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Fireflies vs tl;dv
Fireflies and tl;dv 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 tl;dv, row by row
| Fireflies | tl;dv | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan: how much | “400 mins of storage/team” — the free plan; transcription itself is not capped source | “10x meetings with AI notes included” — Free; recordings themselves are not capped source |
| Free plan: longest meeting | “Recording limit 2 Hours” — the free plan source | “Recording limit 3h” — every plan, the free one included source |
| Free plan: how much is kept | Not stated on the pages we read | “up to 3 months” — how long the free plan keeps meetings source |
| Cheapest paid plan | “$10 per seat / month, billed annually” — Pro source | “$18” — Pro, a seat a month billed yearly source |
| How it gets into a meeting | “Record using Chrome extension without Fireflies bot” — or as a bot that joins the call source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| 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 | “Automatic speaker detection” source |
| Languages | “Transcription in 100+ languages” source | “Unlimited transcription in 100+ languages” — the free plan included source |
| Video recording | “Capture meeting video 720p” — paid plans source | “Unlimited video recordings” — Free source |
| Downloads and export | “Download transcripts, summaries, recordings” — Pro and up source | “Download recording” source |
| Single sign-on | “SSO + SCIM” — Enterprise source | “Custom SSO (SAML, OIDC)” — Enterprise source |
| API | “API access 30/min · 500/day” — the free plan; higher limits on paid plans source | “API, webhooks, and MCP server” — Pro and up 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
- Both list transcription in over 100 languages.
- Fireflies’ free plan records up to two hours a meeting with 400 minutes of storage for the team; tl;dv’s records up to three hours, with AI notes for ten meetings.
- Fireflies’ cheapest paid plan is $10 a seat a month billed yearly; tl;dv’s is $18.
Which matters for your meetings
Both list over a hundred languages, so for a multilingual team the choice turns elsewhere. Fireflies' free recordings stop at two hours and its storage is shared by the team; tl;dv's stop at three and are not counted, but only ten meetings get AI notes. On price per seat, Fireflies' cheapest plan is the lower of the two.
What that comes to, worked out
A two-and-a-half-hour all-hands shows where the recording limits fall. Fireflies' free plan stops at two hours, so the last half hour is missed and the two hours it did record take 120 of the team's 400 stored minutes. tl;dv's free plan, with a three-hour limit, takes the meeting whole and does not count it against any storage, keeping it for up to three months. Paid, a team of five pays $600 a year for Fireflies Pro and $1,080 for tl;dv Pro, both billed yearly.
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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