle and advertises about 20 percent off for yearly billing. The prices quoted above are the yearly-billed rates, so the monthly rate is higher. Recall's page does not list the exact monthly figure in the text I could read, so check the toggle before you pay. A 30 day refund is offered, and students can email support for 20 percent off.
What Recall costs over a year and three years
| Plan (yearly billing) | One year | Three years |
|---|---|---|
| Plus at $10 a month | $120 | $360 |
| Max at $38 a month | $456 | $1,368 |
Plus is the plan most people mean. Max is for people who run Recall at high volume and want to pick the model for each task. If you only want Recall to summarize the occasional video, Free may be enough, but the ten summaries disappear fast.
Which Recall plan to buy
- Free if you save content mostly to read later and summarize a handful of items a month.
- Plus if you want unlimited summaries and want to ask questions across everything you saved, including the open web.
- Max if you bulk process large libraries or need to choose the underlying model yourself.
What Recall is built for, and what it is not
Recall is strongest on public content: videos, podcasts and articles you found online. That is a research habit, and it is a good one. The gap shows up when the material you bill for is your own. Client reports, proposals, call notes and years of your own writing are private documents. They do not fit a read-later workflow, and a tool tuned for summarizing other people's content will not reply in your wording. For that job a document-grounded tool is the better buy. MentalClone as an AI second brain reads your uploaded files and answers from them with sources, so you can ask a question and get the paragraph behind it. If you want it to draft replies that sound like you, see the digital twin built from your own writing. Starter is $288 a year with unlimited documents and messages, which is more than Recall Plus and a different category of product.
Recall or a document tool
| You mainly want to | Better fit |
|---|---|
| Summarize YouTube videos and podcasts you found | Recall |
| Keep a read-later library with a knowledge graph | Recall |
| Ask questions across your own client files and notes | A document tool such as MentalClone |
| Draft answers in your own voice from what you wrote | A digital twin tool |
If you are comparing other tools in this space, we priced mymind and Readwise the same way, and the Capacities alternative page covers the notes side.
The cost the price does not show
The subscription is small next to the hours it replaces or fails to replace. If you spend an hour a week hunting through your own files for something you already wrote, that hour at a consulting rate costs more per year than Max. The other direction matters too. If an audience, not you, needs answers from what you have published, a chatbot trained on your own website content answers them on your site while you work. Decide who is asking before you pick the plan.
Recall pricing questions
How much is Recall per month?
Recall Plus starts at $10 a month billed yearly and Max at $38 a month billed yearly. The Free plan costs nothing and includes 10 AI summaries a month. Monthly billing costs more, so confirm the figure on the pricing toggle.
Is Recall free?
Yes, Recall has a Free plan with unlimited saved content and notes, plus 10 AI summaries a month. AI chat and unlimited summaries need Plus. No credit card is required for Free.
What is the difference between Recall Plus and Max?
Plus gives unlimited summaries and AI chat. Max adds a choice of ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini models, bulk AI actions on up to 100 items and onboarding with the founding team. Max costs $38 a month billed yearly against $10 for Plus.
Does Recall have a refund or student discount?
Recall states a refund within the first 30 days if you are not satisfied. Students can email support from a student address for a 20 percent discount, according to the pricing page.
Can Recall answer questions about my own documents?
Recall chats with content you saved to it. For answers drawn from your own contracts, reports and notes with sources, use a tool built for that, such as MentalClone.