Olva vs Otter.ai (2026)

Olva

by Mindle Inc.

Otter.ai

by Otter.ai

Pros

• ✓OLVA runs on your own device and captures microphone and system audio on desktop, so it transcribes, answers and coaches in real time without joining the call as a visible bot or storing an audio recording.
• ✓A free Basic plan and self-serve Plus, Pro and Ultra plans with monthly or annual billing make it quick to start, with unlimited meeting time from Pro and 60 spoken languages with live translation.
• ✓OLVA states plainly that customer transcripts, prompts and documents are not used to train or fine-tune shared AI models, and that it keeps transcripts rather than audio or voiceprints.

Limitations

• –Independent review evidence is still small: 5 G2 reviews and 2 App Store ratings.
• –Integrations are limited to Notion, Slack, Google Drive and outbound webhooks on Pro and above, with the API, MCP server and Zapier, Make.com and n8n recipes all still marked coming soon.
• –OLVA publishes no named security certification, and audio is streamed to Soniox or Deepgram and context to OpenAI for processing, which regulated teams will need to review.

Pros

• ✓The meeting agent joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet calls automatically and produces live transcripts, summaries and action items, and AI Chat searches across past meetings.
• ✓The Otter MCP server is included on every plan, including the free Basic plan, so assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can search meeting transcripts.
• ✓SDR and Recruiting agents extend Otter beyond note-taking, with CRM sync for Salesforce, HubSpot and Microsoft Dynamics, and HIPAA is available on Enterprise with a BAA.

Limitations

• –Basic includes 300 transcription minutes a month and 3 lifetime file imports, and Pro caps meetings at 90 minutes and file imports at 10 a month, so frequent or long meetings need Business or above.
• –Transcription supports six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified).
• –The privacy policy permits training on de-identified recordings and transcripts, and only Enterprise workspaces are opted out of model training by default.