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AI Voice & Speech Comparison

ElevenLabs vs. Fireflies.ai

At a glance

At a glance

ElevenLabs

Best for

Best for realistic long-form narration, dubbing and voice cloning.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

Fireflies.ai

Best for

Best for sales, recruiting and client teams whose meeting notes have to land in a CRM or applicant tracking system rather than a folder.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion ElevenLabs Fireflies.ai
Starting price Free tier; Starter from ~$5 / month Commercial rights start with the paid Starter tier. API from around $300 per million characters at low volume. Free plan; Pro from $10 / seat / month The $10 rate is billed annually; on monthly billing Pro is $18 per seat. Business is $19 billed annually or $29 monthly, and Enterprise $39 per seat / month on annual billing only.
Free trial Free tier, restricted Free plan
Commercial use From the paid Starter tier Not stated
Output Realistic narration, voice cloning from a sample of around one minute, 70+ languages, dubbing Transcripts, AI summaries with overviews, bullet points and action items, plus searchable meeting notes
API Yes Yes, from the Business plan
Hosting Not stated Cloud, with a Chrome extension for Google Meet plus mobile and desktop apps
Voice cloning Yes, from a sample of around one minute No, Fireflies transcribes and summarises speech and does not synthesise or clone voices
Real-time use Yes. Eleven Flash v2.5 is built for real-time use at around 75 ms latency, Eleven v3 Conversational runs at around 280 ms, Scribe v2 Realtime transcribes at around 150 ms, and the ElevenAgents platform runs live voice agents over phone, chat and messaging channels Yes, a bot joins the call and records it live, and the mobile and desktop apps capture conversations held in person
Languages 70+ languages on Eleven v3 and Eleven v3 Conversational, 32 on Flash v2.5 and 29 on Multilingual v2; speech to text with Scribe v2 covers 90+ More than 100 languages with automatic language detection and speaker recognition; the pricing page marks the wider set as beta
Speech-to-speech and dubbing Yes, speech-to-speech and dubbing No dubbing or speech-to-speech translation is published
Editing and controls Stability set to Creative, Natural or Robust, speed from 0.7x to 1.2x, audio tags such as [whispers] or [excited] to direct delivery, a seed value for repeatable output, and pronunciation set through IPA, phoneme tags or an uploaded pronunciation dictionary AI summaries with overviews, bullet points, action items and custom notes, speaker talk-time analytics, sentiment analysis, topic trackers and AI filters, plus AskFred for questions across past meetings
Consent and trust Professional voice cloning is gated behind technological verification of the speaker, cloning of celebrity and other high-risk voices is blocked, and an AI Speech Classifier tells whether a clip was made with ElevenLabs The vendor states SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliance, zero data retention and private dedicated storage with customer data ownership; Enterprise adds custom data retention and a super admin role
MCP-ready stated Yes No
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support more entries Email helpdesk, Community forum Email helpdesk
Onboarding Documentation and knowledge base Documentation and knowledge base
Company size Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations Twilio, Genesys Cloud, Five9, Vonage, LiveKit, Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, Telegram, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Cal.com, Calendly more entries Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, GoToMeeting, Dialpad, Lifesize, Aircall, RingCentral, Zoom Phone, OpenPhone, Salesforce, HubSpot, Affinity, Slack, Notion, Google Docs, OneNote, Confluence, Microsoft SharePoint, Linear, Airtable, Asana, Microsoft To Do, Greenhouse, Lever, BambooHR, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, Zapier

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price ElevenLabs Free tier; Starter from ~$5 / month Fireflies.ai Free plan; Pro from $10 / seat / month
  • Free trial ElevenLabs Free tier, restricted Fireflies.ai Free plan
  • Support ElevenLabs Email helpdesk, Community forum Fireflies.ai Email helpdesk
  • MCP-ready ElevenLabs Yes Fireflies.ai No
  • Output ElevenLabs Realistic narration, voice cloning from a sample of around one minute, 70+ languages, dubbing Fireflies.ai Transcripts, AI summaries with overviews, bullet points and action items, plus searchable meeting notes

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

ElevenLabs

Strengths

  • Most realistic voice and cloning
  • 70+ languages on the v3 models
  • Speech-to-speech and dubbing
  • Strong API

Limitations

  • Commercial use only from the paid Starter tier
  • API pricey at high volume
  • Credits are shared across every product and roll over for at most two months

Fireflies.ai

Strengths

  • Covers Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, GoToMeeting, Dialpad and Lifesize, plus dialers and uploaded audio files
  • More than 100 languages with automatic detection
  • Over 100 integrations carry summaries into CRM, ATS, chat and docs
  • SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliance with zero data retention

Limitations

  • Transcription only, no text-to-speech or voice cloning
  • API access, analytics and private channels all start at the Business plan
  • The vendor marks the wider language set as beta

Plans

Pricing

ElevenLabs

  • Free $0 Restricted, no commercial rights.
  • Starter ~$5 Per month. Commercial rights start here.
  • API From ~$300 Per million characters at low volume.
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Fireflies.ai

  • Free $0 Free forever for one person: limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits a month.
  • Pro $10 / seat / month Billed annually, or $18 per seat on monthly billing. Unlimited transcription and AI summaries, 8,000 minutes of storage per seat, video recording, downloads, the personal and email assistants and unlimited integrations.
  • Business $19 / seat / month Billed annually, or $29 per seat on monthly billing. Unlimited storage, 30 AI credits, multi-language mode, conversation intelligence, team analytics for admins, public meeting access, user groups and private channels.
  • Enterprise $39 / seat / month Annual billing only. Adds the rules engine, SSO and SCIM, audit logs, HIPAA compliance, private storage, custom data retention, a super admin role and a dedicated account manager.
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What users say

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ElevenLabs

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Fireflies.ai

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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

ElevenLabs https://elevenlabs.io · checked against the official source on 2026-08-21

Fireflies.ai https://fireflies.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-12

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.