Fireflies.ai pricing (2026): is Fireflies free, and what Pro and Business cost

Fireflies has four plans: Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise. Fireflies pricing per seat is $0, $18, $29 and $39 a month, and annual billing brings Pro down to $10 and Business to $19. Enterprise is only sold annually. The free plan has no end date, but for anyone who signed up on or after 1 September 2026 it works differently from how it used to, so that part gets the most space below.

Everything here comes from Fireflies' pricing page and ten articles in the Fireflies help center, all checked on 27 October 2026. Plans change, so check the page before you buy. For what Fireflies is like as a product, read our Fireflies.ai review.

Fireflies prices at a glance

Plan	Billed monthly	Billed annually	Storage	Recording limit
Free	$0	$0	400 minutes	2 hours
Pro	$18 per seat a month	$10 per seat a month	8,000 minutes per seat	2 hours
Business	$29 per seat a month	$19 per seat a month	Unlimited	3 hours
Enterprise	Not offered	$39 per seat a month	Unlimited	4 hours

The pricing page says annual billing saves "up to 44%." That figure is Pro: $10 instead of $18. On Business the saving is about a third. Over a year, one Pro seat costs $120 on annual billing or $216 month to month. One Business seat costs $228 or $348. Enterprise is $468 a seat per year.

A seat is any teammate you add to your Fireflies workspace. The pricing FAQ says you can send a meeting recap link to people outside the team without paying for them. Fireflies also offers volume discounts above 50 members, through sales.

Is Fireflies AI free?

Yes, there is a free plan, and it does not expire. What it includes depends on when you signed up and how you let Fireflies join your meetings.

The plan card on the pricing page says "Unlimited transcription," with an asterisk. The tooltip limits that to shared bot meetings, the Chrome extension and the mobile app. The comparison table lower on the same page lists free transcription as "Limited." The help center explains the gap. In Unlock Unlimited Transcriptions on the Fireflies Free Plan, Fireflies says that for users who sign up on or after 1 September 2026, the free plan transcribes 3 meetings by default. Turn on "Auto-join calendar meetings" and the cap goes away. Turn it off and you are back to 3.

So the unlimited free plan comes with a condition: Fred, the Fireflies bot, joins your calendar meetings automatically. The setting "Only when I invite fred@fireflies.ai" does not unlock unlimited transcription, according to the same article. Accounts created before 1 September keep their old limits.

The other free plan limits, from the pricing page and the free plan article:

• 400 minutes of storage. The pricing page says per team, and the help center says per seat. When it fills up, you delete old meetings to record new ones.
• A 2-hour cap on any one recording.
• Limited AI summaries. On Free, each summary uses a transcription credit (a separate meter from AI credits), and a free account starts with 3 transcription credits if you sign up on the website, 5 through the Chrome extension, or 10 as a new mobile app user.
• 20 AI credits, granted once.
• No downloads. Exporting a transcript needs a paid plan.
• Three public channels on top of the default ones, and no private channels.

400 minutes is less than seven hours of meetings. If you leave Auto-join on, the storage cap is the limit you will hit first.

What Fireflies Pro includes for $18 a month

The pricing page describes Pro as "for professional individuals and small teams." At $10 a month on annual billing it sits close to Otter Pro at $8.33 and Krisp Core at $8. On monthly billing, $18 is a little more than Otter Pro at $16.99 and Krisp Core at $16, going by our Otter.ai pricing and Krisp pricing checks from 22 and 26 October.

What Pro adds over Free, according to the pricing page:

• Unlimited transcription and unlimited AI summaries, without the Auto-join condition
• 8,000 minutes of storage per seat, which is about 133 hours
• Video recording at 720p
• Downloads of transcripts, summaries and recordings
• Personal Assistant, Email Assistant, AI Skills and Voice Agents
• Action items and a task manager
• Bulk delete, and unlimited public channels
• API access at 60 requests a minute and 5,000 a day

Pro comes with the same 20 AI credits as Free and the same 2-hour recording limit. If your calls regularly run past two hours, look at Business, which allows three.

