Best Otter.ai Alternatives in 2026
Otter.ai scores 7.5/10 on our tests. Here are 3 alternatives worth considering in the AI Business & Productivity space.
Otter.ai
Joins your meetings, transcribes everything, and gives you a summary so you can actually pay attention
Top Alternatives, Ranked
Microsoft's in-house speech-recognition line. **MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming launched 2026-10-01 -- Microsoft's first real-time streaming transcription model, ranked No. 1 on Artificial Analysis for both final and partial transcripts, 60 languages with continuous language detection, first partial hypotheses just over 100 ms after audio arrives, at an introductory $0.54 per hour of audio through the end of 2026.** It sits beside the batch **MAI-Transcribe-2 (2026-09-03, $0.10 per hour)**, which superseded the 1.5 model this page was built on: diarization, configurable styles, word-level timestamps, No. 1 on FLEURS across 60 languages. Microsoft pairs the streaming model with the new MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash for voice agents.
AI meeting notetaker with 6,000+ integrations that records, transcribes, and summarizes your calls
**Notion 3.7 (2026-09-15)**: Agent skills for the whole team -- reusable instructions that teach Notion Agent how your team works, kept in a shared skills library and run with a slash command. **Model controls (2026-09-09)**: Business/Enterprise workspace owners can now pick which AI models Notion Agent and Custom Agents may use and set a default -- a cost and compliance lever the page lacked. Also new since July: suggest-edits mode (8/28), a model picker with scorecards (8/14), the Developer Portal in the sidebar (8/19), and AI Meeting Notes triggering Custom Agents (7/31). AI built into Notion -- Custom Agents exited beta 2026-05-04/05 with admin controls (per-agent spend caps, workspace caps, auto-pause on limit) and credit billing live at $10 / 1,000 credits (~$0.17-$0.33 per agent run) as an add-on to Business/Enterprise
Score Comparison
| Tool | Ease of Use | Output Quality | Value | Features | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter.ai(current) | 9.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.5 |
| Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-1.5 | 6.0 | 9.5 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 7.9 |
| Fireflies.ai | 7.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 9.0 | 7.8 |
| Notion AI | 9.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 |
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