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Plaud offers dedicated in-person and phone-call recorders plus AI workflows; Team can record desktop calls without a separate device.", "products": [ { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "shortName": "Otter", "logoPath": "/logos/otter.svg", "website": "https://otter.ai", "tagline": "A familiar live-transcription product with mobile apps, workflows, and an accessible free tier.", "positioning": "Otter remains one of the easiest names to recognize in live transcription. It now offers meeting agents, automatically assigned action items, workflows, cross-meeting chat, desktop/mobile apps, two-way AI Chat connectors, MCP, and CRM connections, while minute caps and enterprise-only video/API features shape the real value.", "bestFor": "Students, individuals, and teams that prioritize live text, simple mobile capture, an inexpensive Pro plan, and a familiar transcript-first experience.", "lessIdealFor": "Teams needing more transcription languages, video playback below Enterprise, higher usage allowances, automations across apps, or shared company history.", "decisionSummary": { "fit": "Affordable live transcription on desktop and mobile", "chooseFor": [ "Live text and simple capture", "A useful free allowance" ], "watchFor": [ "API, webhooks, and video need Enterprise", "No team-wide action-item board" ] }, "pricing": { "headline": "Free; Pro from $8.33/user/month annually", "detail": "Basic includes 300 transcription minutes per month, a 30-minute cap per conversation, three lifetime file imports, and access to the 25 most recent conversations. Paid prices are per user/month: Pro is $8.33 with annual billing or $16.99 month-to-month, with 1,200 in-app minutes, 90-minute meetings, and ten monthly imports; Business is $19.99 or $30 and adds unlimited in-app meetings, four-hour meetings, and more administration. Enterprise is custom and gates API/webhooks, video replay, SSO/SCIM, and some compliance options.", "freePlan": "Yes: 300 minutes per month, 30 minutes per conversation, three lifetime imports, and a 25-conversation visible history." }, "strengths": [ "Polished live transcript, speaker identification, mobile apps, playback, and cross-meeting chat.", "The macOS and Windows desktop app can detect Zoom, Teams, Meet, and other browser calls, then either prompt or begin bot-free recording automatically.", "A useful free plan and inexpensive Pro entry point for lower-volume users.", "Meeting agents and custom workflows broaden it beyond simple transcription, while MCP makes notes available to AI tools.", "Otter automatically assigns detected action items and gives each person a cross-meeting list for editing, reassignment, source lookup, and completion.", "Conversations can be exported individually in TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, and MP3; Business adds bulk export and Enterprise adds granular media/transcript retention controls." ], "tradeoffs": [ "Basic and Pro have monthly minute, per-meeting, and import limits that matter for meeting-heavy professionals; Basic only exposes the 25 most recent conversations.", "Video replay is an Enterprise feature and is limited to supported Zoom and Google Meet recordings.", "API/webhooks, SSO/SCIM, and HIPAA options are Enterprise-gated.", "Transcription covers six languages; German and Simplified Chinese are beta, and only French can switch automatically with English in the same conversation.", "AI Chat connectors work only in Advanced mode and vary by plan. Outlook email actions remain unsupported, the mobile app still uses the older AI Chat experience, and several Enterprise exports or integrations need account-manager setup.", "The global action-item view is personal rather than manager-wide: users can see tasks assigned to themselves, but not a workspace-wide board of everyone’s work.", "On ordinary plans, Otter says it trains proprietary models on de-identified audio and transcripts. Enterprise workspaces are opted out by default; third-party AI providers are prohibited from training on customer data." ], "chooseIf": [ "Live transcription and easy mobile capture matter more than retaining video.", "Your usage fits comfortably inside the free or Pro minute limits.", "You want an established transcript-first product with lightweight workflows and agent access." ], "features": { "capture": { "summary": "Meeting agent or automatic bot-free desktop capture, plus mobile", "detail": "Otter can join major meeting platforms, capture from its apps, and show text live. Its desktop app can detect Zoom, Teams, Meet, and other browser calls from microphone activity, then stay off, prompt the user, or start recording automatically for each meeting type. Scheduling and limits depend on the chosen plan.", "level": "strong" }, "platforms": { "summary": "Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android", "detail": "Broad app coverage makes Otter easy to use in virtual or room conversations. The desktop app now supports configurable automatic recording for detected calls. Feature parity and allowances differ between in-app and imported usage.", "level": "strong" }, "inPerson": { "summary": "Strong mobile live transcription", "detail": "iOS and Android support in-person recording with live text. Otter separates voices after processing and can learn previously tagged speakers, but new or uncertain voices remain Speaker 1 or Unknown until tagged. Live platform-name labels are a separate Notetaker behavior, strongest on Zoom.", "level": "strong" }, "recordings": { "summary": "Audio playback broadly; video replay on Enterprise", "detail": "Audio is synchronized to text on ordinary plans. Video replay requires Enterprise and currently applies to supported Zoom and Google Meet recordings rather than every capture path.", "level": "available" }, "notesAndSearch": { "summary": "Live transcript, search, and automatically assigned action items", "detail": "Otter automatically detects and assigns action items, links generated work back to transcript evidence, and gives each user a cross-meeting list with edit, reassign, and completion controls. That list only shows work assigned to the signed-in person, rather than a workspace-wide manager view. Allowances and advanced custom workflows vary by plan.", "level": "strong" }, "companyMemory": { "summary": "Cross-meeting search and chat", "detail": "Otter can answer across conversations, but does not emphasize full relationship pages combining meetings, email, calendar, people, companies, and future events.", "level": "available" }, "sharing": { "summary": "User auto-share and Enterprise workspace defaults", "detail": "Individuals can auto-share by calendar audience and use channels. Enterprise admins can choose the options members see and set a default, but ordinary audience defaults are not fully locked; admins can only force privacy by leaving “Don’t share” as the sole option. External auto-share channels are also Enterprise-only.", "level": "available" }, "automations": { "summary": "Meeting agents and custom workflows, with plan differences", "detail": "Otter automatically detects and assigns action items, tracks each person’s work across meetings, can create Jira issues with assignees and due dates, and uses custom workflows, Zapier, and AI Chat actions for role-specific output and downstream work. The personal action view does not give a manager one board for every assignee, and connector or workflow eligibility varies by plan.", "level": "available" }, "integrations": { "summary": "Meeting platforms, CRM, Zapier, Slack, Jira, work-app connectors, and Enterprise exports", "detail": "Paid plans connect Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zapier. AI Chat’s Advanced mode can read and act in Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, and Jira, with Salesforce context available separately. Slack can post summaries and action notifications, while Enterprise supports account-manager-enabled SharePoint and automatic Drive exports. Availability and setup vary substantially by plan.", "level": "strong" }, "agentsAndApi": { "summary": "MCP broadly; API and webhooks on Enterprise", "detail": "MCP is listed even on Basic and can access meetings captured by or shared with the authenticated user. It currently has no public API-key setup for arbitrary AI applications. The public API and webhooks require Enterprise and account-manager enablement.", "level": "available" }, "admin": { "summary": "Business administration; advanced security on Enterprise", "detail": "Business adds centralized features and bulk export. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, API access, video replay, granular retention, no-training by default, and HIPAA options. Several advanced controls—including retention and automatic Drive export—require account-manager setup.", "level": "available" }, "languages": { "summary": "Six transcription languages, two still in beta", "detail": "Otter transcribes English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and spoken Mandarin with Simplified Chinese output. German and Chinese are beta. It normally handles one language per conversation; French can auto-switch with English, and other mixed-language pairs are not supported.", "level": "limited" } }, "sources": [ { "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." }, { "label": "Otter Basic-plan limits", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360047538094-Conversation-import-and-app-limits-on-the-Basic-free-plan", "note": "Monthly minutes, per-conversation duration, lifetime imports, and 25-conversation history." }, { "label": "Otter desktop automatic recording", "url": "https://otter.ai/blog/never-miss-the-conversation-introducing-automatic-recording-in-otter-desktop", "note": "August 2026 automatic detection, reminders, and bot-free recording behavior for Zoom, Teams, Meet, and other browser calls." }, { "label": "Otter automatic sharing", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20424842990999-Manage-auto-share-settings", "note": "Workspace defaults for automatic audience, collaborator permissions, and meeting-level overrides." }, { "label": "Otter supported languages", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26660468516631-Transcribe-conversations-in-English-Spanish-French-German-Japanese-or-Chinese-Simplified", "note": "Six-language scope, beta languages, one-language behavior, French/English switching, and reprocessing limits." }, { "label": "Otter speaker identification", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21665587209367-Speaker-Identification-Overview", "note": "Post-processing diarization, learned speaker names, generic labels for new voices, and live Zoom behavior." }, { "label": "Otter action items", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25983095114519-Action-Items-Overview", "note": "Cross-meeting personal action-item view, transcript links, editing, reassignment, completion, and the lack of a workspace-wide all-assignees view." }, { "label": "Otter automatic action-item assignment", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/5093228433687-Conversation-Page-Overview", "note": "Automatic