Fireflies.ai Pricing (2026): Plans, Free Tier & Costs Explained

A quick disclosure: we build CraftNote, which is one of the tools we compare Fireflies to below. Every Fireflies figure in this article is pulled from Fireflies' own pricing page as of August 2026. We didn't estimate or carry over an older number, and pricing does change, so confirm the current numbers on Fireflies' site before you buy.

Fireflies.ai pricing plans (2026)

All paid Fireflies tiers include unlimited transcription and AI summaries; what actually changes between them is storage minutes, monthly AI credits, and admin/security features. Enterprise is the only tier that's billed annually with no monthly option.

What does the free Fireflies plan actually include?

Fireflies' free plan is unusually generous on one axis and tight on another. Transcription itself is unlimited: record as many meetings as you want, with AI summaries, real-time notes and support for 100+ languages, none of which is gated behind a paid plan. The catch is storage: you get 400 minutes total, shared across your whole team rather than per person, plus 20 AI credits a month. Once you're past 400 minutes of stored recordings, older ones age out unless you upgrade, and the 20 AI credits limit how many AI-generated summaries, chats or searches you can run before hitting a wall.

In practice this means the free plan works well for a single light user or a very small team doing occasional calls, but it stops being viable fast for any team running several meetings a day. The 400-minute team-wide cap, not a per-meeting limit, is what actually forces the upgrade decision.

What you get moving from Pro to Business to Enterprise

The jump from Pro to Business is really about removing the storage ceiling. Pro's 8,000 minutes per seat sounds large, but for a seat that's on back-to-back calls all day, it can still fill up within a few months; Business removes that cap entirely and adds 30 AI credits a month plus team-wide analytics, useful once you have more than a couple of people whose call activity you want visibility into. Enterprise adds another 20 AI credits (50 total) and the security layer larger organizations tend to require: SSO, HIPAA support, and audit logs. It's also the one tier Fireflies only sells on annual billing, so there's no month-to-month Enterprise option to test before committing.

One detail worth flagging for budgeting: because AI credits are metered rather than unlimited on every tier, teams that lean heavily on Fireflies' AI features (search, chat, generated insights) rather than just raw transcripts should watch credit usage closely. Running out mid-month on a lower tier means those features stop working until the next cycle, even though transcription keeps running.

How CraftNote compares to Fireflies on price

On the individual paid plan, CraftNote's $9.99/month undercuts Fireflies Pro's $18 monthly price by close to half, and it's cheaper annually too: $8.33 versus $10. For teams, CraftNote is $12/user annually versus Fireflies Business at $19/user, with no seat minimum on either side, so the comparison scales cleanly whether you're a team of two or twenty.

Fireflies' free plan allows more raw transcription volume up front since it has no per-meeting time cap, which matters if you run long calls regularly. CraftNote's free plan is metered differently: 10 uploads and imports plus 2 hours of recording per week, refreshed weekly rather than capped by total storage, and includes calendar sync, AI meeting notes and cross-platform access from day one. CraftNote also records bot-free on Mac and in Chromium browsers, works offline, transcribes in 100+ languages, and has an official ChatGPT app. See CraftNote pricing or the AI meeting assistant comparison.

Costs that don't show up on the pricing page

A few things are easy to miss when you're comparing Fireflies' headline numbers against a competitor's. First, pricing is per user, so a five-person team on Business pays 5 x $19/user annually ($95/month, not $19/month flat), which is easy to underestimate if you're mentally pricing it like a single-seat tool. Second, the free plan's 400-minute cap is shared across the whole team, so if you invite colleagues onto a free workspace to "try it together," you'll burn through storage far faster than a solo trial would suggest, and the honest test of the free plan is really a single-person test. Third, Enterprise's annual-only billing means you can't trial that tier month to month; you're committing to a year before you know if the SSO and audit-log features are actually used.

None of these are hidden fees exactly, they're just easy to misread from the pricing table alone, and they matter most for teams sizing up a workspace rather than an individual evaluating a personal plan.

How to pick between Fireflies' tiers

• Solo user, light use, comfortable with a shared 400-minute cap: stay on Free and revisit once you're consistently hitting the storage limit.
• Individual who wants to keep every recording without managing storage: Pro's 8,000 minutes per seat is generous for one person, and the annual price ($10/user) is close to CraftNote's annual price ($8.33).
• Team that wants unlimited storage and visibility into call activity: Business is the plan actually built for that, via team analytics and no storage cap.
• Regulated industry or org that needs SSO/HIPAA/audit logs: Enterprise, but budget for annual billing since there's no monthly option to test first.

Is Fireflies worth the price?

For a team already living inside a CRM and Slack, yes: the automation Fireflies provides (auto-logging calls, pushing summaries and action items without manual work) is genuinely useful, and that's the feature set you're paying the premium for, not the transcription itself, which is free on every tier. If your team's main need is a transcript and a summary without deep CRM automation, you're likely paying for integrations you won't use, and a cheaper bot-free tool covers the same core job for less. The honest read: price Fireflies against how much of its automation you'll actually turn on, not against its transcription quality alone, since competitors match that part for less.

Common Questions

Pricing changes over time. The Fireflies figures here are from Fireflies' official pricing page as of August 2026. Check the vendor's site for the latest before you buy.

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