This is the difference. A commercial recorder locks you to its cloud. Nightjar lets you point transcription and summaries at whatever you want.
Transcription and summarisation each target a provider you choose in configuration. Use a fully local model for maximum privacy, an open-standard endpoint, or a commercial API for the best quality. There is no lock-in, and you can switch at any time. Self-hosted or not, it is your choice and your data.
Each provider is a few lines of configuration on the server: a provider name, a base URL, an API key and a model. Almost every provider speaks the same OpenAI-compatible protocol, so a single setting covers most of the ecosystem. Anthropic Claude has its own dedicated integration. Pick a provider, drop in the details, and Nightjar does the rest.