Fathom vs Otter.ai

Fathom captures and transcribes meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. It can use bot or bot-free capture, then provide transcripts, summaries, and action items. The free plan includes unlimited recordings and transcriptions, instant AI call summaries, clips, playlists, and search. Fathom lists support for 38 transcription languages, speaker labels, and calendar integrations. Paid plans add advanced summaries, AI-generated action items, a conversational meeting assistant, or a custom meeting bot. The Free plan is free forever. Premium costs $16.00 per month with annual pricing. Team is $15.00 per month and Business is $25.00 per month, both with a two-user minimum and annual pricing. The pricing note lists paid plans from $15 per user per month on an annual basis. Enterprise has no listed price and includes organization-wide security controls, SSO and SCIM provisioning, custom data retention programs, and dedicated support options.

Otter.ai transcribes meetings into searchable text and provides summaries and action items. Its meeting bot can capture calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams; the Mac and Windows desktop apps can record conversations without a bot joining. Other listed features include live transcription, speaker labels, note templates, calendar integrations and a searchable archive. It supports six languages and is available through Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Chrome apps or extensions. Basic is free forever and includes 300 transcription minutes per user each month, three lifetime imported files per user, and a 30-minute maximum per conversation. Pro Annual costs $8.33/user/month, billed annually; Pro Monthly costs $16.99/user/month. Business Annual costs $19.99/user/month, billed annually, while Business Monthly costs $30/user/month. Business includes a seven-day free trial and allows conversations up to four hours. Otter lists TLS encryption and AES-256 encryption for real-time content. Payment options include credit and debit cards and Apple App Store or Google Play purchases.