Otter.ai Pricing Explained (2026): Every Plan & Minute Limit

Otter.ai has a free Basic plan, Pro at $8.33/month (annual; $16.99 monthly), Business at $19.99/seat (annual; $30 monthly), and custom Enterprise pricing. It's cheaper than most rivals at entry, but the catch is the monthly transcription minute cap — Otter meters how much it will transcribe, and that limit, more than any feature, decides which plan you need. Here's the full breakdown.

Otter.ai plans at a glance

Plan	Monthly	Annual	Minutes/mo	Per-meeting cap
Basic (Free)	$0	$0	300	30 min
Pro	$16.99	$8.33	1,200	90 min
Business	$30/seat	$19.99/seat	Unlimited	4 hours
Enterprise	Custom		Unlimited	4 hours

Every tier includes live transcription, speaker ID, AI summaries, and Otter's AI Chat. In 2026 Otter also added five named AI Agents (Sales, SDR, Education, Media, Recruiting), AI meeting workflows, and a Gmail connector across the paid plans.

Basic (Free) plan

Otter's free Basic plan gives you 300 transcription minutes per month, capped at 30 minutes per meeting, plus 3 lifetime audio/video file imports. That's fine for a few short calls a month or trying the product, but the 30-minute meeting cap is the real constraint — a single hour-long meeting gets cut off halfway. Anyone with regular meetings will outgrow it fast.

Pro — $8.33/mo ($16.99 monthly)

Pro is the individual plan and a genuinely cheap one. For $8.33/month annually (about $100/year) you get 1,200 minutes a month, a 90-minute per-meeting cap, 10 file imports per month, and advanced search and export. For a solo professional with a normal meeting load, Pro is usually enough — the jump from 300 to 1,200 minutes and 30 to 90 minutes per meeting is what most people are buying.

Business — $19.99/seat ($30 monthly)

Business is where the caps come off. For $19.99/seat annually you get unlimited monthly minutes, a generous 4-hour per-meeting cap, the ability to join up to 3 meetings at once, admin controls, and usage analytics. If you have long calls, lots of them, or a team that needs to record simultaneously, this is the tier — unlimited minutes is the headline reason to upgrade from Pro.

Enterprise

Enterprise is custom-priced and adds the security and admin layer larger organizations need — SSO, advanced compliance, deployment controls, and dedicated support — on top of the same unlimited minutes and 4-hour meeting cap as Business. If you don't have compliance or single-sign-on requirements, Business delivers the same core capability for a published price.

The minute cap, explained

Otter's pricing lives or dies on the monthly minute allowance, and it's easy to underestimate. 300 free minutes sounds like five hours, but with a 30-minute-per-meeting ceiling you effectively get ten short calls. Pro's 1,200 minutes covers roughly 20 hours of meetings a month. If you're regularly in hour-plus calls, you'll bump the per-meeting cap on Pro (90 minutes) before you exhaust the monthly pool — which is exactly the nudge toward Business.

This is the biggest difference versus Fireflies, which offers unlimited transcription on every tier. If metered minutes stress you out, that's a real reason to compare the two — see Fireflies vs Otter.ai.

Is Otter worth it?

Yes, for individuals and light-to-moderate use. Pro at $8.33/month is one of the cheapest ways to get reliable, real-time transcription with AI summaries, and Otter's live captions and collaborative notes are genuinely best-in-class for students and accessibility. The value holds as long as you fit inside the minute caps.

Less so if you're in constant long meetings or need deep CRM integrations — there, unlimited-transcription tools like Fireflies make more sense. Read the full Otter.ai review, compare it with the bot-free option in Granola vs Otter.ai, or see the whole field in our best AI note takers guide.