detection and assignment of meeting action items to relevant workspace members." }, { "label": "Otter AI Chat connectors", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/19682180167575-Otter-AI-Chat-Overview", "note": "Advanced-mode Gmail, Google Drive, Jira, Notion, and Salesforce connector capabilities plus plan and mobile-version caveats." }, { "label": "Otter Jira integration", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/40485786582551-Connect-Jira-to-Otter-ai", "note": "Automatic Jira issue creation from meeting actions with assignees, due dates, projects, source links, and AI Chat access." }, { "label": "Otter Slack integration", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13627121851799-Connect-Slack-to-Otter-ai", "note": "Summary posting, recurring-meeting delivery, rich previews, access handling, and action-item notifications." }, { "label": "Otter SharePoint export", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/38533740881175-Connect-Microsoft-SharePoint-to-Otter-ai", "note": "Enterprise automatic transcript, summary, and metadata export plus administrator and account-manager setup." }, { "label": "Otter workspace auto-share controls", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/32589333117591-Manage-Workspace-auto-share-settings", "note": "Enterprise eligibility, selectable defaults, user overrides, and the privacy-lock exception." }, { "label": "Otter MCP server", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/35287607569687-Otter-MCP-Server", "note": "Authenticated meeting scope, shared meetings, supported clients, and lack of a public MCP API key." }, { "label": "Otter public API", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/4412365535895-Does-Otter-offer-an-open-API", "note": "Enterprise-only public API availability and account-manager enablement." }, { "label": "Otter privacy and model training", "url": "https://otter.ai/privacy-security", "note": "Proprietary-model training on de-identified recordings and transcripts, plus third-party provider no-training and zero-storage commitments." }, { "label": "Otter Enterprise controls", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13352505516695-Enterprise-Admin-Controls-Overview", "note": "Enterprise no-training default, 2FA, export controls, audio removal, and advanced governance." }, { "label": "Otter retention policy", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/19500988656279-Set-a-custom-Data-Retention-policy", "note": "Account-manager configured retention for full conversations, recordings, or transcripts." }, { "label": "Otter conversation export", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360047733634-Export-conversations", "note": "Individual and Business bulk exports across text, subtitle, and audio formats." } ] }, { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "shortName": "Plaud", "logoPath": "/marketing/comparisons/logos/plaud.png", "website": "https://www.plaud.ai", "tagline": "Dedicated recorders with desktop capture and AI workflows.", "positioning": "Plaud combines dedicated phone-mounted and wearable recorders with desktop capture and an AI workspace. Its Note family records calls and room audio, while NotePin models focus on in-person conversations. Plaud Intelligence adds templates, search, Agent actions, Skills, and Routines; transcription minutes and Agent credits are separate allowances.", "bestFor": "People who prefer a dedicated recorder or wearable, and teams that want Plaud’s capture hardware, templates, and Agent workflows in one ecosystem.", "lessIdealFor": "People who want in-person recording directly from their existing phone or Watch, or organizations that require SSO and flexible external meeting access.", "decisionSummary": { "fit": "Dedicated recorders, templates, and Agent workflows", "chooseFor": [ "Phone-mounted and wearable recorders", "Templates, Skills, and Routines" ], "watchFor": [ "Separate Agent credit allowance", "Hardware for portable capture" ] }, "pricing": { "headline": "Devices list at $159–$189; AI plans priced separately", "detail": "Standard device prices are $159 for Note or NotePin, $179 for NotePin S, and $189 for Note Pro; promotions may lower these prices. Pro costs $99.99/year or $17.99/month; Unlimited costs $239.99/year or $29.99/month. Team requires at least two seats and costs $25/user/month with annual billing or $35 with monthly billing. Launch offers reduce those rates to $20 for the first year or $28 through November 30, 2026, respectively. Agent credits are separate from transcription.", "freePlan": "Starter is free with a device and includes 300 transcription minutes/month. Pro includes 1,200/month; Unlimited and Team allow up to 24 hours/day. Unused monthly minutes do not roll over. Paid Team users can record on desktop without buying hardware." }, "strengths": [ "Choose a phone-mounted recorder for calls and meetings or a wearable for in-person conversations. The devices capture independently and provide physical recording controls.", "Desktop capture combines audio, highlights, typed notes, and screenshots. Use templates to format summaries and ask questions across recordings.", "Plaud offers MCP and CLI access to recordings and transcripts, plus Skills, Routines, connected Agent actions, and a managed Team workspace." ], "tradeoffs": [ "Portable hardware capture adds a device to buy and charge. NotePin models do not record phone calls; that requires Note or Note Pro. Team desktop capture does not require hardware.", "An unlimited transcription plan does not mean unlimited Agent use. Ask Plaud, connected actions, Skills, and Routines consume separate credits; the launch grant does not renew monthly.", "Team sharing is limited to workspace members, and SSO is not yet supported. Existing AutoFlows do not migrate automatically to Routines." ], "chooseIf": [ "You want a dedicated phone-mounted or wearable recorder with physical controls.", "You value summary templates, highlights, screenshots, and Agent-generated documents.", "You want Plaud hardware and desktop recordings in a managed workspace with MCP and CLI access." ], "features": { "capture": { "summary": "Dedicated recorders, bot-free desktop, and imports", "detail": "Press and hold a device’s recording control to start. Note and Note Pro capture calls and room audio; NotePin and NotePin S capture in-person conversations. Desktop records computer audio without a meeting bot and offers manual, prompted, or automatic recording. Team users can record on desktop without hardware; individual Starter activation requires a bound device.", "level": "strong" }, "platforms": { "summary": "Recorders, iOS, Android, web, macOS, and Windows", "detail": "Mobile apps manage devices and recordings; web and desktop provide access to the same account or workspace. Desktop records from a Mac or Windows computer. Without a Plaud device, Team capture is through desktop or audio imports. A native Apple Watch recorder is not documented; NotePin is separate wearable hardware.", "level": "available" }, "inPerson": { "summary": "Portable hardware with automatic speaker labels", "detail": "All four Note/NotePin models record in-person conversations and support speaker-labeled transcription. NotePin S has a tactile button and highlight control; the original NotePin uses a pressure-sensitive control and lacks device highlights. Both need charging and transfer recordings for processing. Neither NotePin model supports phone-call recording.", "level": "strong" }, "recordings": { "summary": "Saved audio, highlights, exports, and desktop screenshots", "detail": "Keep and play back audio, export recordings and text, and mark important moments. Desktop can attach screenshots and typed notes to enrich summaries. Screenshots are not a continuous meeting-video recording. MCP and CLI can retrieve audio download links, full speaker-labeled transcripts, and generated notes.", "level": "available" }, "notesAndSearch": { "summary": "Templates, action items, and questions across recordings", "detail": "Plaud generates speaker-labeled transcripts, default summaries, and action items. Template summaries offer different views of a conversation. Ask Plaud searches across transcribed files with references; Agent can create documents and take actions in connected apps. Default meeting outputs use transcription allowances, while Agent questions and new work use separate credits.", "level": "strong" }, "companyMemory": { "summary": "Recording knowledge base and connected Agent context", "detail": "Plaud Intelligence organizes recordings into a searchable knowledge base. Agent can use shared Team recordings and connected tools to answer questions and complete tasks. The cited documentation does not establish dedicated person/company pages with rolling summaries and email relationship timelines.", "level": "available" }, "sharing": { "summary": "Personal sharing, Team member access, and Routines", "detail": "Personal plans include sharing and exports. Team files are private until shared with workspace members, with member-restricted links rather than public external links. Routines can deliver notes through connected tools, but this does not grant access to the source recording or establish workspace-wide sharing defaults.", "level": "available" }, "automations": { "summary": "Conditional Routines, Skills, and connected actions", "detail": "Plaud Intelligence replaces AutoFlow with Routines, which can run on schedules or conditions such as a completed recording. Skills define reusable tasks and can be shared on Team. Existing AutoFlows do not carry over automatically. Running Skills and Routines consumes Plaud Credits, separate from transcription minutes.", "level": "strong" }, "integrations": { "summary": "Agent connectors, Zapier, and developer tools", "detail": "Agent lists Slack, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Outlook, Notion, Linear, and Zapier connectors. More Microsoft 365 integrations and a Salesforce note-sync connector are described as upcoming. Connected Agent actions use credits. MCP and CLI provide another route for assistants and custom workflows.", "level": "strong" }, "agentsAndApi": { "summary": "MCP and CLI retrieval; separate Embedded SDK/API", "detail": "Plaud MCP and CLI retrieve recording metadata, speaker-labeled transcripts, summaries, and audio links. CLI search matches recording names across up to 500 recent files, rather than semantic transcript search. The Embedded device SDK and transcription API are separate offerings; the cited docs do not establish a full REST API for the consumer workspace.", "level": "available" }, "admin": { "summary": "Security certifications and Team administration", "detail": "Plaud lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701, GDPR, and HIPAA support. Team adds billing, seat and device management, secure offboarding, and workspace-level data residency. Content remains private until shared. The Team FAQ says SSO is not yet supported; a workspace has a two-seat minimum.", "level": "available" }, "languages": { "summary": "112 transcription