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Fireflies vs Read AI
Fireflies and Read AI 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 Read AI, row by row
| Fireflies | Read AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan: how much | “400 mins of storage/team” — the free plan; transcription itself is not capped source | “5 meeting transcripts per month” — Free source |
| Free plan: longest meeting | “Recording limit 2 Hours” — the free plan source | “Maximum Meeting Length Record and measure meetings up to the maximum recording duration. 1 hour” — Free source |
| Cheapest paid plan | “$10 per seat / month, billed annually” — Pro source | “$15” — Pro, a user a month billed yearly ($19.75 month to month) source |
| How it gets into a meeting | “Record using Chrome extension without Fireflies bot” — or as a bot that joins the call source | “Add Read Assistant to any Zoom, Teams, or Meet meeting to automatically take meeting notes” source |
| Meeting apps | “Record Zoom, Gmeet, MS teams, 10+” source | “Support for Zoom, Teams, & Meet” source |
| Who said what | Not stated on the pages we read | “The full dialogue of a meeting broken out by speaker” source |
| Languages | “Transcription in 100+ languages” source | “Read meeting reports are available in 16+ languages” source |
| Video recording | “Capture meeting video 720p” — paid plans source | “For individuals and teams who want video playback and other supercharged capabilities.” — the Enterprise plan source |
| Downloads and export | “Download transcripts, summaries, recordings” — Pro and up source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Single sign-on | “SSO + SCIM” — Enterprise source | “SAML & SCIM” — 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
- Fireflies’ free plan does not cap transcription but caps storage at 400 minutes; Read AI’s free plan allows five meeting transcripts a month.
- Fireflies lists over 100 transcription languages; Read AI lists its reports in 16 or more.
- Both send a notetaker into Zoom, Teams and Google Meet.
Which matters for your meetings
Read AI's free plan counts meetings, so five calls a month is the ceiling whatever their length up to an hour; Fireflies' counts stored minutes, so the limit depends on how long your calls are. Teams working in many languages will find a longer list on Fireflies' page than on Read AI's.
What that comes to, worked out
A daily fifteen-minute stand-up, about twenty-two a month, shows the two free plans' different shapes. Read AI's five transcripts are gone by the end of the first week. Fireflies would store the whole month, 330 minutes inside its 400, but that leaves only 70 minutes of room for anything else the team records. For a weekly hour-long review instead, the sums reverse: Read AI's five transcripts cover every one in a month, while Fireflies' storage holds six such reviews before it is full. Read AI's limit of an hour a meeting also means a longer review would be cut short on its free plan, where Fireflies records up to two hours of each.
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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