Maverick — the free Otter.ai alternative

Maverick

open source · on publik

On your phone?

You install Maverick from a computer. Send yourself the link and open it there.

Maverick has no macOS build yet

The person who submitted Maverick only tested and declared a build for the other platform, so publik has nothing reviewed to walk you through here — a guessed set of commands would be worse than an honest no.

Built on Publik APIBuild yours →

publik API is one option

AI chat & tools: Chat completions with tool calls, JSON schemas and images, priced per tier in dollars.
Embeddings: Text embeddings for search and memory features.
Speech to text: Transcription billed by the audio minute.

By default, Maverick still runs on your machine, unless you pick the cloud option.
Choosing it needs no key to paste. Linking your publik account gives five cents of free use, once.
Then Maverick pays publik's published price per use, and your own key still works.

How pricing works

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Where Maverick’s AI runs, and what it costs

Prices are for one typical use: one request of about 1,500 words sent and 375 words back. A higher quality score is better.

On your computer

Not checked yet: publik has not read whether Maverick can run its AI on your computer.

publik API

Price: $0.0100 per use, $10.00 per 1,000 usespublik-balanced, the default level
Quality: MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 46
Setup: Built in. No key to paste; linking your publik account gives $0.05 of free use, once.

Your own key

Price: $0.0013 per use, $1.31 per 1,000 usesMiMo-V2.6-Pro at OpenRouter’s list price, before its fee for buying usage
Quality: MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 46
Setup: Open a provider account, add a card, paste the key into Maverick.

Quality and price, side by side

Quality score and cost per 1,000 typical uses for local models and the three publik API levels
Model	Quality	Per 1,000 uses
On your computer (Ollama, 4-bit download size)
Granite 4.2 3B2.2 GB	9	$0
Phi-4 Mini2.5 GB	6	$0
Llama 3.1 8B4.9 GB	7	$0
gpt-oss 20B14 GB	9	$0
Gemma 4 31B20 GB	19*	$0
Qwen3.5 35B-A3B24 GB	19*	$0
publik API
publik-fastGLM-5.3 Flash	42	$1.00
publik-balancedMiMo-V2.6-Pro · Maverick	46	$10.00
publik-smartGPT-6 Sol	48	$18.00

Quality: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2, read 2026-09-22 (publik API models 2026-09-25); * = estimated by Artificial Analysis. Sizes: the Ollama library, read 2026-09-22.

What you pay for

On your computer: nothing per use. You pay in disk space, memory and electricity, at lower quality.
publik API: publik’s published price for each use, in dollars, from your publik balance. It is above the model’s cost; the difference runs publik and pays the app’s builder.
Your own key: the provider’s price, billed to an account you keep with the provider.

Install Maverick: publik API is built in How publik API pricing works

How to install Maverick

Every step written out. No terminal experience needed. Pick your setup.

publik API is one option

AI chat & tools

Embeddings

Speech to text

By default, Maverick still runs on your machine, unless you pick the cloud option.

Choosing it needs no key to paste. Linking your publik account gives five cents of free use, once.

Then Maverick pays publik's published price per use, and your own key still works.