Fireflies.ai vs Tiro

Fireflies.ai

• Teams that want every call transcribed and searchable in one place
• People who want apps on web, desktop, phone and a Chrome extension
• Sales and recruiting teams that log calls to a CRM or applicant tracker

Tiro

• Multilingual meetings that need live translation alongside the transcript
• Recording video calls on Windows or Mac without a visible meeting bot
• Teams that want notes reachable from Claude, ChatGPT or their own scripts

Fireflies.ai

• The Free plan stores 400 minutes per team, limits AI summaries and does not include transcript downloads or video recording.
• AI Skills, custom summary sections and soundbites draw on AI credits; plans include only a one-time allowance and extra packs start at $5 a month.
• Conversation intelligence starts on Business. SSO, SCIM and HIPAA compliance are Enterprise only, and Enterprise is billed annually.
• Every teammate added to a workspace counts as a paid seat on paid plans.

Tiro

• There is no free plan: the trial is a one-time 3 weeks and 300 minutes, and recording new notes afterward needs a subscription.
• Lite and Pro are capped at 300 and 1,000 minutes a month; with additional recording switched on, extra minutes cost $0.025 each.
• Speaker diarization and the Wiki start at the Pro plan.
• The web app cannot record system audio or work offline; both need the desktop app. Subscribing through the App Store or Google Play costs more than on the web.

Fireflies.ai

Notetaker bot or bot-free capture

Invite the Fireflies notetaker to a call or let it auto-join meetings on your calendar. The desktop app can instead take notes from device audio with no bot in the meeting.

Transcripts and AI summaries

Every plan includes unlimited transcription, and paid plans add unlimited AI summaries with an overview, notes and action items. Fireflies lists support for 100+ languages.

AskFred and Live Assist

AskFred is an AI assistant for questions about meeting content. In the desktop app, a floating Live Assist pane shows notes, the transcript and AskFred during the call.

Fireflies Talk dictation

Hold a key and speak to dictate text into any app from the desktop app. Fireflies says this is free and unlimited on every plan, including Free.

Conversation intelligence

Business and Enterprise add analytics on team and individual conversations. Free and Pro do not include them.

Integrations and MCP server

Connects to CRMs, project tools, applicant tracking systems and dialers such as Aircall and RingCentral. An MCP server exposes meeting data to assistants like Claude and ChatGPT.

Tiro

Live transcription and one-page notes

Text appears on screen as people speak, with automatic error correction as context builds. When the recording ends Tiro creates a one-page document, a note and a full transcript.

Real-time translation

Tiro supports 15 languages, including Korean, English and Japanese. Setting different languages for the conversation and the recording shows a live translation alongside the transcript.

System audio without a bot

The Windows and Mac apps record the computer's audio together with your voice, covering Zoom, Meet and Teams calls, YouTube and lectures. No bot joins the meeting.

Templates

Ready-made and custom templates turn a note into a recurring format such as meeting minutes, an interview write-up or an evaluation sheet in one click.

Ask Tiro and Wiki

Ask Tiro answers questions about one note or all of them and cites its sources. The Wiki, from the Pro plan, organizes the people, topics and decisions found in meeting records.

Exports, API and MCP

Notes export to PDF, Word or email and can be sent to Slack, Notion, Confluence, Google Drive, HubSpot or Salesforce. The API, MCP server and CLI carry no extra charge.

Fireflies.ai

• Free$0

  Unlimited transcription and limited AI summaries, with 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits.

• Pro$10

  per seat / month, billed annually ($18 billed monthly)

  Unlimited AI summaries, 8,000 minutes of storage per seat, video recording, and transcript and recording downloads.

• Business$19

  per seat / month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly)

  Unlimited storage plus team and individual conversation intelligence.

• Enterprise$39

  per seat / month, billed annually only

  Adds SSO and SCIM, HIPAA and FERPA compliance, with volume discounts as the team grows.

Tiro

• Lite$7

  per month; $70 per year billed annually

  300 recording minutes a month with no per-note limit, one-page summaries, unlimited AI chat and custom templates.

• Pro$13

  per month; $130 per year billed annually

  1,000 recording minutes a month and everything in Lite, plus speaker diarization and the Tiro Wiki.

• Max$29

  per month; $290 per year billed annually

  Unlimited recording and everything in Pro, for people who record several times a day.

• Team Plan$29

  per seat / month; $290 per seat / year billed annually

  Everything in Max, plus one bill for the workspace, automatically shared workspace folders, shared templates and a shared vocabulary.

• Enterprise PlanCustom

  Everything in the Team Plan, plus custom security options, dedicated API and webhook support, a custom login domain and dedicated onboarding.

Fireflies.ai

• Annual discount

  Save up to 44% with annual billing

  Fireflies' pricing page says annual billing saves up to 44%: Pro is $10 instead of $18 per seat a month, and Business is $19 instead of $29.

• Education

  10% off paid plans for students

  Fireflies' help center lists a 10% discount on Pro, Business or Enterprise for students, on monthly or yearly plans. It is claimed by emailing support from a school address.

• Nonprofit

  10% off paid plans for NGOs and nonprofits

  The same help article lists a 10% discount on Pro, Business or Enterprise for NGOs and non-profit organizations, requested by emailing support from the organization's email domain.

Tiro

• Annual discount

  Two months free with annual billing

  Paying annually costs 10 months for 12: Lite $70, Pro $130 and Max $290 a year, and the Team Plan $290 per seat a year. Annual billing is offered on the web and desktop apps.

• Other savings

  Referral rewards for inviting friends

  An invited friend can get 1 month of Pro. The inviter earns $3 once the friend records 10 or more minutes and $5 seven days after the friend's first paid bill.