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ElevenLabs vs Otter.ai

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

 
ElevenLabs
Audio
Otter.ai
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TaglineThe gold standard for AI voice cloning and TTS.AI meeting notetaker that transcribes calls, summarizes them, and pulls out action items in real time.
CategoryAudioAudio
PricingFreemium· Free 10k chars/mo; from $5/mo Starter; up to $1320/mo ScaleFreemium· Free Basic; Business $19.99/user/mo; Enterprise custom
ModelElevenLabs Multilingual v2Proprietary speech + LLM stack
Editorial score9.4 / 106.8 / 10
Use cases
TTSvoice cloningaudiobooksdubbing
meeting-transcriptionmeeting-summariesaction-itemssales-call-noteslive-captions
Pros
  • Best-in-class voice quality
  • Hundreds of voices + cloning
  • Multilingual
  • Strong API
  • Genuinely free tier covers casual meeting notes without a trial clock
  • Joins Zoom/Meet/Teams as a bot and ships desktop bot-free recording
  • Strong CRM and workspace integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Notion)
  • MCP server lets Claude/ChatGPT query your meeting history directly
Cons
  • Pro features are pricey
  • Voice clone abuse policy needs care
  • No general developer API for programmatic transcription workflows
  • Bot-in-meeting model can feel intrusive on sensitive calls
  • Accuracy on heavy accents and crosstalk still lags dedicated ASR vendors
Websiteelevenlabs.iootter.ai
Pick ElevenLabs if
  • ✅ Best-in-class voice quality
  • ✅ Hundreds of voices + cloning
  • ✅ Multilingual
  • ✅ Strong API
Pick Otter.ai if
  • ✅ Genuinely free tier covers casual meeting notes without a trial clock
  • ✅ Joins Zoom/Meet/Teams as a bot and ships desktop bot-free recording
  • ✅ Strong CRM and workspace integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Notion)
  • ✅ MCP server lets Claude/ChatGPT query your meeting history directly
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