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The best EU-hosting story in meeting AI and an MCP server at €18 a seat, sold with an intrusive bot and transcription that gets shaky the moment someone has an accent.

PRICING

Prices are quoted natively in EUR on the vendor's own pricing page — no conversion applied. The page advertises up to 40% off for annual billing, so monthly seats cost materially more. Recording is capped at 3 hours per meeting on every tier including Enterprise.

checked 2026-08-07 · vendor pricing page

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Strengths

For an EU buyer this is the cleanest data story in the category: tldx Solutions GmbH in Aachen, data hosted and stored in the EU, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, no customer data used to train the AI, and a choice of EU or US AI hosting with privately hosted AI available at Enterprise. They also declined to ship sentiment analysis on purpose, citing the EU AI Act's emotion-recognition ban — a vendor turning down a feature for a regulatory reason is rare enough to be worth noting. On capability, the €18 Pro tier carries an MCP server, API and webhooks, which is better protocol support than tools at five times the price. Underneath it is Anthropic's Claude, documented in Anthropic's own case study, which reports 500% revenue growth and 50% faster summaries after the switch. The free tier is genuinely unlimited on recording, transcription and storage. Commercially the company is an outlier: €4.3M raised in a single 2022 seed round, profitable at 20-30% margins, and #3 in the Sifted 250 2025 on a 736.66% three-year revenue CAGR.

Honest dings

The bot is the problem everyone names. It joins calls it was not invited to, sometimes arrives late or not at all, and is awkward to remove mid-meeting — a consent failure in a product whose selling point is consent management. Bot-free recording exists but routes through Zapier workarounds rather than shipping natively. Transcription holds around 90% on clear audio and drops on accents, cross-talk and fast speakers, which is exactly the shape of a multilingual European meeting; reviewers report 20-30 minutes of cleanup on a one-hour transcript. Summaries name the topic and miss the commitment often enough that teams edit before sharing. And there is no eval surface at all, so you are trusting the summary rather than measuring it. Every meeting is capped at 3 hours on all tiers. Note that most published tl;dv criticism comes from competing notetaker vendors, so weight the pattern (bot, accents, paywalled export) rather than any single review.

Sources

Every audit lists the research it rests on — transparency and traceability are the product. Tools evolve: each audit is a snapshot of its audit date, and re-audits supersede older versions (kept below for reference).

• tldv.io/app/pricing — Official live pricing and feature matrix verified 07/08/2026: Free €0, Pro €18, Business €29 per seat billed annually, Enterprise custom; MCP server/API/webhooks from Pro; 3h recording cap all tiers; 30+ languages; retention up to 3 months on Free (accessed 2026-08-07)
• tldv.io/features/security-commitment — Official security page: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, hosted and stored in the EU, EU AI Act compliance claim, privately hosted AI on request, no customer data used to train the AI, choice of EU or US AI hosting, Anthropic named as the AI partner, Vanta trust report (accessed 2026-08-07)
• claude.com/customers/tldv — Anthropic's own case study (independent of tl;dv's marketing): Claude powers the platform; 500% revenue increase, 300% signup growth, 20-30% churn decrease, 50% faster summary generation; MEDDIC playbook monitoring across up to 30 meetings (accessed 2026-08-07)
• tldv.io — Official homepage: 2M+ users, G2 4.7 from 450 reviews, GDPR & SOC2 badges, no-bot-required claim, customer logos incl. Salesforce, Cloudflare, Deel, Roche; schema.org block gives legal entity tldx Solutions GmbH, VAT DE330894275 (accessed 2026-08-07)
• tldv.io/blog/top-european-ai-startups-tldv — Vendor-published but externally anchored: €4.3M single seed round (June 2022), 2M+ users, 21,000+ customers, eight-figure ARR, 20-30% profit margins, ~60 people, #3 in the Sifted 250 2025 with 736.66% three-year CAGR, built on Anthropic's Claude (accessed 2026-08-07)
• sifted.eu/leaderboards/sifted-250-2025 — Independent ranking underlying the growth claim, verified 07/08/2026: tl;dv at #3 with 736.66% revenue CAGR, €4.5m total funding, 30 employees. Sifted lists the HQ as Cologne; the company register, Tracxn, PitchBook and CB Insights all put tldx Solutions GmbH in Aachen, which is what this passport uses (accessed 2026-08-07)
• europeanstack.com/software/tldv — Independent EU-software directory: German vendor, data stored in Frankfurt, 2M+ users, backed by K Fund, Seedcamp and Mustard Seed Maze, 5,000+ integrations (accessed 2026-08-07)
• tracxn.com/d/companies/tldv/__PM-rlqNoAjpqedTJS9tA7… — Independent company database: founded 2020 in Aachen by Raphael Allstadt, Carlo Thissen and Allan Bettarel; single seed round 16/06/2022; 65 employees as of 30/06/2026 (accessed 2026-08-07)
• transkriptor.com/tldv-review — Competing vendor's review (weight the pattern, not the source): ~90% accuracy on clear audio, degradation on accents/cross-talk/fast speech, 20-30 minutes cleanup per hour of transcript, summaries that miss decisions, transcript export paywalled on Free (accessed 2026-08-07)
• happyscribe.com/blog/tldv-alternatives-for-ai-meeti… — Competing vendor's review, corroborating the same pattern independently: bot joins uninvited calls, inconsistent transcription quality, basic features behind paid tiers (accessed 2026-08-07)
• toolguide.io/en/tool/tldv — Independent (non-competitor) directory review: generous free plan, transcription works well in English, bot unreliable about joining and hard to remove afterwards (accessed 2026-08-07)
• tldv.io/blog/tldv-vs-meetgeek — Vendor comparison, used for one specific claim: tl;dv deliberately ships no sentiment analysis to stay clear of the EU AI Act's emotion-recognition ban, unlike competitors offering biometric sentiment scoring (accessed 2026-08-07)
• theaiagentindex.com/resources/guides/best-ai-meetin… — Independent category guide: positions tl;dv as EU-based revenue-intelligence meeting AI, rated 4.2, Pro from $18/user/month, distinct from general notetakers like Fireflies and Fathom (accessed 2026-08-07)