languages", "detail": "Plaud documents transcription in 112 languages with speaker labeling and custom vocabulary. Validate performance on the languages, accents, and specialized terminology you use; the supported-language count is not an independent accuracy comparison.", "level": "strong" } }, "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud devices", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-device-comparison", "note": "Model-specific controls, phone-call/in-person capture, charging, storage, and list prices." }, { "label": "Plaud recording controls", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/55643286546329-How-to-Record", "note": "Press-and-hold recording and model-specific highlight controls." }, { "label": "Plaud plans", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-ai-plan-pricing", "note": "Individual and Team prices, transcription allowances, launch offers, and included features." }, { "label": "Plaud desktop", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-desktop", "note": "Bot-free capture, meeting detection, recording modes, screenshots, highlights, and typed notes." }, { "label": "Plaud desktop requirements", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/53795026112409-Device-binding-required-notice-on-Plaud-Desktop", "note": "Individual Starter activation requires a device bound to the account." }, { "label": "Plaud Team requirements", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/57466295856537-What-is-Plaud-Team", "note": "Two-seat minimum, roles, privacy, and Team desktop capture without hardware." }, { "label": "Plaud Team administration", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-team", "note": "Team management, data residency, and the FAQ stating SSO is not yet supported." }, { "label": "Plaud Team sharing", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/57138357578649-Sharing-content-in-Plaud-Team", "note": "Private-by-default recordings and member-only file sharing and links." }, { "label": "Plaud cross-recording questions", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/51041335681689-Ask-Across-All-Files-Ask-Plaud", "note": "Questions across transcribed recordings and source-file references." }, { "label": "Plaud Skills and Routines", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/plaud-intelligence-skills-routines", "note": "Conditional automation, shared Skills, Agent credit costs, and AutoFlow migration limits." }, { "label": "Plaud Intelligence Team update", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/get-ready-new-plaud-intelligence-for-team", "note": "Shared Agent context, launch connectors, forthcoming integrations, and account updates." }, { "label": "Plaud Agent credits", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/piplcrinto", "note": "Transcription versus Agent usage, nonrenewing launch grants, and paid credit top-ups." }, { "label": "Plaud MCP", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/plaud-mcp-cli/mcp", "note": "Recording, summary, transcript, and audio-link retrieval through authenticated MCP." }, { "label": "Plaud CLI", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/plaud-mcp-cli/cli", "note": "Command-line retrieval and name-based search limited to 500 recent recordings." }, { "label": "Plaud developer platform", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/overview", "note": "Distinguishes the Embedded device SDK/transcription API from access to Plaud account data." } ] } ], "dimensions": [ { "key": "capture", "label": "Capture options", "lead": "Both products document broad support for capture options, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Otter: Otter can join major meeting platforms, capture from its apps, and show text live. Its desktop app can detect Zoom, Teams, Meet, and other browser calls from microphone activity, then stay off, prompt the user, or start recording automatically for each meeting type. Scheduling and limits depend on the chosen plan. Plaud: Press and hold a device’s recording control to start. Note and Note Pro capture calls and room audio; NotePin and NotePin S capture in-person conversations. Desktop records computer audio without a meeting bot and offers manual, prompted, or automatic recording. Team users can record on desktop without hardware; individual Starter activation requires a bound device.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "Meeting agent or automatic bot-free desktop capture, plus mobile", "detail": "Otter can join major meeting platforms, capture from its apps, and show text live. Its desktop app can detect Zoom, Teams, Meet, and other browser calls from microphone activity, then stay off, prompt the user, or start recording automatically for each meeting type. Scheduling and limits depend on the chosen plan.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." }, { "label": "Otter desktop automatic recording", "url": "https://otter.ai/blog/never-miss-the-conversation-introducing-automatic-recording-in-otter-desktop", "note": "August 2026 automatic detection, reminders, and bot-free recording behavior for Zoom, Teams, Meet, and other browser calls." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "Dedicated recorders, bot-free desktop, and imports", "detail": "Press and hold a device’s recording control to start. Note and Note Pro capture calls and room audio; NotePin and NotePin S capture in-person conversations. Desktop records computer audio without a meeting bot and offers manual, prompted, or automatic recording. Team users can record on desktop without hardware; individual Starter activation requires a bound device.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud devices", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-device-comparison", "note": "Model-specific controls, phone-call/in-person capture, charging, storage, and list prices." }, { "label": "Plaud recording controls", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/55643286546329-How-to-Record", "note": "Press-and-hold recording and model-specific highlight controls." }, { "label": "Plaud desktop", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-desktop", "note": "Bot-free capture, meeting detection, recording modes, screenshots, highlights, and typed notes." }, { "label": "Plaud desktop requirements", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/53795026112409-Device-binding-required-notice-on-Plaud-Desktop", "note": "Individual Starter activation requires a device bound to the account." }, { "label": "Plaud Team requirements", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/57466295856537-What-is-Plaud-Team", "note": "Two-seat minimum, roles, privacy, and Team desktop capture without hardware." } ] } }, { "key": "platforms", "label": "Desktop and mobile", "lead": "Otter has broader documented support for desktop and mobile.", "analysis": "Otter: Broad app coverage makes Otter easy to use in virtual or room conversations. The desktop app now supports configurable automatic recording for detected calls. Feature parity and allowances differ between in-app and imported usage. Plaud: Mobile apps manage devices and recordings; web and desktop provide access to the same account or workspace. Desktop records from a Mac or Windows computer. Without a Plaud device, Team capture is through desktop or audio imports. A native Apple Watch recorder is not documented; NotePin is separate wearable hardware.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android", "detail": "Broad app coverage makes Otter easy to use in virtual or room conversations. The desktop app now supports configurable automatic recording for detected calls. Feature parity and allowances differ between in-app and imported usage.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." }, { "label": "Otter desktop automatic recording", "url": "https://otter.ai/blog/never-miss-the-conversation-introducing-automatic-recording-in-otter-desktop", "note": "August 2026 automatic detection, reminders, and bot-free recording behavior for Zoom, Teams, Meet, and other browser calls." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "Recorders, iOS, Android, web, macOS, and Windows", "detail": "Mobile apps manage devices and recordings; web and desktop provide access to the same account or workspace. Desktop records from a Mac or Windows computer. Without a Plaud device, Team capture is through desktop or audio imports. A native Apple Watch recorder is not documented; NotePin is separate wearable hardware.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud desktop", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-desktop", "note": "Bot-free capture, meeting detection, recording modes, screenshots, highlights, and typed notes." }, { "label": "Plaud desktop requirements", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/53795026112409-Device-binding-required-notice-on-Plaud-Desktop", "note": "Individual Starter activation requires a device bound to the account." }, { "label": "Plaud Team requirements", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/57466295856537-What-is-Plaud-Team", "note": "Two-seat minimum, roles, privacy, and Team desktop capture without hardware." } ] } }, { "key": "inPerson", "label": "In-person capture and speaker labels", "lead": "Both products document broad support for in-person capture and speaker labels, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Otter: iOS and Android support in-person recording with live text. Otter separates voices after processing and can learn previously tagged speakers, but new or uncertain voices remain Speaker 1 or Unknown until tagged. Live platform-name labels are a separate Notetaker behavior, strongest on Zoom. Plaud: All four Note/NotePin models record in-person conversations and support speaker-labeled transcription. NotePin S has a tactile button and highlight control; the original NotePin uses a pressure-sensitive control and lacks device highlights. Both need charging and transfer recordings for processing. Neither NotePin model supports phone-call recording.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "Strong mobile live transcription", "detail": "iOS and Android support in-person recording with live text. Otter separates voices after processing and can learn previously tagged speakers, but new or uncertain voices remain Speaker 1 or Unknown until tagged. Live platform-name labels are a separate Notetaker behavior, strongest on Zoom.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." }, { "label": "Otter speaker identification", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21665587209367-Speaker-Identification-Overview", "note": "Post-processing diarization, learned speaker names, generic labels for new voices, and live Zoom behavior." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "Portable hardware with automatic speaker labels", "detail": "All four Note/NotePin models record in-person conversations and support speaker-labeled transcription. NotePin S has a tactile button and highlight control; the original NotePin uses a pressure-sensitive control and lacks device highlights. Both need charging and transfer recordings for processing. Neither NotePin model supports phone-call recording.