Fireflies is the #1 AI Assistant for meetings, email, Slack, CRM, and work. It offers four plans: Free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise.
Every plan includes unlimited transcription and unlimited AI summaries, which means the core meeting capture experience is the same regardless of what you pay.
The difference between tiers comes down to storage, automation depth, team analytics, and security controls.
This article explains what each plan includes, who it's built for, and when you'll know it's time to upgrade. For the live comparison table with every feature row, see the Fireflies pricing page.
Fireflies Pricing at a Glance
Fireflies has four plans: Free ($0), Pro ($10/seat/month billed annually), Business ($19/seat/month billed annually), and Enterprise ($39/seat/month, annual only).
All four include unlimited transcription and unlimited AI summaries.
Prices verified against the live pricing page. See that page for the most current numbers.
What You Get on Every Plan (Including Free)
Before comparing tiers, it's worth understanding what every Fireflies user gets at no cost:
- Unlimited transcription: No cap on the number of meetings you can transcribe. Record and transcribe every meeting on your calendar.
- Unlimited AI summaries: Every meeting gets a structured AI summary with topics, decisions, and Action Items. No per-meeting charges.
- 100+ language support: Transcription works in 100+ languages with automatic detection. Accuracy reaches 99% for English and 95% for other languages.
- AskFred: Fireflies' AI assistant lets you query your meetings using natural language. "What did the client say about pricing?" or "List all Action Items from this week's standups." Available on every plan with AI credit limits per tier.
- Meeting platform support: Works across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and more. The Meeting Bot joins your calls via calendar sync.
- Upload support: Upload existing audio or video files for transcription directly from the dashboard.
- Mobile, desktop, and Chrome apps: Access meetings from any device. The Chrome Extension captures browser-based meetings. The Desktop App captures system audio for in-person meetings.
- 100+ integrations: Connect to the tools your team already uses (integration depth varies by tier).
This is what makes the "Is Fireflies free?" answer genuinely strong. The free plan is not a trial. It's a permanent plan with unlimited core functionality. You pay when you need more storage, automation, or team controls.
When evaluating Fireflies vs free alternatives like Fathom or Otter's free tiers, note that Fireflies is the only one offering unlimited transcription, unlimited AI summaries, and AskFred at $0.
Free Plan: Who It's For and Where It Hits a Wall
The Free plan is built for solo users evaluating Fireflies, students, and anyone with occasional meeting needs.
You get unlimited transcription, unlimited AI summaries, AskFred, and 400 minutes of meeting storage per team.
What the Free plan includes:
- Unlimited transcription (no meeting cap)
- Unlimited AI summaries
- AskFred
- 400 minutes of meeting storage per team
- 100+ language support with automatic detection
- Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams support
- Mobile app, Desktop App, and Chrome Extension
- Audio file upload for transcription
That's enough to capture and review meetings without paying anything. Most users can run several weeks of regular meetings before storage becomes a consideration.
Where it hits a wall:
- 400 minutes of storage per team. Once you hit this cap, you can't view new meetings until you delete older ones to free up space.
- No video recording. Audio transcription only. If you need to review the visual context of a meeting (screen shares, slides, facial expressions), you'll need Pro or above.
- No AI Skills. The post-meeting automations that push Action Items to your CRM, draft follow-up emails, or create tasks in project management tools are not available on Free.
- No downloads. You can't export transcripts or summaries on the Free plan.
- No Personal Assistant. Daily Digest, Task Manager, and Meeting Prep are Pro and above.
- No Voice Agents. AI-powered agents that run calls on your behalf require a paid plan.
You'll outgrow the Free plan when...
You hit the 400-minute storage cap, need to download a transcript, want video recording, or want AI Skills automating your post-meeting workflows. For most active professionals, that's within the first month or two.
Pro Plan: For Professional Individuals and Small Teams
Price: $10/seat/month billed annually ($18 monthly). See the live pricing page for the most current numbers.
The Fireflies Pro plan is where Fireflies becomes a daily-use tool rather than an occasional assistant. It unlocks the features that make meetings actionable, not just documented.
What Pro unlocks vs Free
- Video recording. Capture video alongside audio for full meeting context.
- Downloads. Export transcripts, summaries, and recordings.
- 8,000 minutes of storage per seat. A 20x increase over the Free plan's team storage, and it scales with your team size.
- AI Skills. Post-meeting automations: push Action Items to Slack, update CRM fields in Salesforce or HubSpot, create tasks in Asana or Jira, draft follow-up emails from meeting content.
