Otter.ai
Joins Zoom / Meet / Teams as a meeting bot. Real-time transcription, speaker identification, searchable archive across past meetings. SSO + admin controls at Business tier.
Active · Verified 2026-10-22 · fresh as of 2026-10-22 · 50 cited facts, 2 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Meeting bot + browser extension + app vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Voice-first / wearable AI memory
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Basic free; Pro $16.99/user/mo monthly or $8.33 annual; Business $30 list ($19.99 annual); Enterprise custom vendor fix
- Funding
- $73M total Series B · 2021-02 vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-22 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- file
- retrieval
- similarity
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- append-only
- unit
- episode
- governance
- inspectable
- conflict
- append
When to use
Optimised for: always-on capture + lifelog timeline + voice UX
Anti-fit: not for enterprise compliance-regulated environments without explicit consent flows
Pros & cons
Pros
Most established meeting-bot brand with wide Zoom/Meet/Teams coverage and decent enterprise admin controls.
Cons
Memory is meeting-archive style — searchable transcripts but no semantic threading across meetings; limited multilingual coverage.
Claims & capabilities
Free 300 min/mo, Pro $10/user/mo (annual), Business $20/user/mo. Real-time transcription in English, French, Spanish.
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST (Otter API for speeches/transcripts) — partner access
- Backend storage
- custom
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- locked
- Multi-tenancy
- hard-isolation
- MCP
- yes — first-party Otter MCP server (listed in Basic/Pro features); API & webhooks on Enterprise
- A2A
- not supported
- OpenTelemetry
- no — consumer product
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Similar systems
Other voice-first / wearable ai memory in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Granola T1
Mac/iOS app (no hardware). Captures meeting audio via system-audio tap (no bot joining); generates notes from your shorthand + audio. Local audio processing claim; cloud for summaries. Enterprise tier opts out of model training.
- Bee T1
Acquired by Amazon (Jul 2025); bee.computer is now © Amazon and sells the Bee Frontier wearable ($74.99), with a Bee Eclipse device marked coming soon. Small wearable (pendant / clip / bracelet). Continuous capture; converts speech to text immediately; never stores raw audio . Daily summaries, personal fact sheet, to-do suggestions. Cloud processing on derived text only.
- Era Computer T5
Software platform / OS layer for AI wearables (glasses, rings, pendants, speakers) that abstracts hardware from AI orchestration. Memory and model providers are pluggable and user-controlled rather than cloud-locked; supports 130+ LLMs from 14+ providers. Founded 2025 by ex-Humane team.
- Friend T1
Pendant necklace (~2 inches). Always-on listening feeds a persistent AI companion persona. Companionship-framed rather than productivity / recall. Cloud LLM backend; no detailed encryption claims.
- Limitless T1
Former Rewind/Limitless lifelog (Pendant wearable + screen/audio capture with timeline search). Acquired by Meta (2025-12); Pendant no longer sold as of 2025-12-05, service withdrawn from the EU, UK, Brazil, China, Israel, South Korea and Turkey on 2025-12-05, desktop/web recording ended and Rewind capture disabled from 2025-12-19; existing Pendant customers supported throughout 2026.
- Memories.ai LVMM 2.0 / Project LUCI T2
Developer-first reference platform for AI wearables. LVMM 2.0 captures visual data through video, encodes it into frames on-device, and stores moments as searchable memories; companion app surfaces past conversations/decisions/experiences. Hardware-level security via Qualcomm partnership; cloud sync for enterprise tiers.
Sources (49 cited facts, 2 third-party)
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- What it is Meeting bot + browser extension + app vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Joins Zoom / Meet / Teams as a meeting bot. Real-time transcription, speaker identificat… vendor
- Claims / benefits Free 300 min/mo, Pro $10/user/mo (annual), Business $20/user/mo. Real-time transcription… vendor
- Modalities voice vendor
- Created 2016-09 vendor
- Mindshare 146 jobs 26 HN · 2 press third-party
- Funding $73M total Series B · 2021-02 vendor
- Customers / scale $100M ARR 51-200 ppl 35M users, enterprise customers unnamed publicly vendor
- Pricing Basic free; Pro $16.99/user/mo monthly or $8.33 annual; Business $30 list ($19.99 annual… vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA (Enterprise with BAA) vendor
- Data handling Trains on customer data (default — de-identified audio/transcripts used for training; ex… vendor
- Deployment Managed-only vendor
- HQ US third-party
- Founders / pedigree Draper / Spectrum Equity; founder Sam Liang (Stanford PhD in distributed systems) vendor
- Memory volume / scale internal — undisclosed vendor
- API surface REST (Otter API for speeches/transcripts) — partner access vendor
- Backend storage custom vendor
- Multi-tenancy hard-isolation vendor
- Encryption at-rest + in-transit vendor
- SSO / RBAC SSO + RBAC vendor
- Embedding model locked vendor
- Versioning immutable append-log vendor
- Tombstoning append-only no delete vendor
- Schema evolution free-form / no schema vendor
- Namespace primitives hierarchical vendor
- Contradiction handling always append (no resolution) vendor
- Forgetting policy none (permanent) vendor
- MCP support yes — first-party Otter MCP server (listed in Basic/Pro features); API & webhooks on Ent… vendor
- A2A support not supported vendor
- OTel no — consumer product vendor
- Webhooks / events webhooks supported (API) vendor
- Import / export TXT / DOCX / PDF / SRT / VTT / MP3 vendor
- Validated verticals consumer / individual (voice + wearable users) vendor
- Time to running <1day (purchase hardware + pair) or <10min (software-only meeting bots) vendor
- Anti-fit not for enterprise compliance-regulated environments without explicit consent flows vendor
- Optimised for always-on capture + lifelog timeline + voice UX vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure self-contained device + cloud back-end vendor
- Pros Most established meeting-bot brand with wide Zoom/Meet/Teams coverage and decent enterpr… vendor
- Cons Memory is meeting-archive style — searchable transcripts but no semantic threading acros… vendor
- Project & sources otter.ai pricing vendor
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- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
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- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
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