Otter.ai vs Sembly AI

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Otter.ai Live meeting transcripts, summaries and AI meeting agents Visit Sembly AI Meeting capture that turns client knowledge into branded decks and pro... Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.3 / 10 7 / 10
Capability 7 7
Value for money 7 6
Ease of use 8 8
ASEAN readiness 5 6
API quality 6 6
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier 300 transcription minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation, 3 lifetime file imports, 20 AI Chat queries a month Free plan (labelled "Free Trial"): 1 user, 750 credits a month plus 1,750 one-time bonus credits, 1 meeting hour, 5 clients, 2 months of history
Paid from $8.33/user/month billed annually, or $16.99 month to month (Pro) $10/month (Basic, 1 user, billed annually) or $17 billed monthly
Has API ✓ ✓
Open source ✗ ✗
Free to use ✓ ✓
Users 35m+ users —
Founded 2018 2021
Maker Sam Liang, Yun Fu —
Verdict

Otter remains one of the most complete meeting notetakers: live transcripts with speaker labels, summaries, action items, an AI chat across your meeting history and, on higher plans, CRM sync and agents. The free plan is...

Sembly still does solid meeting capture, notes and tasks across the four main video platforms, but its 2026 rebuild is aimed elsewhere: per-client workspaces with brand packages that let it draft decks, proposals and cas...

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