Introduction: Acute postoperative pain can affect patients' quality of life and recovery.Identifying the prevalence of pain and its correlation with satisfaction is crucial.Postoperative pain in Colombia has been reported up to 59.1%.Objective: To identify the prevalence of acute postoperative pain and its correlation with anesthetic recovery quality in adult patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery.Methods: This was an observational, analytical cross-sectional study conducted on a sample of 210 patients undergoing outpatient non-cardiac surgery during February and March 2021.Data were collected at three different time points, and univariate and bivariate analysis were performed to test hypotheses and establish correlation with patient satisfaction.Results: The study included 210 patients, mostly women (61%) without affective disorders (82.4%).The average age was 48.8 years, and ASA class I and II predominated (83.8%).The prevalence of acute postoperative pain was 61.3%.Expected pain was overestimated compared to pain at admission and two hours after surgery (p < 0.001).No correlation was found between pain and satisfaction measured by the Quality of Recovery Post-Anesthesia Scale (CdR) (p > 0.05).Conclusions: Expected pain is overestimated compared to actual postoperative pain.No correlation was found between pain and satisfaction in the postoperative period up to two hours of observation.