ElevenLabs focuses on text to speech and voice generation, and only partly overlaps Otter.ai through its speech to text transcription with speaker diarization.
Free plan · Paid from $5/mo (billed annually)
Otter.ai
Otter.ai is an AI meeting agent that transcribes meetings and writes summaries and action items for sales teams, educators, media teams and recruiters.
- Free trial
- Web app · Desktop · Mobile · Browser extension
- Verified 16 Oct 2026
What Otter.ai does
Otter.ai records and transcribes meetings as they happen, and it can open a chat window during a meeting. After a meeting it produces automated summaries, insights and action items. Teams can also chat with their meeting notes across meetings and connected apps.
Built for
- Sales teams
- Educators and students
- Media teams
- Recruiters
Key features
- Automated AI meeting summaries with action items
- Otter AI Chat across meetings and connected apps
- Live-Assist coaching during calls
- Push sales insights to CRM
- Otter MCP server for AI chat tools
- SSO and SCIM provisioning (Enterprise plan only)
Pros and cons
Pros
- The Basic plan is free and includes 300 transcription minutes per month, and a free trial is available.
- Signup is self-serve, and the tool runs on a web app, desktop, mobile and a browser extension.
- It generates automated meeting summaries with action items, and it can push sales insights to a CRM.
Cons
- The Basic plan is capped at 300 transcription minutes per month.
- The Pro plan at USD 16.99 per user per month, billed monthly, allows 10 monthly audio or video file imports.
- Enterprise pricing is not published and requires contacting sales.
- SSO and SCIM provisioning are available only on the Enterprise plan.
Where Otter.ai is listed
Otter.ai is listed under AI transcription tools in AI video and audio tools.
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