Otter.ai vs ElevenLabs
Plans, free access, limits and intended use side by side, taken from each vendor’s own pages. No score and no winner: the facts show where the two differ.
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Record and transcribe meetings, then summarize, search and share them with AI.
Text to speech in 74 languages, with dubbing and cloning.
- Free access
- Otter.ai: Free access
- ElevenLabs: Free access
- Paid from
- Otter.ai: USD 8.33 per user per month
- ElevenLabs: No fixed price listed
- Plans listed
- Otter.ai: 4
- ElevenLabs: 7
- Public API
- Otter.ai: Not confirmed
- ElevenLabs: Yes
Where Otter.ai and ElevenLabs differ
- Pricing checkPrices confirmed for Otter.ai; pricing review due for ElevenLabs.
- PlansOtter.ai lists 4 plans and ElevenLabs lists 7.
Head to head
Each value from the tool’s profile and the vendor’s own pages
| Otter.ai | Fact | ElevenLabs |
|---|---|---|
| Access and price | ||
| Free access availableBasic · USD 0 | Free accessSame | Free access availableCreative Free |
| USD 8.33 per user per monthPro · billed annually · USD 16.99 billed monthly | Lowest listed paid plan | No fixed price listed |
| Free plan; paid Pro and Business | Pricing model | Free + paid |
| 4 | Plans listedDiffers | 7 |
| Not confirmed | Public API | Yes |
| Not confirmed | Card to start | Not required |
| Not confirmed | Open source | No |
| What it is for | ||
| Meeting transcripts, summaries and action items | Built for | Narration and voice work |
| Audio & voice | CategorySame | Audio & voice |
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| How current | ||
| Profile sources checked | ||
| Prices confirmed · Sep 26, 2026 | Pricing checkDiffers | Pricing review due · Sep 25, 2026 |
Official source check for both tools. No hands-on testing and no score: “Differs” marks a documented difference, not a better tool.
Plans and prices
Otter.ai
Prices confirmed · Sep 26, 2026- BasicUSD 0free with no end date
- ProUSD 8.33 per user per monthbilled annually · USD 16.99 billed monthly
- BusinessUSD 19.99 per user per monthbilled annually · USD 30 billed monthly
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ElevenLabs
Pricing review due · Sep 25, 2026- Creative FreeFreeno card · 10,000 credits a month
- StarterUSD 5 per monthbilled yearly · USD 6 billed monthly
- CreatorUSD 18.33 per monthbilled yearly · USD 22 billed monthly; USD 11 for the first month
- ProUSD 82.50 per monthbilled yearly · USD 99 billed monthly
- ScaleUSD 249.17 per monthbilled yearly · USD 299 billed monthly
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- BusinessUSD 825 per monthbilled yearly · USD 990 billed monthly
- EnterpriseContact provider
Strengths and limits
Otter.ai
Strengths
- Free plan without an end date: Basic costs nothing, has no time limit and still includes the meeting notetaker, live transcription and 300 minutes a month.
- Works on the main meeting platforms: The notetaker joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, and the desktop app records calls without a bot joining.
- Downgrades archive rather than delete: Cancelling or downgrading archives older conversations instead of removing them, and archived conversations can still be exported.
Limits to plan around
- 30-minute cap on the free plan: Basic shows only the first 30 minutes of each conversation or import until you upgrade to a paid plan.
- Six transcription languages: Only English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified) are transcribed.
- Subscriptions are non-refundable: Cancellation stops the next renewal only, and Otter asks for it at least 24 hours before the billing date.
ElevenLabs
Strengths
- One credit pool for every product: Narration, transcription, dubbing and sound effects all draw on the same monthly credits.
- Commercial license from Starter: Paid plans carry commercial rights for audio generated on them, from $6 a month.
- Credits carry over: Paid plans roll unused credits forward for up to two months.
Limits to plan around
- Free audio is noncommercial: Free-generated speech has no commercial license and needs attribution when published.
- Rights are fixed at generation time: Upgrading later does not make free-generated audio commercial.
- Paid use still has conditions: Commercial rights exclude beta features and depend on the rights to your source material.
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