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Gong is the enterprise revenue-intelligence standard: deal boards, forecasting, org-wide coaching. It’s also an enterprise purchase - no public price, no free tier, a mandatory platform fee, and multi-year contracts. Raven doesn’t pretend to be a RevOps platform. It’s the answer to a different question: can I get live help and honest call insight as an individual, without a five-figure contract? Yes - free, open source, and local.

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At a glance

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Price

Gong doesn’t publish pricing. Third-party buyer data puts the Foundations tier around $1,300-$1,920 per seat per year, on top of a mandatory platform fee of $5,000-$50,000/year and one-time onboarding (often $7,500+). Effective cost lands near $2,100+/seat/year, on 2-3 year contracts, with no free tier. Raven is free; you pay your own AI/transcription usage (a few dollars a month) - no contract, no platform fee.

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What Gong does better (honestly)

  • Enterprise revenue intelligence: pipeline/deal analytics, forecasting, org-wide coaching and analytics at team scale.
  • A mature platform with deep CRM and enterprise controls.
If you’re equipping a sales org with revenue intelligence and forecasting, Gong is a category leader - Raven is not a replacement for that deployment, and won’t pretend to be.

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When Raven wins

  • You’re an individual or small team who wants live help + private notes + talk ratio without a five-figure annual contract.
  • You want meetings kept local, no bot, and a tool you can audit.
  • You want it free - conversation intelligence without the enterprise procurement.

Download Raven

Free, open source, Mac + Windows. Bring your own keys.

Compare the field

Raven vs the whole category, honestly ranked.
Gong does not publish pricing; figures are third-party buyer-data estimates verified August 2026 (Vendr and others). Confirm any number directly.