Fireflies
vs
Krisp

Fireflies.ai vs Krisp

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

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

Best fit

Krisp

Bot-free notes with real-time audio cleanup

Price

Core from $8/user/month annually; Advanced from $15 annually

Pricing details

Prices are per user/month. Core is $8 with annual billing or $16 month-to-month and includes unlimited bot-free notes, audio recording, screen/video recording, optional bot video, in-person capture, AI chat, MCP, webhooks, integrations, and 10 GB storage. Advanced is $15 or $30 and adds Salesforce, manager/deal views, policy enforcement, team webhooks, and 60 GB. Enterprise is custom.

Free option: No permanent free plan is shown; a seven-day trial is available.

Good for

  • Noise removal and call clarity
  • Low-cost bot-free capture

Watch for

  • Mobile lacks its noise cancellation
  • US cloud; HIPAA starts at 100 seats

Side by side

The details that matter.

Ratings show documented breadth, not overall product quality. Open a row for specifics.

Capture options

FirefliesBroad support
KrispBroad support

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

Krisp

Bot-free system-audio capture

Krisp records through the device rather than joining meetings as a participant. Its audio-processing layer works across calling apps on desktop.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp bot-free screen recording

Desktop and mobile

FirefliesBroad support
KrispBroad support

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.

EvidenceFireflies desktop appFireflies mobile app

Krisp

macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android

Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp mobile recording

In-person capture and speaker labels

FirefliesBroad support
KrispBroad support

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.

EvidenceFireflies mobile appFireflies speaker labels

Krisp

Native iOS and Android room capture

Mobile apps record and upload in-person conversations, but Krisp only documents automatic calendar-based speaker names for one-on-one meetings; ad-hoc meetings need manual assignment. The flagship noise-cancellation capability is also unavailable on mobile.

EvidenceKrisp mobile recordingKrisp calendar and speaker naming

Recordings, playback, and clips

FirefliesAvailable with limits
KrispBroad support

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.

EvidenceFireflies bot-free desktop recording

Krisp

Bot-free audio and screen/video; optional bot video

Krisp now documents bot-free screen/video recording on supported macOS and Windows versions, correcting its older audio-only framing. An optional Krisp bot can also retain meeting video. Advanced adds richer collaboration such as trimming and comments plus more storage, and storage quotas matter for recording-heavy teams.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp recording FAQKrisp bot-free screen recording

Notes, action items, and search

FirefliesBroad support
KrispBroad support

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

Krisp

AI notes plus a centralized, assigned action-item tracker

Krisp automatically generates and assigns action items when calendar identity or transcript speaker identity is available. The workspace action center supports all-team and assigned-to-me views, reassignment, due dates, priority, status, and completion. This is a real product strength, even though the broader relationship-memory layer remains thinner.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp centralized action items

People, companies, and context

FirefliesAvailable with limits
KrispNarrow or indirect

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

Krisp

Meeting library and AI chat

Meetings are searchable and available through AI chat, but the product does not emphasize combined email, calendar, person, and company relationship pages.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp MCP

Automatic sharing and workspace defaults

FirefliesBroad support
KrispBroad support

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

Krisp

Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing

Krisp auto-shares transcripts, notes, and recordings to same-workspace calendar invitees when its calendar and join prerequisites are met; the setting defaults on during rollout. Advanced can also route selected users’ external meetings to managers, and recurring meetings can post to Teams channels. The audience logic is useful but narrower than a general title, participant, domain, tag, and destination rule builder.

EvidenceKrisp meeting sharingKrisp Manager ViewKrisp Microsoft Teams integration

Automations

FirefliesBroad support
KrispAvailable with limits

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

Krisp

Automatic action items, webhooks, and Zapier; fewer native rules

Core includes action-item, note, and transcript triggers through Zapier and webhooks; a generated action item can create a Jira task through Zapier. Advanced adds team webhooks. Krisp is still less centered on custom AI extraction and a native multi-step condition/action canvas.

EvidenceKrisp centralized action itemsKrisp webhook APIKrisp Zapier integrationKrisp pricing

Integrations

FirefliesBroad support
KrispAvailable with limits

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

Krisp

Common work tools; Salesforce on Advanced

Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp webhook APIKrisp Zapier integration

API, MCP, CLI, and data portability

FirefliesBroad support
KrispBroad support

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

Krisp

MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core

The hosted OAuth MCP can search meetings, fetch full transcripts and summaries, list action items by assignee or completion state, inspect activity, and read upcoming meetings. Agent access is unusually accessible at the entry tier. Teams needing centralized webhook management move to Advanced, while private deployment is Enterprise.

EvidenceKrisp MCPKrisp centralized action itemsKrisp webhook API

Security, privacy, and admin

FirefliesBroad support
KrispAvailable with limits

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

Krisp

Policy tools on Advanced; private deployment and compliance on Enterprise

Enforced modes and manager views require Advanced. SSO/SCIM, a negotiable data-center choice, unlimited storage, private/on-device options, and the documented 100+ seat HIPAA path are Enterprise. Krisp’s security page says standard cloud data is US-hosted with no regional option.

EvidenceKrisp pricingKrisp security and data handlingKrisp cloud processing

Languages

FirefliesBroad support
KrispNarrow or indirect

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

Krisp

16 transcription languages

Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages.

EvidenceKrisp multilingual transcription

Worth a look

Circleback

If neither Fireflies nor Krisp 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.

Fireflies.ai sources18 first-party references
Krisp sources15 first-party references

Questions people usually ask

Which is better: Fireflies.ai or Krisp?

Fireflies is broader on live assistance, integrations, and meeting workflows. Krisp is built around real-time noise cancellation, voice isolation, and audio processing.

Which is less expensive, Fireflies.ai or Krisp?

Fireflies.ai: Free; Pro from $10/user/month annually. Krisp: Core from $8/user/month annually; Advanced from $15 annually. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need.

Can Fireflies.ai and Krisp record without a bot?

Fireflies.ai: Bot, bot-free desktop, mobile, and SDK-based capture. Krisp: Bot-free system-audio 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. Fireflies: Enterprise rules can auto-route, share, and enforce privacy. Krisp: Calendar, manager, and recurring-channel auto-sharing.

Can I access and move the full meeting data?

Fireflies: GraphQL API, webhooks, and a rich remote MCP server. Krisp: MCP with transcripts and tasks, plus webhooks on Core. 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.