Fireflies.ai
Records, transcribes and searches meetings, then pushes the summary into a CRM or a channel. Useful when the record of a call matters more than the call.
Records, transcribes and searches meetings, then pushes the summary into a CRM or a channel. Useful when the record of a call matters more than the call.
The categories Fireflies.ai is listed in, and how strong a fit it is in each.
Business strategy, investing, market research, legal, sales, HR, accounting, consulting.
Fireflies.ai has a free plan. Free forever plan: unlimited transcription, though the page marks that with an asterisk, plus limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage for the whole team and 20 AI credits, across Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and others in more than 100 languages
Added for the business category on the strength of a published, readable price list.
Tools that do comparable work, best fit first, drawn from the catalogue rather than hand-picked. Every one is listed whether or not there is money in it for us.
Broad professional coverage with strong spreadsheet and chart handling. Good default for analysis you would otherwise do by hand.
View ChatGPT →The general option most used for professional work โ strategy memos, contract reading, financial reasoning over documents you upload.
View Claude →Sits inside Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, so it works on the documents and meetings a company already has. The closest thing to AI that needs no change of habit.
View Microsoft 365 Copilot →Contact data, sequences and call recording in one place, so research and outreach do not live in separate tools.
View Apollo →A plain REST API over SEC EDGAR โ company records, stock prices, financial statements, insider trades and filings across more than ten thousand listed companies, with a free key and a hundred requests a minute.
View Beefi →A spreadsheet where each row can call data providers and models, which makes research that used to take a week into an afternoon.
View Clay →Where Fireflies.ai sits in the wider category pages.
Strong fit — Business strategy, investing, market research, legal, sales, HR, accounting, consulting.
Yes โ Free forever plan: unlimited transcription, though the page marks that with an asterisk, plus limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage for the whole team and 20 AI credits, across Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and others in more than 100 languages. The cheapest paid tier is Pro, at $18/mo month to month or $10/mo billed yearly.
Records, transcribes and searches meetings, then pushes the summary into a CRM or a channel. Useful when the record of a call matters more than the call. It is listed under Business, Finance & Professional Work.
Recording colleagues and customers has consent rules that vary by country and state. Settle that before switching it on across a team. The free plan holds 400 minutes of storage for the whole team, not per person, and Pro buys storage and features rather than AI credits โ it carries the same 20 a month as the free tier.
6 tools do comparable work: ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Apollo, Beefi, Clay. 5 of them have a free plan.
Checked by hand on 4 September 2026. Prices change often โ confirm on the provider's own page before spending.