Bluedot vs Fireflies.ai
A practical look at price, capture, notes, workflows, and what each product is actually good at.
The short answer
Which one fits better?
Best fit
Bluedot
Light, bot-free recording across desktop and mobile
Price
Free for 5 meetings lifetime; paid from $14/recorder/month annually
Pricing details
Prices are per recorder/month. Basic is $14 with annual billing or $18 month-to-month, but is audio-only and capped at one-hour meetings. Pro is $20 or $25 and adds video, unlimited duration, templates, and imports. Business is $32 or $39 with advanced workflows, CRM/ATS, SSO/SCIM, retention, webhooks, and organization MCP.
Free option: Yes, but only five meetings total—not five per month.
Good for
- Bot-free capture
- Simple recordings and clips
Watch for
- Zoom extension has no speaker labels
- No workspace-wide task tracker
Best fit
Fireflies.ai
Live assistance and a broad integration catalog
Price
Free; Pro from $10/user/month annually
Pricing details
Prices are per user/month: Pro is $10 with annual billing or $18 month-to-month; Business is $19 or $29; Enterprise is $39 with annual billing. Storage, AI credits, video, advanced integrations, and governance differ by plan.
Free option: Yes. Unlimited transcription requires both Auto-join and Share-all; otherwise initial transcription credits, storage limits, and plan-gated summaries or AI features apply.
Good for
- Live meeting help
- Lots of integrations at a low price
Watch for
- Bot-free mode loses media and names
- Free unlimited requires share-all
Side by side
The details that matter.
Ratings show documented breadth, not overall product quality. Open a row for specifics.
What matters
Capture options
BluedotBroad supportFirefliesBroad supportCapture options
Bluedot:Broad supportFireflies:Broad support
Capture options
Capture options
Bluedot
Bot-free browser and desktop capture, plus an optional Zoom bot
Bluedot usually captures meeting and system audio without joining a bot. Its newer desktop apps broaden support beyond browser-based Google Meet and Teams workflows, while an optional recorder bot is also documented for Zoom.
Fireflies.ai
Bot, bot-free desktop, mobile, and SDK-based capture
Fireflies has unusually broad capture. The modes differ: desktop bot-free capture works across apps but drops stored media and named speaker labels; the bot preserves the richer meeting record.
EvidenceFireflies bot-free desktop recordingFireflies desktop app
Desktop and mobile
BluedotBroad supportFirefliesBroad supportDesktop and mobile
Bluedot:Broad supportFireflies:Broad support
Desktop and mobile
Desktop and mobile
Bluedot
Browser, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Apple Watch
Device breadth is a standout, especially Apple Watch. Exact capture richness and speaker labeling depend on platform and mode.
Fireflies.ai
Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android
Desktop supports system-audio recording and live assistance. Mobile supports in-person recording, reviewing meetings, search, sharing, and tasks.
In-person capture and speaker labels
BluedotBroad supportFirefliesBroad supportIn-person capture and speaker labels
Bluedot:Broad supportFireflies:Broad support
In-person capture and speaker labels
In-person capture and speaker labels
Bluedot
Mobile, watch, and desktop room recording
Bluedot supports iOS, Android, Apple Watch, browser, and desktop capture for room conversations. The Watch records without an iPhone nearby, then syncs through the iPhone app. Bluedot’s speaker-recognition matrix documents desktop and browser meeting platforms, not mobile or Watch name-label parity, so verify those modes on a real group meeting.
EvidenceBluedot mobile appBluedot Apple Watch captureBluedot speaker recognition
Fireflies.ai
Mobile and desktop room capture
iOS and Android can capture in-person conversations. Fireflies documents that mobile recordings often do not auto-detect speakers, so names may need manual correction. Bot-free desktop can also hear room/system audio, with its own media and generic-label caveats.
Recordings, playback, and clips
BluedotAvailable with limitsFirefliesAvailable with limitsRecordings, playback, and clips
Bluedot:Available with limitsFireflies:Available with limits
Recordings, playback, and clips
Recordings, playback, and clips
Bluedot
Audio on Basic; video, clips, and unlimited duration on Pro+
The lowest paid plan is deliberately audio-only and limits meeting length. Video and longer calls require Pro, while clips and playback are otherwise polished.
