by Fireflies.ai Corp.AI meeting notetakers
A meeting bot with unlimited transcription from Pro at $10 a seat, unlimited storage on Business at $19, the API on every plan and no training on your meetings.
A notetaker bot with unlimited transcription from $10 a seat, CRM sync and an API on every plan, and a written promise not to train on your meetings.
Fireflies joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex and transcribes without a monthly cap from Pro, with video, CRM sync to Salesforce or HubSpot and downloads in PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON or Markdown. The API is on every plan, Free included. Its terms say it will not use your content to train generative AI models, on any plan. Business, at $19 a seat billed annually, removes the storage cap so a team keeps its full history.
Against 3 other products we reviewed in AI meeting notetakers: what you pay for with each, the five access facts, the plan limits we recorded and each review's bottom line. The note under the table says how each one was checked.
| Metric | Fireflies.ai | Granola | tl;dv | Fathom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Worth the priceA notetaker bot with unlimited transcription from $10 a seat, CRM sync and an API on every plan, and a written promise not to train on your meetings. | Easy to adoptMeeting notes without a bot in the call: Granola transcribes your computer’s audio in any meeting app and keeps no recording. | Compliance includedVideo recordings of Zoom, Meet and Teams calls hosted and stored in the EU on every plan, with no training on your meetings. | Worth the priceUnlimited recording, transcription, video and history on a free plan, and a shared team workspace from $15 a seat. |
| Overall score | 6.5 | 7.2Best | 7.0 | 6.6 |
| Free option | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan |
| Card to start | –Not measured | No card needed | No card needed | –Not measured |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $10/seat/mo | $14/user/mo | $18/seat/mo | $15/user/mo |
| Pricing model | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing unit | Per seat per month; AI credits in monthly packs | Per active member per month | Per seat per month | Per user per month |
| Free option | Free: 3 meetings, unlimited with Auto-join; 400 minutes of storage; 7-day Business trial, card required | Basic: no transcription limit, notes visible for 30 days; trials of paid plans (length not stated) | Free: unlimited video recordings, 40 a week, kept 3 months; no card | Free: unlimited recordings and history, for individuals; 30-day Premium preview |
| Reference scenario (5 users, annual) | $95/mo on Business ($19 × 5), computed | $70/mo on Business ($14 × 5, billed monthly), computed | $90/mo on Pro ($18 × 5), computed | $75/mo on Team ($15 × 5), computed |
| Month-to-month price | $29 per seat on Business; $18 on Pro; Enterprise annual only | $14 per user on Business; Enterprise $35, monthly or annual | $29 per seat on Pro; $39 on Business | $19 per user on Team; $20 on Premium; $34 on Business |
| Meeting length cap | 2 hours on Free and Pro, 3 on Business, 4 on Enterprise | Not stated; transcription stops after 15 minutes of silence | 3 hours on every plan | Not stated; the bot does not join Zoom meetings over 250 attendees |
| Meeting platforms | Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and Webex on every plan | Any app through device audio (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack huddles) | Zoom, Google Meet and Teams by bot on every plan | Zoom, Google Meet and Teams on every plan |
| Bot-free capture | Chrome extension (Google Meet), desktop and mobile apps | Always: no bot; desktop, iOS and Android apps | Desktop app (audio only) and mobile app | Mac-only beta (not Teams yet); iOS app for in-person |
| Video recording | From Pro (720p) on the pricing page; Business in one FAQ | Not offered; audio is not stored | Every plan; downloads from Pro | Every plan, MP4 download |
| Training on your data | Not used to train generative AI, every plan (terms) | Anonymized data unless each user opts out; Enterprise off by default | Not used to train AI, every plan (privacy policy) | De-identified data for in-house models; opt-out per user, org-wide on Team |
| SOC 2 / HIPAA | SOC 2 Type II under a mutual NDA; HIPAA BAA on Enterprise with private storage | SOC 2 Type II; HIPAA BAA on Enterprise through sales | SOC 2 Type II on request; BAA mentioned only in blog posts | SOC 2 Type II; BAA in the terms, signed BAA on Enterprise |
| EU data storage | Enterprise private storage or your own bucket; processed in the US | Not offered; AWS US region | Every plan (Germany and Finland); AI processing in the EU or the US, as chosen in preferences | Not offered; stored in the US |
| SSO | Enterprise | Enterprise, 50+ seats | Enterprise (SAML, OIDC) | Enterprise |
| Transcript export | PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON, MD from Pro; full export on request | CSV of all notes per user; API from Business | Copy per meeting; API on Pro and Business; no bulk export | Copy in the app; JSON through the API |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Fireflies puts the most features on its scenario plan here: video, CRM sync, the API and no training on your meetings. Several pages disagree on limits, Pro has a storage cap, and SSO and retention controls are Enterprise. | From its public pages, Granola is the one notetaker here built without a bot or stored audio, with the lowest 5-user price ($70 a month on Business) and self-serve retention settings. It trains on anonymized data unless each user opts out, and SSO needs 50 seats. | From its public pages, tl;dv is the EU-hosted option here, with video on its free plan, no training on your meetings, and CRM mapping and the API on Pro at $18 a seat. Recordings are capped per week (80 a user on Pro), and SSO, retention and the audit log are Enterprise. | From its public pages, Fathom has the strongest free plan of the bot notetakers here and the lowest 5-user price among them, $75 a month on Team. Transcripts leave only through copy or the API, and its pages disagree on several plan details. |
Evidence: Fireflies.ai: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Granola: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; tl;dv: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Fathom: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Review from public pages
Written from Fireflies.ai's public pages (pricing, security or privacy, and docs) as read on Oct 16, 2026. We did not sign up, and no hands-on run is published yet.
