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Fireflies vs Granola
Fireflies and Granola 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 Granola, row by row
| Fireflies | Granola | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan: how much | “400 mins of storage/team” — the free plan; transcription itself is not capped source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Free plan: longest meeting | “Recording limit 2 Hours” — the free plan source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Free plan: how much is kept | Not stated on the pages we read | “Meeting history 30 days” — Basic, the free plan source |
| Cheapest paid plan | “$10 per seat / month, billed annually” — Pro source | “$14 per user per month” — Business source |
| How it gets into a meeting | “Record using Chrome extension without Fireflies bot” — or as a bot that joins the call source | “Bot-free, device-audio capture” source |
| Meeting apps | “Record Zoom, Gmeet, MS teams, 10+” source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Who said what | Not stated on the pages we read | “Speaker tagging” source |
| Languages | “Transcription in 100+ languages” source | “Multi-language support” source |
| 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 | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Training on your meetings | Not stated on the pages we read | “Granola trains on your anonymized data so we can keep making Granola better.” — each user can opt out source |
| Single sign-on | “SSO + SCIM” — Enterprise source | “Single sign-on (SSO)” — Enterprise only source |
| API | “API access 30/min · 500/day” — the free plan; higher limits on paid plans source | “API access” — Business and Enterprise source |
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
- Granola never joins the call; Fireflies sends a bot unless its user records with the Fireflies Chrome extension instead.
- Granola’s free plan keeps 30 days of history; Fireflies’ free plan keeps 400 minutes of storage for the team.
- API access starts on Granola’s Business plan; Fireflies offers rate-limited API access even on its free plan.
Which matters for your meetings
If an invisible recorder suits your meetings, Granola does that by design and Fireflies can with its Chrome extension. If developers on your team want to pull transcripts into their own tools, Fireflies' API is open on its free plan with lower limits, while Granola's starts with its paid Business plan.
What that comes to, worked out
Picture a salesperson with twenty discovery calls a month, forty minutes each: 800 minutes. On Fireflies' free plan the first ten fill the team's 400 minutes of storage. On Granola's free plan nothing joins the call, and the notes from the last 30 days stay, whatever their number; what goes is anything older than a month. If the calls feed a sales system through code, Fireflies' free plan already answers API calls, up to 500 a day, while Granola's API starts on its Business plan at $14 a user a month. Neither free plan is an archive, then: on Fireflies you choose what to delete to make room, and on Granola the oldest notes leave on their own after 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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