Fireflies.ai vs Otter.ai

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

Fireflies.ai AI notetaker that joins calls, transcribes, summarises and answers que... Visit Otter.ai Live meeting transcripts, summaries and AI meeting agents Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.8 / 10 7.3 / 10
Capability 8 7
Value for money 7 7
Ease of use 8 8
ASEAN readiness 7 5
API quality 7 6
Pricing Freemium Freemium
Free tier Free forever: transcription, limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage per team, 20 AI credits, AskFred and API access 300 transcription minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation, 3 lifetime file imports, 20 AI Chat queries a month
Paid from $10/seat/month (Pro, billed annually); $18 billed monthly $8.33/user/month billed annually, or $16.99 month to month (Pro)
Has API ✓ ✓
Open source ✗ ✗
Free to use ✓ ✓
Users 20m+ users across 500,000+ organizations (and 1m+ companies per the Fireflies.ai pricing page) 35m+ users
Founded 2016 2018
Maker Krish Ramineni, Sam Udotong Sam Liang, Yun Fu
Verdict

Fireflies is a mature, broad meeting assistant: a free plan with real transcription, API access on every tier, AskFred for questioning past meetings, and Pro at $10 a seat billed annually with video recording included. T...

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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