Alle Vergleiche · vs Otter.ai
This page exists because Otter shows up in every "meeting recording" search. We're not the same product: Otter is the end-user SaaS, and meetbot is the developer API a product like Otter would be built on. Below we explain the framing, the price shape (per-seat vs per-hour), and when you'd pick one over the other. If you arrived here looking for a meeting-notes app for yourself, the honest answer is: install Otter. If you're a developer shipping a feature that records meetings, read on.
01 · Kurzfassung
Nimm Otter.ai wenn…
Nimm meetbot wenn…
02 · Spezifikationstabelle
Zahlen verifiziert gegen die zitierte Quelle am Datum im Footer. PR die Korrektur, wenn sich was bewegt hat.
| meetbot | Otter.ai | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| what is it | developer API (HTTP + SDKs) | SaaS app (web + mobile + Chrome ext) | |
| primary buyer | engineering team building a product | individual or team end-user | |
| pricing shape | $0.30 / hr of meeting time | $16.99–$30 / user / month[1] | |
| per-hour at 40 hr/mo Business | $0.30 | ~$0.50 ($30 ÷ 60 hr cap × 40 hr / 40 hr)[2] | |
| free tier | $5 one-time welcome credit | 300 minutes / month[3] | |
| raw outputs (audio · video · captions · chat) | yes — to your S3 bucket | no — locked in app | |
| brand the bot | yes (configurable bot_name) | no — bot is OtterPilot | |
| platforms | Meet, Teams, Zoom Web, Zoom SDK, Webex, Whereby, Jitsi, Discord | Meet, Teams, Zoom, Webex | |
| consumer apps | — | iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Chrome ext | |
| transcription quality | BYOK (Whisper, Deepgram, AssemblyAI on your own key); hosted Whisper-large-v3 ships Q3 2026 | Otter ASR (well-tuned) | |
| summarisation | BYO LLM via webhook payload | built-in (Otter AI Chat) |
03 · Preis-Szenarien
Drei Nutzungspunkte: Hobbyist, Startup und skaliertes Unternehmen. Formel pro Zelle sichtbar — kopiert sie in eine Tabelle, setzt eure eigenen Zahlen ein.
10 Stunden Meeting-Aufnahme pro Monat.
Different products. If you're a person who attends 10 meetings, Otter is the right purchase — you get a UI. We give you four files in a bucket.
1,000 Stunden Meeting-Aufnahme pro Monat.
Apples to oranges: 30 Otter seats also gives you 30 humans using a polished app. 1,000 meetbot hours gives you raw signals ready to be ingested by your own product.
50,000 Stunden Meeting-Aufnahme pro Monat.
At this scale you almost certainly aren't using Otter — you're building your own product on top of an infra layer like meetbot. The number is included for completeness, not as a real choice.
04 · wo sie gewinnen
Wir nehmen diesen Abschnitt auf, weil die Alternative — so zu tun, als gewännen wir überall — unehrlich ist, und unehrliche Vergleichsseiten sind der Grund, warum die meisten nicht lesenswert sind.
05 · wo wir gewinnen
Jede Zeile linkt zur Doc-Seite, die es belegt. Zahlen, keine Adjektive. Recherchiert gegen die öffentliche Oberfläche von Otter.ai zum Datum unten.
06 · Migration
Gleiche Form, gleiche Felder, anderer Host. Ersetzt euren Otter.ai Bot-Dispatch-Call durch einen meetbot-Call. Webhook-Payloads landen in derselben JSON-Form, die euer Handler schon parst.
// Otter doesn't have a public bot-dispatch API.
// Their integration story is "your users sign in to Otter
// and it joins their meetings via OtterPilot."
// You can't programmatically dispatch a bot to a URL.
//
// If your product needs to drop a bot in a meeting on
// behalf of your customer — without your customer signing
// in to a third-party app — you need an infra API.// meetbot — drop a bot in any meeting, metered by the second
const res = await fetch("https://api.meetbot.dev/api/v1/bot", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MEETBOT_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
meeting_url: "https://meet.google.com/abc-defg-hij",
bot_name: "YourProduct",
webhook_url: WEBHOOK_URL,
}),
});07 · FAQ
Zuletzt geprüft am 2026-05-09 gegen Otter.ais öffentliche Daten. Fehler entdeckt? Auf GitHub korrigieren.