Fireflies.ai vs Fathom
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Fireflies.ai
AI meeting note-taker — joins calls, transcribes, summarizes
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Fathom
AI meeting notetaker with the category's best free recording tier
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 20 shared AI credits/month (summaries, AskFred, highlights); unlimited recording minutes | Unlimited recording/transcription (38 languages); AI summaries capped at 5 calls/month |
| Paid from | $18/month (Pro) | Premium $19-20/mo; Team $19/user/mo ($15 annual); Business $34/user/mo |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 20m+ users across 500,000+ organizations (and 1m+ companies per the Fireflies.ai pricing page) | 500k+ users |
| Founded | 2016 | 2020 |
| Maker | Krish Ramineni, Sam Udotong | Richard White |
| Verdict | 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... |
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... |
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