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Prices last checked 5 October 2026

Last checked 5 October 2026

Otter.ai: Pricing, Features & Alternatives (2026)

Your AI notetaker is now also your Conversational Knowledge Engine

Overview

Otter records Zoom, Meet, and Teams meetings, transcribes them live, and writes summaries and action items. It can also record from the desktop without a bot, and it can answer questions across meetings. Paid plans add CRM sync and longer meetings.

otter.ai

Pricing

Pricing from
Free, then $8.49/user/mo
Price model
Subscription
Free tier
Yes
Trial
No

otter.ai/pricing lists Basic as free with 300 monthly transcription minutes, 3 lifetime file imports, and Zoom, Meet, and Teams. Pro is $16.99 per user per month, with a first-time subscriber price of $8.49 marked with an asterisk, 1,200 in-app recording minutes, and meetings up to 90 minutes. A medium-team tier showed $30 and $24, with unlimited meetings and meetings up to 4 hours. Enterprise is custom. The FAQ lists a student and teacher price of $6.67 per month billed at $79.99 annually, or $13.59 monthly. The asterisk note says the offer is for first-time subscribers only. Last checked 5 October 2026.

Features

  • It can carry a stretch of the work, then wait. A person still approves anything that leaves the building.
  • Integrations: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier, Google Drive.
  • Not sold as one named foundation model on the pages we opened.

Autonomy: Semi-autonomous. Team size: Solo, Small team, Mid-market.

Pros

  • Free tier available. Starting price: Free, then $8.49/user/mo.
  • Connects to Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack.
  • Teams that want a free meeting transcription tier and a searchable archive of calls.

Cons

  • We did not open a trust report for this product. Read the vendor's current security page before you send customer, candidate, or client data.

What users say

People who keep Otter want the searchable transcript and the history of past meetings.

The bot is the complaint. Commenters say clients react badly when Otter joins, and that speaker labels get worse on large calls.

  • “Otter is still one of the strongest for searchable transcripts and meeting history.”
    Reddit
  • “Otter works but the speaker identification used to frustrate me on larger calls.”
    Reddit

Who it is for

Teams that want a free meeting transcription tier and a searchable archive of calls.

Alternatives

Other products that appear in the same categories.

  • AvomaFrom $19/recorder seat/mo billed annually
  • FathomFree, then $15/user/mo billed annually
  • Fireflies.aiFree, then $10/user/mo billed annually
  • GranolaFree, then $14/user/mo
  • KrispFrom $8/user/mo billed annually

Top Otter.ai alternatives

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