Otter AI vs Fireflies

Side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and capabilities

Otter AI

★★★★☆ Freemium

AI meeting assistant for real-time transcription, summaries, and action items

Fireflies

★★★☆☆ Freemium

AI notetaker that records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings across platforms

Otter AIFireflies
Rating ★★★★☆ 3.6/5★★★☆☆ 3.4/5
Pricing FreemiumFreemium
Pricing Details Free tier with 300 min/mo transcription. Pro at $16.99/mo. Business at $30/user/mo. Enterprise pricing custom.Free tier with limited transcription. Pro at $18/user/mo. Business at $29/user/mo. Enterprise at $39/user/mo.
Category Productivity & WorkflowProductivity & Workflow
Key Features
  • Real-time transcription
  • Auto-join meetings
  • Speaker identification
  • Action item extraction
  • Slide capture
  • Post-meeting Q&A
  • Searchable archive
  • Cross-platform recording
  • AI-powered summaries
  • Conversation analytics
  • AskFred AI search
  • CRM integration
  • Topic tracking
  • Custom vocabulary
Tags
meetings transcription notes collaboration summaries
meetings transcription analytics crm-integration search

About Otter AI

Otter.ai joins your meetings (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams) and produces real-time transcription, automated summaries, and extracted action items. After the meeting, you get a searchable transcript with speaker identification, key topics highlighted, and a concise summary you can share with anyone who couldn't attend. The tool's OtterPilot feature automatically joins scheduled meetings from your calendar, so you don't have to remember to start recording. It captures slides presented during the meeting and integrates them into the transcript at the appropriate timestamps. Chat features let you ask questions about the meeting content after the fact. Otter.ai is designed for professionals and teams who spend significant time in meetings. It reduces the need for manual note-taking, ensures nothing falls through the cracks, and makes meeting content searchable and actionable. The free tier is generous enough for individuals; team plans add shared workspace features.

About Fireflies

Fireflies.ai is a meeting intelligence platform that automatically records and transcribes conversations across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and other conferencing tools. It uses AI to generate meeting summaries, extract action items, and create searchable transcripts organized by topic and speaker. What sets Fireflies apart is its conversation intelligence layer. It can analyze sentiment, talk-to-listen ratios, and topic patterns across meetings - giving managers and sales teams quantitative insights into their conversations. The AskFred AI assistant lets you query across your entire meeting history to find specific discussions, decisions, or commitments. Fireflies integrates with CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot), project management tools (Asana, Trello), and collaboration platforms (Slack, Notion), automatically pushing meeting notes and action items where your team already works.