- Personal Assistant. Daily Digest summarizes your day's meetings. Task Manager tracks commitments. Meeting Prep gives you context before follow-up calls.
- Voice Agents. AI-powered agents that run screening interviews, discovery calls, and check-ins on your behalf.
- Live Assist. Real-time coaching and suggestions during calls.
- Unlimited integrations. Full access to 100+ tool connections.
- Individual conversation intelligence. Speaker talk time, words per minute, and sentiment analysis for your own meetings.
Who it's best for
Solo professionals running 5+ meetings per week, freelancers, consultants, and small founding teams (2-5 people) who need their meetings to connect to the rest of their workflow.
When Pro is not enough
Pro gives you individual-level analytics but not team-wide Conversation intelligence. Storage is generous at 8,000 minutes per seat but not unlimited. There's no Multi-language Mode (mid-meeting language switching).
If your team is growing past 5 people and needs consolidated analytics or unlimited storage, Business is the next step.
Business Plan: For Growing Businesses (Most Popular)
Price: $19/seat/month billed annually ($29 monthly). This is the tier Fireflies positions as "Most Popular" on the pricing page.
What Business unlocks vs Pro
- Unlimited storage. No more managing storage caps or deleting old meetings to make room.
- Multi-language Mode. Mid-meeting language switching with automatic detection. Essential for multilingual teams and global organizations.
- Team-level Conversation intelligence. Consolidated analytics across your entire team: talk-to-listen ratios, sentiment trends, topic tracking, and coaching insights filtered by team member or date range.
- Deal Intelligence. Sales-specific analytics: deal signals, pipeline insights, and coaching metrics extracted from recorded calls.
- Team admin controls. User groups, public meeting access settings, and admin-level meeting management.
- 3-hour recording limit per meeting (vs 2 hours on Pro).
Who it's best for
Teams of 5+ with growing meeting volume. Sales, customer success, and recruiting teams that need analytics across the team. Multilingual organizations. Any team where a manager needs visibility into meeting patterns and coaching opportunities.
What's the difference between Fireflies Pro and Business?
The Fireflies Pro vs Business decision is the most common upgrade question. Here's what changes:
For most growing teams, the jump from Pro to Business comes down to one question: do you need team-wide analytics and unlimited storage? If yes, Business.
If your team is small enough that individual analytics cover your needs and 8,000 minutes per seat is sufficient, Pro works.
Enterprise Plan: For Large-Scale Organizations
Price: $39/seat/month billed annually (annual only). Fireflies Enterprise pricing includes tiered volume discounts as team size scales. For a custom quote, contact the Enterprise team.
Enterprise is built around security, scale, and control. The feature set expands, but the real value is in the compliance and administration capabilities that large organizations require.
What Enterprise unlocks vs Business
- SSO + SCIM. Single sign-on and automated user provisioning for IT-managed deployments.
- HIPAA compliance. Required for healthcare organizations handling protected health information.
- FERPA compliance on the Enterprise plan, with a signed Data Sharing Agreement (DSA). Required for education institutions.
- Private storage. Keep recordings on your own AWS or GCP infrastructure rather than shared vendor storage.
- Custom data retention. Set policies to automatically delete meetings after specific time periods.
- Rules engine. Automated workflows triggered by meeting events.
- Audit logs (API). Full audit trail for compliance and governance.
- Transcript + Summary only mode. Capture text without storing audio or video, for organizations with strict data policies.
- Super admin role. Granular control over organizational settings and user permissions.
- Dedicated account manager and onboarding program.
- Payment by invoice.
- 4-hour recording limit per meeting.
Fireflies does not use customer data to train any AI models. Your personal data is never used to train AI models. Users own their data.
We impose a zero-data retention policy for meeting content with our AI vendors. For full details, see the security overview.
Who it's best for
Organizations needing SSO/SCIM for IT-managed deployments, healthcare organizations requiring HIPAA, education institutions requiring FERPA, regulated industries needing private storage and custom data retention, and teams of 50+.
How to get an Enterprise quote
Contact the Enterprise team for custom pricing. Enterprise includes tiered volume discounts as team size scales.
Need SSO, SCIM, HIPAA compliance, or private storage? Talk to our Enterprise team for a custom quote. Contact Enterprise →
Annual vs. Monthly Billing
Annual billing saves up to 44% compared to monthly pricing. Here's the breakdown:
- Pro: $10/seat/month annual vs $18/seat/month monthly
- Business: $19/seat/month annual vs $29/seat/month monthly
- Enterprise: Annual billing only ($39/seat/month)
The annual commitment is worth it for any team that plans to use Fireflies for more than three months. The savings on a 5-person Business team come to $600/year compared to monthly billing.
