Fireflies.ai vs Otter.ai

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12

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Fireflies.ai edges out Otter.ai across the board, with an overall score of 56 versus 41, and higher marks from each model checked: ChatGPT (61 vs 49), Claude (56 vs 46) and Perplexity (52 vs 29). Fireflies.ai also shows up more often, named in 67 of 83 answers compared to Otter.ai's 51 of 83. Head to head, Fireflies.ai was named more often in 12 questions, Otter.ai in 3, with 10 ties. Both are named in every answer to "best AI meeting note takers" and "top AI meeting assistants in 2026," but Otter.ai is never named for CRM-updating sales call note takers or bot-free options.

Head to head

metric	Fireflies.ai	Otter.ai
score	56	41
questions won	24	22

By assistant

Fireflies.ai

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	61	80% of answers	#2.6
Claude	56	90% of answers	#4.8
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	52	63% of answers	#3.3

Otter.ai

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	49	60% of answers	#3.7
Claude	46	60% of answers	#4.4
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	29	37% of answers	#4.4

Where they differ

Only Fireflies.ai gets named for

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