# Bluedot vs Fireflies: pricing, features, and which is better > Bluedot and Fireflies.ai compared across pricing, capture, speaker labels, recordings, notes, sharing, automations, integrations, AI-agent access, and administration. - Canonical HTML: https://circleback.ai/compare/bluedot-vs-fireflies-ai - Structured JSON: https://circleback.ai/compare/bluedot-vs-fireflies-ai.json - Comparison directory: https://circleback.ai/compare - Language: en-US - Editorial perspective: Neutral competitor comparison. Circleback appears only as a clearly labeled third option. ## Short answer Bluedot is the cleaner bot-free recorder with broad device support. Fireflies has more live assistance, integrations, API depth, and enterprise routing machinery. The useful buying test is to run both products on the same external call, internal planning session, and noisy in-person meeting. Compare the result, the sharing defaults, and the work that still has to happen by hand. ## Bluedot at a glance Bluedot has grown from a browser recorder into a credible multi-device meeting memory with desktop apps, mobile, Apple Watch, MCP, clips, workspace chat, and automated recording. Plan gates and capture-mode speaker limits deserve a close read. **Best for:** Teams that strongly prefer bot-free capture, want a clean recorder across desktop and mobile, and value simple notes, clips, and workspace chat. **Less ideal for:** Teams needing a generous free tier, inexpensive video, deep CRM/admin capabilities below the top plan, or a sophisticated native workflow builder. **Price:** Free for 5 meetings lifetime; paid from $14/recorder/month annually 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. ### Bluedot strengths - Bot-free browser and macOS/Windows desktop capture, plus iOS, Android, and Apple Watch. - A modern, low-friction interface with notes, clips, auto-recording, workspace chat, and MCP. - Only recorder seats are billed, which can make broad read access economical. - Customer meeting data is not used for model training; admins can set retention, SSO/SCIM, and EU residency, while users can export recordings and transcripts. ### Bluedot tradeoffs - The free plan is five meetings for the lifetime of the account, and Basic is audio-only with a one-hour limit. - CRM/ATS sync, organization MCP, webhooks, retention, and SSO/SCIM are gated to Business. - Speaker recognition varies by recording path; the browser extension does not identify speakers for Zoom. - Bluedot’s current pricing page says canceled recordings are deleted after one month, while its cancellation help article says three months; confirm the policy in writing if portability matters. - The integration and native automation catalog is smaller than older, broader platforms. - Action items can include owners and deadlines and webhooks can create external tasks, but Bluedot does not document a native workspace-wide action-item tracker. ### Choose Bluedot when - A visible bot is a deal-breaker and you want easy capture from almost any personal device. - Your workflow values a clean recording library, clips, and workspace chat more than deep workflow automation. - Paying only for recorders is more important than having a useful forever-free recorder tier. ## Fireflies.ai at a glance Fireflies is one of the broadest meeting assistants: bot, desktop, mobile, integrations, search, API, and live or sales assistance. The nuanced bit is that its capture modes are not equivalent—bot-free desktop gives up recordings, named speakers, and Sales Assist. **Best for:** Teams that prioritize a large integration catalog, live assistance, sales workflows, flexible bot/desktop/mobile capture, and competitive pricing. **Less ideal for:** Teams that expect bot-free capture to preserve the same media, speaker fidelity, and sales intelligence as the bot experience. **Price:** Free; Pro from $10/user/month annually 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. ### Fireflies.ai strengths - Bot, bot-free macOS/Windows, iOS/Android, uploads, and supported native meeting SDK paths. - A large integration catalog, public API, webhooks, remote MCP, AI apps, live assistance, and Sales Assist. - Automatically generated and assigned action items live in a team-wide task feed and can flow into tools such as Linear, Asana, Monday.com, and Microsoft Planner. - Competitive pricing and 100+ language claims make it accessible to distributed teams. - Meeting content is not used to train internal or external AI models, and compliance modes can retain the full record, text only, summary only, or summary plus audio. ### Fireflies.ai tradeoffs - Bot-free desktop mode stores no audio/video, labels speakers generically, and cannot run Sales Assist. - Fireflies says mobile recordings often do not auto-detect speakers, so in-person transcripts may need manual speaker relabeling. - The Google Meet SDK bot-free path asks attendees for approval, so “bot-free” does not always mean invisible or frictionless. - The advertised unlimited free transcription is conditional: users must enable both automatic bot joining and automatic sharing with every participant. Teams choosing tighter defaults fall back to a small transcription-credit allowance. - Meeting recaps default to workspace-wide access plus anyone with the link. Admins can enforce safer defaults and Enterprise rules can protect sensitive categories, but teams should configure this before broad rollout. - Two current Fireflies help articles disagree on whether Free includes 400 or 800 stored minutes, so confirm the live limit before relying on long-term free storage. - Advanced AI features use workspace-pooled credits that do not increase with seat count, so heavier teams may need a paid credit add-on. - The GraphQL API exposes transcripts and core meeting data but not Super Summaries or Custom Apps output. - The MCP server is much richer than the older API-only story, but some advanced search and fetch tools are still marked experimental, and data sent to an external AI no longer receives Fireflies’ zero-data-retention guarantee. - Company relationship context and general-purpose native automations are less cohesive than the sheer integration count suggests. ### Choose Fireflies.ai when - A large integration catalog and live assistance are high priorities. - You are happy to use the Fireflies bot when you need recordings, named speakers, and Sales Assist. - You want mobile and desktop