Fireflies.ai
Record, transcribe and summarise your meetings with AI, free and unlimited.
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What is Fireflies.ai?
Fireflies.ai is an AI meeting assistant: it joins your Zoom, Meet or Teams calls, transcribes them, generates summaries with key points and action items, and lets you ask questions about what was said (AskFred). Its free plan includes unlimited transcription and summaries, which is rare in this category.
Pros
- Unlimited transcription and summaries even on the free plan
- Transcribes Spanish and 60+ languages with good accuracy
- AskFred: ask the AI about any past meeting
- Integrations with CRMs, Slack, Notion and task tools
Cons
- The free plan caps storage (400 minutes per team)
- Advanced features consume AI credits that run out quickly
- A visible bot joins your meetings (which can make attendees uncomfortable)
What Fireflies.ai is like in practice
Where it stands out
It joins the meeting, transcribes and returns a summary with action items already extracted and assigned, which is the part that genuinely saves time. It also searches across your meeting history, so you can recover what was said about a client three months ago without listening to anything again.
Where it falls short
Spanish transcription is good on average and weak with overlapping speakers, regional accents and industry jargon, which is exactly what fills a real meeting. And there is a non-technical matter: recording a meeting means telling the others, because in the EU voice is personal data and consent is not implied.
How its pricing works
The free plan gives transcription with a monthly credit cap, enough to judge whether it copes with your meetings. Paid tiers run around $10-20/month per user, and that is the team trap: the price multiplies by every person who joins, even if only one reads the summaries.
Is Fireflies.ai right for you?
Yes, if…
You have a lot of meetings and want unlimited transcription and summaries without paying: it is one of the few offering that on the free plan, in Spanish and 60 other languages.
No, if…
You do not want a visible bot joining your calls, or you need to keep a lot of history: the free plan caps storage at 400 minutes per team.
Frequently asked questions
Is Fireflies free?
Yes, with unlimited transcription and summaries, though with limited storage (400 minutes per team) and few AI credits. The Pro plan costs $10/user/month billed annually.
Does it transcribe meetings in Spanish?
Yes, it supports Spanish and more than 60 languages on Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and other platforms.
How does it work in meetings?
A bot (Fred) joins the call as another participant and records/transcribes it. It can also process uploaded audio files.
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