Head-to-Head Comparison

Fathom vs Otter.ai

Which Meeting is right for you? See our complete breakdown.

Fathom

6/10 Visit Fathom
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Otter.ai

7/10 Our Pick Visit Otter.ai
FeatureFathomOtter.ai
MegaOne Score6/107/10
CategoryMeetingMeeting
Pricing ModelFreemiumFreemium
Starting Price$19.00/mo$16.99/mo
Free TierYesYes
API AvailableNoNo
Open SourceNoNo
iOS AppNoNo
Android AppNoNo
Chrome ExtensionNoNo
CompanyFathom Video Inc.Otter.ai Inc.
Total Funding$17M$70M

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About Fathom

Fathom is a #1-rated AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes video calls across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, allowing users to focus on the conversation.

Fathom is an AI meeting partner that automatically records, transcribes, highlights, and summarizes your video calls. It provides instant access to fully transcribed and summarized recordings, generates AI summaries, and can automatically update CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot. Recent updates include bot-free capture options, live summaries during meetings, an iOS mobile app, and expanded integrations with large language models like ChatGPT and Claude for querying meeting knowledge.

About Otter.ai

Otter.ai is an AI-powered meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings in real-time, providing searchable notes and action items.

Otter.ai is an AI-powered meeting assistant that automatically joins virtual meetings (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams), transcribes conversations in real-time, and generates AI summaries, action items, and key topics. It offers a searchable meeting library, speaker identification, and the OtterPilot for automated meeting assistance, evolving into a Conversational Knowledge Engine to turn discussions into structured, searchable knowledge.

Otter.ai takes the edge

With a MegaOne score of 7/10 versus 6/10, Otter.ai edges ahead of Fathom in our analysis. However, Fathom may still be the better choice depending on your specific use case and budget.