Plaud vs Otter.ai
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| PL Plaud Wearable and phone-mounted recorders that turn conversations into note... Visit |
Otter.ai
Live meeting transcripts, summaries and AI meeting agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | 300 transcription minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation, 3 lifetime file imports, 20 AI Chat queries a month |
| Paid from | $8.33/month (Pro, billed annually) plus a device from $159 | $8.33/user/month billed annually, or $16.99 month to month (Pro) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 35m+ users |
| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
| Maker | Xu Gao | Sam Liang, Yun Fu |
| Verdict | Plaud is the hardware answer to note-taking for conversations that do not happen on a call: a clip-on or phone-mounted recorder feeding transcription in 112 languages, template summaries and natural-language search acros... |
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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