What it is
Fireflies.ai addresses the challenge of manually capturing meeting information and losing critical details discussed during team conversations. Before Fireflies, professionals struggled with taking comprehensive notes while actively participating in meetings, often missing important action items and key insights. The platform targets business teams, sales professionals, recruiters, and remote workers who need accurate meeting documentation and conversation analysis.
At a glance
Frontier model
Built on gpt-4-0125-preview — #246 ranked AI overall
▼ 14 in 30dupdated 2026-08-1238/100
smarter than 37% of ranked models
Arena Scores adapted from the LMArena leaderboard dataset, © LMArena, CC BY 4.0
Quality score
Fireflies Powerful AI meeting assistant with seamless auto-joining and accurate bullet summaries, but opaque pricing with hidden credit costs
This score is our editorial judgment, computed automatically from the sources, weights, and dates shown above. It reflects the data we could verify as of July 15, 2026, not a guarantee or statement of fact about Fireflies. Third-party ratings and quotes belong to their original platforms and authors. Thin data lowers our confidence label, and we say so instead of guessing. Work on Fireflies? Dispute any datapoint and we will review it, publish your response, and correct verified errors.
Plans
Free forever plan available; Pro $18/mo for teams and advanced features
Community feedback
Ratings and quoted comments below are aggregated from third-party sources and reflect those users' views, not SearchTools.ai's.
themes inside the Sentiment pillar — not score ingredients
“I am working in East Africa and have been recording meetings. It is helpful not to have to take notes, but concentrate on listening. In addition, many times I have a hard time understanding their English as it is not their first language but this app figures it out and I can r”
“That’s right. We were all there. The meeting was last week. I took notes and better yet, was the person who led the call. I logged on yesterday morning (they are 3 hours ahead of me time zone wise) to them having the following argument: One of them used Claude to analyze the Fire”
“Reliable, fast, and incredibly accurate; Fireflies.ai does exactly what it promises and takes your productivity to the next level.”
“My job involves me sitting in a number of lengthy meetings where we would interchangeably use swahili and english. I've been struggling a lot to prepare minutes because i needed to translate from Swahili to English. For so long i've been looking for a solution that recognizes swa”
“Can't live without Fireflies.ai | It does the job really well. They were one of the first on the scene and have continually improved overtime. It's crazy affordable, I'm always surprised when I see the $5 monthly charge compared to other apps I pay more for and use a lot less. | ”
“these aholes have been charging me 38 bucks(18 bucks for pro + so f'in "tokens" which i never subscribed to)... I was already unhappy with the app because it kept crashing. It does not record everything properly. If the recording is over 1 hr, it just doesn't transcribe it. I wou”
“this just happened to me this morning. I came to reddit to see if this happened to anyone else. actually insane they are saying i used the "Daily Summary" and other features that use AI Credits when we didnt sign up for any of this. I have been using Fireflies for almost 3 years,”
“Curious what people think of this type of lawsuit against fireflies.ai. This software is so scammy. Or it would seem to be a huge security issue for IP in corporations. Where exactly does the data go?https://www.dataprivacyandsecurityinsider.com/2025/12/lawsuit-alleges-fireflies-”
“I like how fast and flexible Fireflies.ai is. Its reliability stands out for me, and I'm impressed by its ability to handle both virtual and in-person meetings, unlike many other solutions. It's also quite valuable because it's cross-platform, so I can use it on both iOS and Wind”
“these aholes have been charging me 38 bucks(18 bucks for pro + so f'in "tokens" which i never subscribed to)... I was already unhappy with the app because it kept crashing. It does not record everything properly. If the recording is over 1 hr, it just doesn't transcribe it. I wou”
“We use teams to meet with external parties often. Occasionally someone will click on a link in a meeting that says it's an AI not taker. The user just clicks the link out of curiosity. Suddenly that AI is adding itself to every meeting that user is in and then it spreads to the r”
“Reliable, fast, and incredibly accurate; Fireflies.ai does exactly what it promises and takes your productivity to the next level.”
“Fireflies has been consistently great. The experience is user friendly, and adding it to existing meetings is a breeze. The support team has been there to help any time I've encountered an issue, and the AI they use is really on top of it - I like that it can pull in context from”
“I run a pre-seed company and my team had a terrible experience with Fireflies customer support. We switched to Granola and their support, note taking capability, and sharing functionality are awesome. Would highly recommend Granola (much better experience than both fireflies and ”
“Our security team did a formal review of AI notetakers being used across the company. Fireflies got flagged on several points which led to evaluating alternatives. Sharing what we found since others might be doing similar evaluations. Why Fireflies was flagged: Data handling docu”
“A must-have tool for anyone who takes meetings seriously — $5f","incentivized":"NoIncentive — Getting notes on my meetings frees me up from writing everything down on paper and transcribing it. It works across my meeting platforms, so I do not have to rely on being in Zoom to ge”
“Fireflies.ai is best Voice Recognition Tool | fireflies.ai is a Voice as a Service (VaaS) platform that enables developers to build and deploy voice-enabled applications without the need for professional services or the burden of deploying and managing their own voice engine. Abs”
“I like how fast and flexible Fireflies.ai is. Its reliability stands out for me, and I'm impressed by its ability to handle both virtual and in-person meetings, unlike many other solutions. It's also quite valuable because it's cross-platform, so I can use it on both iOS and Wind”
“my experience with Fireflies because, as a salesperson, it has completely changed how I do my job. My absolute highest priority during a meeting is to focus entirely on the client—watching how they say things and reading the room. Before Fireflies, I was always distracted by tryi”
“Turns meetings into deliverables - From conversation to finished work, faster — Fireflies has become non-negotiable in my workflow. It's elevated the quality of my work, sharpened my accuracy, and meaningfully improved my productivity — and that's not a combination you find often”
A composite of the quality dimensions weighted by mention volume, then capped by predator / abuse-detection rules.
Watch & learn

Fireflies AI Tutorial 2026 | Automatically Record, Search and Summarize Meetings
LocoAIco1 month ago

she said it to manipulate the AI notes
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Capabilities
Records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings while capturing action items and decisions
Converts recorded audio and video into accurate written transcripts
Helps teams share work, coordinate tasks, and communicate inside shared AI workspaces
The honest take
Distinct themes surfaced across 12.4K reviews from 6 sources — each grounded in real review text, ranked by how often it comes up.
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