Fireflies.ai
Bot mode saves AV; bot-free desktop saves neither
This is the key evaluation detail: bot meetings can preserve audio/video and named speakers, while desktop bot-free mode produces notes/transcript without recording files and uses Speaker 1/Speaker 2 labels.
Notes, action items, and search
BluedotBroad supportFirefliesBroad supportNotes, action items, and search
Bluedot:Broad supportFireflies:Broad support
Notes, action items, and search
Notes, action items, and search
Bluedot
AI notes, templates, action items, chat, and workspace memory
Notes and meeting chat are easy to use. Templates can extract action items, responsible people, and timelines. Bluedot does not document an all-meetings workspace task center with assignment and completion state, so serious follow-through usually moves into another system.
EvidenceBluedot product overviewBluedot 2.1 releaseBluedot custom note templates
Fireflies.ai
Notes, search, and a workspace-wide assigned task feed
Fireflies offers strong meeting search and multiple AI surfaces. It automatically creates and assigns meeting tasks, lets teams manage all accessible tasks in one feed, and can turn action items into trackable work in several project tools. Usage credits and plan gates still apply to advanced AI apps and assistant capabilities.
EvidenceFireflies pricing guideFireflies AI creditsFireflies Tasks Feed
People, companies, and context
BluedotAvailable with limitsFirefliesAvailable with limitsPeople, companies, and context
Bluedot:Available with limitsFireflies:Available with limits
People, companies, and context
People, companies, and context
Bluedot
Workspace meeting memory, without broader email relationship context
Bluedot can search and chat across meetings, but it does not emphasize a combined email/calendar/person/company history as a primary product surface.
EvidenceBluedot product overview
Fireflies.ai
Meeting channels and cross-meeting search
The meeting library is searchable and collaborative, but the product is less centered on a unified relationship timeline combining meetings, email, calendar, people, and companies.
EvidenceFireflies pricing guide
Automatic sharing and workspace defaults
BluedotAvailable with limitsFirefliesBroad supportAutomatic sharing and workspace defaults
Bluedot:Available with limitsFireflies:Broad support
Automatic sharing and workspace defaults
Automatic sharing and workspace defaults
Bluedot
Attendee auto-share and workspace permissions
Individuals can automatically share recordings and notes with meeting participants. Workspace admins can restrict external sharing and enforce recording defaults, while conditional auto-sorting remains a user-level setting rather than a workspace-wide sharing policy.
Fireflies.ai
Enterprise rules can auto-route, share, and enforce privacy
Enterprise admins can match meeting title, host, participants, or internal/external type, then route to a channel, share with users or teams, or enforce privacy. This is genuinely strong automation. The default recap visibility is broader than many buyers expect—teammates plus anyone holding the link—so configure the workspace default deliberately.
EvidenceFireflies Rules EngineFireflies recap privacy defaults
Automations
BluedotAvailable with limitsFirefliesBroad supportAutomations
Bluedot:Available with limitsFireflies:Broad support
Automations
Automations
Bluedot
Advanced workflows and task-capable webhooks on Business
Bluedot supports automated recording and post-meeting workflows. Webhooks can send summaries and transcripts to custom endpoints that create tasks in Asana, Trello, or Jira, although that downstream mapping is something the customer builds. Its deepest CRM/ATS and team-wide workflow features are reserved for Business.
EvidenceBluedot pricingBluedot 2.1 releaseBluedot webhooksBluedot custom note templates
Fireflies.ai
Meeting rules, AI apps, CRM workflows, and automatic task handoff
Fireflies can automatically create and assign tasks, then route them to Linear, Asana, Monday.com, Planner, Salesforce, and other systems with meeting filters on eligible plans. It also supports specialized AI apps. The experience spans several feature systems rather than one simple general condition/action canvas.
EvidenceFireflies Rules EngineFireflies pricing guideFireflies Tasks FeedFireflies Linear integration
Integrations
BluedotAvailable with limitsFirefliesBroad supportIntegrations
Bluedot:Available with limitsFireflies:Broad support
Integrations
Integrations
Bluedot
Core collaboration tools; CRM and ATS on Business
The catalog covers common destinations but is smaller than platforms advertising hundreds or thousands of connections. CRM/ATS access is a top-plan feature.
EvidenceBluedot pricing
Fireflies.ai
100+ integrations plus Zapier and API
Breadth is a major advantage across CRM, collaboration, storage, dialers, and productivity tools. Verify the plan required for each connector and direction of sync.
