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Otter.ai

Leading AI meeting assistant for real-time transcription, automated summaries, and collaborative notes

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Product node overview & trust baseline

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Otter.ai (founded in 2016 by former Google speech engineers in Mountain View, CA) specializes in real-time automatic speech recognition, speaker diarization, and AI action item summaries, integrating with Zoom, Google Meet, and MS Teams. Operating under a freemium model, the Basic plan includes 300 monthly transcription minutes (30 min/conversation), the Pro plan costs $8.33/user/mo billed annually ($100/yr, 1,200 min/mo, 90 min/conversation), and the Business plan costs $19.99/user/mo billed annually ($240/yr with unlimited recording and team admin).

1. Operator & provenance Otter.ai, Inc.

Mountain View, California artificial intelligence and speech recognition company (founded in 2016) · 2016–Present (10 years)

Provenance baseline: 19/20 · Prominent Silicon Valley voice AI enterprise with deep engineering provenance, mature infrastructure, and SOC 2 security compliance.

2. Billing model & transparency Free tier + subscription

Basic free plan includes 300 monthly transcription minutes (max 30 min/call, 3 lifetime file imports); Pro plan saves 51% annually ($8.33/user/mo equivalent, $16.99 monthly) with 1,200 minutes; Business plan saves 33% annually ($19.99/user/mo equivalent, $30 monthly); taxes excluded.

Pricing transparency baseline: 33/35 · Cancellation:

3. Sign-in & data retention Supports Google OAuth, Microsoft accounts, and work email sign-in

Meeting audio and transcripts remain in user/team workspaces with complete export and permanent deletion controls

4. Execution & third-party services Cloud real-time streaming ASR and LLM clusters handle live transcription and contextual summarization

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Product-level pricing & rules baseline

Verified plans, billing periods and cancellation terms owned by this product node; task-specific credit costs and free export limits are detailed per capability edge below

Otter.ai sitewide meeting transcription, audio intelligence, and AI notes quota; free and subscription tiers · 2026-10-29

Plan · source date
Monthly / one-time
Annual bill / period
Quota & limits
Basic Free2026-10-29 ↗
Free
Free
Free 300 monthly transcription minutes, 30 min max per call, 3 lifetime file imports, AI meeting chat
Pro Annual2026-10-29 ↗
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USD 100/year
Annual $8.33/user/mo billed annually (~$100/yr, standard $16.99/mo), 1,200 monthly recording minutes, 90 min max per call, 10 monthly file imports
Business Annual2026-10-29 ↗
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USD 240/year
Annual $19.99/user/mo billed annually (~$240/yr, standard $30/mo), unlimited meetings and recording, 4 hours max per call, unlimited file imports, team admin

3 plan / billing-period records, all listed; — means that period is not recorded.

Basic free plan includes 300 monthly transcription minutes (max 30 min/call, 3 lifetime file imports); Pro plan saves 51% annually ($8.33/user/mo equivalent, $16.99 monthly) with 1,200 minutes; Business plan saves 33% annually ($19.99/user/mo equivalent, $30 monthly); taxes excluded.

Cancellation, sources & verification record

Cancellation and refund terms unverified

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Archived official pricing sources: Otter.ai official homepage (2026-10-29) [text snapshot ↗] · Otter.ai official pricing plans page (2026-10-29) [text snapshot ↗]

Capability map & linked task edges

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Discovered product capabilities (pending fixture test / edge incubation)

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Emerging capability · edge incubation Meeting transcription & summary · AI Meeting Transcription & Summaries

Real-time meeting speech transcription, multilingual recognition, and automated structured summaries

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Emerging capability · edge incubation Speaker diarization · Speaker Identification & Diarization

Multispeaker diarization and automatic speaker role attribution

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