Fireflies.ai is best for consultants running many client calls, small sales teams and remote teams. Its clearest advantage: Transcription is unlimited even on the free plan.
- Avoid if
- anyone who only needs the occasional transcript
- Cheapest useful plan
- $18.00/mo · Pro
- Free plan
- Yes
- Setup effort
- easy: minutes
- Main limitation
- Free plan stores only 400 minutes per team, so the archive fills fast
- Transcription is unlimited even on the free plan
- Search works across every call, not one at a time
- Joins the major meeting platforms without a desktop app
- anyone who only needs the occasional transcript
- teams that cannot record calls for compliance reasons
What it actually does
Unlimited transcription on every plan, transcription in 100+ languages with automatic language detection, AI summaries and Ask Fred questions, Live Assist notes and suggestions during the call, searchable archive across calls.
Before you pay
Free or Pro
Transcription and AI summaries are unlimited even on the free plan, but storage is 400 minutes per team, so the archive fills fast. Pro is for someone who wants to keep and search every call. It joins the major meeting platforms without a desktop app.
What a year costs
Pro is $18 per user a month billed monthly, $216 a year, or $10 billed yearly, $120 a year: the gap is unusually large. Business is $29 a month, $348 a year, or $19 billed yearly, $228 a year. Enterprise is $39 a month, yearly only. We read the same $18 on 7 August, 10 October and 25 October.
What we would check before paying
Whether you will keep it a full year, since yearly billing nearly halves Pro. AI credits are metered separately from transcription.
The limits to know
- Free plan stores only 400 minutes per team, so the archive fills fast
- The gap between monthly and annual pricing is unusually large
- AI credits are metered separately from transcription
Pricing & billing commitment
- Rate on record
- $18.00/mo · Pro
- What that figure is
- Month-to-month rate per seat, read on the vendor's monthly view.
- Commitment
- None: payable one month at a time
- The vendor's exact condition
- $18 per user/month billed monthly; $10 per user/month billed annually (Fireflies advertises up to 44% off)
The pricing page, as read
What it costs at 1, 3, 5 and 10 users
Fireflies.ai bills per seat, so the invoice follows head count. Calculated at the rate on record, before tax, with no annual commitment.
| Seats | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $18.00 | $216.00 |
| 3 | $54.00 | $648.00 |
| 5 | $90.00 | $1080.00 |
| 10 | $180.00 | $2160.00 |
In practice
- Platforms
- Web, Chrome, iOS, Android
- Integrations
- Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce
- Setup
- easy: minutes
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Frequently asked questions
What is Fireflies.ai?
Fireflies.ai is a tool used mainly for meeting transcription, AI meeting summaries, searchable call archive. Main features: unlimited transcription on every plan, transcription in 100+ languages with automatic language detection, AI summaries and Ask Fred questions. It has a permanent free plan; the paid entry point is $18.00/mo · Pro.
How much does Fireflies.ai cost?
The paid entry point is $18.00/mo · Pro. Month-to-month rate per seat, read on the vendor's monthly view. The exact condition attached to that figure: $18 per user/month billed monthly; $10 per user/month billed annually (Fireflies advertises up to 44% off). Read on the official pricing page on 25.10.2026. Prices move quickly: confirm before subscribing.
Does Fireflies.ai have a free plan?
Yes. Fireflies.ai publishes a permanent free plan. Check this before settling on it: free plan stores only 400 minutes per team, so the archive fills fast.
What devices and tools does Fireflies.ai work with?
According to the vendor's documentation, Fireflies.ai runs on: Web, Chrome, iOS, Android. Documented integrations: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce. Listed from the official sources, not tested by us: check your own setup on the free plan.
How we checked this record
The evidence record
- Evidence level
- Vendor documented: Official documentation and pricing page reviewed and dated. No independent verification, no hands-on test recorded.
- Affiliate status
- No affiliate link on this record, no commission.
Hands-on test
No automated hands-on test has been completed for this review cycle. This record rests on the vendor's official documentation and pricing page, re-read and dated. We say so rather than imply otherwise.
The research record
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France; screenshot kept
Confirmed in the pricing page's text, which renders the monthly figure, from France
Read on the vendor's monthly view
Sources
The official pages this record rests on. No tracking links here: these addresses name the vendor.
Evidence freshness
Each kind of check has its own clock and its own threshold. A price ages in weeks and a feature list in months; sharing one date between them would let an old review pass for a recent check.
| Check | When | State |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Checked 18 days ago | Fresh |
| Features | Checked 41 days ago | Fresh |
| Privacy & data | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Hands-on test | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Page review | Checked 97 days ago | Due soon |
What remains unverified
- No workflow was run inside the product. Everything here comes from the vendor's documentation and public pages.
- Data handling and the privacy policy were not independently verified during this research cycle. We therefore publish no conclusion about security or where data is stored.
- Export terms and the real cost of leaving are not on this record: we have not tested them.