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Fireflies vs Fathom
Fireflies and Fathom compared on what their own pages say, row by row — nothing about either in our words except a plain reading at the end.
Fireflies and Fathom, row by row
| Fireflies | Fathom | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan: how much | “400 mins of storage/team” — the free plan; transcription itself is not capped source | “Unlimited recordings + transcriptions” — Free, for individuals source |
| Free plan: longest meeting | “Recording limit 2 Hours” — the free plan source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Cheapest paid plan | “$10 per seat / month, billed annually” — Pro source | “Free Plan or Plans from $15/mo” source |
| How it gets into a meeting | “Record using Chrome extension without Fireflies bot” — or as a bot that joins the call source | “Choice of bot-free (in beta) or bot capture” source |
| Meeting apps | “Record Zoom, Gmeet, MS teams, 10+” source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Languages | “Transcription in 100+ languages” source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Video recording | “Capture meeting video 720p” — paid plans source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Downloads and export | “Download transcripts, summaries, recordings” — Pro and up source | “Call downloads and clips (unlimited)” source |
| Single sign-on | “SSO + SCIM” — Enterprise source | “Enhanced security controls with SSO & SCIM provisioning” — Enterprise source |
| API | “API access 30/min · 500/day” — the free plan; higher limits on paid plans source | Not stated on the pages we read |
Every cell is the company's own words, linked. Prices change — this is what each page said on 10 November 2026. Something changed? Tell us.
What the two pages add up to
- Both can record without a bot — Fireflies through its Chrome extension, Fathom through bot-free capture in beta — and both also offer a bot.
- Fathom’s free plan does not cap recordings; Fireflies’ free plan caps storage at 400 minutes for the team.
- Single sign-on is on the Enterprise plan of each.
Which matters for your meetings
Both now offer a way to record without a bot, which matters when a client objects to one; check which is in beta for your computer before relying on it. On the free plans, Fathom's has no stated recording cap for one person, while Fireflies' storage is shared by the whole team and runs out sooner as the team grows.
What that comes to, worked out
Consider a team of four, each with five half-hour calls a week. That is 600 minutes a week between them, and Fireflies' free plan stores 400 minutes for the whole team, so its storage is full before the first week is out. Fathom's free plan is for individuals and does not cap recordings, so each of the four could use it on their own, though their notes would then sit in four separate accounts rather than one shared place. Paid, four seats of Fireflies Pro come to $480 a year billed yearly; Fathom's page gives its plans as from $15 a month.
The sums use only the numbers quoted above. Yearly prices are the monthly figure times twelve.
Where Meetful is different from both
Meetful is a meeting app rather than a notetaker you add to someone else's call. It transcribes each person from their own microphone, so every line carries the name of whoever said it without guessing, and there is no bot in the participant list. The notes, the recording and the transcript are free, and anybody in the meeting can leave themselves out of the notes.
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