Is InterMIND free for meeting participants?

Short answer: yes — for every participant. If someone invites you to an InterMIND meeting, everything on your side is free: joining, speaking and reading in your own language, receiving translated documents — and, with a free account, the recap afterwards. Whether you have an InterMIND account or not changes what you can keep after the call — it never changes the price, which for a participant is zero either way.

This page exists because "free" on a landing page is usually followed by an asterisk. Here is the whole asterisk, spelled out.

The model: one plan per room, not one plan per person

InterMIND is priced like a room, not like a seat at the table. The host's team has a plan. Everyone the host invites just joins.

That split is structural, not promotional:

• The host is the only person with a billing relationship — and only on paid plans. A host on the free Basic plan pays nothing either; paid plans exist for teams that need more than Basic's limits.
• Participants draw on the host's plan. When a participant reads chat in their own language or receives a translated document, that usage counts against the host's plan limits — never against the participant.
• Participants have no billing surface at all. There is no paywall, no upgrade prompt, and no card form on the participant's path — with an account or without one.

If you have ever set up a multilingual call on a per-seat product, this is the difference to notice: you don't need every participant licensed or provisioned. You need one plan — the host's. Inside the host's own team the seat is going away too: paid plans move to per-active-member billing, where each renewal counts only the members who were active in the previous 28 days — see Pay only for the people who use it.

What every participant gets, free

Any participant in an InterMIND meeting — invited by link, at no cost:

• hears and reads the meeting in their own language — live, whatever language each other participant is speaking or typing;
• speaks and writes in their own language, and every other participant gets it in theirs;
• receives shared documents translated into their language, when the host's plan includes document translation.

You pick a language once, at the door. Nothing else to configure, nothing to pay.

With an account or without one — what actually differs

You can join a meeting without signing up at all: click the link, enter a name, pick a language. InterMIND calls that joining as a guest, and it exists so that a first-time invitee is never blocked at the door. To be precise about what it is: a guest is simply a participant who isn't signed in — nothing more.

The difference shows up after the call, because everything InterMIND produces from a meeting needs somewhere to be delivered:

• Signed-in participants get the recap in their own language, the links to the recording and meeting artifacts, and the meeting's chat history in the channel — readable in their language, for as long as the channel lives.
• Guests get none of that on their own. A guest identity is temporary by design — it is deleted within about 24 hours (which is also a privacy feature: nothing about a guest is retained unless the guest leaves an email for the host from the exit screen — that request stays with the meeting). There is no account to deliver a recap to, so the meeting ends and nothing follows. The recap, transcript and recording stay with the host's account and its members, and the chat of an ad-hoc call is wiped for everyone when the call ends, host included.

When the call ends, the exit screen says plainly what this session leaves behind and offers two ways to keep it. Keep this meeting creates a free account — no card — and opens that one session's recap in your language once it is ready, a few minutes after the call; nothing else of the meeting. Ask the host to add me sends the host your email address; if the host adds you, an email invite follows, and accepting it with a free account makes you a member of that meeting from then on: its next sessions and their recaps reach you in your language, and in a channel the chat and files too. Neither happens on its own — a guest who closes the screen keeps nothing. Guest mode is for joining a call by link, right now, with nothing to set up — what it doesn't give you is anything after the call.

Where the limits actually live

Every limit in InterMIND belongs to the host's plan — the full row-by-row breakdown is on the pricing page, but the shape is:

• Basic (free plan): free forever for the host too — multilingual meetings with chat translation capped at 10,000 words per rolling 30-day window; document translation not included.
• Paid plans: lift the chat-translation cap and add document translation as a metered feature — counted in distinct files over a rolling 30-day window (10 on Pro, 30 on Business, 100 on Enterprise).

None of these numbers are a participant's problem. They bound what the room can do; participants simply use whatever the room provides.

Why we price it this way

A multilingual meeting only works if everyone is in it. The moment the other side of the call has to pay or get provisioned, half of your invitees show up untranslated — and the meeting quietly falls back to whatever language dominates. Making participation free is not generosity; it is the only configuration in which the product does what it promises.

Try it first

• How to see who uses your translation minutes and storage — the meters, per host, and the email before the limit.
• How to join a video meeting from your computer — the link, the pre-join screen, joining as a guest, your language.
• Try the live demo — join a real translated meeting from your browser, no signup needed.
• See every limit side by side — the full plan comparison, row by row.

FAQ

Do meeting participants need an InterMIND account? Not to join — a link is enough. After the meeting, the recap, transcript and recording stay with the host's account and its members. A guest can keep that session from the exit screen with a free account, or ask the host to add them; without either, the meeting ends and nothing follows.

Who pays for the translation in a meeting? The host's team plan covers the room. Participant usage — translated voice, chat, documents — draws on the host's plan limits. Participants themselves have no billing relationship with InterMIND at all, and a host on the free Basic plan pays nothing either.

Is there a free plan for hosts too? Yes. The Basic plan is free and includes multilingual meetings with chat translation capped at 10,000 words per rolling 30-day window. Document translation starts on paid plans. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.

What does a guest miss compared to a signed-in participant? Inside the meeting — nothing: translation of voice, chat, and documents works the same. After the meeting — the recap, transcript, recording and the meeting's history, which stay with the host's account and its members; guest identities are deleted within about 24 hours. The exit screen offers to keep that one session with a free account, or to ask the host to add you.

Do participants need to install an app? No — joining from a desktop or mobile browser works with just the link. Native mobile apps for iOS and Android exist for people who prefer them, but they are optional.

Can a participant be charged by accident? No. There is no payment surface on the participant path — no card form, no upgrade prompt, no paywall. Billing exists only inside the host team's settings.