Productivity · Head-to-head

Fathom vs Fireflies.ai

Fathom (freemium, AI Score 8.5/10) vs Fireflies.ai (freemium, AI Score 8/10). Side-by-side pricing, features, pros and cons, and which to pick.

The verdict

Pick Fathom if…

→overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 8.5 vs 8)
→you want our editor's pick for this category
→your primary use case is founders, consultants and small sales teams living in zoom or google meet who want unlimited call recording and crm-synced summaries without a visible bot joining client calls.
→you need: agents

Try Fathom →

Pick Fireflies.ai if…

→your primary use case is sales and customer-success teams on salesforce or hubspot who want every call transcribed, summarized, and logged to the crm without anyone taking notes.
→you need: support, research

Try Fireflies.ai →

Spec	Fathom	Fireflies.ai
Category	Productivity	Productivity
Pricing model	freemium	freemium
Headline pricing	Freemium — generous free tier; paid Premium and Team plans priced per seat (check website for current rates)	Freemium — Pro $10/user/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo (annual billing)
Free tier	Unlimited recording, transcription and AI summaries for individual users; advanced summary templates, CRM sync and team analytics require a paid plan	Meeting transcription with limited AI summary credits and 800 minutes of storage per seat. Prices shown are annual billing; monthly billing costs more. Check fireflies.ai/pricing for current rates.
AI Score	8.5/10	8/10
Best for	Founders, consultants and small sales teams living in Zoom or Google Meet who want unlimited call recording and CRM-synced summaries without a visible bot joining client calls.	Sales and customer-success teams on Salesforce or HubSpot who want every call transcribed, summarized, and logged to the CRM without anyone taking notes.
Editor's pick	✓ Yes	—
Use cases	productivity agents	productivity support research
Date added	2026-04-30	2026-04-30

Productivity · freemium

✓Free tier still includes unlimited recording and transcription — Otter meters minutes and Fireflies meters credits
✓Records without a visible bot participant by default, with the bot available only when you need it
✓Ask Fathom searches the entire meeting archive rather than one transcript at a time
✓Auto-syncs summaries and action items into HubSpot and Salesforce, so reps never retype call notes
✓Multilingual transcription and summaries removed the old English-only ceiling

×Zoom AI Companion, Gemini in Google Meet and Teams Copilot recap now ship free inside platforms teams already pay for — Fathom has to beat 'good enough and already included'
×Priced per seat, so cost scales linearly with headcount while bundled platform notetakers do not
×Does not publish which foundation models generate its summaries, a gap enterprise procurement increasingly asks about
×The 'unlimited free' headline understates the gating — advanced summary templates, CRM sync and team analytics are all paid

Productivity · freemium

✓Joins calls automatically from your calendar across Zoom, Meet, Teams and Webex, with no manual recording step
✓Mobile apps record in-person meetings, which bot-only competitors cannot cover
✓Transcription across 100+ languages, among the widest language ranges in the category
✓Public API, webhooks and an MCP server make meeting data portable into other systems
✓SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance available for regulated buyers

×Bot-based recording shows up as a visible participant; Granola captures audio locally with nothing appearing in the call
×Free tier is thin next to Fathom, which offers unlimited free recording and summaries
×Conversation intelligence and CRM sync are gated behind the $19/user/mo Business tier
×Bundled recaps in Microsoft Teams Copilot, Google Meet and Zoom AI Companion now cover the basics at no extra cost for teams already on those suites

Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.