How Much Otter AI Costs in 2026: Every Plan, Limit and Price Per User

Quick answer: Otter has four plans. Basic is free with 300 transcription minutes a month and a 30-minute ceiling per conversation. Pro costs $8.33 per user per month on annual billing or $16.99 monthly. Business costs $19.99 annually or $30 monthly and removes the minute cap. Enterprise is quote-only, and SSO requires a minimum 100-user license.

Disclosure: Lynkk publishes this guide and makes a competing AI meeting assistant.

Otter AI pricing looks simple until you notice that two different numbers are advertised for the same plan, and that the limit most likely to stop you is the cap on a single conversation, ahead of the monthly minute allowance.

How much does Otter AI cost per month?

Otter costs $0, $16.99 or $30 per user per month depending on the plan, and annual billing cuts those paid prices to $8.33 and $19.99. That is a 51% reduction on Pro and 33% on Business, so the billing cycle changes the bill more than the plan choice does for many teams.

And the limits attached to each:

Otter AI pricing leads with the $8.33 figure. Budget from it and then pick monthly billing and you pay 104% more than planned.

Is Otter AI free?

Yes. Basic is free with no time limit, and it includes 300 transcription minutes a month, live transcription, speaker identification, automated summaries with action items, and the bot that joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet.

The limits are where it stops being a working plan:

• 300 transcription minutes a month. Five hours. Two one-hour calls a week exhausts it before month end, and unused minutes do not roll over.
• 30 minutes per conversation. A 45-minute call is transcribed for 30 minutes and then stops. You keep the first half.
• 25 most recent conversations. Older notes drop off the list.
• 3 file imports for the lifetime of the account. Three, ever, not three a month.
• 20 AI Chat questions a month, capped at 3 per conversation.
• 5 custom vocabulary terms.

Basic answers one question well: is the transcription accurate enough for your accents and your product names? It will not carry a working week.

How much does Otter AI Pro cost?

Otter Pro costs $8.33 per user per month on annual billing and $16.99 on monthly billing, and it raises the monthly allowance to 1,200 minutes with a 90-minute ceiling per conversation. That is 20 hours of meetings a month, roughly an hour a day.

What Pro adds over Basic:

• 1,200 transcription minutes a month per user
• 90 minutes per conversation, up from 30
• 10 file imports a month, up from 3 for life
• Unlimited conversation history and unlimited storage
• 50 AI Chat questions a month
• 2 concurrent meetings, so the bot can cover two calls at once
• Export to pdf, docx and srt, plus playback from 0.5x to 3x
• Salesforce and HubSpot sync, limited to 1 user
• Custom vocabulary of 100 names plus 100 other terms

The minute pool is shared across live recordings and imported files, so uploading an old recording draws down the same 1,200 minutes as a live call. Pro also caps the workspace at 5 billed users.

How much does Otter AI Business cost?

Otter Business costs $19.99 per user per month on annual billing and $30 monthly, and it is the tier where the transcription minute cap disappears entirely. The per-conversation ceiling rises to 4 hours and the workspace caps at 25 billed users.

Business adds:

• Unlimited meetings and in-app recordings
• 4 hours per meeting
• 6,000 minutes a month per user for imported files, the one allowance that remains
• Unlimited file imports
• 3 concurrent meetings
• 200 AI Chat questions per user
• Activity logs, usage analytics, user management and centralized billing
• Salesforce and HubSpot sync for 5 users
• Bulk export and prioritized support

The step from Pro to Business is $11.66 per user per month on annual billing, which is $1,399 a year for a team of 10.

What does Otter AI pricing cost per year?

Per user per year, Otter costs $99.96 on Pro annual, $203.88 on Pro monthly, $239.88 on Business annual and $360 on Business monthly. For a team of ten that is a spread of roughly $2,600 between the cheapest and most expensive way to buy the same software.

What does Otter AI Pro do that Basic does not?

Pro's real purchase is length and permanence: 90-minute conversations instead of 30, unlimited history instead of the 25 most recent notes, and 10 monthly file imports instead of 3 for the life of the account. The AI Chat allowance also rises from 20 questions to 50.

If your meetings are consistently under 30 minutes and you never revisit a note older than a few weeks, Basic covers it. The moment a call runs long, Basic loses the second half.

Is Otter AI Pro worth it?

