Claras vs Notta: a meeting recorder and a video tool compared

The main differences, explained

What each one is really for

Notta is an AI notetaker for meetings. Its bot joins your Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or Webex calls, or it records on your laptop or phone with nobody else seeing a bot. Words appear as people speak, in 58 languages, and it can transcribe two languages at once or translate live. Afterwards you get notes with decisions and action items, and Notta Brain can answer questions across all your meetings and build slides, infographics, documents and follow-up emails. Its business plans add shared workspaces, CRM sync and security controls.

Notta also takes YouTube links and files. Its Upload and Link Transcription feature transcribes audio, video or a YouTube link, and its site has free YouTube transcript and summarizer pages and a Chrome extension that summarizes YouTube videos.

Claras starts after something has been published or recorded. You give it a link or a file, and it gives you a transcript, a summary, chapters and Ask AI. It can't attend or capture anything, so if nobody recorded it, Claras can't help.

The same job in each: a 40-minute YouTube talk

In Notta, you paste the YouTube link into its link transcription, pick the video's language and get a transcript with timestamps to download or copy, plus AI notes. On the free plan, note the limit of 3 minutes per conversation and 10 AI summaries a month. Notta's pages don't say the link route is exempt, so expect to need Pro, which allows 5 hours per conversation and 1,800 minutes a month.

In Claras, you sign in with a free account and paste the link. If the talk has captions, Claras reads them, so you don't wait for it to transcribe, and it counts as one of your 3 free videos. If it has none, Claras transcribes the audio with AI, up to 30 minutes on the free plan, so this one needs a paid plan, which goes to 3 hours. You get a summary, chapters that jump to their moment, and Ask AI, which usually gives a time like [18:30]. That time is plain text, so you move the player yourself. You can't edit the transcript or see who is speaking.

What each costs in practice

Notta's prices are in the table above, per seat and billed annually. Claras prices are on the pricing page. Three example months:

• Five hours of meetings a week. About 1,200 minutes a month, inside Notta Pro's 1,800. Claras can't do this job at any price.
• Thirty one-hour YouTube lectures with captions. 1,800 minutes, all of Notta Pro's monthly allowance. In Claras that is 30 videos, inside Pro's 50 a day, and captions use none of your transcription hours.
• Eight hours of your own interviews, in two-hour files. Notta Pro covers it, with speaker names and editing. Claras Pro includes 10 hours a month and files up to 6 hours, without speaker labels or editing.

Who should choose which

Choose Notta if

• You spend your week in calls and want notes without taking them.
• You record conversations in person, on your phone or with a device.
• It matters who said what, or you need to correct the transcript.
• You work across languages in the same meeting.
• Your team shares notes, syncs calls to a CRM or needs company security controls.

For these, Notta is the better choice, and Claras isn't really an alternative.

Choose Claras if

• What you learn from is already on YouTube, Instagram or TikTok.
• You watch long, captioned videos and don't want to count minutes.
• You want to compare many videos at once.
• You want answers about a video with times you can check, and don't need meeting features.

If you only have recordings

Either can transcribe a file, so start with the free plan of each, keeping Notta's 3-minute free limit in mind. Here is how Claras handles your own recordings and recorded sales calls.