Best for
Best for sales, recruiting and client teams whose meeting notes have to land in a CRM or applicant tracking system rather than a folder.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
AI Voice & Speech Comparison
Fireflies.ai vs. Otter.ai
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for teams who need every meeting written up, summarised and pushed into the tools where the follow-up actually happens.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
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Full Comparison
| Criterion | Fireflies.ai | Otter.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free plan; Pro from $10 / seat / month The $10 rate is billed annually; on monthly billing Pro is $18 per seat. Business is $19 billed annually or $29 monthly, and Enterprise $39 per seat / month on annual billing only. | lower value Free tier, then from $8.33 / user / month The $8.33 Pro rate is billed annually; paid monthly it is $16.99. Business is $19.99 / user / month billed annually or $30 monthly. The free Basic plan carries 300 transcription minutes a month and 3 lifetime file imports. |
| Free trial | Free plan | Free Basic plan with 300 monthly transcription minutes |
| Output | Transcripts, AI summaries with overviews, bullet points and action items, plus searchable meeting notes | Live transcripts, meeting summaries and action items |
| API | Yes, from the Business plan | On Enterprise |
| Languages | More than 100 languages with automatic language detection; the vendor marks the wider set as beta | One language per conversation; the set includes English (US and UK), Spanish, French and Japanese |
| Hosting | Cloud, with a Chrome extension for Google Meet plus mobile and desktop apps | Cloud, with desktop apps for Mac and Windows, mobile apps and a Chrome extension |
| Voice cloning | No, Fireflies transcribes and summarises speech and does not synthesise or clone voices | No, Otter transcribes and summarises speech and does not synthesise or clone voices |
| Real-time use | Yes, a bot joins the call and records it live, and the mobile and desktop apps capture conversations held in person | Yes, live transcription and captions during the meeting, either with Otter joining the call or recording from the desktop app without a bot |
| Speech-to-speech and dubbing | No dubbing or speech-to-speech translation is published | No dubbing or speech-to-speech translation |
| Editing and controls | AI summaries with overviews, bullet points, action items and custom notes, speaker talk-time analytics, sentiment analysis, topic trackers and AI filters, plus AskFred for questions across past meetings | Speaker identification, meeting summaries with decisions and action items, AI Chat across past meetings and connected apps, workflow agents for sales and recruiting, and playback speeds from 0.5x to 3x with skip-silence on paid plans |
| Consent and trust | The vendor states SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliance, zero data retention and private dedicated storage with customer data ownership; Enterprise adds custom data retention and a super admin role | Enterprise adds SSO and SCIM, admin controls over access policies and sharing, audit logging, and an opt-out from AI model training arranged through an account manager |
| MCP-ready | No | stated Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Support | Email helpdesk | Not stated |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Documentation and knowledge base |
| Company size | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | more entries Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, GoToMeeting, Dialpad, Lifesize, Aircall, RingCentral, Zoom Phone, OpenPhone, Salesforce, HubSpot, Affinity, Slack, Notion, Google Docs, OneNote, Confluence, Microsoft SharePoint, Linear, Airtable, Asana, Microsoft To Do, Greenhouse, Lever, BambooHR, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, Zapier | Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, RingCentral, HubSpot, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesloft, Outreach, Slack, Notion, Asana, ClickUp, Jira, monday.com, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Amazon S3, Snowflake, Zapier |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Fireflies.ai Free plan; Pro from $10 / seat / month Otter.ai Free tier, then from $8.33 / user / month
- Free trial Fireflies.ai Free plan Otter.ai Free Basic plan with 300 monthly transcription minutes
- Hosting Fireflies.ai Cloud, with a Chrome extension for Google Meet plus mobile and desktop apps Otter.ai Cloud, with desktop apps for Mac and Windows, mobile apps and a Chrome extension
- Languages Fireflies.ai More than 100 languages with automatic language detection; the vendor marks the wider set as beta Otter.ai One language per conversation; the set includes English (US and UK), Spanish, French and Japanese
- MCP-ready Fireflies.ai No Otter.ai Yes
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Fireflies.ai
Strengths
- Covers Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, GoToMeeting, Dialpad and Lifesize, plus dialers and uploaded audio files
- More than 100 languages with automatic detection
- Over 100 integrations carry summaries into CRM, ATS, chat and docs
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliance with zero data retention
Limitations
- Transcription only, no text-to-speech or voice cloning
- API access, analytics and private channels all start at the Business plan
- The vendor marks the wider language set as beta
Otter.ai
Strengths
- Records without a bot in the call from the desktop app
- Summaries and action items sync into CRM, chat and project tools
- MCP server exposes meeting data to Claude and ChatGPT
- Free plan with 300 transcription minutes a month
Limitations
- Transcription only, no text-to-speech or voice cloning
- A small number of languages, and only one per conversation
- Per-meeting length caps on the lower plans: 30 minutes on Basic and 90 on Pro
- API access is reserved for Enterprise
Plans
Pricing
Fireflies.ai
- Free $0 Free forever for one person: limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits a month.
- Pro $10 / seat / month Billed annually, or $18 per seat on monthly billing. Unlimited transcription and AI summaries, 8,000 minutes of storage per seat, video recording, downloads, the personal and email assistants and unlimited integrations.
- Business $19 / seat / month Billed annually, or $29 per seat on monthly billing. Unlimited storage, 30 AI credits, multi-language mode, conversation intelligence, team analytics for admins, public meeting access, user groups and private channels.
- Enterprise $39 / seat / month Annual billing only. Adds the rules engine, SSO and SCIM, audit logs, HIPAA compliance, private storage, custom data retention, a super admin role and a dedicated account manager.
Otter.ai
- Basic Free 300 transcription minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation, 3 lifetime audio or video file imports, and the 25 most recent conversations retained.
- Pro $8.33 Per user per month billed annually, or $16.99 billed monthly. 1,200 in-app recording minutes a month, 10 file imports a month, up to 90 minutes per meeting, unlimited storage and playback speeds from 0.5x to 3x.
- Business $19.99 Per user per month billed annually, or $30 billed monthly. Unlimited meetings and in-app recordings, unlimited file imports, up to 4 hours per meeting, three concurrent meetings and admin features.
- Enterprise Not stated Custom pricing arranged through a demo. Adds SSO and SCIM, audit logging, admin controls, API access, video replay, unlimited custom AI workflows and a HIPAA compliance add-on.
What users say
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Fireflies.ai
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Otter.ai
- Ease of use
- Not rated yet
- User interface
- Not rated yet
- Onboarding
- Not rated yet
- Support and service
- Not rated yet
- Value for money
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Fireflies.ai https://fireflies.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-12
Otter.ai https://otter.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-04
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