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 ifโฆ
- โoverall capability matters more than price (AI Score 8 vs 6.2)
- โyour 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.
- โyou need: productivity, support, research
Pick Tome ifโฆ
- โyour 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.
- โyou need: content-creation, marketing
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
Fireflies.ai
Productivity ยท freemium
Pros
- โJoins calls automatically from your calendar across Zoom, Meet, Teams and Webex, with no manual recording step
- โMobile apps record in-person meetings, which bot-only competitors cannot cover
- โTranscription across 100+ languages, among the widest language ranges in the category
- โPublic API, webhooks and an MCP server make meeting data portable into other systems
- โSOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance available for regulated buyers
Cons
- รBot-based recording shows up as a visible participant; Granola captures audio locally with nothing appearing in the call
- รFree tier is thin next to Fathom, which offers unlimited free recording and summaries
- รConversation intelligence and CRM sync are gated behind the $19/user/mo Business tier
- รBundled 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
- โGoes 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
- โNarrative-first output reads as an argument rather than a bullet dump, which genuinely suits pitch and outbound decks
- โShips a responsive web page rather than a slide file, so a deck works as a link on mobile with no attachment to download
- โSales-specific formats (account briefs, personalized one-pagers) are more purposeful than the generic deck buttons in office suites
Cons
- รNo longer leads the category it helped create โ Gamma is ahead on free-tier limits, export fidelity and output formats
- รThe 2024 refocus on sales and GTM narrowed the roadmap; the general-purpose presentation product has seen limited visible development since
- รLayout 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
- รPricing 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.