Otter AI Pricing (2026): Free Plan, Paid Plans and What Each Includes

The Otter free plan is real but small: 300 transcription minutes a month, up to 30 minutes per conversation, and the 25 most recent conversations kept. If you want to know whether that is enough, jump to the free plan limits. If you record in person or on the phone and do not want a monthly minute count at all, skip to why Comu may be the better buy, or see the first-year cost.

Otter AI pricing at a glance

Prices are per user, in US dollars, checked on Otter's pricing page on Nov 2, 2026. Per-user prices for yearly billing are the yearly total divided by 12. Otter also shows lower first-time offers with an asterisk on its page, such as $8.49 a month for Pro billed monthly and $4.17 a month for Pro billed yearly. Those are for first-time subscribers only, so we use the regular prices above.

Otter AI free plan: what you get and where it stops

Basic is the free plan. It includes live transcription, speaker identification, AI Chat within and across meetings, automatic joining of Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet calls, and the iOS and Android apps. Transcription works in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese.

Where it stops, according to Otter's comparison table:

• 300 transcription minutes a month, with no rollover. That is five hours of meetings and recordings.
• 30 minutes per conversation. Otter lists 30 minutes as the longest transcription time per conversation on Basic.
• 3 imported files in total, for the life of the account, not per month.
• 25 most recent conversations. Older ones fall out of your history.
• 20 Otter AI Chat questions a month, with 3 allowed per conversation.
• Export as mp3 and txt only. PDF, Word, and subtitle files are on paid plans.

For someone who attends two or three short calls a week, that can be enough. A weekly one-hour meeting uses about four hours of the five a month, which leaves little room for other calls.

Otter AI Pro pricing: is $16.99 or $8.33 a month worth it?

Pro is the plan most individuals look at. It raises transcription to 1,200 minutes a month, the single-conversation limit to 90 minutes, and imports to 10 files a month. It also removes the 25-conversation history cap, adds exports in pdf, docx, and srt, and gives you 50 AI Chat questions a month. Team vocabulary, advanced search, and integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zapier are in Pro too, with an asterisk on the integrations on Otter's page.

Pro is the plan to look at if you:

• record more than five hours a month,
• need transcripts of conversations longer than 30 minutes,
• need Word or PDF exports.

The yearly price is $8.33 a month, so the yearly total is about $100 per user. Billed monthly it is $16.99, or about $204 a year. If you will use Otter for more than six months, yearly billing costs less.

Students and teachers with an email address ending in .edu can get 20% off Pro: $79.99 a year, or $6.67 a month, billed yearly, and $13.59 a month, billed monthly. Otter lists how to claim it on its pricing page.

Otter AI Business pricing: $30 or $19.99 per user

Business adds unlimited meeting and recording transcription, 4 hours per conversation, 6,000 minutes a month of imported file transcription, unlimited imports, three concurrent meetings, 200 AI Chat questions a month, and custom AI workflows. It also adds admin features such as activity logs and usage analytics, and priority support.

Business billed monthly is $24 a month for first-time subscribers, labeled "20% off for 3 months". The regular monthly price is $30. Yearly billing is $19.99 a month.

Otter notes that the unlimited transcription on Business is a shared pool across all transcription types, so read the footnote on its pricing page if you rely on it.

Otter pricing: how to check the current price

Otter pricing changes, and the same plan can show different numbers depending on whether you pick monthly or yearly billing and whether you are a first-time subscriber. To see the Otter price that applies to you:

1. Open otter.ai/pricing and choose Monthly or Annual with the toggle at the top.
2. Read the footnotes. An asterisk marks first-time offers, and another notes the shared minute pool.
3. Compare the Otter AI price to the yearly total, not only the per-month figure. For example, $8.33 a month is $99.96 a year.
4. If you are in a team, check the per-user total across all seats before you commit.

Searches for the "otter.ai pricing" page and for "otter ai price" often lead to third-party summaries that were accurate on the day they were written. Use the official page for the number you will actually pay.

Otter AI Enterprise pricing

Enterprise is priced through sales: you ask Otter's sales team for a quote. It adds single sign-on, SCIM user provisioning, domain capture, audit controls, an API and webhooks, and a HIPAA compliance add-on. SSO and SCIM need a license of at least 100 users.

Otter AI cost for a team: three examples

Per-user pricing adds up as a team grows. These examples use the regular prices from the table above, not first-time offers.

The yearly figure is the per-month price billed yearly times 12 times the number of users. The monthly figure is the regular monthly price times 12 times the number of users. Taxes and add-ons are not included. Enterprise pricing is quoted by sales, so it is not in the table.

