What it costs to run
The device plus two years of the cheapest plan that covers 20 hours of recording a month.
- Comulytic Note Pro $109.69
- HiDock P1 mini $119
- Pocket $129
- …the dearest with every figure: BOYA Notra Neo $511.75
AI pendants and voice recorders, compared
The price on the box is the smallest part.
An AI recorder is a device plus a subscription plus a company that keeps your recordings, and stores and review sites show you only the device. RecorderCompare lines up 35 devices from 17 brands on the four things that decide what you are buying: what it costs to run, what the company does with your recordings, whether it is still sold and supported, and whether you can build on it. Every figure links to the brand's own page.
35 AI recorders 17 brands 2 discontinued, kept on file
What happens to your recordings
15 of 35 devices come from companies whose policy says recordings are not used to train their AI without your consent; the rest say nothing, or something narrower. Quoted, never paraphrased into a verdict.
AI training, storage, HIPAA, certifications →Still sold and supported?
Limitless Pendant (now owned by Meta); Bee Pioneer is no longer sold. Companies in this category get bought and shut down; each product page says who owns it and whether its app and cloud are still running.
Discontinued devices →Can you build on it?
3 devices have a device SDK and 15 an API for your own recordings; the rest are closed. Open source, MCP servers and audio export are listed too.
SDKs, APIs and open source →Popular head-to-heads
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Plaud Note vs TicNote AI Voice Recorder
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HiDock P1 vs Plaud Note
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Plaud Note vs soundcore Work
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Fieldy vs Pocket
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Bee Frontier vs Fieldy
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Fieldy vs Plaud Note
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Limitless Pendant vs Plaud Note
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Limitless Pendant vs Plaud NotePin
Every head-to-head → · Find a recorder by what matters to you →
Brands
| Brand | Devices | # |
|---|---|---|
| TicNote | AI Voice Recorder · Pods · Watch | 5 |
| Bee | Frontier · Eclipse | 2 |
| Omi | Pendant | 3 |
| Plaud | Note · NotePin · One | 5 |
| Soundcore | Work | 2 |
| 1 | ||
| Fieldy | Fieldy | 1 |
| Pebble | Index | 1 |
| Vibe | Dot | 1 |
| Sandbar | Stream | 1 |
| SwitchBot | AI MindClip | 1 |
| HiDock | P1 · H1 | 5 |
| iFLYTEK | AI Recorder | 2 |
| BOYA | Notra | 2 |
| UMEVO | Note | 2 |
| Comu | Action Pro · Note Pro | 2 |
| Notta | Memo | 1 |
Not listed above because they're no longer sold new: Limitless Pendant, Bee Pioneer. Legacy & discontinued →
How complete is this?
The catalog is honest about its gaps rather than filling them in with guesses. Every product page shows where its numbers came from.
- 24% confirmed: model number and every figure read from a brand or store page (28 partly inferred, 0 with a value not yet re-checked)
- 76% have a price recorded