Notta
58-language transcription and translation, metered in minutes and priced like a utility
Notta is a transcription-first AI meeting notetaker from Tokyo that records calls through a bot or a mobile and web recorder, transcribes and translates across 58 languages, and turns the resulting archive into summaries, searchable insights, and generated deliverables such as slide decks and infographics; it is sold per seat with a monthly transcription-minute meter on the free and Pro tiers.
Overview
Notta is the product most Western buyers in this category have never heard of and most Japanese ones have. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Tokyo, and it grew up solving a problem the American notetakers largely ignored: transcribing and translating between Japanese, Chinese, and English well enough that a bilingual business meeting produces a usable record in both directions. That heritage is the single best reason to consider it. If your calls are not conducted entirely in English, Notta's 58-language coverage and translation layer make it a genuinely different proposition from Otter's six languages.
The company has raised roughly $32M across three rounds, most recently a Series B of about 2.3 billion yen in December 2025, and claims more than 10 million users. Unlike the venture-funded American startups in this category it has not tried to become a revenue intelligence platform or an agent framework. It has stayed a transcription utility and extended sideways into output generation: Notta Brain, formerly AI Chat, searches the whole archive, and the 2026 product pushes hard on generating presentations and infographics from meeting content rather than only text summaries.
Pricing is where Notta is most obviously aimed at small businesses. Pro is $8.17 a month billed annually for 1,800 transcription minutes, which is 50 percent more minutes than Otter Pro at roughly the same price, and Business at $16.67 a month annually removes the transcription meter entirely. The free tier is the weakest part: 120 transcription minutes a month with a three-minute cap on any single recording, which is short enough that you cannot even evaluate it on a real meeting without uploading a file afterwards.
Against Granola, Notta sits on the opposite side of every architectural choice. Granola runs locally, puts nothing in the participant list, and stores no desktop recording. Notta sends a bot into the call, keeps the recording, and is built to be a durable multilingual archive rather than a private notepad. If a client seeing a vendor bot in the attendee list is a problem for you, Notta does not solve it; if what you need is a searchable, translatable record of a Japanese-English negotiation, nothing bot-free does it as well.
Best for
Small businesses, consultants, and teams whose meetings are not exclusively in English, especially anyone working across Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or European languages, who want a cheap, reliable, high-volume transcription archive rather than a coaching or revenue tool.
Not the right fit for
- Anyone who cannot have a vendor-named bot visible in a client call; Notta's capture model is bot-first and it does not offer a Granola-style silent local desktop capture as its main path.
- Teams that want sales coaching, call scoring, or pipeline analytics; Notta generates summaries and deliverables but has no scorecards, playbook tracking, or rep-level analytics at all.
- Buyers who want to evaluate seriously on the free plan; 120 minutes a month with a three-minute cap per recording is not enough to test a single real meeting end to end.
- Organisations with strict EU or US-only data residency requirements; Notta is a Japanese company and does not publish a self-serve regional hosting option.
- Anyone expecting a large integration catalogue or a developer platform; the connector list is short and functional rather than a platform, and there is no self-serve public API story comparable to Fireflies or Circleback.
How it works
- 1
You connect Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar and Notta schedules a bot to join upcoming Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Webex calls. The bot appears in the participant list under the vendor's name. You can also record directly from the web app, the mobile apps, or the Chrome extension without scheduling anything.
- 2
Notta transcribes in real time, separating speakers, and can transcribe and translate at the same time across its 58 supported languages. This is the feature that distinguishes it: a call held in Japanese produces both a Japanese transcript and an English one, rather than an English approximation of what a machine thought it heard.
- 3
After the call Notta generates a summary, action items, and chapters. On paid tiers it will also generate deliverables from the content, turning a meeting into a slide deck or an infographic rather than only a text recap, which is where the 2026 product has been investing.
- 4
Everything lands in a searchable workspace. Notta Brain answers questions across every recording you have, and the connectors push summaries and transcripts into Slack, Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, ClickUp, Google Drive, Dropbox, and anything else you can reach through Zapier.
Feature breakdown
27 features in 5 modulesCapture
A bot for calls, plus recorders for everything else.- Notta meeting bot
- Joins scheduled Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex calls from your connected calendar and appears in the participant list under the vendor's name.
- Web and mobile recorder
- Record in-person conversations, interviews, and lectures directly from the browser or the iOS and Android apps without any meeting platform involved.
- Chrome extension
- Starts capture from the browser and handles calls you did not put on the calendar in advance.
