Fathom vs Fireflies.ai
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Fathom
AI meeting notetaker with the category's best free recording tier
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Fireflies.ai
AI meeting note-taker — joins calls, transcribes, summarizes
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Unlimited recording/transcription (38 languages); AI summaries capped at 5 calls/month | 20 shared AI credits/month (summaries, AskFred, highlights); unlimited recording minutes |
| Paid from | Premium $19-20/mo; Team $19/user/mo ($15 annual); Business $34/user/mo | $18/month (Pro) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ users | 20m+ users across 500,000+ organizations (and 1m+ companies per the Fireflies.ai pricing page) |
| Founded | 2020 | 2016 |
| Maker | Richard White | Krish Ramineni, Sam Udotong |
| Verdict | Fathom records, transcribes, and summarises Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams calls, with summaries typically ready within 30 seconds and transcripts linked to video timestamps. The free tier is still the category's most gene... |
Fireflies is a mature AI meeting assistant — it joins calls automatically, transcribes in real time, and turns the recording into searchable notes with action items, which is exactly what sales and ops teams want feeding... |
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