Pricing & features / 2026

The cloud bills you every month.
ANTIPODE charges you once.

Recording, transcription, AI summaries and AI chat all run on your phone. It never touches the network — so there's no reason to charge a subscription. Here's an honest side-by-side with Otter, Notta, AudioPen and PLAUD.

What you pay over 3 years (cumulative)

Total spend if you keep each plan. Subscriptions keep climbing; pay-once stays flat.

ANTIPODE (pay once) Otter Pro AudioPen Prime Notta Premium

Subscription lines use effective annual pricing (Otter Pro ~$100/yr, AudioPen Prime ~$99/yr, Notta Premium ~$95/yr equivalent — all approximate, as of 2026). ANTIPODE is pay-once: no recurring charge after purchase. Figures shift with each vendor's pricing changes and exchange rates.
See the official pages for current prices; check ANTIPODE's site for its exact one-time price.

Full comparison

Competitor figures are approximate, based on each vendor's official pages as of 2026. Pricing and specs change — always confirm on the official site before you buy. verify marks fields worth checking yourself.

	ANTIPODE	Otter.ai	Notta	AudioPen	PLAUD
Pricing model	Pay onceone-time, no auto-renew	Subscription~$100/yrverify	Subscription~$95/yrverify	Annual pass~$99/yrverify	Device + subhardware requiredverify
Free tier	Yes recording, standard transcription & search free	Yes (300 min/mo)verify	Yes (120 min/mo)verify	Yes (10 notes, 3 min each)verify	Basic onlyverify
Where data lives	On device only no INTERNET permission = can't send	Cloud	Cloud	Cloud	Cloud
Offline use	Fully offline every feature in airplane mode	Needs internet	Needs internet	Needs internet	Records on device / processes in cloudverify
Account required	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yesverify
Selectable ASR models	Up to 8 auto by language, manual override	Not disclosed (single engine)	Not disclosed	Not disclosed	Not disclosed
Bring your own model	Yes load a GGUF / .litertlm file	No	No	No	No
AI summary & chat	Yes (on-device) ask questions over your own notes (RAG)	Yes (cloud)	Yes (cloud)	Summaries (cloud)	Yes (cloud)
Transcription languages	JA, EN, ZH, KO + ~99 via Whisper	EN, FR, ES, moreverify	Multilingualverify	Multilingualverify	Multilingualverify
Platform	Android	Web, iOS, Android	Web, iOS, Android	Web, iOS, Android	Dedicated device + app

An honest note on accuracy

We deliberately don't publish a side-by-side "transcription accuracy %". No shared, like-for-like public benchmark exists across these tools, so any number would be made up. Here's what's true instead.

Big cloud models generally win on raw transcription accuracy. They run enormous models on servers — of course they do. We're not going to pretend otherwise.
ANTIPODE's on-device models are good enough for daily use. Transcribing and summarizing meetings, lectures and voice memos, plus light Q&A over your own notes — it holds up. Japanese uses ReazonSpeech, trained on a ~35,000-hour corpus.
The AI chat is roughly 2023-era in quality. Great for talking through ideas and summarizing; not a match for a frontier model at coding or hard reasoning. A daily-driver brain, not a frontier one.
What you get in return is a guarantee: nothing leaves the device. You trade some accuracy for the structural certainty that your voice and notes stay yours.

Which one is for you

Honestly — ANTIPODE isn't the right pick for everyone.

ANTIPODE fits you if

Your recordings can't leave the device (NDAs, medical, legal, journaling). You need it offline or in the air. You're done with subscriptions. You want to choose your own model and ASR. Your main phone is Android with 8GB+ RAM.

A cloud tool fits you if

You want the highest possible accuracy. You need it on iPhone or desktop too. You want a bot to auto-join Zoom/Teams calls. You share and co-edit with a team. Your phone is short on RAM. These are genuinely the cloud tools' strengths.

Try it in airplane mode first.

Every feature still works. That's the proof it's really offline.

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The cloud bills you every month.ANTIPODE charges you once.