- File upload transcription
- Upload existing audio and video for transcription, capped at 50 files a month on free, 100 on Pro, and 200 on Business.
- Long recording support
- Paid tiers allow up to 5 hours in a single recording, against a 3-minute cap on the free plan, which is the sharpest free-to-paid cliff in this category.
Languages and translation
The actual reason to choose Notta over an American competitor.- 58 supported languages
- Transcription across 58 languages, roughly ten times Otter's list and comparable to the broadest coverage in the category.
- Simultaneous translation
- Transcribe and translate in the same pass, so a bilingual call produces a record in both languages rather than one lossy version.
- Strong Japanese and Chinese quality
- The company is Tokyo-based and built its recognition around East Asian languages first, which is where its accuracy advantage over Western tools is most visible.
- Speaker separation
- Diarization labels who said what so a multi-party transcript reads as a conversation, including across mixed-language calls.
- Bilingual export
- Transcripts and translations export together, which matters when the record has to be shared with parties on both sides of a language line.
Summaries, search, and generated output
Where the 2026 product is investing.- AI summaries
- Metered separately from minutes: 10 a month on free, 100 on Pro, 200 on Business, and unlimited on Enterprise. This second meter catches people out.
- Action items and chapters
- Meetings are broken into topic chapters with commitments extracted, rather than delivered as one undifferentiated block.
- Notta Brain
- Formerly AI Chat. Searches across every recording in the workspace and answers questions from the whole archive rather than a single meeting.
- Presentation generation
- Turns meeting content into a shareable slide deck as a PPT file, which is unusual in this category.
- Infographic generation
- Produces structured visuals from a conversation, aimed at executives who want a decision framework rather than a transcript.
- Cross-recording insights
- Surfaces recurring themes across the archive rather than only summarising individual calls.
Workflow and integrations
Short list, sensibly chosen.- Calendar sync
- Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar drive automatic bot scheduling.
- Slack and Notion
- Summaries route into channels and documentation automatically after a call.
- Salesforce and HubSpot
- Meeting records attach to CRM objects so account context survives the call.
- ClickUp
- Action items become tasks in the tracker rather than staying inside the notetaker.
- Google Drive and Dropbox
- Recordings and transcripts export to storage you control.
- Zapier
- Covers everything outside the native connector list, which is how most Notta automation actually gets built.
Team, security, and administration
Adequate for a small business, thin for a regulated one.- SOC 2 and GDPR
- Notta publishes SOC 2 and GDPR compliance alongside its security posture on the marketing site.
- Team workspaces
- Business allows a customisable number of seats sharing one workspace and one unlimited transcription allowance.
- Shared folders and permissions
- Recordings can be organised and shared selectively rather than dumped into a single team library.
- Encryption
- Data is encrypted in transit and at rest; Notta does not publish per-tier retention windows for self-serve plans.
- Enterprise seat minimum
- The Enterprise tier requires a minimum of 51 seats, which cleanly separates the self-serve product from the sales-led one.
Use cases
4 documentedBilingual sales manager selling into Japan
Calls switch between English and Japanese, and existing notetakers produce a single garbled English transcript that neither side can rely on.
Notta transcribes and translates in the same pass, producing a record both sides can read, and pushes the summary into HubSpot so the account history survives in a language the rest of the team understands.
Solo researcher transcribing interview tape
A backlog of recorded interviews needs accurate text, and per-minute transcription services get expensive fast at volume.
Pro at $8.17 a month covers 1,800 minutes and 100 file uploads, which is 30 hours of tape for less than the price of one professional transcription hour.
Consultant who has to hand clients a deliverable
Workshop conversations need to become a deck by the next morning and the consultant is rebuilding slides from notes every time.
Notta generates a PPT and infographics directly from the recording, which is a rough first draft rather than a finished deliverable but removes the blank-page problem.
Small team wanting an unlimited archive on a fixed budget
Everyone is in enough calls to blow through a minute meter, and the team does not want to think about usage every month.
Business at $16.67 a month per seat annually removes the transcription meter entirely while staying cheaper than Otter Business or Fireflies Business.
