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: 2026-03-27
How to check right now
The simplest check. If it loads and you can log in, the tool is up for you.
User-reported outages aggregated across regions. Good signal for partial or regional outages.
Live tweets from other users. Fastest signal for a fresh outage -- often beats status pages by 10-20 minutes.
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Known issues we've tracked
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.
Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-1.5
7.9Microsoft's in-house speech-recognition model -- MAI-Transcribe-1.5 launched 2026-06-02 at Build: 43 languages (up from 25), best-in-class FLEURS WER, transcribes 1hr of audio in under 15s (was 53s), and new keyword-biasing cuts WER ~30%. #3 on Artificial Analysis at 2.4% WER. Now integrated into Copilot, Teams, GitHub, and Dynamics 365 Contact Center. Original MAI-Transcribe-1 shipped 2026-04-02 at $0.36/hr
Fireflies.ai
7.8AI meeting notetaker with 6,000+ integrations that records, transcribes, and summarizes your calls
Notion AI
7.0AI 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