Fellow vs Avoma vs Sembly AI vs Otter.ai
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Fellow
Meeting agendas plus a security-first AI notetaker, now at fellow.ai
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Avoma
AI meeting assistant with scheduling, call scoring and deal-risk add-o...
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Sembly AI
Meeting capture that turns client knowledge into branded decks and pro...
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Otter.ai
Live meeting transcripts, summaries and AI meeting agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free for up to 5 seats: 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings per user (lifetime), with Meet, Zoom, Teams and Slack integrations | 14-day trial of the Organization plan with all add-ons, no card required; no permanent free plan (view-only users are free) | 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 | 300 transcription minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation, 3 lifetime file imports, 20 AI Chat queries a month |
| Paid from | $7/user/month (Team, billed annually); $11 billed monthly | $19 per recorder seat a month billed annually (Startup; $29 month to month) | $10/month (Basic, 1 user, billed annually) or $17 billed monthly | $8.33/user/month billed annually, or $16.99 month to month (Pro) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 1,000+ organisations; tens of thousands of individual users | — | 35m+ users |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 | 2021 | 2018 |
| Maker | — | Aditya Kothadiya (CEO), Devendra Laulkar, Albert Lai | — | Sam Liang, Yun Fu |
| Verdict | Fellow's strengths are structure and governance. Shared agendas and tracked action items make recurring meetings more disciplined, and bot or botless capture, redaction, retention policies, HIPAA BAAs and a stated no-tra... |
Avoma is a well-rounded, plainly priced alternative to enterprise conversation-intelligence suites: one seat covers recording, transcription, AI notes, follow-ups and CRM sync, scheduling is built in, and coaching and fo... |
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... |
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... |
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