Otter AI free trial: is there one?

Otter's pricing page does not describe a time-limited trial. It offers the free Basic plan instead, with the limits above, and you can move to a paid plan when you reach them. The page also shows first-time subscriber offers on Pro and Business, with an asterisk. Because those offers change, treat the Basic plan as the way to test Otter and check the pricing page for any trial or offer on the day you buy.

How to choose an Otter AI plan

Match the plan to the limit you actually hit.

Start on Basic for a few weeks and note which limit you hit first. That tells you which plan, if any, you need.

How Otter counts its limits

Otter's pricing page separates two minute limits, and they behave differently.

• Meeting and recording transcription. This is live transcription and recorded meetings. Basic allows 300 minutes per user a month, Pro allows 1,200, and Business and Enterprise are unlimited.
• Imported file transcription. This is audio or video you upload. Basic allows 300 minutes a month, Pro 1,200, and Business and Enterprise 6,000.

On top of the minutes there is a cap on how long one conversation can be: 30 minutes on Basic, 90 on Pro, and 4 hours on Business and Enterprise. A separate cap counts imported files: 3 for the life of a Basic account, 10 a month on Pro, and unlimited above that.

Unused minutes do not roll over to the next month. An asterisk on the pricing page notes that the minutes are a shared pool across all transcription types, so check how your recordings and imports draw from the same allowance.

Monthly or yearly billing: which should you pick?

Yearly billing is cheaper per month, and the difference is large. Pro billed yearly costs $8.33 a month against $16.99 billed monthly, which is a difference of about $104 a year per user. Business billed yearly costs $19.99 a month against $30, a difference of about $120 a year per user.

The trade is commitment. A yearly plan charges you for twelve months up front. If you are not sure you will keep using Otter, start on Basic, then take a monthly plan for a month or two, then move to yearly once you know. Check Otter's cancellation and refund terms on its site before you pay for a year.

What else affects the cost

• Payment. Otter accepts credit and debit cards on its website, and in-app purchases through the Apple App Store or Google Play. It does not support PayPal yet.
• Per user. Every price is per user. A team of five on Pro billed yearly pays about $500 a year.
• No rollover. Unused minutes do not carry over to the next month.

Is Otter AI worth paying for?

It depends on how many hours you record, and where. Otter is built for online meetings: its notetaker joins Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet calls and writes notes during them. It also has a desktop app that records without a bot joining, which Otter describes on its home page. If most of your meetings are online and you want notes shared with a team, Pro or Business is a reasonable choice, and the free plan is a good way to test it. To compare Otter with other tools by three-year cost, read Otter AI alternatives compared by price, and for features by plan read the Otter AI review.

If your recordings are mostly in person or on the phone, or if you record more than a few hours a month and do not want to track minutes, the pricing model matters more than the features. Otter charges per user per month, with a monthly minute cap on Basic and Pro. That cost repeats every month for as long as you use it.

Otter AI cost vs Comu AI: first year and beyond

Comu is a pocket recorder with an app. Comu Note Pro is $109.69 and Comu Action Pro is $169.99 (Nov 2, 2026). The free plan that comes with the device has unlimited transcription and basic summaries.

The Comu columns use only that free plan. Otter Basic stops at 300 transcription minutes a month and 30 minutes per conversation, so the table compares Comu with Otter Pro and Business. Here is what one person pays, using Otter's regular prices and Comu's device price.

How the two compare:

• In the first year, Otter Pro billed yearly is cheaper than either Comu device, by about $10 against Comu Note Pro. If you only need Otter for a few months, Otter is the lower-cost choice.
• Billed monthly, Otter Pro costs more than Comu Note Pro after about 7 months, and more than Comu Action Pro after about 10 months.
• Billed yearly, Comu Note Pro costs less in total by the end of year 2 ($109.69 against $199.92), and Comu Action Pro by the end of year 2 as well ($169.99 against $199.92).
• Otter Business is the more expensive of the two Otter plans, so the gap in Comu's favor opens sooner: after about 6 months against Comu Note Pro.

For a team the picture is the same per seat. Five people on Otter Pro billed yearly pay about $500 a year, every year. Five Comu Note Pro devices with the included plan cost about $548.

These figures leave out what is not comparable. Otter bills per user and includes the software; Comu's price is for hardware, and Comu also has paid tiers (Premium and Elite).

Why choose Comu instead of Otter

The choice depends on where you record. Here are the reasons that favor Comu, each one backed by what Comu and Otter publish.

