Otter.ai
AI-powered meeting transcription and automated note-taking for teams
Otter.ai is an AI-powered meeting assistant that automatically transcribes, summarises, and extracts action items from live meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. It supports real-time transcription, speaker identification, and AI chat features to interact with recorded content. The platform caters to individuals, teams, and enterprises with flexible pricing tiers and integrations with productivity tools.
How we scored it
A weighted average of the 4 dimensions below, each judged 0–10 from published pricing, vendor documentation and independent user feedback. We do not run hands-on tests, and no vendor has any say in a score.
2 further dimensions are not scored for this product yet, so they are left out of the average rather than counted as zero. How the score works.
What it actually costs
Intro pricing shown — see the renewal note for what you'll pay after the introductory term. We don't hide the second-act price.
Basic
Free forever; 300 monthly transcription minutes; 3 lifetime audio/video file imports; live transcription; speaker identification; AI Chat (limits shown elsewhere).
Pro
1200 in‑app recording minutes per user; 10 monthly audio/video file imports; up to 90 mins/meeting; unlimited storage; team vocabulary & taggable speakers; advanced search/export/playback.
Business
Unlimited meetings + in‑app recordings; unlimited audio/video file imports; meeting & imported file transcription monthly limit: 6,000 minutes per user; up to 4 hours/meeting; admin activity
What to check before you commit to Otter.ai
A tool is judged on what it costs once it is adopted, not what it costs to try. These are the four things that change that number.
The price once it is adopted
At $16.99 a seat, five people is $84.95 a month ($1019.40 a year) and ten is $169.90 ($2038.80 a year). Tools are bought one seat at a time and paid for by the dozen.
Where the usage ceiling sits
Credits, generations, exports and API calls are the lines that run out mid-month. Find what happens when you hit the cap — hard stop, throttle, or an overage rate you have not budgeted for.
What the free tier is really for
A free tier is an evaluation, not a plan. Check which limit you would hit first in real use, because that is the one that decides when you start paying.
Getting your work back out
Export formats decide how reversible this decision is. A tool that only exports to its own format costs more to leave than its price suggests.
These are the checks we apply across ai tools, in the same order, so two pages can be compared line for line.
How much does Otter.ai really cost?
Our calculation from the vendor's published prices — not a figure the vendor advertises.
The headline price is for one person. Adding people multiplies it, so a team of ten pays ten times the advertised figure. Pricing is charged per user (per license); cost scales linearly with number of licensed users. Some Enterprise items require minimums (e.g., SSO/SCIM: minimum 100-user license).
| Team size | Per month | Per year | Over 3 years | How it is charged |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $16.99 | $203.88 | $611.64 | $16.99 per seat per month |
| 5 people | $84.95 | $1,019.40 | $3,058.20 | $16.99 per seat per month |
| 10 people | $169.90 | $2,038.80 | $6,116.40 | $16.99 per seat per month |
| 50 people | $849.50 | $10,194 | $30,582 | $16.99 per seat per month |
Based on the Pro plan at $16.99 a month. Three years at the published annual price. No renewal increase is published.
- The vendor does not publish a renewal price, so three-year totals assume today's price holds.
Work out your own cost
- $16.99 per seat per month.
- Billed annually at $8.33 per month equivalent.
Otter.ai against the field
The highest-scoring alternatives in the same category, compared on the figures we hold for all of them.
| Otter.aiThis page | ChatGPT | Grammarly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ReviewCost score | 7.5/10 | 8.3/10 | 8.3/10 |
| Cheapest plan | Basic | — | — |
| From | — | — | — |
| Renews at | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Biggest strength | Strong transcription accuracy in quiet, one-on-one settings with solid speaker identification | Breadth of capabilities: text, code, images, voice, web browsing, file analysis, and agentic task execution in one interface | Real-time detection across 400+ grammar and spelling rule types with multi-language support |
| Biggest drawback | Accuracy degrades significantly with multiple speakers, background noise, or cross-talk; speaker mislabelling common in group calls | Free and Go tiers now include ads in US and EU markets; conversation data used for training by default (manual opt-out required) | 150% price markup for month-to-month billing ($30) vs annual ($12/month); surprise auto-renewal charges when free trial lapses without cancellation |
Prices are the published figures at the time of writing and change often. Renewal pricing is shown where the vendor publishes it. See how we review.
What people ask about Otter.ai
Straight answers to what buyers actually ask, drawn from the documentation and published user reports.
Is Otter.ai worth it in 2026?
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Page history
- Published
- 13 September 2026
- Last updated
- 1 October 2026
- Pricing checked against vendor
- 1 October 2026
Sources & verification
Pricing on this page was taken from the vendor's published pricing page on 1 October 2026.
- Pricing | Otter.aiOfficial pricing page · Otter.ai · read 1 October 2026