Pro is worth $8.33 a month for an individual whose meetings stay under 90 minutes and who runs fewer than 20 hours of calls a month. Above either of those thresholds the economics break, because the next upgrade is $11.66 more per user and removes both ceilings at once.

Two situations where Pro is the wrong buy, covered further in our Otter AI alternatives roundup:

• More than one person needs CRM sync. Pro covers 1 user. Business covers 5.
• An admin needs oversight. Activity logs and usage analytics start at Business.

What are the Otter AI Enterprise plans?

Across the Otter AI plans, Enterprise is quote-only. It adds SSO, SCIM provisioning, domain capture and custom data retention. It also adds the Otter API and webhooks, video replay for Zoom and Google Meet, the Otter Sales Notetaker, custom CRM and dialer integrations, and HIPAA compliance as a paid add-on.

One number decides this tier for mid-sized companies: SSO and SCIM require a minimum 100-user license. A 40-person company whose security team mandates SSO is being asked to buy 100 seats.

Does Otter AI have a student discount?

Yes. Students and teachers with a .edu email address get 20% off Pro, which is $6.67 a month billed annually at $79.99, or $13.59 on monthly billing. The discount applies to individual accounts and is claimed from the Upgrade plan page after signing up with the .edu address.

Where Otter costs more than the advertised price

Five places Otter AI pricing outruns the headline:

1. Monthly billing. Pro at $16.99 against $8.33 is the single most common overspend.
2. Shared minute pools. Uploaded files and live calls draw from the same allowance on Basic and Pro.
3. Per-conversation caps. 30 minutes on Basic and 90 on Pro limit individual calls as well as the monthly total.
4. The 100-user SSO floor. A security requirement becomes a seat purchase.
5. CRM seats. Sync covers 1 user on Pro and 5 on Business, so a 12-person sales team on Business still leaves 7 reps syncing manually.

How Otter's pricing compares with Lynkk

Lynkk's free plan is $0 with no card: unlimited notes of up to 2 hours each, and the first 5 hours of AI summaries in total, not per month. After that, notes still record and transcribe, without summaries. The meeting bot for Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams is free on every plan, the Mac app also records in-person meetings and WhatsApp, FaceTime and Webex calls, and the Chrome extension captures calls without a bot. Within those 5 hours, and on Pro, each call gets a summary, action items with an owner and due date, and a recap email. Lynkk Pro is $15 per person a month, or $9.75 a month billed yearly ($117 a year), and adds unlimited summaries and Ask Lynkk, which answers questions across all your notes with numbered sources. Spotter, in development in the Mac app, helps during a call from your screen and the conversation, with early access on Pro by request. Enterprise is a custom price for up to 10 people on one bill, sold through a demo.

Two differences decide the comparison. Otter meters transcription minutes and caps a single conversation at 30 minutes on Basic and 90 on Pro. Lynkk does not meter minutes, and every note can run up to 2 hours on any plan, where Otter Business allows 4. And Otter syncs with Salesforce and HubSpot (1 user on Pro, 5 on Business), while Lynkk does not sync with a CRM today: action items go to Jira, answers go to Slack, and you can copy any summary into your CRM. The full feature-by-feature breakdown is on the Lynkk vs Otter comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Does Otter AI cost money? Otter has a permanently free Basic plan with 300 transcription minutes a month. Paid plans start at $8.33 per user per month on annual billing.

How much does Otter AI cost per month? Pro is $16.99 per user monthly or $8.33 annually. Business is $30 monthly or $19.99 annually. Basic is free and Enterprise is quoted.

How much does Otter AI cost per year? $99.96 per user on Pro annual and $239.88 on Business annual. Monthly billing raises those to $203.88 and $360.

Do unused Otter minutes roll over? No. The monthly transcription allowance resets each billing period and does not carry forward.

What happens when I hit the Otter minute limit? Transcription stops for the remainder of the billing period. Recordings may still be made but are not transcribed until the allowance resets or you upgrade.

Is Otter AI Pro worth it? For one person with meetings under 90 minutes and under 20 hours of calls a month, yes. Past either threshold, Business at $19.99 removes both caps.

How much is Otter AI Business per user? $19.99 per user per month on annual billing, $30 on monthly billing, with unlimited transcription minutes and a 25-user workspace cap.

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Sources: Otter.ai pricing page and Mixmax's review of AI note takers for sales, both checked 23 October 2026. See also the best AI note takers compared. Vendors change plans often; confirm before purchase.