capture at a lower entry price than many competitors. ## Feature comparison | What matters | Bluedot | Fireflies.ai | | --- | --- | --- | | Capture options | Broad support — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | Desktop and mobile | Broad support — 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. | Broad support — 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 | Broad support — 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. | Broad support — 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 | Available with limits — 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. | Available with limits — 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 | Broad support — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | People, companies, and context | Available with limits — 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. | Available with limits — 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. | | Automatic sharing and workspace defaults | Available with limits — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | Automations | Available with limits — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | Integrations | Available with limits — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | API, MCP, CLI, and data portability | Available with limits — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | Security, privacy, and admin | Available with limits — 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. | Broad support — 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. | | Languages | Broad support — 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. | Broad support — 100+ languages advertised. Fireflies advertises broad transcription coverage. Real-world speaker separation and accuracy still depend on capture mode, room acoustics, accents, and vocabulary. | Ratings describe documented breadth rather than overall product quality: - **Broad support:** Broad native support across the product or relevant paid plans. - **Available with limits:** Documented support with meaningful scope, mode, or plan limits. - **Narrow or indirect:** Narrow, indirect, beta, or substantially plan-gated support. - **Not documented:** No current first-party documentation for a native option. ## Detailed analysis ### Capture options **Both products document broad support for capture options, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot product overview](https://www.bluedothq.com/), [Bluedot Zoom recorder bot](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/10697005-how-to-invite-the-bluedot-recorder-to-a-zoom-meeting). **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. Evidence: [Fireflies bot-free desktop recording](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/6666374717-how-to-record-meetings-without-a-bot-on-the-fireflies-desktop-app), [Fireflies desktop app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1208704416-getting-started-with-the-fireflies-desktop-app). ### Desktop and mobile **Both products document broad support for desktop and mobile, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot product overview](https://www.bluedothq.com/), [Bluedot 2.1 release](https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1). **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. Evidence: [Fireflies desktop app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1208704416-getting-started-with-the-fireflies-desktop-app), [Fireflies mobile app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8937818258-learn-about-fireflies-mobile-app). ### In-person capture and speaker labels **Both products document broad support for in-person capture and speaker labels, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot mobile app](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12878531-getting-started-with-the-bluedot-mobile-app), [Bluedot Apple Watch capture](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15460054-how-to-record-meetings-on-your-apple-watch), [Bluedot speaker recognition](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12731344-speaker-recognition-overview). **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. Evidence: [Fireflies mobile app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8937818258-learn-about-fireflies-mobile-app), [Fireflies speaker labels](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4994477228-how-to-edit-speaker-labels-or-names-in-a-transcript). ### Recordings, playback, and clips **Both products support recordings, playback, and clips, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing), [Bluedot recording download](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11402197-how-to-download-a-recording). **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. Evidence: [Fireflies bot-free desktop recording](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/6666374717-how-to-record-meetings-without-a-bot-on-the-fireflies-desktop-app). ### Notes, action items, and search **Both products document broad support for notes, action items, and search, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot product overview](https://www.bluedothq.com/), [Bluedot 2.1 release](https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1), [Bluedot custom note templates](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11393395-how-to-create-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. Evidence: [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans), [Fireflies AI credits](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/9606045468-fireflies-billing-terms), [Fireflies Tasks Feed](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1574234155-learn-about-the-tasks-feed). ### People, companies, and context **Both products support people, companies, and context, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot product overview](https://www.bluedothq.com/). **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. Evidence: [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans). ### Automatic sharing and workspace defaults **Fireflies has broader documented support for 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. Evidence: [Bluedot automatic sharing](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11403151-how-to-set-up-auto-sharing), [Bluedot workspace