Best AI for meeting notes

As of 2026-07-18, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) is the strongest model for this task in our daily benchmark, where over 350 AI models are evaluated and the best are presented.

Minutes need to answer three things: what was decided, who does what, and by when. Models that are strong at free-form prose often fail exactly here — they produce a tidy summary without surfacing the decisions.

For meeting notes we rank by precision in following instructions, because the structure is the whole point. Ranked by instruction score, from today’s benchmark.

Top choice

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

anthropic

Score: 8.3/10

Language: 9.3/10

Speed: 131 t/s

$10.00

Runner-up

Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5

anthropic

Score: 8.0/10

Language: 9.3/10

Speed: 113 t/s

$1.00

Third choice

Mistral: Mistral Small 3

mistralai

Score: 7.8/10

Language: 8.7/10

Speed: 234 t/s

$0.05

Today’s ranking

Model	Provider	Score	Language	Speed	Input price/1M
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)	anthropic	8.3/10	9.3/10	131 t/s	$10.00
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5	anthropic	8.0/10	9.3/10	113 t/s	$1.00
Mistral: Mistral Small 3	mistralai	7.8/10	8.7/10	234 t/s	$0.05
Perplexity: Sonar Pro	perplexity	7.7/10	9.0/10	68 t/s	$3.00
Cohere: Command R+ (08-2024)	cohere	7.5/10	9.3/10	160 t/s	$2.50
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick	meta-llama	7.2/10	8.0/10	176 t/s	$0.20
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano	openai	7.1/10	8.0/10	157 t/s	$0.20
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro	openai	6.8/10	7.3/10	936 t/s	$5.00

Ask for decisions and actions separately

The most useful prompt splits the minutes into three fixed blocks: decisions, action items with owner and deadline, and open questions. Everything else is background. Without that structure you get minutes that read nicely and are useless to follow up.

Privacy in meeting notes

Meeting notes often contain names, assessments of employees and business information. That is personal data. Use a tool your employer has approved, and be especially careful with audio recordings — they require their own legal basis.

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Frequently asked questions

Can AI transcribe meetings?

Transcription needs a dedicated speech-to-text tool. The models ranked above work on the text afterwards: cleaning it up, structuring it and extracting decisions and actions.

Which model is best for minutes?

The ranking comes from today’s benchmark, where over 350 models are evaluated and the most precise are presented.

Is it legal to record meetings for AI minutes?

Recording conversations requires consent or another legal basis, and participants must be informed. Check your internal rules before recording.

How do I stop the minutes inventing things?

Ask the model to flag anything it cannot support from the notes instead of filling gaps itself. That reduces invented decisions considerably.