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meetbot 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.

Войти →К ценампоследняя проверка 2026-05-09

01 · кратко

Если коротко.

Используйте Otter.ai если…

  • You're an end-user who wants a meeting-notes app on your phone and laptop.
  • Your team needs a finished SaaS workflow today: recording, summary, action items, search.
  • You'll never integrate the recording into your own product — you just want to use it.
  • You want their consumer apps (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Chrome ext.) which are mature.

Используйте meetbot если…

  • You're building a SaaS product where recording-the-meeting is a feature.
  • You need raw signals (per-speaker audio, captions, chat) — not a polished UI on top of them.
  • You bill your customers per-seat or per-account; you want infra costs that match (per-hour, not per-seat).
  • You want to put your brand on the bot in the meeting — not Otter's.

02 · таблица спецификаций

Бок о бок. Без прикрас.

Числа проверены против указанного источника на дату в подвале. Сделайте PR с исправлением, если что-то изменилось.

meetbotOtter.ai
what is itdeveloper API (HTTP + SDKs)SaaS app (web + mobile + Chrome ext)
primary buyerengineering team building a productindividual 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 credit300 minutes / month[3]
raw outputs (audio · video · captions · chat)yes — to your S3 bucketno — locked in app
brand the botyes (configurable bot_name)no — bot is OtterPilot
platformsMeet, Teams, Zoom Web, Zoom SDK, Webex, Whereby, Jitsi, DiscordMeet, Teams, Zoom, Webex
consumer appsiOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Chrome ext
transcription qualityBYOK (Whisper, Deepgram, AssemblyAI on your own key); hosted Whisper-large-v3 ships Q3 2026Otter ASR (well-tuned)
summarisationBYO LLM via webhook payloadbuilt-in (Otter AI Chat)
  1. [1]pricing shape: otter.ai/pricing
  2. [2]per-hour at 40 hr/mo Business: otter.ai/pricing
  3. [3]free tier: otter.ai/pricing

03 · сценарии цен

Расчёт, тремя способами.

Три точки использования: хобби, стартап и крупная компания. Формула видна в каждой ячейке — скопируйте её в таблицу, подставьте свои числа.

сценарий 1

Hobbyist · 10 hr / mo

10 часов записи встреч в месяц.

meetbot
10 hr × $0.30 = $3.00
$3.00/мес
Otter.ai
1 user × Pro $16.99 = $16.99
$16.99/мес

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.

сценарий 2

Startup · 1,000 hr / mo

1,000 часов записи встреч в месяц.

meetbot
1,000 hr × $0.30 = $300
$300/мес
Otter.ai
30 users × Business $30 = $900 (capped per-user hours)
$900/мес

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.

сценарий 3

Scale · 50,000 hr / mo

50,000 часов записи встреч в месяц.

meetbot
1,000 hr × $0.30 + 9,000 hr × $0.25 + 40,000 hr × $0.20 = $10,550
$10,550/мес
Otter.ai
1,500 users × Business $30 = $45,000
$45,000/мес

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 · где выигрывают они

Где Otter.ai — лучший выбор.

Мы включаем этот раздел, потому что альтернатива — притворяться, что мы выигрываем везде — нечестна, и нечестные сравнения — причина, по которой большинство из них не стоят чтения.

  • 01You're a person, not a product. Otter is a great app — install it on your phone, attend meetings, get summaries. We don't ship a phone app and won't.
  • 02Native consumer apps everywhere — iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Chrome extension. Mature, fast, polished.
  • 03Built-in summarisation, action-item extraction, in-meeting AI chat. We give you raw audio + native captions and trust you to build that yourself (or pipe per-speaker audio into the transcription provider of your choice).
  • 04A consumer-grade recorder UX, calendar polish, and mature mobile/desktop apps. We cover Webex through the meeting-bot API, but we are not trying to replace Otter as a notes app.
  • 05Brand recognition. End-users have heard of Otter. They haven't heard of meetbot.

05 · где выигрываем мы

Где выигрывает meetbot.

Каждая строка ссылается на страницу docs, которая это доказывает. Числа, не прилагательные. Источники сверены с публичными данными Otter.ai на дату ниже.

06 · миграция

Весь переход. Восемь строк.

Та же форма, те же поля, другой хост. Замените свой вызов dispatch бота Otter.ai на вызов meetbot. Webhook payload приходит в том же JSON-формате, который ваш handler уже парсит.

Otter.ai (до)ts
// 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 (после)ts
// 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

Вопросы, которые нам действительно задают.

Q.Why are you comparing yourself to Otter at all?
Because they show up in the same searches. We'd rather acknowledge it directly than pretend they don't exist or pretend we compete for the same buyer. The honest answer is: different products, different buyers, different pricing shapes. This page exists so the right reader picks the right tool.
Q.Can I use Otter's API to build my product?
Otter has limited API surface focused on workspace integration (importing existing recordings, SSO). There is no public "drop a bot in this meeting URL, send me the recording" endpoint. If that's what you need, you need an infra API — meetbot, Recall.ai, MeetingBaaS, Vexa, or Attendee.
Q.What about Fireflies / Read / Sembly / Bluedot?
Same framing — they're SaaS apps for end-users with per-seat pricing, not infra APIs for developers. If you're building a product, none of those are the right shape. We may write per-vendor pages for each over time; for now this Otter page is the canonical "infra-vs-SaaS" framing.
Q.I'm an end-user who came to this page by accident. What should I do?
Try Otter. It's a good product, with mature mobile apps and a polished summarisation flow. We don't ship anything for end-users and don't intend to.
Q.How do I know which side I'm on?
Quick test: if your meeting recording would end up displayed inside another piece of software you're building, you need an API (meetbot). If your meeting recording would end up displayed inside an app you opened on your phone, you need a SaaS (Otter).

Последняя проверка 2026-05-09 против Otter.ai, публичных данных. Заметили ошибку? Исправить на GitHub.