Otter.ai

Freemium

By AI Bookmarks Editorial Team, Directory editors Last reviewed 2026-10-23

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Meeting agent that transcribes calls live, writes summaries with action items and keeps a searchable archive.

Quick facts

Pricing	Freemium
Free tier	Yes — free plan with a monthly limit on transcription minutes
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension
Developer	Otter.ai
Website	https://otter.ai/

What Otter.ai is

Otter.ai joins online meetings, transcribes them in real time and produces a summary with action items afterwards. It connects to Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams as a participant rather than requiring a plugin on the host side, and records a searchable transcript with speaker labels and timestamps. The meeting agent can answer questions during the call and pull up what was said earlier, and a shared workspace keeps transcripts searchable across a team. Clips can be cut from a transcript and shared, which is useful for turning a long call into a short recap. The limits are language and accuracy: support is strongest for English, transcripts of accented or technical speech need correction, and automatic summaries can miss nuance in a decision that was implied rather than stated. Anyone joining a confidential call should say so before recording starts.

Best for

Teams that need a searchable record of recurring meetings
Turning a long call into a short written recap
Reviewing what was decided without re-listening

Not ideal for

Meetings in languages other than the well-supported ones
Calls where recording is not consented to

Pros

Joins calls without host-side plugins
Speaker labels and timestamps make transcripts navigable
Clips turn a moment into a shareable excerpt

Cons

Accuracy drops with accents and technical vocabulary
Summaries can miss implied decisions
Free minutes run out quickly on a busy calendar

Pricing in detail

The free plan includes a monthly allowance of transcription minutes with limited features per conversation. Paid plans are billed per user per month and raise the minute allowance, add team workspaces, admin controls and longer retention; annual billing lowers the monthly rate. Because the meter is minutes transcribed rather than meetings joined, a calendar full of long calls exhausts a plan faster than the meeting count suggests.