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud devices", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-device-comparison", "note": "Model-specific controls, phone-call/in-person capture, charging, storage, and list prices." }, { "label": "Plaud recording controls", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/55643286546329-How-to-Record", "note": "Press-and-hold recording and model-specific highlight controls." }, { "label": "Plaud plans", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-ai-plan-pricing", "note": "Individual and Team prices, transcription allowances, launch offers, and included features." } ] } }, { "key": "recordings", "label": "Recordings, playback, and clips", "lead": "Both products support recordings, playback, and clips, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Otter: Audio is synchronized to text on ordinary plans. Video replay requires Enterprise and currently applies to supported Zoom and Google Meet recordings rather than every capture path. Plaud: Keep and play back audio, export recordings and text, and mark important moments. Desktop can attach screenshots and typed notes to enrich summaries. Screenshots are not a continuous meeting-video recording. MCP and CLI can retrieve audio download links, full speaker-labeled transcripts, and generated notes.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "Audio playback broadly; video replay on Enterprise", "detail": "Audio is synchronized to text on ordinary plans. Video replay requires Enterprise and currently applies to supported Zoom and Google Meet recordings rather than every capture path.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." }, { "label": "Otter conversation export", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360047733634-Export-conversations", "note": "Individual and Business bulk exports across text, subtitle, and audio formats." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "Saved audio, highlights, exports, and desktop screenshots", "detail": "Keep and play back audio, export recordings and text, and mark important moments. Desktop can attach screenshots and typed notes to enrich summaries. Screenshots are not a continuous meeting-video recording. MCP and CLI can retrieve audio download links, full speaker-labeled transcripts, and generated notes.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud devices", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-device-comparison", "note": "Model-specific controls, phone-call/in-person capture, charging, storage, and list prices." }, { "label": "Plaud desktop", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-desktop", "note": "Bot-free capture, meeting detection, recording modes, screenshots, highlights, and typed notes." }, { "label": "Plaud plans", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-ai-plan-pricing", "note": "Individual and Team prices, transcription allowances, launch offers, and included features." }, { "label": "Plaud Agent credits", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/piplcrinto", "note": "Transcription versus Agent usage, nonrenewing launch grants, and paid credit top-ups." }, { "label": "Plaud MCP", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/plaud-mcp-cli/mcp", "note": "Recording, summary, transcript, and audio-link retrieval through authenticated MCP." }, { "label": "Plaud CLI", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/plaud-mcp-cli/cli", "note": "Command-line retrieval and name-based search limited to 500 recent recordings." } ] } }, { "key": "notesAndSearch", "label": "Notes, action items, and search", "lead": "Both products document broad support for notes, action items, and search, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Otter: Otter automatically detects and assigns action items, links generated work back to transcript evidence, and gives each user a cross-meeting list with edit, reassign, and completion controls. That list only shows work assigned to the signed-in person, rather than a workspace-wide manager view. Allowances and advanced custom workflows vary by plan. Plaud: Plaud generates speaker-labeled transcripts, default summaries, and action items. Template summaries offer different views of a conversation. Ask Plaud searches across transcribed files with references; Agent can create documents and take actions in connected apps. Default meeting outputs use transcription allowances, while Agent questions and new work use separate credits.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "Live transcript, search, and automatically assigned action items", "detail": "Otter automatically detects and assigns action items, links generated work back to transcript evidence, and gives each user a cross-meeting list with edit, reassign, and completion controls. That list only shows work assigned to the signed-in person, rather than a workspace-wide manager view. Allowances and advanced custom workflows vary by plan.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." }, { "label": "Otter action items", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25983095114519-Action-Items-Overview", "note": "Cross-meeting personal action-item view, transcript links, editing, reassignment, completion, and the lack of a workspace-wide all-assignees view." }, { "label": "Otter automatic action-item assignment", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/5093228433687-Conversation-Page-Overview", "note": "Automatic detection and assignment of meeting action items to relevant workspace members." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "Templates, action items, and questions across recordings", "detail": "Plaud generates speaker-labeled transcripts, default summaries, and action items. Template summaries offer different views of a conversation. Ask Plaud searches across transcribed files with references; Agent can create documents and take actions in connected apps. Default meeting outputs use transcription allowances, while Agent questions and new work use separate credits.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud plans", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-ai-plan-pricing", "note": "Individual and Team prices, transcription allowances, launch offers, and included features." }, { "label": "Plaud cross-recording questions", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/51041335681689-Ask-Across-All-Files-Ask-Plaud", "note": "Questions across transcribed recordings and source-file references." }, { "label": "Plaud Skills and Routines", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/plaud-intelligence-skills-routines", "note": "Conditional automation, shared Skills, Agent credit costs, and AutoFlow migration limits." }, { "label": "Plaud Agent credits", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/piplcrinto", "note": "Transcription versus Agent usage, nonrenewing launch grants, and paid credit top-ups." } ] } }, { "key": "companyMemory", "label": "People, companies, and context", "lead": "Both products support people, companies, and context, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Otter: Otter can answer across conversations, but does not emphasize full relationship pages combining meetings, email, calendar, people, companies, and future events. Plaud: Plaud Intelligence organizes recordings into a searchable knowledge base. Agent can use shared Team recordings and connected tools to answer questions and complete tasks. The cited documentation does not establish dedicated person/company pages with rolling summaries and email relationship timelines.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "Cross-meeting search and chat", "detail": "Otter can answer across conversations, but does not emphasize full relationship pages combining meetings, email, calendar, people, companies, and future events.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "Recording knowledge base and connected Agent context", "detail": "Plaud Intelligence organizes recordings into a searchable knowledge base. Agent can use shared Team recordings and connected tools to answer questions and complete tasks. The cited documentation does not establish dedicated person/company pages with rolling summaries and email relationship timelines.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud cross-recording questions", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/51041335681689-Ask-Across-All-Files-Ask-Plaud", "note": "Questions across transcribed recordings and source-file references." }, { "label": "Plaud Intelligence Team update", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/get-ready-new-plaud-intelligence-for-team", "note": "Shared Agent context, launch connectors, forthcoming integrations, and account updates." }, { "label": "Plaud Skills and Routines", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/plaud-intelligence-skills-routines", "note": "Conditional automation, shared Skills, Agent credit costs, and AutoFlow migration limits." } ] } }, { "key": "sharing", "label": "Automatic sharing and workspace defaults", "lead": "Both products support automatic sharing and workspace defaults, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Otter: Individuals can auto-share by calendar audience and use channels. Enterprise admins can choose the options members see and set a default, but ordinary audience defaults are not fully locked; admins can only force privacy by leaving “Don’t share” as the sole option. External auto-share channels are also Enterprise-only. Plaud: Personal plans include sharing and exports. Team files are private until shared with workspace members, with member-restricted links rather than public external links. Routines can deliver notes through connected tools, but this does not grant access to the source recording or establish workspace-wide sharing defaults.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "User auto-share and Enterprise workspace defaults", "detail": "Individuals can auto-share by calendar audience and use channels. Enterprise admins can choose the options members see and set a default, but ordinary audience defaults are not fully locked; admins can only force privacy by leaving “Don’t share” as the sole option. External auto-share channels are also Enterprise-only.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter automatic sharing", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20424842990999-Manage-auto-share-settings", "note": "Workspace defaults for automatic audience, collaborator permissions, and meeting-level overrides." }, { "label": "Otter workspace auto-share controls", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/32589333117591-Manage-Workspace-auto-share-settings", "note": "Enterprise eligibility, selectable defaults, user overrides, and the privacy-lock exception." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "Personal sharing, Team member access, and Routines", "detail": "Personal plans include sharing and exports. Team files are private until shared with workspace members, with member-restricted links rather than public external links. Routines can deliver notes through connected tools, but this does not grant access to the source recording or establish workspace-wide sharing defaults.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud plans", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-ai-plan-pricing", "note": "Individual and Team prices, transcription allowances, launch offers, and included features." }, { "label": "Plaud Team sharing", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/57138357578649-Sharing-content-in-Plaud-Team", "note": "Private-by-default recordings and member-only file sharing and links." }, { "label": "Plaud Intelligence Team update", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/get-ready-new-plaud-intelligence-for-team", "note": "Shared Agent context, launch connectors, forthcoming integrations, and account updates." }, { "label": "Plaud Skills and Routines", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/plaud-intelligence-skills-routines", "note": "Conditional automation, shared Skills, Agent credit costs, and AutoFlow migration limits." } ] } }, { "key": "automations", "label": "Automations", "lead": "Plaud has broader documented support for automations.", "analysis": "Otter: Otter automatically detects and assigns action items, tracks each person’s work across meetings, can create Jira issues with assignees and due dates, and uses custom workflows, Zapier, and AI Chat actions for role-specific output and downstream work. The personal action view does not give a manager one board for every assignee, and connector or workflow eligibility varies by plan. Plaud: Plaud Intelligence replaces AutoFlow with Routines, which can run on schedules or conditions such as a completed recording. Skills define reusable tasks and can be shared on Team. Existing AutoFlows do not carry over automatically. Running Skills and Routines consumes Plaud Credits, separate from transcription minutes.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "Meeting agents and custom workflows, with plan differences", "detail": "Otter automatically detects and assigns action items, tracks each person’s work across meetings, can create Jira issues with assignees and due dates, and uses custom workflows, Zapier, and AI Chat actions for role-specific output and downstream work. The personal action view does not give a manager one board for every assignee, and connector or workflow eligibility varies by plan.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." }, { "label": "Otter action items", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25983095114519-Action-Items-Overview", "note": "Cross-meeting personal action-item view, transcript links, editing, reassignment, completion, and the lack of a workspace-wide all-assignees view." }, { "label": "Otter automatic action-item assignment", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/5093228433687-Conversation-Page-Overview", "note": "Automatic detection and assignment of meeting action items to relevant workspace members." }, { "label": "Otter Jira integration", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/40485786582551-Connect-Jira-to-Otter-ai", "note": "Automatic Jira issue creation from meeting actions with assignees, due dates, projects, source links, and AI Chat access." }, { "label": "Otter AI Chat connectors", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/19682180167575-Otter-AI-Chat-Overview", "note": "Advanced-mode Gmail, Google Drive, Jira, Notion, and Salesforce connector capabilities plus plan and mobile-version caveats." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "Conditional Routines, Skills, and connected actions", "detail": "Plaud Intelligence replaces AutoFlow with Routines, which can run on schedules or conditions such as a completed recording. Skills define reusable tasks and can be shared on Team. Existing AutoFlows do not carry over automatically. Running Skills and Routines consumes Plaud Credits, separate from transcription minutes.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud Skills and Routines", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/plaud-intelligence-skills-routines", "note": "Conditional automation, shared Skills, Agent credit costs, and AutoFlow migration limits." }, { "label": "Plaud Agent credits", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/piplcrinto", "note": "Transcription versus Agent usage, nonrenewing launch grants, and paid credit top-ups." } ] } }, { "key": "integrations", "label": "Integrations", "lead": "Both products document broad support for integrations, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Otter: Paid plans connect Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zapier. AI Chat’s Advanced mode can read and act in Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, and Jira, with Salesforce context available separately. Slack can post summaries and action notifications, while Enterprise supports account-manager-enabled SharePoint and automatic Drive exports. Availability and setup vary substantially by plan. Plaud: Agent lists Slack, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Outlook, Notion, Linear, and Zapier connectors. More Microsoft 365 integrations and a Salesforce note-sync connector are described as upcoming. Connected Agent actions use credits. MCP and CLI provide another route for assistants and custom workflows.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "Meeting platforms, CRM, Zapier, Slack, Jira, work-app connectors, and Enterprise exports", "detail": "Paid plans connect Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zapier. AI Chat’s Advanced mode can read and act in Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, and Jira, with Salesforce context available separately. Slack can post summaries and action notifications, while Enterprise supports account-manager-enabled SharePoint and automatic Drive exports. Availability and setup vary substantially by plan.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." }, { "label": "Otter AI Chat connectors", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/19682180167575-Otter-AI-Chat-Overview", "note": "Advanced-mode Gmail, Google Drive, Jira, Notion, and Salesforce connector capabilities plus plan and mobile-version caveats." }, { "label": "Otter Jira integration", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/40485786582551-Connect-Jira-to-Otter-ai", "note": "Automatic Jira issue creation from meeting actions with assignees, due dates, projects, source links, and AI Chat access." }, { "label": "Otter Slack integration", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13627121851799-Connect-Slack-to-Otter-ai", "note": "Summary posting, recurring-meeting delivery, rich previews, access handling, and action-item notifications." }, { "label": "Otter SharePoint export", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/38533740881175-Connect-Microsoft-SharePoint-to-Otter-ai", "note": "Enterprise automatic transcript, summary, and metadata export plus administrator and account-manager setup." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "Agent connectors, Zapier, and developer tools", "detail": "Agent lists Slack, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Outlook, Notion, Linear, and Zapier connectors. More Microsoft 365 integrations and a Salesforce note-sync connector are described as upcoming. Connected Agent actions use credits. MCP and CLI provide another route for assistants and custom workflows.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud Intelligence Team update", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/get-ready-new-plaud-intelligence-for-team", "note": "Shared Agent context, launch connectors, forthcoming integrations, and account updates." }, { "label": "Plaud Skills and Routines", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/plaud-intelligence-skills-routines", "note": "Conditional automation, shared Skills, Agent credit costs, and AutoFlow migration limits." } ] } }, { "key": "agentsAndApi", "label": "API, MCP, CLI, and data portability", "lead": "Both products support API, MCP, CLI, and data portability, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Otter: MCP is listed even on Basic and can access meetings captured by or shared with the authenticated user. It currently has no public API-key setup for arbitrary AI applications. The public API and webhooks require Enterprise and account-manager enablement. Plaud: Plaud MCP and CLI retrieve recording metadata, speaker-labeled transcripts, summaries, and audio links. CLI search matches recording names across up to 500 recent files, rather than semantic transcript search. The Embedded device SDK and transcription API are separate offerings; the cited docs do not establish a full REST API for the consumer workspace.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "MCP broadly; API and webhooks on Enterprise", "detail": "MCP is listed even on Basic and can access meetings captured by or shared with the authenticated user. It currently has no public API-key setup for arbitrary AI applications. The public API and webhooks require Enterprise and account-manager enablement.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter MCP server", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/35287607569687-Otter-MCP-Server", "note": "Authenticated meeting scope, shared meetings, supported clients, and lack of a public MCP API key." }, { "label": "Otter public API", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/4412365535895-Does-Otter-offer-an-open-API", "note": "Enterprise-only public API availability and account-manager enablement." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "MCP and CLI retrieval; separate Embedded SDK/API", "detail": "Plaud MCP and CLI retrieve recording metadata, speaker-labeled transcripts, summaries, and audio links. CLI search matches recording names across up to 500 recent files, rather than semantic transcript search. The Embedded device SDK and transcription API are separate offerings; the cited docs do not establish a full REST API for the consumer workspace.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud MCP", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/plaud-mcp-cli/mcp", "note": "Recording, summary, transcript, and audio-link retrieval through authenticated MCP." }, { "label": "Plaud CLI", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/plaud-mcp-cli/cli", "note": "Command-line retrieval and name-based search limited to 500 recent recordings." }, { "label": "Plaud developer platform", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/overview", "note": "Distinguishes the Embedded device SDK/transcription API from access to Plaud account data." } ] } }, { "key": "admin", "label": "Security, privacy, and admin", "lead": "Both products support security, privacy, and admin, with different scope and plan limits.", "analysis": "Otter: Business adds centralized features and bulk export. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, API access, video replay, granular retention, no-training by default, and HIPAA options. Several advanced controls—including retention and automatic Drive export—require account-manager setup. Plaud: Plaud lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701, GDPR, and HIPAA support. Team adds billing, seat and device management, secure offboarding, and workspace-level data residency. Content remains private until shared. The Team FAQ says SSO is not yet supported; a workspace has a two-seat minimum.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "Business administration; advanced security on Enterprise", "detail": "Business adds centralized features and bulk export. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, API access, video replay, granular retention, no-training by default, and HIPAA options. Several advanced controls—including retention and automatic Drive export—require account-manager setup.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." }, { "label": "Otter workspace auto-share controls", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/32589333117591-Manage-Workspace-auto-share-settings", "note": "Enterprise eligibility, selectable defaults, user overrides, and the privacy-lock exception." }, { "label": "Otter privacy and model training", "url": "https://otter.ai/privacy-security", "note": "Proprietary-model training on de-identified recordings and transcripts, plus third-party provider no-training and zero-storage commitments." }, { "label": "Otter Enterprise controls", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13352505516695-Enterprise-Admin-Controls-Overview", "note": "Enterprise no-training default, 2FA, export controls, audio removal, and advanced governance." }, { "label": "Otter retention policy", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/19500988656279-Set-a-custom-Data-Retention-policy", "note": "Account-manager configured retention for full conversations, recordings, or transcripts." }, { "label": "Otter conversation export", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360047733634-Export-conversations", "note": "Individual and Business bulk exports across text, subtitle, and audio formats." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "Security certifications and Team administration", "detail": "Plaud lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701, GDPR, and HIPAA support. Team adds billing, seat and device management, secure offboarding, and workspace-level data residency. Content remains private until shared. The Team FAQ says SSO is not yet supported; a workspace has a two-seat minimum.", "level": "available", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud Team requirements", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/57466295856537-What-is-Plaud-Team", "note": "Two-seat minimum, roles, privacy, and Team desktop capture without hardware." }, { "label": "Plaud Team administration", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-team", "note": "Team management, data residency, and the FAQ stating SSO is not yet supported." }, { "label": "Plaud plans", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-ai-plan-pricing", "note": "Individual and Team prices, transcription allowances, launch offers, and included features." } ] } }, { "key": "languages", "label": "Languages", "lead": "Plaud has broader documented support for languages.", "analysis": "Otter: Otter transcribes English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and spoken Mandarin with Simplified Chinese output. German and Chinese are beta. It normally handles one language per conversation; French can auto-switch with English, and other mixed-language pairs are not supported. Plaud: Plaud documents transcription in 112 languages with speaker labeling and custom vocabulary. Validate performance on the languages, accents, and specialized terminology you use; the supported-language count is not an independent accuracy comparison.", "productA": { "id": "otter-ai", "name": "Otter.ai", "summary": "Six transcription languages, two still in beta", "detail": "Otter transcribes English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and spoken Mandarin with Simplified Chinese output. German and Chinese are beta. It normally handles one language per conversation; French can auto-switch with English, and other mixed-language pairs are not supported.", "level": "limited", "sources": [ { "label": "Otter supported languages", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26660468516631-Transcribe-conversations-in-English-Spanish-French-German-Japanese-or-Chinese-Simplified", "note": "Six-language scope, beta languages, one-language behavior, French/English switching, and reprocessing limits." } ] }, "productB": { "id": "plaud", "name": "Plaud", "summary": "112 transcription languages", "detail": "Plaud documents transcription in 112 languages with speaker labeling and custom vocabulary. Validate performance on the languages, accents, and specialized terminology you use; the supported-language count is not an independent accuracy comparison.", "level": "strong", "sources": [ { "label": "Plaud plans", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-ai-plan-pricing", "note": "Individual and Team prices, transcription allowances, launch offers, and included features." } ] } } ], "directComparison": null, "thirdOption": { "product": { "id": "circleback", "name": "Circleback", "shortName": "Circleback", "logoPath": "/logos/circleback_square.png", "website": "https://circleback.ai", "tagline": "Every meeting becomes useful company memory.", "positioning": "Circleback records online meetings with a meeting bot or bot-free desktop app, then turns them into detailed notes, speaker-labeled transcripts, and automatically assigned action items. Automatic sharing, search, and automations turn those meetings into shared company memory. People and AI agents can use the same complete record through the app, API, MCP, and CLI. In-person conversations captured on mobile or Apple Watch, plus imported recordings, flow through the same system.", "bestFor": "Teams across sales, product, engineering, recruiting, customer success, and leadership that need shared meeting notes, assigned follow-up, and automations—with the full record available to people and AI agents.", "lessIdealFor": "People who only need occasional transcripts, or sales organizations buying primarily for forecasting and rep coaching.", "decisionSummary": { "fit": "Online meeting notes, follow-through, and shared company memory", "chooseFor": [ "Detailed notes and labeled transcripts", "Full meeting data via API, MCP, and CLI" ], "watchFor": [ "Paid plans are per user", "Not a forecasting suite" ] }, "pricing": { "headline": "Free; Pro from $15/user/month annually; Business from $25/user/month annually; Enterprise $35/user/month, billed annually", "detail": "Free includes unlimited meetings and members with 30 days of meeting and recording history, limited automations, and API, MCP, and CLI access. Pro adds automations with all integrations, including Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, webhooks, and many more apps, plus custom AI insights. Paid prices are per user/month: Pro is $15 with annual billing or $18 month-to-month; Business is $25 or $29; Enterprise is $35 with annual billing only. See https://circleback.ai/pricing for current plan packaging.", "freePlan": "Free includes unlimited meetings and members, with 30 days of meeting and recording history, limited automations, and API, MCP, and CLI access." }, "strengths": [ "Record online meetings with a meeting bot or bot-free desktop app. In-person and imported recordings get the same speaker-labeled transcripts. Keep the recording for playback, or retain just the notes and transcript.", "The notes are detailed enough to stand alone, while automatically assigned action items stay trackable across the workspace and can become issues in Linear or another work tracker.", "Conditional automatic sharing, company context, free viewers, enforced defaults, and actions in connected apps make each meeting useful beyond the person who recorded it.", "Circleback is built for people and AI agents. The complete meeting record available to a person—including the recording, full speaker-labeled transcript, notes, action items, attendees, people, and companies—is also available programmatically through the public API, MCP, and CLI.", "Security controls include encryption at rest and in transit, SOC 2 Type II, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certification, GDPR support, and HIPAA compliance. Customer data is never used to train models, and an external infrastructure pentest report is available through the security portal.", "For in-person conversations, one tap on your phone’s Lock Screen widget or Apple Watch complication starts recording; a configured iPhone Action button starts it with a press and hold. There is no separate recorder to buy, carry, or charge." ], "tradeoffs": [ "The Free plan has shorter history and limited automations. Pro adds automations with all integrations, including Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, webhooks, and many more apps, plus custom AI insights. A solo user who only wants occasional transcripts may find a more generous free recorder elsewhere.", "It is not a sales forecasting suite. Gong goes further on deal inspection, rep coaching, and forecasting.", "It is not a live meeting coach. Read AI goes further on real-time engagement and sentiment signals, while Krisp specializes in cleaning up audio before it reaches the transcript.", "Circleback’s primary processing operations are in the United States. A company with a hard regional-hosting or on-premises requirement should confirm fit during security review." ], "chooseIf": [ "You want online meetings captured with or without a bot, with the same speaker-labeled record for in-person conversations and imported recordings.", "You want notes that explain the meeting to someone who missed it, plus assigned action items in one shared list and your issue tracker.", "You want Circleback to look things up and do the next step in the apps where your team works.", "You want coworkers, ChatGPT, Claude, other agents, and your own tools to use the same company context.", "You also want quick in-person recording from your phone or Watch without a separate recorder." ], "features": { "capture": { "summary": "Online meetings with or without a bot; in-person recording too", "detail": "Use the meeting bot for Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and Webex calls, or record online meetings locally on macOS or Windows without a bot. On desktop, click Record in the detected-meeting prompt. In-person recording on mobile or Apple Watch and imported phone calls join the same system. Every route produces speaker-labeled transcripts, notes, and assigned action items, with search, sharing, and automations in one workspace.", "level": "strong" }, "platforms": { "summary": "Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch", "detail": "macOS and Windows apps capture online