settings](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15434559-workspace-settings-overview). **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. Evidence: [Fireflies Rules Engine](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4608292950-learn-about-the-rules-engine-feature), [Fireflies recap privacy defaults](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/5319481450-how-to-configure-privacy-settings-for-your-meeting-recaps). ### Automations **Fireflies has broader documented support for 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. Evidence: [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing), [Bluedot 2.1 release](https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1), [Bluedot webhooks](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11461975-how-to-set-up-webhooks-in-bluedot), [Bluedot custom note templates](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11393395-how-to-create-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. Evidence: [Fireflies Rules Engine](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4608292950-learn-about-the-rules-engine-feature), [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans), [Fireflies Tasks Feed](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1574234155-learn-about-the-tasks-feed), [Fireflies Linear integration](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8360629677-how-to-integrate-linear-with-fireflies). ### Integrations **Fireflies has broader documented support for 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. Evidence: [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/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. Evidence: [Fireflies integration directory](https://fireflies.ai/integrations), [Fireflies Linear integration](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8360629677-how-to-integrate-linear-with-fireflies). ### API, MCP, CLI, and data portability **Fireflies has broader documented support for 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. Evidence: [Bluedot MCP with Claude](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/16188120-how-to-connect-bluedot-to-claude-using-mcp), [Bluedot webhooks](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11461975-how-to-set-up-webhooks-in-bluedot), [Bluedot transcript export](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12497819-how-to-export-a-transcript-as-pdf-or-txt), [Bluedot recording download](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11402197-how-to-download-a-recording). **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. Evidence: [Fireflies API](https://docs.fireflies.ai/introduction), [Fireflies MCP tools](https://docs.fireflies.ai/mcp-tools/overview). ### Security, privacy, and admin **Fireflies has broader documented support for 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. Evidence: [Bluedot workspace settings](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15434559-workspace-settings-overview), [Bluedot cancellation policy](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11383438-how-to-cancel-your-bluedot-subscription), [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing), [Bluedot security](https://www.bluedothq.com/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. Evidence: [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans), [Fireflies storage limits](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4777633252-learn-about-meeting-storage-limits), [Fireflies Rules Engine](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4608292950-learn-about-the-rules-engine-feature), [Fireflies data safety](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/2154538358-policy-on-keeping-information-safe), [Fireflies compliance recording modes](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3598930706-set-up-transcript-only-mode-for-compliance), [Fireflies Enterprise controls](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4771323041-learn-about-fireflies-enterprise-plan). ### Languages **Both products document broad support for languages, with different scope and plan limits.** **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. Evidence: [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/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. Evidence: [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans). ## A third option to consider: Circleback Circleback turns online meetings, in-person conversations, and imported calls into one shared company memory. Record with a bot, with the botless desktop app, from an iPhone or Android phone, or on Apple Watch. Every route produces the same speaker-labeled record, detailed notes designed to stand alone, and automatically assigned action items. Sharing rules and automations carry the useful parts into the teams and tools that need them. Circleback is built for people and AI agents: the complete meeting record available to a person is also available programmatically through its API, MCP, and CLI. Circleback can also search connected apps and take action in them. It is built for people and AI agents: the same complete meeting data available to a person is available programmatically to ChatGPT, Claude, other agents, and internal tools through the API, MCP, and CLI. Free; Pro from $15/user/month annually; Business from $25/user/month annually; Enterprise $35/user/month, billed annually. ## Frequently asked questions ### 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. ## Methodology Circleback reviews first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes. Prices and capabilities move, so check the linked sources when a detail is important to your decision. Every feature dimension links to the exact first-party documents used for that claim. Ratings describe documented breadth, not an overall score or winner. This page is a neutral competitor-to-competitor comparison. There are no paid placements or affiliate rankings. ## First-party sources ### Bluedot sources - [Bluedot pricing](https://www.bluedothq.com/pricing): Lifetime free limit, audio/video gates, meeting duration, recorder billing, Business workflows, and governance. - [Bluedot product overview](https://www.bluedothq.com/): Desktop, mobile, Watch, clips, meeting chat, and workspace memory. - [Bluedot 2.1 release](https://www.bluedothq.com/blog/bluedot-2-1): June 2026 additions including Watch, MCP, auto-recording, and retention. - [Bluedot speaker