What Fireflies Business adds for $29 a month

Business is $29 per seat a month, or $19 on annual billing. The pricing page marks it "Most popular," and it is the plan the free trial puts you on. Over Pro it adds:

• Unlimited storage
• 30 AI credits instead of 20
• Multi-language mode, for calls where people switch languages
• Conversation intelligence and team insights for admins
• Public meeting access, user groups and private channels
• A 3-hour recording limit
• API limits pooled across paid seats, up to 1,200 requests a minute
• Priority support

For a 10-person team on annual billing, Pro is $1,200 a year and Business is $2,280. On monthly billing those become $2,160 and $3,480.

Storage is the main reason one person would pay for Business. Pro's 8,000 minutes is three one-hour meetings a working day for a little over two months. After that you are deleting old recordings or upgrading.

Fireflies Enterprise and HIPAA

Enterprise is $39 per seat a month, billed annually only, and you sign up through sales. It adds 50 AI credits, SSO and SCIM, audit logs, a rules engine, a super admin role, custom data retention, a transcript-and-summary-only mode, private storage, 1080p video, a 4-hour recording limit, payment by invoice, and a dedicated account manager for teams above 10 seats.

HIPAA compliance is ticked only in the Enterprise column of the pricing table. The security section of the same page says the BAA for healthcare is "available on Enterprise with Private Storage." A therapist or a small clinic on Pro or Business does not have a BAA with Fireflies. That is the same rule we found in September for is Fireflies.ai safe?, and the price has not moved. Our post on which AI notetakers are HIPAA compliant covers how other vendors handle it. Private Notetaker does not claim HIPAA certification.

What are AI credits in Fireflies?

AI credits are a second meter on top of the plan price. The AI credits article says standard transcription, notes and recap emails do not use credits. Credits pay for the extras: AI Skills, AskFred during a live meeting, Voice Agents, Sales Assist, the Slack assistant, CRM autofill, custom summary sections and the Personal Assistant's Daily Digest and Meeting Prep.

Each plan comes with a one-time allowance: 20 credits on Free and Pro, 30 on Business, 50 on Enterprise. The allowance belongs to the team, not each seat, so adding people does not add credits. Upgrading replaces your credits. It does not stack them. The free plan article calls the 20 credits monthly, while the AI credits article and the free plan features page call them one-time. I would plan on one-time.

Credits are charged per request, and Fireflies says the cost depends on how complex the request is, so the pages give no fixed price per feature. If you need more, paid plans can buy a credits subscription:

Credits a month	Monthly price	Annual price, per month
50	$5	$4
200	$20	$16
1,000	$90	$72
2,500	$200	$160
5,000	$375	$300
7,500	$450	$360
10,000	$600	$480

Unused purchased credits don't roll over. Two defaults are worth knowing before you start. Daily Digest and Meeting Prep are switched on by default and use credits, so turn them off in AI Skills settings if you don't read them. And when a paid account runs out of its plan credits, the help center says Fireflies subscribes it to the $5 tier automatically. If you are already on a credits subscription and run out, it moves you up to the next tier. You can turn Auto-Upgrade off under Settings > Billing. Free accounts hit a paywall instead of a charge.

The free trial, cancelling and refunds

The trial article describes a 7-day free trial of the Business plan. It needs a card. You pay nothing on day one, and you are charged for Business when the week ends unless you cancel first. During the trial you may also be offered an AI credits trial. That one is optional, and after 7 days it becomes a paid credits subscription at the level you picked.

Cancelling a paid plan moves you to Free at the end of the billing period. The cancellation article says your meetings stay in your account "within the Free plan limits." With 400 minutes of storage on Free, export anything you want to keep before the period ends. Downloads need a paid plan. To step down from Business to Pro instead, the billing terms say the change applies from the next cycle and any unused balance becomes credit on your next invoice.

The refund policy is tied to usage. A monthly plan gets a full refund inside 7 days if you have logged 3 meetings or fewer. An annual plan gets a full refund inside 7 days with 20 meetings or fewer. After that, monthly plans may get a pro-rated refund and annual plans get none. AI credits are never refunded. If you are trying Fireflies on real calls, the 3-meeting line comes quickly.

