Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai both join your meetings, transcribe them and give you summaries. This guide is for professionals and teams who want automatic meeting notes. We compared features, pricing and platforms from official pages, checked on 2026-11-01.
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Live transcription of meetings, interviews and lecturesOtter.ai
Free plan with limits; paid plans Otter.ai records and transcribes meetings, interviews, lectures and other conversations in real time. It creates searchable transcripts, summaries, action items and AI-chat answers about what was said. You can record from the web, desktop and mobile apps, or through meeting integrations with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. Its wide platform support, including Android and desktop apps, makes it easy to use in person as well as online.
Pick it if you want live transcripts for meetings and in-person conversations, with apps on every device.
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Team meeting search, analysis and shareable clipsFireflies.ai
Free plan; Pro about $10/user/month billed yearly Fireflies.ai is an AI assistant for meetings that transcribes, summarises, searches and analyses team conversations. It also offers shareable call clips and integrations, and captures meetings across supported conferencing platforms. Its annual Pro plan is a little cheaper than Otter's monthly Pro price, and some advanced AI features use separate AI-credit add-ons.
Pick it if you're a team that wants to search and analyse calls together and share short clips.
Choose Otter if you want live transcription across many devices, including in-person conversations and lectures. Choose Fireflies if your team wants to search, analyse and share meeting moments, and mostly meets online. Both have free plans, so run each on a week of real meetings.
