Otter AI Pricing (October 2026): Plans, Free Plan Limits, Cost

As of October 14, 2026, Otter AI pricing starts at $8.33 per user per month for Pro, billed annually, or $16.99 on monthly billing. Business is $19.99 per user per month billed annually or $30 monthly, Enterprise is quoted, and Basic is free with 300 minutes a month. Every paid plan is per seat and has a cap on how long one conversation can be. If you mainly upload recordings rather than send a bot to meetings, a flat plan may fit better; see ConvertAudioToText's plans.

Otter.ai figures below come from Otter.ai's pricing page and its help center, checked October 14, 2026. Confirm them at checkout before you buy.

Otter.ai pricing plans at a glance

Two notes from the live page. The monthly toggle showed Business at $24 under a 20% off offer, with $30 as the list price. Otter also shows regional offers, so your checkout can differ from the list prices above.

Otter's free plan (Basic): every limit

Otter Basic is free for as long as you want, with four limits. These come from Otter's own help article on the Basic plan.

The 300 minutes reset each month and do not roll over. A weekly one-hour team call uses most of a month by itself.

The import limit is the one that surprises people. If your work is uploading interviews, lectures, voice memos or podcast episodes rather than letting the bot join live calls, Basic is a 3-file trial. You will hit the lifetime import cap long before the monthly minutes.

Getting more out of the free plan

• Record live instead of importing. Imports are capped; live recordings in the app use your monthly minutes instead.
• Split long meetings. Two sessions under 30 minutes each give you full transcripts of both, as long as the monthly minutes last.
• Watch the meter before your last meetings of the month, and remember deleted conversations still count.
• Export what you need from the 25 most recent conversations before older ones are archived.

Otter pricing: annual vs monthly billing

The $8.33 Pro figure is an annual commitment, not a month-to-month price.

Both multiply by the number of seats, so the per-user figure is not your team's total. A five-person team on Business pays $1,199.40 a year on annual billing. My advice: test Basic on real meetings before paying for a year.

What each Otter plan adds

Otter.ai is built around a meeting assistant. It connects to your calendar, joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls, writes a live transcript and produces a summary with action items.

• Basic: live transcription, speaker identification, AI chat within and across meetings, mobile apps, 300 minutes a month.
• Pro: 1,200 minutes, 90 minutes per meeting, 10 imports a month, unlimited storage, team vocabulary, advanced search and export, and Salesforce, HubSpot and Zapier integrations (Otter notes user limits on the CRM integrations).
• Business: unlimited meetings, 4 hours per meeting, unlimited imports, admin features and usage analytics, up to 3 concurrent meetings, prioritized support.
• Enterprise: SSO and SCIM, HIPAA compliance as an add-on, Otter's API and webhooks, and custom integrations.

My verdict: Otter earns its price when a calendar-connected meeting assistant is central to your work. It is harder to justify when your main need is uploading existing recordings.

The main Otter pricing catch: two separate limits

Otter meters minutes and caps conversation length, and those are two separate checks.

1. Does your plan include enough minutes for the month?
2. Does your plan allow the length of each recording?

A 2-hour lecture passes the first check on Pro and fails the second, because Pro shows 90 minutes per conversation. Heavy users on Enterprise should ask for written limits before signing.

Privacy and consent when a meeting bot joins

On August 15, 2025, a proposed class action, Brewer v. Otter.ai, Inc. (N.D. Cal., case 5:25-cv-06911), was filed in federal court in California, as NPR reported. The complaint alleges that Otter's assistant recorded meeting participants without the consent of everyone on the call and that recordings were used to train its speech recognition.

These are allegations, not court findings. The practical point applies to any meeting assistant: a bot may join a call where not everyone expects to be recorded, so check consent rules before inviting one to a confidential conversation.

