What Fireflies.ai does
Fireflies.ai joins online meetings as a participant, transcribes them, writes notes and summaries, and keeps the result searchable. Transcription covers more than 100 languages, and the recorder reaches meetings from a desktop app, an iOS app, an Android app or a Chrome extension. The company calls the product the number one AI teammate for meetings, email and chat, a claim of its own. Every plan is priced per seat, and every tier carries the same core job.
Four plans sit on the page. Free runs free forever. Pro and Business bill by the seat, month to month or yearly. Enterprise is quoted by sales and, unlike the other three, sells on an annual contract only.
What you get for the money
| Plan | Month to month | Billed yearly | What is included | The limit that matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | No charge | No charge | unlimited transcription carrying an asterisk, limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage for the team, 20 AI credits, 100+ languages, real time notes | 400 minutes of storage for the whole team |
| Pro | $18 per seat | $10 per seat | unlimited transcription, unlimited AI summaries, 8,000 minutes of storage per seat, video recording, downloads of transcripts summaries and recordings, unlimited integrations | 8,000 minutes of storage per seat |
| Business | $29 per seat | $19 per seat | unlimited storage, team analytics for administrators, private storage, transcript and summary only mode | no storage ceiling stated |
| Enterprise | not published | $39 per seat, annual only | the top tier, sold by sales | an annual commitment is required |
$18 a seat a month is $216 a seat over a year. Paying for the year takes Pro to $10 a seat a month, which is $120 a seat, so the yearly rate saves $96 per seat. The feature list separates the tiers on storage and on a short list of controls rather than on the core job: video recording, downloads and unlimited integrations all arrive with Pro rather than with a top plan.
You can read a lot from what Pro does not include. Private storage, team analytics for administrators and the transcript and summary only mode all wait for Business at $29 a seat, and Business is the one tier without a storage ceiling. Enterprise refuses monthly billing entirely and sells on an annual contract only, so the monthly rate stops at Business. The Fireflies.ai deal page keeps both published rates.
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Where it falls short
- Storage is metered in minutes, not hours. Pro gives 8,000 minutes per seat, which is 133 hours. A team that records two hours of meetings a day reaches it in about three months of a single seat, and the ceiling is per seat rather than per team, so the arithmetic changes as people join.
- The AI credit numbers contradict each other. The pricing page serves two views of the same grid. The plan cards give 20 AI credits on Free, 20 on Pro and 30 on Business. The comparison table lower down the same page gives 20, 30 and 50. The dollar amounts agree in both views and only the credits differ, so this page prints the free plan’s 20 credits, the one figure both views agree on, and no credit count for the paid plans.
- The free plan’s asterisk flags a condition. Unlimited transcription carries an asterisk on Free, and anyone planning around the free tier should confirm what it covers in the app.
- Enterprise has no monthly route. The top tier is annual only, so a buyer who wants it takes a twelve month commitment before seeing a single summary. Private storage, the feature that most often forces the jump, arrives earlier on Business at $29 a seat, and Business still bills month to month.
- A recorder has to join the meeting. Fireflies transcribes by attending as a participant. For a call that is fine, and in a room or on a walk it never starts.
Fireflies.ai alternatives
- Bluedot, $18 per user a month with no commitment, or $14 billed yearly: records without putting a bot in the participant list, which is the whole difference for anyone whose clients object to it. It also has a dedicated review.
- Otter.ai, $16.99 a month with no commitment or $8.33 billed yearly, and a free plan holding 300 transcription minutes a month: transcription first, with a live transcript and an AI chat across meetings.
- Fathom, $19 a month with a free plan that runs forever: captures calls automatically and keeps summaries and action items on every tier, which is the shortest path from a free account to usable notes.
Who it is for: Fireflies.ai
Fireflies fits a team that lives on video calls and wants the record kept without anyone taking it down by hand. Three to ten seats on Pro is the natural landing point: the transcriptions are unlimited, the summaries are unlimited, and 8,000 minutes of storage per seat covers a schedule of a few hours a week for a long time. Businesses that keep recordings for compliance or hand them to administrators move up to Business for the private storage and the analytics.
Skip it if your meetings happen in a room. The recorder attends calls, so a conversation around a table never reaches it. Skip it as well if a participant in the list is a problem for your clients, a common objection in sales and in recruitment, and look at a tool that records without one.
The free plan is a real test rather than a demo: 400 minutes of storage for the team, unlimited transcriptions and 20 AI credits. Run a two weeks of real calls through it before paying anything, because the summaries are the part that decides whether the tool is worth a seat, and they are limited on that plan.
How we checked
We read Fireflies.ai’s pricing page, its terms of service, its API documentation and its partnership page on October 3, 2026, and we captured the pricing grid in both the card view and the comparison table. We have not run Fireflies.ai in a meeting, recorded a call or opened a paid account, and the condition behind the free plan’s asterisk could not be read next to the plan. When we run that test this page becomes a Hands-on review and gains the results. No AI credit count is given for the paid plans, because the two views of the pricing page disagree on every one of them.
What to do next
Start on the free plan and put a two weeks of real calls through it, then look at the storage counter: that number decides whether you are a Pro customer or a Business one. If the summaries hold up and you record online calls, Pro at $18 a seat is the entry, and the yearly rate at $10 a seat is worth taking once you know you will stay. If private storage or administrator analytics matter, Business is the next step and it still bills month to month. If a bot in the call is a problem, take the Bluedot review instead. Our glossary explains the terms these tools use for credits and quotas.
FAQ
Does Fireflies.ai have a free plan? Yes. It runs free forever with unlimited transcription carrying an asterisk, limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage for the whole team and 20 AI credits.
How much does Fireflies.ai Pro cost? $18 per seat a month with no commitment, or $10 per seat a month if you pay for a year.
How much storage do I get? 400 minutes for the team on Free, 8,000 minutes per seat on Pro, and unlimited storage on Business.
Do I have to commit for a year? No on Pro and Business, which both bill month to month at $18 and $29 per seat. Enterprise is sold annually only.
Does a recorder join my meetings? Yes. Fireflies transcribes online calls by joining them as a participant, and its apps cover desktop, iOS, Android and Chrome.
Sources
Sources
- fireflies.ai/pricing (checked October 3, 2026)
- fireflies.ai/terms-of-service (checked October 3, 2026)
- fireflies.ai/api (checked October 3, 2026)
- fireflies.ai/partnership (checked October 3, 2026)
Update log
- Published October 3, 2026 as a research review. Plans, prices and storage ceilings read from Fireflies.ai’s own pricing page on October 3, 2026, in both the card view and the comparison table. The reference price is the month to month rate, $18 per seat, because it is the one a buyer can leave after a month. The two AI credit counts the page serves are recorded here instead of one being chosen. No affiliate code is published until one has been tested at checkout.
