Otter.ai vs Grain: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

Otter.ai is an AI meeting assistant that turns spoken conversations into clear, searchable notes. It can join your Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams calls automatically, or record in-person talks through its mobile app.

As you talk, Otter writes a live transcript, tags each speaker, and captures slides shown on screen. Once the meeting ends, it builds a summary with the key topics, decisions, and action items, so you do not have to write anything down yourself.

Otter AI Chat lets you ask questions about one meeting or your full meeting history, and connects with tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack to push notes where your team already works.

There is a free plan for light use, along with Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans that add more transcription minutes, team features, and security controls for larger organizations.

Grain is an AI-powered meeting notetaker and conversation intelligence tool built for sales, customer success, and product teams. It joins your calls, or captures audio quietly through its desktop app without a visible bot, then turns every conversation into clear notes, action items, and searchable transcripts.

You can create short video clips of key moments, share them with teammates or clients, and sync summaries straight into HubSpot or Salesforce.

Grain also connects directly to Claude and ChatGPT through its own MCP server, so AI agents can pull meeting history, coaching data, and deal context to help you follow up faster and coach your team more effectively.