How to Pick the Right Plan (Decision Framework)
Solo user or evaluating Fireflies: Start on Free. You get unlimited transcription with 400 minutes of storage per team, plus unlimited AI summaries. Upgrade when you need downloads, video recording, or hit the 400-minute storage cap.
Small team (2-10) running regular meetings: Pro for individual professionals who need AI Skills, video recording, and Personal Assistant. Business if you need team analytics, Deal Intelligence, or unlimited storage.
Growing team (10-50) with sales, CS, or recruiting workflows: The Fireflies Business plan is where most teams this size land. Conversation intelligence across the team, Multi-language Mode, and unlimited storage cover the core needs.
Larger organization (50+) or regulated industry: Enterprise for SSO, HIPAA, FERPA, private storage, and dedicated support.
Still unsure? This Fireflies pricing comparison comes down to one question: what do you need beyond unlimited transcription? Start free and upgrade when you hit a wall. Fireflies lets you downgrade or upgrade at any time.
Start free, upgrade when you hit a wall. Fireflies' free plan includes unlimited transcription, 400 minutes of team storage, unlimited AI summaries, and AskFred, with no credit card required.
AI Credits, Storage, and Other Things People Get Confused By
AI credits
AI credits power AskFred queries, Soundbites, and AI Skills. All AI features use dynamic AI credit pricing. AI credits are charged per request, so the number of credits used depends on the complexity and effort required to generate the output. Simpler requests may use fewer credits, while more complex requests may use more. For detailed credit costs per action, see the AI credits explained article in the help centre.
Storage minutes
Storage is the total minutes of meeting content stored in your Fireflies account, whether from live meetings or uploaded files.
Free plan: 400 minutes per team. Pro: 8,000 minutes per seat (scales with team size). Business and Enterprise: unlimited.
Once you hit your storage cap, you need to delete older meetings to make room for new ones.
Recording limit per meeting
Free and Pro: 2 hours per meeting. Business: 3 hours. Enterprise: 4 hours. Meetings that exceed the limit stop recording automatically. If you regularly run meetings longer than 2 hours, you'll need Business or above.
What counts as a seat
Each person in your Fireflies workspace counts as one seat. Pricing is per seat, per month. Adding teammates to Pro increases your total storage pool (8,000 minutes per additional seat).
FAQs
Does Fireflies offer a free trial?
Fireflies offers a permanent free plan with unlimited transcription and unlimited AI summaries, not a time-limited trial. You can use the Free plan indefinitely. Some features may include a trial period for higher-tier capabilities. See the pricing page for the most current details.
Can I cancel or downgrade my plan?
Yes. You can downgrade your Fireflies subscription from any paid plan to Free using the Downgrade button in Account settings. Your past meeting recordings and transcripts remain visible in your account after downgrading. You can also upgrade at any time.
What's Fireflies' refund policy?
Refund terms depend on your plan type and usage. Contact billing support for specific refund questions. See the pricing page for the most current terms.
Does Fireflies offer volume discounts?
Yes, on the Enterprise plan. Tiered discounts apply as team size scales (50+, 100+, 200+ seats). Contact the Enterprise team for a custom quote.
What payment methods does Fireflies accept?
Fireflies accepts major credit cards for Pro and Business plans. Enterprise supports payment by invoice. See the pricing page for the most current payment options.
Is Fireflies HIPAA compliant on every plan?
No. HIPAA compliance is available on the Enterprise plan only. If your organization handles protected health information and requires HIPAA, you need Enterprise. Fireflies is SOC 2 Type II compliant across all paid plans. FERPA compliance is available on the Enterprise plan, with a signed Data Sharing Agreement (DSA). See the security overview for full compliance details.
Are there any usage limits on the paid plans?
Paid plans include unlimited transcription, unlimited AI summaries, and unlimited integrations. The limits that vary by tier are storage (Pro: 8,000 min/seat, Business/Enterprise: unlimited), and recording length per meeting (Pro: 2hr, Business: 3hr, Enterprise: 4hr). See the pricing page for the most current numbers.
Conclusion
Fireflies gives every user unlimited transcription and unlimited AI summaries on every plan, including Free. The tiers add storage, automation, analytics, and security controls as your needs grow.
Start with Free if you're evaluating. Move to Pro when you need video recording, downloads, and AI Skills. Step up to Business when your team needs analytics and unlimited storage. Go Enterprise when compliance and admin controls become requirements.
For the full feature comparison with every row, see the Fireflies pricing page.
