Is Otter.ai Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of otter.ai plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-10-05

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Known issues we've tracked

PRICING RE-VERIFIED (2026-10-05, vendor-primary): otter.ai/pricing lists Basic (free: 300 monthly transcription minutes, 3 lifetime audio/video imports, AI Chat 20 queries/user, 30-minute conversations), Pro ($16.99/user/month monthly or $8.33/user/month annual, 'save 51%'; 1,200 in-app recording minutes, 10 monthly imports, 90 minutes per meeting, unlimited storage), Business ('Best Value', $30/user/month monthly or $19.99 annual, 'save 33%'; unlimited meetings and in-app recordings, unlimited imports, 4 hours per meeting, 3 concurrent meetings) and Enterprise (custom; unlimited custom AI workflows, SSO, SCIM, HIPAA add-on, API/webhooks). All paid plans include 'Advanced AI workflows' and Salesforce, HubSpot and Zapier integrations. Versus this page's March 2026 review: Pro moved from a flat $17 to a $16.99 monthly / $8.33 annual split, and Business dropped its 6,000-minute cap for 'unlimited'. No rename or ownership change on the vendor page.
2026-10-05•Otter.ai pricing page (otter.ai/pricing) -- fetched 2026-10-05 via WebFetch
OtterPilot occasionally fails to join scheduled meetings, requiring manual recording instead
2026-03•Reddit r/productivity
Transcripts sometimes merge two speakers into one when they talk at similar volumes
2026-02•G2 Reviews

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Otter.ai is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

B

Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-1.5

7.9

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of audio through the end of 2026.** It sits beside the batch **MAI-Transcribe-2 (2026-09-03, $0.10 per hour)**, which superseded the 1.5 model this page was built on: diarization, configurable styles, word-level timestamps, No. 1 on FLEURS across 60 languages.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.

B

Fireflies.ai

7.8

AI meeting notetaker with 6,000+ integrations that records, transcribes, and summarizes your calls **Pricing refreshed 2026-10-06: Free now stores 400 minutes per team (was 800) with 20 AI credits; Pro is $18 monthly or $10 per seat on annual billing; Business $29 or $19 with unlimited storage; a new Enterprise tier at $39 per seat, annual only; plus Fireflies Talk, a free unlimited dictation tool.**

B

Notion AI

7.0

**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

About Otter.ai

Tier B (7.5/10). Joins your meetings, transcribes everything, and gives you a summary so you can actually pay attention. **Pricing re-verified 2026-10-05: Basic stays free at 300 minutes/month with a 30-minute cap per conversation; Pro is $16.99/user/month monthly and annual billing drops Pro to $8.33; Business is $30 monthly or $19.99 annual and now advertises unlimited meetings and imports instead of a 6,000-minute cap.**