Notta vs Fireflies vs Otter vs Meco: which AI meeting notes app should you pick?

If you need an AI meeting notes app, the short answer: Meco is the cheapest and the only option here that records in-person meetings and phone calls, not just online video calls. Notta covers the most languages and has strong regional reach. Otter and Fireflies are solid for teams that live in recurring online calls. Below we compare converted prices, language coverage and offline recording so you can match a tool to how you actually work.

Quick comparison

International prices are converted at 26,500 VND per USD so you can line them up against Meco's local pricing. Figures re-checked on 26 July 2026, with sources listed at the end of this article.

Criteria	Meco	Notta	Otter	Fireflies
Lowest price/month	$6 (annual) · 79,000 VND in Vietnam	$8.17 (annual)	$8.33 (annual)	$10 (annual)
Monthly billing	$7.50 · 99,000 VND in Vietnam	$13.99	$16.99	$18
Free plan	1 hour lifetime	120 min/month	300 min/month	Yes
Languages	99 (Whisper large-v3)	58	3 (English, French, Spanish)	100+
Offline meeting recording	Yes	No	No	No
Tasks/Kanban	Yes	Limited	Limited	Action items
Vietnamese	Yes, strong	Yes	No	Yes

Takeaway: against monthly rates Meco is roughly 1.9 to 2.4 times cheaper, but against the cheapest annual tiers the four tools sit close together, so price is no longer the deciding factor. The difference that holds is elsewhere: Meco is also the only app in the table that captures a meeting happening live in a room or over a phone call, rather than only online calls.

Meco: cheapest, records offline, multilingual

Meco (meco-app.com) is built for people whose weeks are full of meetings. You record live or upload a file, it turns speech into text, then it builds a set of notes with a Summary, the Decisions made and a Tasks table you can drag into a Kanban board. The biggest difference is that Meco is not limited to online calls: you can record an in-person meeting in the room, scan a QR code to capture audio through your phone, or import an existing recording from Google Drive, Zoom and YouTube. Then you export to Word or PDF and share by link.

Meco also has an AI assistant that answers questions across your whole meeting history, so you can look up an old decision without rereading each transcript. On pricing, the Free plan gives 1 hour of lifetime use, Plus is $7.50 per month for 30 hours ($6 billed annually), and Team is $15 per month for 60 hours.

Speech recognition runs on Whisper large-v3, a model covering 99 languages, with Vietnamese the most heavily tuned and measured of them because it was the product's first market. Meco suits individuals who meet a lot, work across languages, and regularly sit in face-to-face sessions rather than only video calls.

Notta: most languages, easy to find

Notta supports 58 languages and has strong regional reach, including dedicated Vietnamese content. Its free plan gives 120 minutes per month, the lowest paid tier is $13.99 per month, and paying annually brings that down to about $8.17 per month. Notta fits people who need broad language coverage and want a familiar, easy-to-find tool. The trade-offs are that it costs noticeably more than Meco and it centers on online calls.

Otter: familiar for online calls

Otter is a long-standing name in meeting notes and works well when you run many recurring online calls. The free plan gives 300 minutes per month, the paid tier is $16.99 per month, and annual billing lands around $8.33 per month. Its sharpest limitation is language coverage: as of July 2026 Otter supports only English, French and Spanish. If your work happens in any other language, Otter is effectively out. It suits English-speaking teams whose meetings are primarily online.

Fireflies: call-focused, many integrations

Fireflies supports more than 100 languages, offers a free plan, and prices its paid tier at $18 per month, or about $10 per month billed annually. Fireflies is strong at joining online calls automatically, recording them and generating action items, which fits sales teams and groups that live in video meetings. Like Notta and Otter, it revolves around online calls, so it does not help when you need to capture an in-person session.

Other options worth a mention

Beyond the four main tools there is Granola around $14 per month and Fathom around $20 per month, both leaning toward online call recording. More notable are the note-takers bundled into meeting platforms: Zoom AI Companion, Microsoft Teams Copilot and Google Meet with Gemini. These are often free with a plan you already pay for, but they only record calls held on their own platform. If you meet in person, take phone calls, or work across several platforms, they do not cover everything.

Which one should you pick?

Choose Meco if you want the lowest cost, need to record both offline and online meetings, work in Vietnamese or across languages, and like having a Kanban task board plus an assistant that remembers your meeting history. Choose Notta if broad language coverage is your top priority. Choose Otter or Fireflies if your team works in English and meets almost entirely online. For most individuals who meet often and want a personal meeting assistant with memory, Meco gives the best balance of price, language support and offline capture.

Frequently asked questions

What is the cheapest AI meeting notes app?

Among the tools compared here, Meco is still the lowest, with Plus at $7.50 per month or $6 billed annually, and 99,000 VND per month in Vietnam. That is about 1.9 times lower than Notta's monthly plan, and for customers in Vietnam about 2.2 times lower than Otter's monthly price. Meco also has a Free plan with 1 hour of lifetime use so you can try one meeting first.

Does Notta support Vietnamese?

Yes. Notta supports 58 languages including Vietnamese and even has dedicated Vietnamese content, so it is one of the more visible options in that market. That said, Notta costs noticeably more than Meco.

Which app can record offline meetings?

Among the four main apps, only Meco captures a meeting held live in a room or over a phone call, using a QR code to record through your phone. Notta, Otter and Fireflies all center on online calls. Bundled note-takers in Zoom, Teams or Google Meet only record on their own platform.

Does Otter support Vietnamese?

No. As of July 2026 Otter supports English, French and Spanish only. If your work is mostly in Vietnamese, Meco, Notta or Fireflies is a safer choice.

How is Meco different from Notta, Otter and Fireflies?

Meco is the only app in the group that is both the cheapest and able to record offline and phone meetings, while handling Vietnamese well. Beyond notes, it adds a Kanban task board and an AI assistant that answers questions across your meeting history, and it exports to Word and PDF.

Sources and when they were checked

SaaS pricing moves often, so here is exactly where these numbers came from and when:

Product	Pricing source	Last checked
Notta	notta.ai/en/pricing	26 Jul 2026
Otter	otter.ai/pricing	26 Jul 2026
Fireflies	fireflies.ai/pricing	26 Jul 2026
Meco	Meco pricing	26 Jul 2026

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