1. No monthly minute cap on the free plan. Otter Basic stops at 300 transcription minutes a month and 30 minutes per conversation. Comu's free plan has unlimited transcription. For someone who records more than five hours a month, this removes a limit you would otherwise pay to lift.
2. A device that records in the room and on the phone. Otter's notetaker joins Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet calls. A conversation in a meeting room, an interview, a site visit, or a phone call has no meeting link for it to join. Comu records those with a device. Comu Note Pro is 3.1 mm thick and weighs 27.6 g. Comu Action Pro has six microphones, one of them a bone-conduction sensor, and about 7 m of indoor pickup.
3. More languages and more template freedom on the free plan. Comu supports 113 languages against Otter's six on Basic, and unlimited custom summary templates plus 30+ built in. Otter Basic offers custom AI templates for 5 meetings.
4. More export formats without upgrading. Comu exports transcripts, summaries, and action items as TXT, Markdown, Word, and PDF, and audio as MP3 and WAV. On Otter Basic, export is mp3 and txt; pdf, docx, and srt are on Pro.
5. A device price with unlimited transcription. Otter's price is per user per month. Comu Note Pro is $109.69 with a plan that has unlimited transcription and basic summaries.
6. Action items and editable summaries in the default plan. Comu's app pulls out action items with owners and deadlines and lets you edit summaries. Otter Basic also has speaker identification, so that is not a difference.

When Otter is the better choice

We would not recommend Comu in every case. Pick Otter if:

• Almost all your meetings are Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet calls, and you want a notetaker that joins them automatically.
• You need Salesforce or HubSpot sync, or admin controls for a team. Otter lists these on Pro and Business.
• You want a software-only tool with nothing to carry.
• You will use it for only a few months. As the table shows, Otter Pro billed yearly is cheaper than the Comu devices in the first year.

If your recordings are mostly in person or on the phone, or if you already hit Otter's 300-minute cap, Comu is the one to compare. For a longer look, read our Otter AI alternatives guide, our guide to the features that come with Comu, or the two devices: Comu Note Pro and Comu Action Pro.

Common questions about Otter AI pricing

How much does Otter AI cost?

Otter Pro costs $16.99 per user per month, or $8.33 a month billed yearly. Business costs $30 per user per month, or $19.99 a month billed yearly. Basic is free. Enterprise is priced through sales. Prices checked Nov 2, 2026.

Is Otter AI free?

Yes, there is a free plan called Basic. It gives 300 transcription minutes a month, up to 30 minutes per conversation, the 25 most recent conversations, and 3 imported files in total. It includes live transcription, speaker identification, and the mobile apps.

What is the limit for Otter AI?

On the free plan: 300 minutes a month and 30 minutes per conversation. On Pro: 1,200 minutes a month and 90 minutes per conversation. On Business: unlimited meeting minutes and 4 hours per conversation. Unused minutes do not roll over.

Does Otter AI have a free trial?

Otter has a free Basic plan rather than a time-limited trial. You can use Basic without a card and upgrade when you reach its limits. Pro and Business have first-time subscriber offers.

Is Otter AI Pro cheaper than buying a recorder?

In the first year, yes: Otter Pro billed yearly is about $100, against $109.69 for Comu Note Pro and $169.99 for Comu Action Pro. Billed monthly, Pro is about $204 a year and costs more than the Comu devices within a year. By the end of the second year, Otter Pro billed yearly (about $200) has cost more than either Comu device.

Is there a student discount for Otter AI?

Yes. Otter offers 20% off Pro to individual students and teachers who use an email address ending in .edu: $79.99 a year, or $13.59 a month billed monthly.

Can I pay for Otter AI with PayPal?

No. PayPal is not supported yet. You can pay by credit or debit card on the website, or by in-app purchase through the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Does Otter AI record without a bot joining the meeting?

Yes. Otter's desktop app for Mac and Windows records conversations directly, without bots joining the call, and OtterPilot is the notetaker that joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings from a connected calendar.

Related reading

• Otter AI Alternatives: Four Approaches Compared by Use Case
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• Meeting Minutes Template: Free Word Downloads and Examples
• Otter AI Alternatives (2026): 8 Tools Compared by Price and Use Case
• Otter AI Review (2026): Features, Pricing, Pros and Cons by Plan

Sources

Pages were checked on Nov 2, 2026.

1. Otter.ai, Pricing and home page
2. Comu, Comu Action Pro, Comu Note Pro, and app downloads