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FMeetily vs Otter.ai
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Meetily if…
- you want open source you can self-host or audit
- you work on Linux, Self-hosted
- you're in its core audience: privacy-conscious professionals, healthcare and legal teams
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Choose Otter.ai if…
- you want the lower entry price ($8.33/mo vs $10/mo)
- you need an API to build on
- you work on Web, iOS, Android
- you're in its core audience: sales teams, recruiters
Side by side
Feature Meetily Otter.ai
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$10/mo$8.33/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your contentNoYes
Security and complianceGDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2—
GitHub stars32.3K—
Bot-free recording
In-person mobile recording—
Speaker labels
Chat across meetings—
CRM sync—
MCP server
Custom note templates
Call analytics—
PlatformsmacOS, Windows, Linux, Self-hostedWeb, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Chrome, API
CategoryMeeting NotesMeeting Notes
CompanyZackriya SolutionsOtter.ai Inc
Based in——
Founded——
Part of——
Key features
M Meetily
- Local real-time transcription with Whisper models
- Bot-free recording from system audio
- AI summaries via Ollama or your own API key
- Speaker diarization (Pro)
- Audio/video import in 10 formats
- Exports to PDF, DOCX and Markdown (Pro)
- MCP, webhook and CLI integrations (Pro)
- Automatic meeting detection (Pro)
O Otter.ai
- Live transcription with speaker identification
- AI notetaker joins Zoom, Teams and Google Meet
- Bot-free recording from desktop app
- Automated summaries with action items
- AI Chat search across meetings
- Live-Assist coaching during calls
- CRM sync to Salesforce and HubSpot
- MCP server for ChatGPT and Claude
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Meetily
CommunityFree
Pro TrialFree
Pro$10/user/month billed yearly ($120/user/year)
EnterpriseCustom
Otter.ai
BasicFree
Pro$8.33/user/mo billed annually ($16.99 monthly)
Business$19.99/user/mo billed annually ($30 monthly)
EnterpriseCustom
Strengths and limitations
Meetily
- Free MIT-licensed Community Edition
- Recordings and audio stay on the device
- No meeting bot joins calls
- 14-day Pro trial with no credit card and a 30-day refund
- Each Pro license covers only one device
- No native Linux app yet, so Linux users build from source
- Speaker identification is limited to paid plans
- Calendar integration and chat with meetings are not yet available
Otter.ai
- Free plan includes 300 transcription minutes a month
- Records via bot, desktop, Chrome or mobile apps
- Wide integration list including Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and Notion
- MCP server connects meeting data to AI assistants
- Free plan caps conversations at 30 minutes and keeps 25 most recent
- AI transcription limited to six languages
- API, SSO and HIPAA only on Enterprise
- SSO and SCIM require a 100-user minimum
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