We read Fireflies' pricing page with its comparison table and FAQ, the security, HIPAA, DPA, BAA and NDA pages, the terms of service, the privacy policy, the developer docs and help center articles on plans, storage, rate limits, AI credits, recording, consent, retention, SSO, exports, cancellation and refunds on Oct 16, 2026; we did not sign up, start a trial or call the API. The pricing page served us US dollar prices. The trust center renders only in a browser script and could not be read, so its subprocessor list is not covered here.
The plan cards are clear on price, meeting length (2, 3 and 4 hours by plan) and storage (400 minutes on Free, 8,000 per seat on Pro, unlimited on Business). Upload caps (3,000 minutes per source per user a month) and the automatic $5 credit plan when the free AI credits on a paid plan run out are stated only in help.
Several points need a question to Fireflies. Free transcription is "Unlimited" on the plan card and "Limited" in the table; help says 3 meetings unless Auto-join is on, for sign-ups since Sept. 1, 2026. Video recording starts on Pro on the pricing page and on Business in one FAQ. Help pages describe AI credits as monthly and as one-time, and as per seat and as pooled. Enterprise shows "Contact Us", while help documents card checkout from the dashboard.
The API is open on all plans: Free at 30 requests a minute and 500 a day, Pro at 60 a minute, Business pooled per paid seat up to 1,200 a minute.
vs tl;dv: Otter keeps its API on Enterprise; tl;dv and Granola start theirs on paid plans.
The terms rule out training generative AI on your content on every plan, with no opt-out needed, and the AI vendors work under zero-retention agreements.
Compared: Otter trains on de-identified data below Enterprise; Granola trains on anonymized data unless each user opts out.
Paid plans download transcripts as PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON or Markdown, video as MP4 and audio as MP3, and any user can request a full account export.
vs Fathom: Fathom’s transcripts are copied in the app or pulled through the API.
An optional email tells attendees an hour before with a link to decline, a pinned chat note announces the bot, and chat commands pause or remove it.
Pro stores 8,000 minutes per seat, pooled across the team; at the cap new meetings are still captured, but older ones must be deleted to open them.
Workaround: Business, at $19 a seat billed annually, and Enterprise have unlimited storage.
The plan card, comparison table and help differ on Free transcription, Free storage (per team or per seat), whether AI credits are monthly or one-time, and whether video starts on Pro or Business.
Workaround: Ask Fireflies to confirm the limits that matter to you before buying.
SAML SSO, SCIM, auto-delete (1 week to 1 year), the audit-events API and HIPAA with private storage are Enterprise, at $39 a seat billed annually.
The pricing FAQ says sign-in is only possible with Google or Outlook accounts, and no built-in two-factor sign-in is stated.
Fireflies bills per seat per month. For our scenario, Pro would cover the minutes and the 2-hour meetings, but its 8,000 minutes of storage per seat fill up at 1,200 minutes a user a month (in about 7 months for 5 users, computed), so 5 users go on Business: 5 × $19 = $95 a month on annual terms ($1,140 a year), or 5 × $29 = $145 month to month (computed), before tax. AI credits for AskFred, extra summary templates and CRM autofill are extra: packs run from $5 for 50 to $600 for 10,000 a month. A custom bot name is $5 a month, and uploads over 3,000 minutes per source cost $0.01 a minute.
Paid plans download each meeting’s transcript, summary, video and audio; there is no bulk download in the app, but any user can request a full export (audio, video, transcripts and metadata) through a form, and the API serves every plan. After cancelling, meetings stay within the Free plan limits; a deleted account is removed after 30 days.
From its public pages, Fireflies puts the most features on its scenario plan here: video, CRM sync, the API and no training on your meetings. Several pages disagree on limits, Pro has a storage cap, and SSO and retention controls are Enterprise.
| Limit | As recorded |
|---|---|
| Billing unit | Per seat per month; AI credits in monthly packs |
| Free option | Free: 3 meetings, unlimited with Auto-join; 400 minutes of storage; 7-day Business trial, card required |
| Reference scenario (5 users, annual) | $95/mo on Business ($19 × 5), computed |
| Month-to-month price | $29 per seat on Business; $18 on Pro; Enterprise annual only |
| Meeting length cap | 2 hours on Free and Pro, 3 on Business, 4 on Enterprise |
| Meeting platforms | Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and Webex on every plan |
| Bot-free capture | Chrome extension (Google Meet), desktop and mobile apps |
| Video recording | From Pro (720p) on the pricing page; Business in one FAQ |
| Training on your data | Not used to train generative AI, every plan (terms) |
| SOC 2 / HIPAA | SOC 2 Type II under a mutual NDA; HIPAA BAA on Enterprise with private storage |
| EU data storage | Enterprise private storage or your own bucket; processed in the US |
| SSO | Enterprise |
| Transcript export | PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON, MD from Pro; full export on request |
Read from the vendor's public pages on Oct 16, 2026. No hands-on run is published yet. How we check
We have not published a sign-up run for Fireflies.ai yet. The access facts above were read from its sign-up and pricing pages on Oct 16, 2026.
We have not published API calls for Fireflies.ai yet.
Fireflies.ai lists 4 plans. The cheapest paid plan, Pro (billed annually), costs $10/seat/mo.
Prices as listed, USD, excluding tax; observed 2026-10-16.
Source: fireflies.ai pricing page. Prices change; the observed date above is when our agent read them.
We read the pricing, trust, legal, help center and developer pages of three AI meeting notetakers on the same day and scored them on the same six indicators. What 5 users with 20 hours of meetings a month cost, where video, SSO and retention sit, how each treats your data, and who should pick which.