recognition](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12731344-speaker-recognition-overview): Recognition differences across desktop, extension, Meet, Teams, and Zoom. - [Bluedot Zoom recorder bot](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/10697005-how-to-invite-the-bluedot-recorder-to-a-zoom-meeting): Optional Zoom-bot recording path alongside the bot-free capture modes. - [Bluedot automatic sharing](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11403151-how-to-set-up-auto-sharing): User-level automatic sharing of recordings and notes with meeting participants. - [Bluedot workspace settings](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15434559-workspace-settings-overview): Admin controls for external sharing, downloads, consent, recording formats, and bot behavior. - [Bluedot mobile app](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12878531-getting-started-with-the-bluedot-mobile-app): iOS and Android in-person capture, uploads, transcripts, notes, playback, and sharing. - [Bluedot Apple Watch capture](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/15460054-how-to-record-meetings-on-your-apple-watch): Independent Watch recording and the iPhone sync/upload path. - [Bluedot webhooks](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11461975-how-to-set-up-webhooks-in-bluedot): User-level payloads and Business/Enterprise team webhooks covering every workspace user. - [Bluedot custom note templates](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11393395-how-to-create-custom-note-templates): Custom AI output structures, including action items, responsibilities, and timelines. - [Bluedot MCP with Claude](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/16188120-how-to-connect-bluedot-to-claude-using-mcp): Authenticated MCP access to permitted transcripts and meeting metadata. - [Bluedot cancellation policy](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11383438-how-to-cancel-your-bluedot-subscription): Help-center deletion timing, which currently conflicts with the pricing-page statement. - [Bluedot security](https://www.bluedothq.com/security): No-training policy, AI-provider zero retention, SSO/SCIM, custom retention, EU residency, and deletion behavior. - [Bluedot transcript export](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/12497819-how-to-export-a-transcript-as-pdf-or-txt): Per-meeting transcript export in PDF and TXT. - [Bluedot recording download](https://help.bluedothq.com/en/articles/11402197-how-to-download-a-recording): WebM recording downloads and the workspace admin download restriction. ### Fireflies.ai sources - [Fireflies pricing guide](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3734844560-learn-about-the-fireflies-pricing-plans): July 2026 prices and plan structure. - [Fireflies unlimited free transcripts](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8632872350-how-to-get-unlimited-meeting-transcripts-on-fireflies-ai-s-free-plan): Auto-join and Share-all requirements for unlimited free transcription. - [Fireflies storage limits](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4777633252-learn-about-meeting-storage-limits): Current storage limits by plan; its Free figure conflicts with an older Free-plan article. - [Fireflies bot-free desktop recording](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/6666374717-how-to-record-meetings-without-a-bot-on-the-fireflies-desktop-app): No AV files, generic speakers, and Sales Assist limitation. - [Fireflies desktop app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1208704416-getting-started-with-the-fireflies-desktop-app): Capture modes, Live Assist, and bot versus botless behavior. - [Fireflies mobile app](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8937818258-learn-about-fireflies-mobile-app): iOS/Android in-person recording, search, sharing, and tasks. - [Fireflies speaker labels](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4994477228-how-to-edit-speaker-labels-or-names-in-a-transcript): Manual corrections and the mobile-recording speaker-detection caveat. - [Fireflies API](https://docs.fireflies.ai/introduction): GraphQL authentication, user/admin scope, available meeting data, and current Super Summary/Custom Apps gaps. - [Fireflies MCP tools](https://docs.fireflies.ai/mcp-tools/overview): Remote MCP authentication, full meeting-data access, read/write tools, and experimental-tool status. - [Fireflies AI credits](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/9606045468-fireflies-billing-terms): Workspace-pooled credit allowances, non-seat scaling, and add-on behavior. - [Fireflies Tasks Feed](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1574234155-learn-about-the-tasks-feed): Automatic task generation and assignment, all-team task views, completion, reassignment, and project-tool handoff. - [Fireflies Linear integration](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/8360629677-how-to-integrate-linear-with-fireflies): Automatic issue creation, project and status routing, assigned-task filtering, and meeting-rule conditions. - [Fireflies integration directory](https://fireflies.ai/integrations): Current first-party directory advertising 100+ integrations across CRM, project, collaboration, storage, and other categories. - [Fireflies Rules Engine](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4608292950-learn-about-the-rules-engine-feature): Enterprise conditions and actions for routing, automatic sharing, privacy enforcement, and deletion. - [Fireflies recap privacy defaults](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/5319481450-how-to-configure-privacy-settings-for-your-meeting-recaps): Default teammates-and-link visibility, narrower audience choices, and retroactive privacy changes. - [Fireflies data safety](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/2154538358-policy-on-keeping-information-safe): No-training and third-party zero-retention commitments plus governance controls. - [Fireflies compliance recording modes](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/3598930706-set-up-transcript-only-mode-for-compliance): Full-record, text-only, summary-only, and summary-plus-audio retention modes. - [Fireflies Enterprise controls](https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4771323041-learn-about-fireflies-enterprise-plan): SSO, SCIM, private storage, retention, and Super Admin access behavior.