# Fireflies vs Krisp: pricing, features, and which is better

> Fireflies.ai and Krisp compared across pricing, capture, speaker labels, recordings, notes, sharing, automations, integrations, AI-agent access, and administration.

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## Short answer

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

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.

## 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.

## Krisp at a glance

Krisp’s differentiator is not another summary format—it is the audio layer. Noise cancellation, voice isolation, and accent conversion sit beside a capable bot-free note taker, recordings, mobile capture, MCP, and webhooks.

**Best for:** People who work in noisy environments, contact centers, or distributed teams where call clarity and bot-free capture matter as much as the notes.

**Less ideal for:** Teams that need 100+ languages, a broad company knowledge graph, deep multi-system automations, or advanced governance without an enterprise contract.

**Price:** Core from $8/user/month annually; Advanced from $15 annually

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.

### Krisp strengths

- Krisp’s clearest differentiator is real-time noise cancellation, voice isolation, and accent conversion across calling apps.
- Bot-free audio and screen/video capture, optional bot-based video, iOS/Android in-person support, AI chat, MCP, and webhooks come at a relatively low entry price.
- Action items are automatically generated and assigned, then managed workspace-wide with assignees, due dates, priority, and status.
- On-device and private deployment options for enterprise customers with strict audio requirements.
- Krisp says meeting data is not used to train its AI models; transcript-only audio can be processed on-device or deleted immediately after cloud transcription.

### Krisp tradeoffs

- Mobile recording does not include Krisp’s signature noise cancellation.
- Core includes only 10 GB of storage, while Salesforce, policy enforcement, manager views, and stronger team workflows require Advanced.
- HIPAA/BAA is listed for enterprise deployments of 100+ seats.
- Its 16-language count is materially narrower than products advertising 75–100+ languages.
- Calendar-based speaker names are documented for one-on-one calls; group meetings still require a closer test of diarization and naming behavior.
- Standard cloud meeting data is stored in the United States with no general regional-storage option. Enterprise pricing advertises a negotiable data-center choice and on-device private processing, so residency-sensitive buyers should verify the deployed architecture.

### Choose Krisp when

- Call clarity and bot-free capture are the top requirements.
- You want AV recording, MCP, webhooks, and mobile capture at a low per-recorder price.
- Your enterprise may need private or on-device audio processing.

## Feature comparison

| What matters | Fireflies.ai | Krisp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capture options | 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. | Broad support — 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. |
| Desktop and mobile | 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. | Broad support — macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation. |
| In-person capture and speaker labels | 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. | Broad support — 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. |
| Recordings, playback, and clips | 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. | Broad support — 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. |
| Notes, action items, and search | 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. | Broad support — 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. |
| People, companies, and context | 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. | Narrow or indirect — 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. |
| Automatic sharing and workspace defaults | 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. | Broad support — 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. |
| Automations | 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. | Available with limits — 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. |
| Integrations | 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. | Available with limits — Common work tools; Salesforce on Advanced. Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced. |
| API, MCP, CLI, and data portability | 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. | Broad support — 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. |
| Security, privacy, and admin | 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. | Available with limits — 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. |
| Languages | 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. | Narrow or indirect — 16 transcription languages. Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages. |

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.**

**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).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp bot-free screen recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp).

### Desktop and mobile

**Both products document broad support for desktop and mobile, with different scope and plan limits.**

**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).

**Krisp:** macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Desktop combines recording with noise cancellation and voice features. Mobile supports in-person recording but not noise cancellation.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp mobile recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-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.**

**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).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp mobile recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App), [Krisp calendar and speaker naming](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10277892556828-Connecting-your-Calendar-to-Krisp).

### Recordings, playback, and clips

**Krisp has broader documented support for recordings, playback, and clips.**

**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).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp recording FAQ](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/12216182124956-FAQ-about-Krisp-Recording-feature), [Krisp bot-free screen recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp).

### Notes, action items, and search

**Both products document broad support for notes, action items, and search, with different scope and plan limits.**

**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).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard).

### People, companies, and context

**Fireflies has broader documented support for people, companies, and context.**

**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).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp MCP](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP).