Pricing
from $0 (Free), then $8.17 per month billed annually (Pro)Per-seat subscription with a monthly transcription-minute meter on the free and Pro tiers and a second separate meter on AI summaries and file uploads across all tiers. Business removes the minute meter.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 per month |
The 3-minute per-recording cap is the real limit. You cannot record a single actual meeting on this plan. |
| Pro | $8.17 per month billed annually ($97.99 per year) |
Thirty hours of transcription a month for the price of a sandwich; the best raw minute value in this category. |
| Business | $16.67 per month billed annually ($199.99 per year) |
The tier for anyone in a genuinely full calendar. The summary and upload meters still apply. |
| Enterprise | Custom quoted, minimum 51 seats |
The 51-seat floor makes this irrelevant to almost every small business, which is fine because Business covers the need. |
Billing notes
- Annual billing carries a stated 40 percent discount; the headline prices quoted here are the annual equivalents, and monthly billing is materially more expensive.
- There are three separate meters, not one: transcription minutes, AI summaries, and file uploads. A team can be well inside its minutes and still run out of summaries.
- The vendor's homepage advertises 200 free minutes while the pricing page states 120 transcription minutes a month. Verify the current free allowance at signup rather than trusting either number.
- Business removes the minute meter but keeps the 200-summary and 200-upload monthly caps, so unlimited is not quite unlimited.
- Enterprise requires 51 seats minimum, so there is no negotiated middle ground between a $200 annual Business seat and a sales-led contract.
Value assessment: On raw transcription value Notta is the cheapest credible option here. Someone in 20 meetings a week at 45 minutes generates roughly 3,900 minutes a month; Pro's 1,800 minutes covers under half of that, so that person lands on Business at $16.67 per seat per month billed annually, about $200 a year, for unlimited transcription across 58 languages. That is cheaper than Otter Business, Fireflies Business, or Read AI Pro and gets you a wider language list than any of them. The catch is scope. There is no coaching layer, no video review, no meaningful API, and the free tier is close to useless as a trial. Notta is priced like a utility because it is one: a very good multilingual transcription and archive service, not a meeting operating system.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- 58 languages with simultaneous translation, which makes it the obvious choice for any business whose meetings cross a language boundary and a decisive advantage over Otter's six languages.
- Genuine East Asian language quality, built from a Tokyo base rather than bolted onto an English-first engine.
- The cheapest unlimited-transcription tier among the established players at $16.67 per seat per month billed annually.
- Deliverable generation (slide decks and infographics from a conversation) is a real differentiator, not just another summary format.
- Notta Brain searches the whole archive rather than one meeting, and it is included rather than reserved for a top tier.
- SOC 2 and GDPR posture published, with more than 10 million claimed users and a Series B raised in December 2025, so this is not a project that will vanish next quarter.
Limitations
- The free plan's 3-minute per-recording cap makes honest evaluation impossible without uploading a file recorded elsewhere.
- Three separate meters (minutes, summaries, uploads) make the bill harder to reason about than a flat seat price, and Business still caps summaries at 200 a month.
- Bot-first capture with a vendor-named participant in the room, and no equivalent to Granola's silent local desktop capture for sensitive client calls.
- No sales coaching, scorecards, or rep analytics of any kind, so revenue teams will need a second tool.
- Thin developer story: the integration list is short and there is no prominent self-serve API or MCP connector comparable to Circleback, Fireflies, or Granola.
- Japanese company with no advertised EU or US data residency option, which will fail some procurement checklists regardless of the SOC 2.
- Public documentation of retention windows, model-training policy, and consent behaviour is thinner in English than the American competitors, so a compliance-sensitive buyer has to ask rather than read.
Head-to-head comparisons
6 alternativesNotta vs Otter.ai
from $0 (Basic), then $8.33 per user per month (Pro, billed annually)These are the two minute-metered transcription veterans and they split cleanly on language. Notta covers 58 languages with translation for $8.17 a month at Pro; Otter covers six and charges about the same for fewer minutes, but has better English recognition, a better live transcript view, and a far stronger export story. Buy Notta if any of your meetings are not in English; buy Otter if they all are.
Full Notta vs Otter.ai comparisonNotta vs Granola
from $0 (Basic), then $14 per user per month (Business)Granola runs locally with nothing in the participant list and stores no desktop recording, at $14 a seat with no meter, but it is English-first and gives you no archive of audio. Notta puts a bot in the room, keeps the recording, and handles 58 languages. Pick Granola for confidential English-language conversations where the notes are the point; pick Notta when you need a durable multilingual record you can replay and translate.
Full Notta vs Granola comparisonNotta vs Fireflies.ai
from $0 (Free), then $10 per user per month billed annually (Pro; $18 monthly)Fireflies matches Notta on language breadth and beats it decisively on integrations, automation, and conversation intelligence, at a higher price with its own storage and credit meters. Notta is cheaper, simpler, and better at translation specifically. Choose Fireflies if the notetaker has to plug into a wide toolchain; choose Notta if the job is high-volume multilingual transcription at the lowest defensible price.
