Productivity ยท Head-to-head

Fireflies.ai vs Tome

Fireflies.ai (freemium, AI Score 8/10) vs Tome (freemium, AI Score 6.2/10). Side-by-side pricing, features, pros and cons, and which to pick.

The verdict

Pick Fireflies.ai ifโ€ฆ
  • โ†’overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 8 vs 6.2)
  • โ†’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.
  • โ†’you need: productivity, support, research
Try Fireflies.ai โ†’
Pick Tome ifโ€ฆ
  • โ†’your primary use case is founders and sales reps who need a persuasive pitch deck or personalized account one-pager generated from a prompt and shared as a link, and who don't need powerpoint as the final deliverable.
  • โ†’you need: content-creation, marketing
Try Tome โ†’

Side-by-side specs

Spec Fireflies.ai Tome
Category Productivity Productivity
Pricing model freemium freemium
Headline pricing Freemium โ€” Pro $10/user/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo (annual billing) Free tier; paid plans โ€” check website for current pricing
Free tier 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. A free tier has historically been available with limited AI credits and Tome branding on shared pages. Current limits should be confirmed on the site.
AI Score 8/10 6.2/10
Best for Sales and customer-success teams on Salesforce or HubSpot who want every call transcribed, summarized, and logged to the CRM without anyone taking notes. Founders and sales reps who need a persuasive pitch deck or personalized account one-pager generated from a prompt and shared as a link, and who don't need PowerPoint as the final deliverable.
Editor's pick โ€” โ€”
Use cases productivity support research content-creation marketing
Date added 2026-04-30 2026-05-01

Pros and cons

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Fireflies.ai

Productivity ยท freemium

Pros

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

Cons

  • ร—Bot-based recording shows up as a visible participant; Granola captures audio locally with nothing appearing in the call
  • ร—Free tier is thin next to Fathom, which offers unlimited free recording and summaries
  • ร—Conversation intelligence and CRM sync are gated behind the $19/user/mo Business tier
  • ร—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
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Tome

Productivity ยท freemium

Pros

  • โœ“Goes from a one-line prompt to a coherent deck โ€” structure, copy, images and layout โ€” in a single pass, faster than assembling from a template
  • โœ“Narrative-first output reads as an argument rather than a bullet dump, which genuinely suits pitch and outbound decks
  • โœ“Ships a responsive web page rather than a slide file, so a deck works as a link on mobile with no attachment to download
  • โœ“Sales-specific formats (account briefs, personalized one-pagers) are more purposeful than the generic deck buttons in office suites

Cons

  • ร—No longer leads the category it helped create โ€” Gamma is ahead on free-tier limits, export fidelity and output formats
  • ร—The 2024 refocus on sales and GTM narrowed the roadmap; the general-purpose presentation product has seen limited visible development since
  • ร—Layout control stays inside Tome's guardrails and PowerPoint export loses fidelity, so it's a poor fit when a polished .pptx is the actual deliverable
  • ร—Pricing and current product scope have moved since the pivot and are thinly documented outside the vendor's own site โ€” verify directly before committing a team
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Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.