EvidenceFireflies integration directoryFireflies Linear integration
API, MCP, CLI, and data portability
BluedotAvailable with limitsFirefliesBroad supportAPI, MCP, CLI, and data portability
Bluedot:Available with limitsFireflies:Broad support
API, MCP, CLI, and data portability
API, MCP, CLI, and data portability
Bluedot
Personal MCP; organization MCP and webhooks on Business
Personal MCP and user-level webhooks are available below Business; organization-wide MCP and team webhooks require Business. MCP follows the meetings the authenticated Bluedot user can already access, while team webhooks can receive events for every workspace user after support enables them. Users can also export transcripts as PDF or TXT and recordings as WebM.
EvidenceBluedot MCP with ClaudeBluedot webhooksBluedot transcript exportBluedot recording download
Fireflies.ai
GraphQL API, webhooks, and a rich remote MCP server
Fireflies exposes transcripts and core meeting data through GraphQL plus webhooks for custom integrations. Its OAuth or API-key remote MCP server can retrieve full transcripts, summaries, action items, active meetings, analytics, soundbites, channels, and user data; it can also share, rename, organize, and clip meetings. Some advanced search and fetch tools remain experimental. Super Summary and Custom Apps data are still absent from the documented GraphQL API, and content passed into an external AI follows that provider’s retention terms.
EvidenceFireflies APIFireflies MCP tools
Security, privacy, and admin
BluedotAvailable with limitsFirefliesBroad supportSecurity, privacy, and admin
Bluedot:Available with limitsFireflies:Broad support
Security, privacy, and admin
Security, privacy, and admin
Bluedot
Retention, SSO/SCIM, and advanced administration on Business
Business adds SSO/SAML, SCIM, configurable retention, and EU residency. Bluedot says customer data is not used to train models and AI providers retain nothing after generation. Its pricing and cancellation help pages currently disagree on whether canceled recordings are deleted after one or three months.
EvidenceBluedot workspace settingsBluedot cancellation policyBluedot pricingBluedot security
Fireflies.ai
Business and Enterprise governance
Enterprise adds SSO/SCIM, Rules Engine governance, custom retention, and private storage. Its Super Admin role can access every workspace meeting, including “Only Me” content—useful for compliance, but a material privacy-policy decision. Fireflies says meeting content is never used for internal or external model training.
EvidenceFireflies pricing guideFireflies storage limitsFireflies Rules EngineFireflies data safetyFireflies compliance recording modesFireflies Enterprise controls
Languages
BluedotBroad supportFirefliesBroad supportLanguages
Bluedot:Broad supportFireflies:Broad support
Languages
Languages
Bluedot
100+ languages advertised
Bluedot advertises broad language support. As with every vendor, evaluate real calls with accents, crosstalk, and domain vocabulary rather than relying on the count alone.
EvidenceBluedot pricing
Fireflies.ai
100+ languages advertised
Fireflies advertises broad transcription coverage. Real-world speaker separation and accuracy still depend on capture mode, room acoustics, accents, and vocabulary.
EvidenceFireflies pricing guide
Worth a look
Circleback
If neither Bluedot nor Fireflies quite fits, Circleback covers a different job: capturing online and in-person meetings and sharing them by rule. It is built for people and AI agents, with the same full meeting data available through its API, MCP, and CLI.
Every meeting
Bot, botless desktop app, iPhone, Android, or Apple Watch. Speaker labels every time; recording optional.
Shared company memory
Detailed notes, automatic sharing, and people and company context across every team.
People and AI agents
Assigned actions and automations for people; the same full meeting data for agents through API, MCP, and CLI.
Sources
First-party pricing, product docs, help articles, and release notes.
Bluedot sources16 first-party references
- Bluedot pricing
Lifetime free limit, audio/video gates, meeting duration, recorder billing, Business workflows, and governance.
- Bluedot product overview
Desktop, mobile, Watch, clips, meeting chat, and workspace memory.
- Bluedot 2.1 release
June 2026 additions including Watch, MCP, auto-recording, and retention.
- Bluedot speaker recognition
Recognition differences across desktop, extension, Meet, Teams, and Zoom.
- Bluedot Zoom recorder bot
Optional Zoom-bot recording path alongside the bot-free capture modes.
