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Otter vs Fireflies
Otter and Fireflies compared on what their own pages say, row by row — nothing about either in our words except a plain reading at the end.
Otter and Fireflies, row by row
| Otter | Fireflies | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan: how much | “300 monthly transcription minutes” — Basic, the free plan source | “400 mins of storage/team” — the free plan; transcription itself is not capped source |
| Free plan: longest meeting | “Max transcription time per conversation 30 minutes” — Basic, the free plan source | “Recording limit 2 Hours” — the free plan source |
| Free plan: how much is kept | “Conversation history 25 most recent” — Basic, the free plan source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Cheapest paid plan | “$8.33 user/month” — Pro, billed yearly source | “$10 per seat / month, billed annually” — Pro source |
| How it gets into a meeting | “Joins Zoom, MS Teams, and Google Meet to automatically write and share notes” source | “Record using Chrome extension without Fireflies bot” — or as a bot that joins the call source |
| Meeting apps | “Zoom, MS Teams, and Google Meet” source | “Record Zoom, Gmeet, MS teams, 10+” source |
| Who said what | “Speaker identification (by name)” source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Languages | “AI transcription in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese” source | “Transcription in 100+ languages” source |
| Video recording | “Video replay for Zoom and Google Meet” — Enterprise source | “Capture meeting video 720p” — paid plans source |
| Downloads and export | “Exportable audio, text, and captions mp3, txt” — free plan; pdf, docx and srt are on paid plans source | “Download transcripts, summaries, recordings” — Pro and up source |
| Single sign-on | “Single Sign-On (SSO) minimum 100-user license required” source | “SSO + SCIM” — Enterprise source |
| API | “Otter API & Webhooks” — Enterprise source | “API access 30/min · 500/day” — the free plan; higher limits on paid plans source |
Every cell is the company's own words, linked. Prices change — this is what each page said on 10 November 2026. Something changed? Tell us.
What the two pages add up to
- Both send a notetaker into Zoom, Teams and Google Meet calls; Fireflies also offers a Chrome extension that records without a bot.
- Their free plans are capped differently: Otter by minutes transcribed each month and 30 minutes a conversation, Fireflies by 400 minutes of storage for the whole team and a two-hour recording limit.
- Fireflies lists transcription in over 100 languages on its pricing page; Otter lists six.
Which matters for your meetings
If your meetings run long, the free plans part ways quickly: an hour-long call is beyond Otter's free 30 minutes but inside Fireflies' two hours, though Fireflies' 400 stored minutes for a whole team fill in a handful of such calls. If your colleagues speak something other than English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese or Chinese, Otter's own list does not cover them.
What that comes to, worked out
Take one person with three client calls a week, each about 45 minutes: roughly thirteen calls and 585 minutes a month. On Otter's free plan each call is written down only to its thirtieth minute, and the 300 minutes run out on the tenth call, so the last three calls of the month get nothing. On Fireflies' free plan each call is recorded whole, since it is under two hours, but the 400 minutes of storage are full after eight calls; to keep recording, older ones have to be deleted. Neither free plan carries that month. Paid, a year of Otter Pro is $99.96 for one person and a year of Fireflies Pro $120.
The sums use only the numbers quoted above. Yearly prices are the monthly figure times twelve.
Where Meetful is different from both
Meetful is a meeting app rather than a notetaker you add to someone else's call. It transcribes each person from their own microphone, so every line carries the name of whoever said it without guessing, and there is no bot in the participant list. The notes, the recording and the transcript are free, and anybody in the meeting can leave themselves out of the notes.
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Meetings that take their own notes
Free video meetings in the browser: every line of the transcript under the name of who said it, and the summary and action items when you hang up. Nothing to install — guests just open the link.