Does the price change whether a bot joins?

No. The pricing table ticks "Record using Chrome extension without Fireflies bot" on all four plans, and the Chrome extension page says it records Google Meet calls without a bot. Fireflies also has a desktop app for Mac and Windows that it describes as "Botless Meetings, Finally," with an indicator so participants know a note taker is on. The mobile app records in-person conversations.

What changes with the bot is the free plan. Unlimited free transcription needs Auto-join, and Auto-join is the setting that sends Fred into your calendar meetings. On a paid plan you can skip the bot entirely and still get unlimited transcripts.

The Chrome extension, the desktop app and the bot all send the meeting to Fireflies, where it is transcribed and stored. If the bot in the participant list is what bothers you, any plan fixes that. If you don't want the recording on a vendor's servers, no plan does. Enterprise adds private storage, which can be a storage bucket you own and manage, but the private storage article says the data is still processed on Fireflies' servers in the US. Our guide to stopping notetaker bots from joining meetings covers the Fred settings in more detail.

Which Fireflies plan to pick

If you take a handful of meetings and don't mind Fred joining them, Free works until the 400 minutes fill up.

If you work alone and want transcripts you can download, Pro on annual billing at $120 a year is the plan. Check how long your calls run, because Pro stops recording at 2 hours.

If you record a lot, run calls in more than one language, or need private channels for a team, Business is the plan. It is also where storage stops being something you manage.

If you need SSO, audit logs, custom retention or a BAA, only Enterprise lists them, at $468 a seat per year.

Fireflies pricing compared with a local app

Private Notetaker is $15 a month, or $149 once for a lifetime license. That is cheaper than Fireflies Pro on monthly billing and more than Pro on annual billing. The lifetime license costs about the same as 15 months of Pro at the annual rate, and it has no storage limit or recording cap. The 7-day free trial needs no card, just your email, and purchases have a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The bigger difference is where the meeting goes. Private Notetaker runs on a Mac with Apple Silicon or a 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PC. It captures the call audio on that computer and writes the transcript, summary and action items there. The audio stays on the device and nothing joins the call. It also works with Wi-Fi off. On every Fireflies plan, the meeting is processed on Fireflies' servers.

Fireflies does a lot that Private Notetaker does not. It lists more than 100 transcription languages, though its own FAQ says English is the main one and most others are in beta. Private Notetaker is English only. Fireflies has a team workspace, CRM sync, conversation analytics and an API. If your team needs every call searchable in one shared place, Fireflies Business is built for that and we would not talk you out of it.

If you want notes for your own meetings, kept on your own computer, you can try Private Notetaker for 7 days.

For a side-by-side, see Private Notetaker vs Fireflies and Fireflies alternatives. For the security side, read is Fireflies.ai safe? and our comparison of Granola and Fireflies. If you are comparing prices across tools, see our breakdowns of Otter.ai pricing, Granola pricing, Fathom pricing and Krisp pricing, and the best AI meeting notetakers.

Fireflies plan prices, the 44% annual saving, storage, recording limits, AI credit allowances, plan features, API limits, the bot-free Chrome extension row, HIPAA and Enterprise features, the seat definition and volume discounts from fireflies.ai/pricing. The 3-meeting default and the Auto-join rule for accounts created on or after 1 September 2026 from "Unlock Unlimited Transcriptions on the Fireflies Free Plan" and "Learn about transcription credits." Free plan storage, sign-up credits, downloads and channels from "What's included in the Fireflies Free plan" and "Learn About Fireflies Free Plan Features." AI credit prices, one-time allowances, defaults and auto-subscription from "AI Credits Pricing and Overview" and "Understanding Fireflies Billing." Trial terms from "Manage Your Fireflies Free Trial." Cancellation from "How to Cancel Your Fireflies Subscription." Refunds from "Understand Fireflies' refund policy." Private storage and US processing from "Set up Private Storage for your workspace." Desktop app from fireflies.ai/desktop. Otter and Krisp prices from our pricing posts, checked 22 and 26 October 2026. Fireflies pages checked 27 October 2026. Plans change.