Best Fireflies.ai Alternatives (2026): 8 Tools Compared

Fathom is the strongest all-round alternative. Its free plan records, transcribes and stores unlimited Zoom, Meet and Teams calls, against Fireflies' 400 minutes of storage, and it ranks first in our meetings ranking, ahead of Fireflies on note quality. Paid plans add unlimited advanced summaries, action items, Ask Fathom and HubSpot and Salesforce sync without a credit system. Team seats cost more, at $15 per user billed yearly with a 2-user minimum, and Fathom cannot import files or record in person. It now offers bot-free capture in beta on Mac.

Otter is the closest like-for-like swap at a slightly lower price: Pro costs $8.33 a month billed yearly for 1,200 minutes. It joins Zoom, Teams and Meet, records system audio on Mac and Windows, and its phone apps give live transcripts of lectures and in-person meetings. AI chat is capped by queries rather than credits, at 50 a month on Pro. It supports six languages against Fireflies' 100+, has fewer integrations, trains its own models on de-identified data and faces its own consent class action.

Granola suits people who care most about note quality and dislike bots. It records from your Mac, Windows PC or phone, blends your own typed notes with the transcript, and scores higher than Fireflies on note quality in our ranking. Business costs $14 per user a month and adds unlimited history, Notion, HubSpot, Attio and Zapier integrations, the API and MCP. It keeps no audio or video, has no conversation analytics and leaves consent to you, and it faces a July 2026 class action over silent recording.

Read AI competes directly on team features. It joins Zoom, Meet and Teams, adds a meeting coach that scores talk time and engagement, and on Pro searches across meetings plus Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira and Confluence. Pro costs $15 per user a month billed yearly or $19.75 monthly and includes 100 file upload credits. The free plan covers only 5 meetings a month. HIPAA, SAML and SCIM need Enterprise+ at $29.75 per user billed yearly with at least 5 licences, which is cheaper than Fireflies Enterprise at $39.

Avoma is the sales-specialist option. Startup, at $19 per recorder seat a month billed yearly, includes unlimited recording, transcription and AI notes, AI follow-up emails, notes saved to CRM records, a dialer integration and a 1:1 meeting scheduler, and view-only users are free. Organization adds custom templates, round-robin scheduling and an API, and Enterprise at $39 adds SSO and HIPAA compliance. Conversation and revenue intelligence cost $29 per seat extra. There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial.

ZoomMate is Zoom's own AI assistant, so there is no extra vendor or bot in your Zoom calls. The free Basic tier writes summaries for 3 hosted meetings a month and includes 3 uses of AI note-taking (My Notes), which also works on other meeting platforms, plus 20 AI queries. The paid ZoomMate plan includes 2,200 AI credits a month and adds unlimited My Notes, custom summary templates, agents and workflow automation. The price is set per user and varies by region. It is strongest when your team meets mostly in Zoom.

For Microsoft 365 companies, Copilot in Teams replaces a third-party bot with recaps, action items and live questions during the meeting, and feeds meeting content into Outlook, Word and Loop. Because it runs inside your Microsoft 365 tenant, it inherits your existing compliance, retention and permission settings, which often gets faster security approval than an outside vendor. The trade-offs: it needs a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot licence on top of Microsoft 365, it covers only Teams meetings, and it lacks Fireflies' reach across Zoom and Meet.

Meetily is a free, open-source meeting assistant released under the MIT licence, for people who do not want meeting audio in any vendor's cloud. It records your computer's audio with no bot, transcribes on your device, and summarises with a local AI model or your own Claude, OpenAI or Groq API key, so there is no vendor retention to worry about. It does not advertise conversation analytics or a large integration library like Fireflies, and setup takes more effort. Pro costs $10 per user a month billed yearly.