ConvertAudioToText vs Otter.ai for file uploads

The two products lead with different jobs. Otter leads with its meeting assistant. ConvertAudioToText leads with file and link transcription, and its paid plans also include a meeting bot for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex.

Where Otter wins: a calendar-connected bot that joins every meeting on its own, live notes during the call, team workspaces and CRM integrations. If that is your workflow, Otter is built for it.

Where ConvertAudioToText wins: uploads and links. There is no lifetime import cap, a free account transcribes up to 30 files a day, and Pro has no monthly minute cap for normal use. On annual price alone the two Pro plans are $0.03 apart ($99.96 against $99.99), so the deciding factor is the work you do, not the sticker.

ConvertAudioToText Pro includes transcription in 99 languages with speaker labels, all 11 AI templates, summaries and action items, TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT and JSON exports, and meeting bots. Very heavy use, above about 30 hours of audio in 30 days, may run on the standard engine; files are never blocked. For a short project without a subscription, the Weekly Pass is $9.99 once for 1,200 premium minutes over 7 days.

Which option fits your work?

• Mostly scheduled meetings, with team sharing: start with Otter Basic, then Pro or Business.
• Mostly recorded files, sometimes meetings: a file-first service with a meeting bot covers both.
• Long recordings: check the per-conversation cap on your Otter tier before paying.
• A team: multiply Otter's per-user price by seats, and ask any vendor for a team quote.

Choose Otter.ai if calendar-connected meeting capture, live notes and team sharing matter most. Check the live checkout first, because seats, the annual commitment and conversation caps change the real cost.

Choose ConvertAudioToText if you mainly upload recordings. You can transcribe the first 30 minutes of a file without an account to test your own audio before you pay.

Related: Otter.ai alternatives, Descript vs Otter.ai, Otter vs Fireflies, and the cost of transcription per hour.

Frequently asked questions

How much is Otter AI per month?

As of October 14, 2026, Otter Pro costs $16.99 per user per month on monthly billing, or $8.33 per user per month billed annually ($99.96 a year). Business costs $30 per user per month on monthly billing, or $19.99 per user per month billed annually. Basic is free and Enterprise is quoted.

What does Otter's free plan include?

Otter Basic includes 300 transcription minutes a month, up to 30 minutes per conversation, 3 audio or video file imports for the life of the account, and access to your 25 most recent conversations. Older ones are archived, not deleted.

What happens when an Otter free recording passes 30 minutes?

According to Otter's help center, the recording does not stop, but on Basic you can only see the first 30 minutes of the transcript. Upgrading to a paid plan unlocks the rest with Unlock full transcript.

Does Otter's free plan really limit file imports to 3?

Yes. Basic allows 3 audio or video file imports per account, not per month, and the count does not reset. Pro allows 10 imports a month and Business has unlimited imports.

Does Otter Pro have unlimited transcription?

No. Pro includes 1,200 minutes a month and up to 90 minutes per conversation. Business lists unlimited meetings with up to 4 hours per conversation.

Does Otter charge per user?

Yes. Pro and Business are priced per user, so a team pays the per-user price times the number of seats. Enterprise is quoted.

Why is Otter.ai showing a different price?

The $8.33 Pro and $19.99 Business prices need annual billing. Monthly billing costs $16.99 and $30 per user. Otter also runs regional and limited-time offers, so the checkout can differ from the list price.

Is there an alternative for long recordings?

ConvertAudioToText Pro is $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year, with no monthly cap for normal use and links and videos up to 24 hours each. Very heavy use above about 30 hours of audio in 30 days may run on the standard engine.

Sources

• Otter.ai pricing (official): plan prices on annual and monthly billing, minutes, conversation length, import limits and plan features, checked October 14, 2026
• Otter.ai help center: conversation, import and app limits on the Basic free plan: 300 minutes, 30-minute transcript access, 3 imports per account, 25 recent conversations, checked October 14, 2026
• NPR: class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations, August 15, 2025
• ConvertAudioToText pricing