### Automatic sharing and workspace defaults

**Both products document broad support for automatic sharing and workspace defaults, with different scope and plan limits.**

**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).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp meeting sharing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10386573495196-Sharing-your-meetings-with-Krisp), [Krisp Manager View](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21142526003356-Manager-View), [Krisp Microsoft Teams integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26704048673436-Integrate-Krisp-with-Microsoft-Teams).

### Automations

**Fireflies has broader documented support for automations.**

**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).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard), [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API), [Krisp Zapier integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier), [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/).

### Integrations

**Fireflies has broader documented support for integrations.**

**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).

**Krisp:** Common work tools; Salesforce on Advanced. Core covers general integrations and webhooks. Salesforce and more revenue-focused management features require Advanced.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API), [Krisp Zapier integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier).

### API, MCP, CLI, and data portability

**Both products document broad support for API, MCP, CLI, and data portability, with different scope and plan limits.**

**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).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp MCP](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP), [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard), [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API).

### Security, privacy, and admin

**Fireflies has broader documented support for security, privacy, and admin.**

**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).

**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.

Evidence: [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/), [Krisp security and data handling](https://krisp.ai/security-for-ai-meeting-assistant/), [Krisp cloud processing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012035500-What-data-Krisp-sends-to-the-cloud).

### Languages

**Fireflies has broader documented support for languages.**

**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).

**Krisp:** 16 transcription languages. Adequate for many English-centered teams, but much narrower on paper than competitors advertising 75 or 100+ languages.

Evidence: [Krisp multilingual transcription](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13803811067292-Record-and-transcribe-multilingual-meetings).

## 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: 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.

## 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

### 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.

### Krisp sources

- [Krisp pricing](https://krisp.ai/pricing/): Core, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing, storage, capture, language, integration, and governance gates.
- [Krisp mobile recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/20282426717596-How-to-record-in-person-meetings-with-Krisp-Mobile-App): iOS/Android in-person capture and mobile noise-cancellation limitation.
- [Krisp calendar and speaker naming](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10277892556828-Connecting-your-Calendar-to-Krisp): Calendar-based replacement of generic speaker labels with names is currently limited to one-on-one meetings.
- [Krisp meeting sharing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/10386573495196-Sharing-your-meetings-with-Krisp): Automatic sharing to same-workspace calendar invitees, prerequisites, and rollout behavior.
- [Krisp Manager View](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/21142526003356-Manager-View): Advanced-plan automatic sharing of selected team members' external meetings to chosen managers.
- [Krisp Microsoft Teams integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/26704048673436-Integrate-Krisp-with-Microsoft-Teams): Automatic notes delivery for recurring meetings and manual channel sharing.
- [Krisp recording FAQ](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/12216182124956-FAQ-about-Krisp-Recording-feature): Audio recording and optional Krisp-bot video path; supplemented by the newer bot-free screen-recording guide.
- [Krisp bot-free screen recording](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/16168004763420-Screen-record-your-meetings-with-Krisp): Bot-free screen/video capture and supported macOS/Windows versions.
- [Krisp multilingual transcription](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/13803811067292-Record-and-transcribe-multilingual-meetings): Current 16-language transcription list.
- [Krisp MCP](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/25396920405148-Krisp-MCP): OAuth MCP access to transcripts, summaries, key points, action items, and calendar context.
- [Krisp centralized action items](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/18809437531420-Centralized-Action-Items-in-account-dashboard): Automatic task creation and assignment plus team-wide views, due dates, priorities, assignees, status, and completion.
- [Krisp Zapier integration](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/14772270941852-Integrate-Krisp-with-Zapier): Action-item, key-point, outline, and transcript triggers, including Jira task creation through Zapier.
- [Krisp webhook API](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/24514911804316-Webhook-API): Core user webhooks and Advanced team webhook scope.
- [Krisp security and data handling](https://krisp.ai/security-for-ai-meeting-assistant/): No-training posture, US cloud storage, lack of standard regional residency, on-device transcription, encryption, and Enterprise controls.
- [Krisp cloud processing](https://help.krisp.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360012035500-What-data-Krisp-sends-to-the-cloud): Local noise cancellation plus on-device or transient cloud processing in transcript-only mode.