Full Notta vs Fireflies.ai comparisonNotta vs MeetGeek
from $0 (Basic), then $9.99 per user per month (Pro)Both are cheap metered notetakers from outside the US venture bubble. MeetGeek meters in hours with a published $0.50 overage rate and includes video storage on Business; Notta meters in minutes, has three times the language coverage, and generates decks and infographics. Take MeetGeek if you want video and predictable overages; take Notta if language coverage is what you are buying.
Full Notta vs MeetGeek comparisonNotta vs Circleback
from $20.83 per user per month (Individual, billed annually)Circleback is the premium bot-free option at roughly $21 to $25 a seat with 100-plus languages and a serious automation layer including API, webhooks, and MCP. Notta costs a third as much, keeps the recording, and puts a bot in the room. Circleback is the better product for a team that will build workflows on top of it; Notta is the better purchase for a small business that just wants accurate multilingual transcripts cheaply.
Full Notta vs Circleback comparisonNotta vs tl;dv
from EUR 0 (Free), then EUR 216 per seat per year for Pro (EUR 18 per month equivalent; EUR 29 billed monthly)tl;dv is built for recorded sales calls, with video reels, coaching, and CRM playbooks on top of multilingual transcription. Notta has no coaching layer and no video review workflow but is cheaper and better at translation. A revenue team should take tl;dv; a consultancy, research team, or bilingual operator should take Notta.
Full Notta vs tl;dv comparisonImplementation & onboarding
- Setup time
- Ten to fifteen minutes. Create an account, connect Google or Outlook calendar, decide whether the bot auto-joins everything or only meetings you approve, and install the mobile app if you record in person.
- Learning curve
- Very low for transcription. The generated deliverables (decks and infographics) take some experimentation before the output is good enough to send anywhere, and the interplay of the three meters takes a month of usage to internalise.
- Onboarding
- Entirely self-serve through Business. English-language documentation is adequate but noticeably thinner than the Japanese material, and support responses can carry the same asymmetry.
- Migration notes
- You can backfill an archive by uploading existing audio and video files, subject to the monthly upload caps, which makes migration from another notetaker practical if you kept the media. Leaving is straightforward for text: transcripts and translations export, and Google Drive and Dropbox connectors push copies out automatically. There is no bulk API-driven migration path.
Platform, API & security
- Platforms
- WebiOSAndroidChrome extensionDesktop access via browser
- API
- No prominent self-serve public API or MCP connector; automation is handled through native connectors and Zapier.
- Compliance
- SOC 2GDPR
- Data residency
- Notta is headquartered in Tokyo and does not advertise self-serve regional data residency options.
- SSO
- Not published as a self-serve feature; enterprise access controls are handled through the 51-seat Enterprise tier.
- Security notes
- Data is encrypted in transit and at rest and the vendor publishes SOC 2 and GDPR compliance. Per-tier retention windows and the model-training policy are not documented as clearly in English as they are by the US competitors, so a compliance-sensitive buyer should request both in writing before rolling it out.
Support & resources
- Channels
- Email supportIn-app helpPriority handling on higher tiers
- Documentation
- Help centre and product documentation on notta.ai, with more extensive material available in Japanese than in English.
- Community
- Large user base, particularly in Japan; no significant official English-language community forum.
Company
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Ownership
- Venture-backed
- Employees
- Not disclosed
- Funding
- Approximately $31.8M raised across three rounds from eight investors, most recently a Series B of about 2.3 billion yen announced in December 2025.
Funding history
| Round | Amount | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| First round | Undisclosed | 2022 | Notta's first external funding round, closed in November 2022. |
| Series A | Undisclosed | 2023 | Part of the roughly $31.8M raised across three rounds. |
| Series B | Approximately 2.3 billion yen | 2025 | Announced December 2025, funding the expansion from transcription into generated deliverables. |
Timeline
- 2020Founded in Tokyo as a transcription service focused on Japanese, Chinese, and English rather than English alone.
- 2022Raises its first external round and expands language coverage well beyond East Asia.
- 2024Adds meeting bot capture for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex, moving from a recorder to a meeting notetaker.
- 2025Raises a Series B of roughly 2.3 billion yen in December, and passes 10 million claimed users across 58 supported languages.
