Otter.ai Alternatives

Fathom records your video calls, transcribes them and writes a summary as soon as the meeting ends. Its free plan is the reason most people land here: it lists unlimited recordings and transcriptions, instant AI call summaries, clips, playlists and search across calls, with a choice between a bot that joins the call and a bot-free capture mode that is still in beta and runs on Mac only. For anyone stuck on Otter Basic, which stops at 300 minutes a month and 30 minutes per conversation, that is the biggest jump in this list.

The paid side reads differently from Otter. Premium, for individuals, costs $16 a month billed yearly or $20 monthly and adds advanced call summaries, AI-generated action items, a conversational meeting assistant and a custom meeting bot. Team plans start at $15 per user per month billed yearly ($19 monthly), with a two-user minimum, Business is $25 yearly ($34 monthly) and Enterprise is $35, annual only. Against Otter Pro at $8.33 a month billed yearly, Fathom Premium costs about twice as much, so the honest comparison is Fathom Free against Otter Pro: if you only need recordings, transcripts and a summary, Free covers it without a minute counter. The limit: some features carry a "limited use" mark in the free column, so the advanced summaries and action items are what push you to Premium. Every paid plan carries a 90-day guarantee, and nonprofits can apply for 10 free seats.

Fireflies.ai is the closest like-for-like replacement for Otter: a bot (Fred) joins Zoom, Google Meet or Teams, records, transcribes and posts a summary, and every call lands in a shared, searchable library. Where it pulls ahead is language coverage. Otter transcribes in six languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese); Fireflies supports English as its primary language, plus Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and more than 100 other languages in beta. For a team with calls in Portuguese or Dutch, that settles it. Its Chrome extension can also record a browser meeting without the Fireflies bot.

Pricing is per seat. Pro costs $10 per seat per month billed yearly or $18 monthly; Business is $19 yearly or $29 monthly; Enterprise is $39, annual only. The trap is the definition of a seat: any teammate you add to your Fireflies workspace counts as one, so inviting a colleague to read transcripts adds to the bill. Against Otter Business at $19.99 per user per month billed yearly, Fireflies Business at $19 is almost the same price, so choose on languages and integrations rather than on cost. Its Zapier integration sends transcripts to other apps, and Fireflies says there are no monthly rate limits on the meeting bot or Chrome extension for paid users, with limits only on the API, dialers and bulk uploads.

Granola works the other way round from Otter. Instead of a bot that joins the call, it captures audio from your own device in the background, and you type rough notes in a notepad that Granola fills out with the transcript once the meeting ends. Every plan lists "Bot-free, device-audio capture", and every plan lists "Audio deleted after transcription": you keep the text, not the recording. That is the point for people whose clients pause when an Otter bot appears, and the limit for anyone who needs to replay audio or share a video clip.

Basic is free with meeting history limited to 30 days. Business costs $14 per user per month and adds unlimited history and integrations with Notion, Zapier and HubSpot; Enterprise is $35 per user per month. Every user, on every plan, can opt out of model training in one click, and Enterprise turns training off by default for the whole team. Granola runs on desktop and has iOS, Android and Apple Watch apps, which also covers in-person meetings recorded from a phone. On monthly billing, Granola Business at $14 sits below Otter Pro at $16.99; on yearly billing, Otter Pro at $8.33 a month costs less. Tip: if you are on Basic, copy anything you need to keep before the 30 days run out.

tl;dv records Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls and turns them into notes, but its focus is what happens after the call: notes pushed to the CRM, insights across many calls, and reports that show managers what customers say about pricing or competitors. Where Otter is a general transcription tool, tl;dv is closer to a light conversation intelligence platform, which is why guides keep recommending it to sales teams.

It costs more than Otter. Pro is $18 per seat per month billed yearly or $29 monthly and lifts the free plan's AI caps (unlimited meetings with AI notes and unlimited single-meeting Ask AI); Business is $29 per seat per month yearly or $39 monthly and states "No usage-based AI fees". Against Otter Pro at $8.33 yearly, tl;dv Pro is more than twice the price, so it pays off only if the CRM sync and multi-call insights replace manual work. A free forever plan exists to judge the notes before you pay: unlimited recordings and transcription in more than 100 languages, but AI notes on 10 meetings only and data kept up to 3 months. Tip: the yearly discount is large here, $11 a month per seat on Pro, so a team that commits after a trial month saves $132 per seat per year.

Fellow started as a meeting agenda tool and added an AI notetaker on top, so it covers what happens before and after the call: shared agendas, one-on-one templates, action items that follow you into the next meeting, plus AI recordings and notes. For a manager who runs weekly one-on-ones, that structure is what Otter lacks.

Its AI is metered by recordings, not minutes. Free gives 5 AI recordings and 5 AI notes per user for the lifetime of the account, which is a trial more than a plan. Team costs $7 per user per month billed yearly ($11 monthly) with 10 AI recordings and 10 AI notes per user per month; Business is $15 yearly ($23 monthly) with unlimited AI recordings, and Enterprise is $25, from 10 users. Each plan also caps the workspace: 5 seats on Free, 20 on Team and 50 on Business. Against Otter, where Pro gives 1,200 minutes a month, ten recordings a month is tight if you record every call, so Fellow suits teams that record their key meetings, not all of them. Billing note: at the start of each billing cycle, the workspace is billed for the number of active users at that time, so deactivate leavers before the renewal date.

Notta is the alternative that most resembles Otter's pricing model: minutes per month, file uploads and AI summaries per plan. It transcribes live meetings and uploaded files, offers a bot-free meeting recorder that captures on your device, and sells Notta Memo, a small device that sticks to your phone to record calls and meetings, which covers what a software-only notetaker misses.

Pro costs $8.17 a month billed yearly, $97.99 a year, for 1,800 transcription minutes a month, recordings up to 5 hours, 100 file uploads and 100 AI summaries a month. That is 600 more minutes than Otter Pro (1,200) for about the same yearly price ($97.99 against $99.96). Business is $16.67 a month billed yearly ($199.99 a year) with unlimited transcription. The trap is the free plan: 120 minutes a month, but up to 3 minutes per conversation, so it lets you judge accuracy and nothing more. Minutes do not carry over from one month to the next.