Notta Review (2026): Good Free Plan, Trial Worth Reading Twice
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What is it?
Notta is an AI meeting assistant and transcription tool: it joins Zoom/Meet/Teams calls (or transcribes uploaded audio) and turns them into text, summaries, and action items. Its selling point against the bigger names is language coverage — Notta lists 58 supported languages, well ahead of Otter’s six, though still short of Fireflies’ claimed 100+.
Pricing, as it actually stands
Notta runs four tiers: Free ($0), Pro ($13.99/month, or $8.17/month billed annually at $97.99/year), Business ($27.99/seat/month, or $16.67/seat/month annually), and Enterprise (custom, 51+ seats). The annual discount is real — roughly 42% off — and Pro at $8.17/month is the cheapest paid tier among the major note-takers we’ve reviewed, undercutting Otter’s $8.33/user/month and Fireflies’ $10/seat/month.
Pro gives you 1,800 transcription minutes a month and transcript translation. Business goes unlimited on minutes. Real-time translation and bilingual transcription are separate paid add-ons (from about $6/month), not included even on Pro.
The free plan: fine as a taste test, not a workflow
Free accounts get 120 transcription minutes a month and up to 10 AI summaries — but with a 3-minute-per-conversation cap. That’s enough to check whether Notta’s engine handles your accent or vocabulary well; it is not enough to take notes on an actual meeting. No credit card is required for this tier, which is the right way to try software.
The part to read carefully: the “3-day free trial”
This is where the queue title we started with — “the 30-day free trial” — turned out to be wrong, and worth correcting: Notta doesn’t offer a 30-day trial. It offers a 3-day free trial of the Pro plan, and separately a 7-day trial of Business. Both require entering a credit card upfront. If you don’t cancel within the window, Notta charges the full annual rate immediately — commonly reported as $97.99, sometimes more depending on plan.
That auto-conversion is standard SaaS practice, but the complaints around it aren’t. Multiple Trustpilot and Reddit reports describe being charged with no reminder email, difficulty reaching support for a refund, and — in a few accounts — being charged even after cancelling inside the window. Notta’s own help center confirms the mechanics (trial converts to a paid annual subscription unless cancelled), which means the fine print is accurate even where the experience apparently isn’t consistently honored. Set a calendar reminder for day two if you start this trial, and screenshot your cancellation.
Our advice: skip the carded trial entirely for evaluation purposes. Use the always-free plan (no card, 120 min/month) to judge transcription accuracy on your own voice and language first. Only hand over a card once you already know you want Pro.
Accuracy: strong on major languages, weaker at the edges
User reports are consistent that transcription quality is solid for English and other high-resource languages, but drops off for less commonly supported ones — Greek and Portuguese accuracy complaints show up repeatedly in reviews. Some users also report occasional random inserted words in longer transcripts, a known failure mode for streaming ASR generally, not unique to Notta.
Pros
- 58 languages — well ahead of Otter, though behind Fireflies’ 100+
- Cheapest paid tier of the major note-takers at $8.17/mo annual
- 1,800 min/month on Pro is roomy compared to Otter’s 1,200
- Free plan requires no credit card
Cons
- Free plan’s 3-min-per-conversation cap makes it a demo, not a tool
- 3-day Pro trial requires a card and auto-charges the full annual rate
- Recurring user reports of billing surprises and slow refunds
- Accuracy reportedly weaker outside major languages; real-time translation costs extra
Who should use it, and who shouldn’t
Use it if your meetings happen in a language Otter doesn’t support, you’ve confirmed accuracy on your specific language using the free plan first, and you’re comfortable managing a trial cancellation date yourself. The Pro price is genuinely good value if the billing process doesn’t bite you.
Skip it if you want to test at length without a credit card in the system at all — Fireflies’s free plan transcribes without a minutes cap (storage is the only limit) and claims broader language coverage, making it a lower-risk way to evaluate non-English transcription. If your meetings are strictly English, Otter is simpler and has none of the trial-billing complaints attached to it. Our meeting note-taker roundup lines up all three, plus tl;dv and Fathom, side by side, and our guide to automating meeting notes into action items covers what to do with the transcript once you have it.
Try Notta's free plan first
Test transcription quality on your own language with the no-card-required free plan before you consider the paid trial.
Verdict
Notta’s underlying product is competitive: wide language support, the cheapest Pro tier in its category, and a workable free plan for quick tests. The trial mechanics and the billing complaints around them are the actual risk, not the transcription engine. Go in with the free plan first, a calendar reminder if you start any carded trial, and you’ll get a fair read on whether it’s the right tool for your languages. Prices and limits checked July 2026 — Notta revises plans and trial terms fairly often, so confirm current terms on notta.ai/en/pricing before entering payment details.