- 2026Rebrands AI Chat as Notta Brain and pushes into generated deliverables, producing slide decks and infographics directly from meeting content.
Integrations
- Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex
- Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar
- Slack
- Notion
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- ClickUp
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- Zapier
Frequently asked questions
10 questionsWhat is Notta?
Notta is an AI meeting notetaker and transcription service based in Tokyo. It records calls through a bot or records directly from the web and mobile apps, transcribes and translates across 58 languages, and produces summaries, action items, searchable archive chat, and generated deliverables such as slide decks and infographics.
How much does Notta cost?
The free plan is $0 with 120 transcription minutes a month and a 3-minute cap per recording. Pro is $8.17 a month billed annually ($97.99 a year) for 1,800 minutes and 5-hour recordings. Business is $16.67 a month billed annually ($199.99 a year) and removes the transcription minute meter. Enterprise is custom quoted with a 51-seat minimum.
How is Notta metered, and what would 20 meetings a week cost?
There are three meters: transcription minutes, AI summaries, and file uploads. Twenty meetings a week at 45 minutes each is roughly 3,900 minutes a month. The free plan's 120 minutes covers about two of those meetings and Pro's 1,800 minutes covers under half the month, so that person needs Business at $16.67 per seat per month billed annually, roughly $200 a year, which removes the minute meter but still caps AI summaries at 200 a month.
Does Notta put a bot in my meetings?
Yes. For scheduled Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex calls, Notta joins as a participant visible to everyone in the room under the vendor's name. There is no silent local desktop capture equivalent to Granola. If a client seeing a recorder in the attendee list is unacceptable for your business, Notta is the wrong architecture and you should look at Granola, Circleback, Bluedot, or Supernormal instead.
What languages does Notta support and how good is non-English quality?
Fifty-eight languages for both transcription and translation. Quality is strongest in Japanese, Chinese, and English, which reflects where the company built its recognition first, and it is the main reason to choose Notta over an American competitor. Coverage across European languages is broad but you should test your specific language on real audio before committing, because breadth of coverage and accuracy in any one language are different claims.
Does Notta keep my audio and video?
Yes, recordings are retained alongside the transcript so you can replay them, which is the opposite of Granola's desktop behaviour. Notta does not publish a simple per-tier retention table for self-serve plans, so if you need a defined deletion window you should ask support in writing and confirm it before rolling the tool out to a team.
Does Notta train its models on my recordings?
Notta publishes SOC 2 and GDPR compliance but does not document its model-training posture in English as clearly as the US competitors do. That means the practical answer for a careful buyer is to request the data processing agreement and an explicit written statement on whether customer audio is used for model improvement, and what the opt-out mechanism is, before uploading anything sensitive. Do not assume a no-training default.
How does Notta handle consent in two-party recording jurisdictions?
The bot's presence in the participant list is the visible signal that recording is happening, and that is the extent of the built-in mechanism. In two-party consent states such as California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington, and under GDPR in the EU, that is not sufficient by itself. Announce the recording verbally at the start of the call and get agreement on the record. The obligation is yours, not the vendor's, and it applies equally in Japan where the practical expectation on client calls is an explicit heads-up.
Can Notta update my CRM?
Yes, through Salesforce and HubSpot integrations that attach the meeting summary and transcript to the relevant record, plus ClickUp for tasks and Zapier for anything else. It is context attachment rather than structured field mapping, so it will not populate a deal-review schema the way a revenue intelligence tool does.
Is Notta suitable for a sales team?
For capture and record-keeping, yes, and it is cheap. For coaching, no. There are no scorecards, no talk-time analytics, no playbook adherence tracking, and no video review workflow. A sales manager who wants to improve rep performance needs a conversation intelligence product; a sales team that simply wants every multilingual call transcribed and attached to the CRM will find Notta the cheapest way to get there.
Editorial verdict
Notta is the best value in this category on the specific axis of multilingual transcription, and it is close to irrelevant on every other axis. Fifty-eight languages with simultaneous translation, genuinely good Japanese and Chinese recognition, and an unlimited-transcription tier at about $200 a year per seat is a combination nobody else offers at that price. Buy it if your meetings cross a language boundary, if you are transcribing a lot of tape, or if you simply want a cheap durable archive and do not care about coaching. Do not buy it if you need a silent bot-free recorder for confidential client calls, if you want video review or sales analytics, or if procurement will demand a clear written model-training and residency policy before signing, because Notta's English-language documentation on those points is thinner than its competitors' and you will have to ask.
Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.