meetings without a bot, including system audio and video, with recording from the detected-meeting prompt. The iOS and Android apps record in-person conversations and include Assistant. Apple Watch records from your wrist without the iPhone nearby. Every app sends recordings into the same Circleback meeting system.", "level": "strong" }, "inPerson": { "summary": "Phone, desktop, or Watch—with speaker labels", "detail": "Record in-person conversations from iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, or Apple Watch. For quick capture, tap your phone’s Lock Screen widget or Apple Watch complication, or press and hold your configured iPhone Action button. No separate recorder is needed. Recordings get the same speaker labels, notes, assigned action items, search, sharing, and automations as online meetings. Phone calls use an existing call recording imported into Circleback.", "level": "strong" }, "recordings": { "summary": "Optional recordings with playback, downloads, and clips", "detail": "Every capture route can keep the source recording with the meeting. Play it beside the transcript, download it, link to a moment, or make a clip. If you only want notes and the speaker-labeled transcript, turn recording storage off.", "level": "strong" }, "notesAndSearch": { "summary": "Detailed standalone notes, assigned action items, and cited search", "detail": "Circleback’s notes are designed to give someone who missed the meeting its context, decisions, and next steps. It automatically creates action items and assigns them when the conversation makes the owner clear. One workspace-wide list lets teams filter and complete tasks across meetings. Custom insights extract the fields a team needs, while Assistant searches meetings and connected email with citations.", "level": "strong" }, "companyMemory": { "summary": "Meeting and email history for each person and company", "detail": "Person and company pages combine rolling summaries, relationship timelines, emails, meetings, attendees, and upcoming events. Search and Assistant work across that context, so a conversation stays useful to the next person and the next team.", "level": "strong" }, "sharing": { "summary": "Conditional automatic sharing with workspace safeguards", "detail": "Automations can share matching meetings with specific people, teams, or the whole workspace based on titles, participants, invitee emails or domains, tags, and combined conditions. Admins can set or enforce default sharing access while members retain explicit controls for private or sensitive conversations.", "level": "strong" }, "automations": { "summary": "Conditional sharing, CRM updates, and task creation", "detail": "Run actions when meetings match conditions, extract the fields each team cares about, share notes, and route the result into the system where work happens. Sales can update the CRM; product and research can collect themes; engineering can open assigned issues in Linear or another tracker; recruiting and customer teams can route structured follow-up. Automations also post to Slack, call webhooks, and re-run against older meetings.", "level": "strong" }, "integrations": { "summary": "Search other apps, then do the work there", "detail": "Circleback Assistant can look up context and take actions in tools such as Linear, Notion, Asana, HubSpot, PostHog, Attio, Ashby, and Intercom. Automations can create Linear issues from assigned meeting action items, write action items to monday.com, and send outcomes to Slack, Salesforce, Zoho, and more. Connect additional tools through Zapier, Make, webhooks, or custom MCP servers.", "level": "strong" }, "agentsAndApi": { "summary": "The same complete meeting data for people and AI agents", "detail": "Circleback is built for people and AI agents. The complete meeting record a person can access—its full speaker-labeled transcript, recording, notes, action items, metadata, attendees, and related people and companies—is also available programmatically through the public API, MCP, and CLI. The API also supports action-item updates. MCP and CLI are read-only and add search and retrieval across meetings, transcripts, action items, calendars, email, people, companies, and tags. Connect ChatGPT or Claude, build internal tools, or receive meeting data by webhook.", "level": "strong" }, "admin": { "summary": "Security, privacy, and workspace controls", "detail": "Customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit and never used to train models. Circleback is SOC 2 Type II, certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, supports GDPR obligations, and is HIPAA-compliant with BAAs available. The security portal includes compliance materials and an external infrastructure pentest report. Available controls include single sign-on (SAML or OIDC) and SCIM provisioning, configurable data retention and recording storage, enforced workspace and sharing settings, teams and roles, domain and API key access controls, centralized billing, usage reporting, and free viewer seats.", "level": "strong" }, "languages": { "summary": "100+ transcription languages", "detail": "Users can choose from more than 100 meeting languages and separately control the output language used for generated notes.", "level": "strong" } }, "sources": [ { "label": "Circleback product guide", "url": "https://circleback.ai/llms.txt", "note": "Capture modes, apps, search, automations, integrations, recordings, MCP, CLI, webhooks, and security resources." }, { "label": "Circleback pricing", "url": "https://circleback.ai/pricing", "note": "Current plan prices, included features, Business controls, Enterprise options, and free viewer seats." }, { "label": "Circleback recording guide", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/recording/getting-started-with-recording", "note": "Desktop, mobile, bot, and import capture paths for online and in-person conversations." }, { "label": "Circleback desktop recording", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/recording/desktop-app/record-meetings-with-the-desktop-app", "note": "Detected-meeting recording prompts, automatic recording, and bot-free desktop audio and video capture." }, { "label": "Circleback mobile recording shortcuts", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/recording/mobile-app/record-meetings-with-the-mobile-app", "note": "Mobile recording and links to widget and Action button setup guides." }, { "label": "Circleback iPhone Action button", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/recording/mobile-app/start-recording-with-the-action-button-on-iphone", "note": "Configure Controls → Circleback → Record, then press and hold to start recording." }, { "label": "Circleback Apple Watch complication", "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/circleback-ai-meeting-notes/id6738971048", "note": "Publisher description documents one-tap Watch complication recording and the same transcript and notes as other meetings." }, { "label": "Circleback optional recording storage", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/recording/configure-whether-meeting-recordings-are-saved", "note": "Keep notes, action items, transcript, and insights while disabling stored audio and video." }, { "label": "Circleback mobile and Apple Watch apps", "url": "https://circleback.ai/mobile", "note": "iOS, Android, and Apple Watch capture for in-person meetings and conversations." }, { "label": "Circleback public API", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/api", "note": "Programmatic access to the complete meeting record available in Circleback, including notes, action items, transcripts, recordings, people, and companies." }, { "label": "Circleback MCP documentation", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/platform/circleback-mcp", "note": "Read-only access from ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, and other MCP clients to meetings, transcripts, action items, people, companies, calendar, email, and tags." }, { "label": "Circleback CLI documentation", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/platform/circleback-cli", "note": "Command-line and JSON access to meetings, speaker-labeled transcripts, action items, calendars, email, people, companies, and cross-meeting action-item search." }, { "label": "Circleback Assistant connectors", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/assistant/ask-circleback-assistant", "note": "Search and take action in connected work apps from Circleback Assistant." }, { "label": "Circleback automatic sharing", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/automations/automatically-share-meetings-with-your-workspace", "note": "Conditional sharing by meeting title, participants, invitee emails or domains, and tags to people, teams, or the workspace." }, { "label": "Circleback enforced workspace settings", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/workspace-and-teams/default-and-enforced-workspace-settings", "note": "Admin-controlled defaults for sharing access, recording storage, joining preferences, and other meeting settings." }, { "label": "Circleback security and data processing", "url": "https://circleback.ai/dpa", "note": "Retention responsibilities, subprocessors, and United States primary processing operations." }, { "label": "Circleback security overview", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/security/security", "note": "Encryption at rest and in transit, SOC 2 Type II, no-training commitment, GDPR support, HIPAA compliance and BAA availability, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certification, and an external infrastructure pentest." }, { "label": "Circleback security portal", "url": "https://security.circleback.ai/", "note": "Compliance materials, security controls, subprocessors, and an external infrastructure pentest report." }, { "label": "Circleback action items in Linear", "url": "https://circleback.ai/docs/support/automations/integrations/integrate-with-linear", "note": "Automatically create Linear issues from meeting action items and preserve the matched assignee." } ] }, "label": "A third option to consider" }, "faqs": [ { "question": "Which is better: Otter.ai or Plaud?", "answer": "Otter focuses on live transcription and phone-based recording. Plaud offers dedicated in-person and phone-call recorders plus AI workflows; Team can record desktop calls without a separate device." }, { "question": "Which is less expensive, Otter.ai or Plaud?", "answer": "Otter.ai: Free; Pro from $8.33/user/month annually. Plaud: Devices list at $159–$189; AI plans priced separately. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need." }, { "question": "Can Otter.ai and Plaud record without a bot?", "answer": "Otter.ai: Meeting agent or automatic bot-free desktop capture, plus mobile. Plaud: Dedicated recorders, bot-free desktop, and imports. Check whether your preferred recording method preserves video and speaker labels." }, { "question": "Which is better for a whole company?", "answer": "Compare automatic sharing, permissions, retention, and the defaults admins can enforce. Otter: User auto-share and Enterprise workspace defaults. Plaud: Personal sharing, Team member access, and Routines." }, { "question": "Can I access and move the full meeting data?", "answer": "Otter: MCP broadly; API and webhooks on Enterprise. Plaud: MCP and CLI retrieval; separate Embedded SDK/API. Check the selected plan, authentication model, transcript scope, export format, and retention window for the workflow you need." }, { "question": "How was this comparison researched?", "answer": "We use first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes for both products. Links appear in each feature comparison and in the Sources section." } ], "variableMeasured": [ "Capture options", "Desktop and mobile", "In-person capture and speaker labels", "Recordings, playback, and clips", "Notes, action items, and search", "People, companies, and context", "Automatic sharing and workspace defaults", "Automations", "Integrations", "API, MCP, CLI, and data portability", "Security, privacy, and admin", "Languages" ], "sources": [ { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter pricing", "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing", "note": "Current free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise allowances and feature gates." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter Basic-plan limits", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360047538094-Conversation-import-and-app-limits-on-the-Basic-free-plan", "note": "Monthly minutes, per-conversation duration, lifetime imports, and 25-conversation history." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter desktop automatic recording", "url": "https://otter.ai/blog/never-miss-the-conversation-introducing-automatic-recording-in-otter-desktop", "note": "August 2026 automatic detection, reminders, and bot-free recording behavior for Zoom, Teams, Meet, and other browser calls." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter automatic sharing", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20424842990999-Manage-auto-share-settings", "note": "Workspace defaults for automatic audience, collaborator permissions, and meeting-level overrides." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter supported languages", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26660468516631-Transcribe-conversations-in-English-Spanish-French-German-Japanese-or-Chinese-Simplified", "note": "Six-language scope, beta languages, one-language behavior, French/English switching, and reprocessing limits." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter speaker identification", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21665587209367-Speaker-Identification-Overview", "note": "Post-processing diarization, learned speaker names, generic labels for new voices, and live Zoom behavior." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter action items", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25983095114519-Action-Items-Overview", "note": "Cross-meeting personal action-item view, transcript links, editing, reassignment, completion, and the lack of a workspace-wide all-assignees view." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter automatic action-item assignment", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/5093228433687-Conversation-Page-Overview", "note": "Automatic detection and assignment of meeting action items to relevant workspace members." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter AI Chat connectors", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/19682180167575-Otter-AI-Chat-Overview", "note": "Advanced-mode Gmail, Google Drive, Jira, Notion, and Salesforce connector capabilities plus plan and mobile-version caveats." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter Jira integration", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/40485786582551-Connect-Jira-to-Otter-ai", "note": "Automatic Jira issue creation from meeting actions with assignees, due dates, projects, source links, and AI Chat access." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter Slack integration", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13627121851799-Connect-Slack-to-Otter-ai", "note": "Summary posting, recurring-meeting delivery, rich previews, access handling, and action-item notifications." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter SharePoint export", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/38533740881175-Connect-Microsoft-SharePoint-to-Otter-ai", "note": "Enterprise automatic transcript, summary, and metadata export plus administrator and account-manager setup." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter workspace auto-share controls", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/32589333117591-Manage-Workspace-auto-share-settings", "note": "Enterprise eligibility, selectable defaults, user overrides, and the privacy-lock exception." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter MCP server", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/35287607569687-Otter-MCP-Server", "note": "Authenticated meeting scope, shared meetings, supported clients, and lack of a public MCP API key." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter public API", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/4412365535895-Does-Otter-offer-an-open-API", "note": "Enterprise-only public API availability and account-manager enablement." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter privacy and model training", "url": "https://otter.ai/privacy-security", "note": "Proprietary-model training on de-identified recordings and transcripts, plus third-party provider no-training and zero-storage commitments." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter Enterprise controls", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13352505516695-Enterprise-Admin-Controls-Overview", "note": "Enterprise no-training default, 2FA, export controls, audio removal, and advanced governance." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter retention policy", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/19500988656279-Set-a-custom-Data-Retention-policy", "note": "Account-manager configured retention for full conversations, recordings, or transcripts." }, { "productId": "otter-ai", "productName": "Otter.ai", "label": "Otter conversation export", "url": "https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360047733634-Export-conversations", "note": "Individual and Business bulk exports across text, subtitle, and audio formats." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud devices", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-device-comparison", "note": "Model-specific controls, phone-call/in-person capture, charging, storage, and list prices." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud recording controls", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/55643286546329-How-to-Record", "note": "Press-and-hold recording and model-specific highlight controls." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud plans", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-ai-plan-pricing", "note": "Individual and Team prices, transcription allowances, launch offers, and included features." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud desktop", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-desktop", "note": "Bot-free capture, meeting detection, recording modes, screenshots, highlights, and typed notes." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud desktop requirements", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/53795026112409-Device-binding-required-notice-on-Plaud-Desktop", "note": "Individual Starter activation requires a device bound to the account." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud Team requirements", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/57466295856537-What-is-Plaud-Team", "note": "Two-seat minimum, roles, privacy, and Team desktop capture without hardware." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud Team administration", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-team", "note": "Team management, data residency, and the FAQ stating SSO is not yet supported." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud Team sharing", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/57138357578649-Sharing-content-in-Plaud-Team", "note": "Private-by-default recordings and member-only file sharing and links." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud cross-recording questions", "url": "https://support.plaud.ai/hc/en-us/articles/51041335681689-Ask-Across-All-Files-Ask-Plaud", "note": "Questions across transcribed recordings and source-file references." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud Skills and Routines", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/plaud-intelligence-skills-routines", "note": "Conditional automation, shared Skills, Agent credit costs, and AutoFlow migration limits." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud Intelligence Team update", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/get-ready-new-plaud-intelligence-for-team", "note": "Shared Agent context, launch connectors, forthcoming integrations, and account updates." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud Agent credits", "url": "https://www.plaud.ai/pages/piplcrinto", "note": "Transcription versus Agent usage, nonrenewing launch grants, and paid credit top-ups." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud MCP", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/plaud-mcp-cli/mcp", "note": "Recording, summary, transcript, and audio-link retrieval through authenticated MCP." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud CLI", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/plaud-mcp-cli/cli", "note": "Command-line retrieval and name-based search limited to 500 recent recordings." }, { "productId": "plaud", "productName": "Plaud", "label": "Plaud developer platform", "url": "https://docs.plaud.ai/overview", "note": "Distinguishes the Embedded device SDK/transcription API from access to Plaud account data." } ], "methodology": { "approach": "First-party pricing, product documentation, help-center articles, and release notes. Capability levels describe documented breadth, not overall product quality. Competitor strengths and material plan or capture-mode limits are both included. No pay-to-play rankings.", "ratingLabels": { "strong": "Broad support", "available": "Available with limits", "limited": "Narrow or indirect", "not-available": "Not documented" }, "ratingScale": { "strong": "Broad native support across the product or relevant paid plans.", "available": "Documented support with meaningful scope, mode, or plan limits.", "limited": "Narrow, indirect, beta, or substantially plan-gated support.", "not-available": "No current first-party documentation for a native option." }, "claimLevelEvidence": "Each feature dimension includes the exact first-party sources used for both products.", "limitations": "Prices and features change. Check the linked sources and test both products on real calls." } }