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Otter.ai

Joins your meetings, transcribes them live, and writes the summary and action items.

Our ruling

Most reliable at the part that matters: turning up to the meeting and producing notes you can act on.

Wrong forTeams needing deep CRM and pipeline integration.

Best for
Automatic meeting notes and action items
Pricing
Free · from $17/mo

Verified facts

Free tier
Basic plan, $0/mo: 300 transcription minutes/month, 30-minute cap per conversation, live transcription, AI Chat, speaker identification, Zoom/Teams/Meet integrations, and a lifetime limit of 3 imported audio/video files
Entry paid plan
Pro plan, $16.99/mo billed monthly ($8.33/mo, about $99.96/yr, billed annually), unlocks 1,200 transcription minutes/month, a 90-minute per-conversation cap, and 10 file imports per month (not unlimited)
Bills in
per user/seat per month, with a transcription-minutes allotment attached to each tier that resets monthly

Verified · source: otter.ai

Re-fetched 2026-08-27: confirmed Pro caps file imports at 10/month, correcting an earlier unlimited-imports claim. Free/Basic tier stays capped at 3 lifetime imports.

What it's actually used for

  • Live transcription while the meeting is still running
  • Auto-joins your calendar meetings without you
  • Assigns action items to owners automatically
  • Ask the finished meeting questions like a chat
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