- Bluedot automatic sharing
User-level automatic sharing of recordings and notes with meeting participants.
- Bluedot workspace settings
Admin controls for external sharing, downloads, consent, recording formats, and bot behavior.
- Bluedot mobile app
iOS and Android in-person capture, uploads, transcripts, notes, playback, and sharing.
- Bluedot Apple Watch capture
Independent Watch recording and the iPhone sync/upload path.
- Bluedot webhooks
User-level payloads and Business/Enterprise team webhooks covering every workspace user.
- Bluedot custom note templates
Custom AI output structures, including action items, responsibilities, and timelines.
- Bluedot MCP with Claude
Authenticated MCP access to permitted transcripts and meeting metadata.
- Bluedot cancellation policy
Help-center deletion timing, which currently conflicts with the pricing-page statement.
- Bluedot security
No-training policy, AI-provider zero retention, SSO/SCIM, custom retention, EU residency, and deletion behavior.
- Bluedot transcript export
Per-meeting transcript export in PDF and TXT.
- Bluedot recording download
WebM recording downloads and the workspace admin download restriction.
Fireflies.ai sources18 first-party references
- Fireflies pricing guide
July 2026 prices and plan structure.
- Fireflies unlimited free transcripts
Auto-join and Share-all requirements for unlimited free transcription.
- Fireflies storage limits
Current storage limits by plan; its Free figure conflicts with an older Free-plan article.
- Fireflies bot-free desktop recording
No AV files, generic speakers, and Sales Assist limitation.
- Fireflies desktop app
Capture modes, Live Assist, and bot versus botless behavior.
- Fireflies mobile app
iOS/Android in-person recording, search, sharing, and tasks.
- Fireflies speaker labels
Manual corrections and the mobile-recording speaker-detection caveat.
- Fireflies API
GraphQL authentication, user/admin scope, available meeting data, and current Super Summary/Custom Apps gaps.
- Fireflies MCP tools
Remote MCP authentication, full meeting-data access, read/write tools, and experimental-tool status.
- Fireflies AI credits
Workspace-pooled credit allowances, non-seat scaling, and add-on behavior.
- Fireflies Tasks Feed
Automatic task generation and assignment, all-team task views, completion, reassignment, and project-tool handoff.
- Fireflies Linear integration
Automatic issue creation, project and status routing, assigned-task filtering, and meeting-rule conditions.
- Fireflies integration directory
Current first-party directory advertising 100+ integrations across CRM, project, collaboration, storage, and other categories.
- Fireflies Rules Engine
Enterprise conditions and actions for routing, automatic sharing, privacy enforcement, and deletion.
- Fireflies recap privacy defaults
Default teammates-and-link visibility, narrower audience choices, and retroactive privacy changes.
- Fireflies data safety
No-training and third-party zero-retention commitments plus governance controls.
- Fireflies compliance recording modes
Full-record, text-only, summary-only, and summary-plus-audio retention modes.
- Fireflies Enterprise controls
SSO, SCIM, private storage, retention, and Super Admin access behavior.
Questions people usually ask
Which is better: Bluedot or Fireflies.ai?
Bluedot is the cleaner bot-free recorder with broad device support. Fireflies has more live assistance, integrations, API depth, and enterprise routing machinery.
Which is less expensive, Bluedot or Fireflies.ai?
Bluedot: Free for 5 meetings lifetime; paid from $14/recorder/month annually. Fireflies.ai: Free; Pro from $10/user/month annually. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need.
Can Bluedot and Fireflies.ai record without a bot?
Bluedot: Bot-free browser and desktop capture, plus an optional Zoom bot. Fireflies.ai: Bot, bot-free desktop, mobile, and SDK-based capture. The useful check is whether your required capture mode keeps video, a recording, and speaker names.
Which is better for a whole company?
First ask who gets each note automatically; otherwise useful context stays with the recorder. Then compare permissions, retention, and enforced defaults. Bluedot: Attendee auto-share and workspace permissions. Fireflies: Enterprise rules can auto-route, share, and enforce privacy.
Can I access and move the full meeting data?
Bluedot: Personal MCP; organization MCP and webhooks on Business. Fireflies: GraphQL API, webhooks, and a rich remote MCP server. Check the selected plan, authentication model, transcript scope, export format, and retention window for the workflow you need.
How was this comparison researched?
We use first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes for both products. The sources are linked below.
