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Meeting Sarthi vs Otter.ai
Otter.ai is a note-taker that joins your meetings and shares notes. Meeting Sarthi helps you answer during a client meeting and never joins it. Which one you need depends on that moment.
Short answer: choose Otter.ai for shared notes and transcripts for your team across Zoom, Teams and Google Meet. Choose Meeting Sarthi if you need help answering the client while the meeting is on, from your own project, without anyone joining.
Otter.ai details were read on Otter.ai’s pricing page on 12 November 2026. We build Meeting Sarthi.
What Otter.ai says it does
Otter.ai’s pricing page lists a free Basic plan with 300 transcription minutes a month (30 minutes per conversation), Pro at $16.99 per user a month (or $8.33 a month billed yearly) and Business from $19.99 per user a month billed yearly. It “joins Zoom, MS Teams, and Google Meet to automatically write and share notes”, and lists live transcription, live notes and captioning for Zoom and Google Meet, and AI Chat within and across meetings.
Side by side
| Meeting Sarthi | Otter.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Help during a client meeting, for you | Notes and transcripts shared with your team |
| Joins the meeting | Never | Yes, in Zoom, MS Teams and Google Meet |
| During the meeting | Live captions and a short reply from your own project | Live transcription and notes; AI Chat |
| Answers from | Your own confirmed notes and documents | What was said in your meetings |
| Price | Captions and recaps free; live answers 30 free minutes per computer, then ₹299 for 30 days on 2 computers, paid once | Basic free; Pro $16.99 per user a month ($8.33 billed yearly) |
| Where it runs | Windows app | Web, through the meeting apps |
Where Otter.ai is ahead
- Notes and transcripts for the whole team, written and shared automatically.
- Works in a web browser through Zoom, Teams and Google Meet, with no app to install on Windows.
- The AI is included in the plan; Meeting Sarthi needs your own free Google Gemini key.
Where Meeting Sarthi is different
- It never joins the meeting, so nothing is added and it works in any meeting app the client picks.
- A short reply from your own project when the client asks something, during the meeting. It never invents dates, names or numbers.
- Projects, notes, documents and transcripts stay on your computer.
- Captions and recaps are free; live answers are paid once, never renewing.
Use both?
Some people will: a note-taker for the team’s record, and Meeting Sarthi on their own PC for the questions they have to answer. Follow your workplace’s and your client’s rules on AI tools.
Questions people ask
Does Otter.ai join my meeting?
Otter.ai's own pricing page says it joins Zoom, MS Teams and Google Meet to automatically write and share notes (checked 12 November 2026). Meeting Sarthi never joins the meeting.
Is Otter.ai free?
Otter.ai's Basic plan is free with 300 transcription minutes a month and 30 minutes per conversation; Pro is $16.99 per user a month, or $8.33 a month billed yearly, as its pricing page showed on 12 November 2026.
What is a good Otter.ai alternative for client meetings?
If you need help during the meeting rather than notes after it, Meeting Sarthi is a Windows app that shows live captions and a short reply from your own project, never joins the meeting, and has free captions and recaps.
Help during the meeting, from your own project
Meeting Sarthi shows live captions and a short reply to what the client just asked. Captions and recaps are free.