Scheduling and meetings

Wudpecker alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

Vexa-ai/vexa2,660Apache-2.0Self-hostable meeting transcription service with auto-join bots and real-time WebSocket transcripts for major meeting platforms.Open on GitHub Zackriya-Solutions/meetily28,413MITPrivacy-first, self-hosted AI meeting assistant that transcribes, diarizes, and summarizes meetings locally.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Polished cross-platform UI and mobile/desktop apps
Refined product integrations and ongoing beta feature rollouts
EU-hosted managed infrastructure and vendor security operations
Operational reliability, scaling, and monitoring the vendor provides
Ongoing model tuning and proprietary prompt engineering

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Wudpecker, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.