Best for
Best for sales and customer-facing teams who want every call recorded and summarised on a free plan, and the follow-up written back into the CRM once it is worth paying for.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
AI Voice & Speech Comparison
Fathom vs. Fireflies.ai
At a glance
At a glance
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 | Fathom | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free plan; Premium $20 / user / month Premium is $16 per user per month billed annually. For teams, Team is $19 per user per month ($15 annually) and Business $34 ($25 annually), both with a two-user minimum. Enterprise is quoted. | lower value 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 plan with unlimited recordings, transcription and AI summaries | Free plan |
| Output | Transcripts, AI meeting summaries, action items and follow-up emails | Transcripts, AI summaries with overviews, bullet points and action items, plus searchable meeting notes |
| API | Yes, a public REST API with webhooks and SDKs, plus an MCP server | Yes, from the Business plan |
| Languages | Transcripts in 38 languages; summaries auto-translated into six | More than 100 languages with automatic language detection; the vendor marks the wider set as beta |
| Hosting | Cloud, with a desktop app for bot-free capture | Cloud, with a Chrome extension for Google Meet plus mobile and desktop apps |
| Voice cloning | No, Fathom records, transcribes and summarises meetings and does not synthesise or clone voices | No, Fireflies transcribes and summarises speech and does not synthesise or clone voices |
| Real-time use | Yes in the new experience, which shows a live summary that updates as the meeting runs; in the previous experience summaries and transcripts are generated once the recording has been processed | Yes, a bot joins the call and records it live, and the mobile and desktop apps capture conversations held in person |
| Speech-to-speech and dubbing | No speech-to-speech or dubbing; the translation covers written summaries only | No dubbing or speech-to-speech translation is published |
| Editing and controls | Chronological and enhanced summaries, advanced summaries from over fifteen templates including BANT and Sandler, AI action items and follow-up emails, clips and playlists, Ask Fathom chat over a single call or the whole account, keyword and AI search alerts, custom summary templates and a custom bot name | 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 | A choice of bot or bot-free capture, a custom bot name and the option to disable the in-meeting banner on paid plans; Enterprise adds SSO, Okta SCIM provisioning, organisation-wide security controls, custom data retention policies and a signed HIPAA BAA | 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 | Email helpdesk | Email helpdesk |
| Onboarding | more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base |
| Company size | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Asana, Zapier, Make, ChatGPT, Claude | 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 Fathom Free plan; Premium $20 / user / month Fireflies.ai Free plan; Pro from $10 / seat / month
- Free trial Fathom Free plan with unlimited recordings, transcription and AI summaries Fireflies.ai Free plan
- Hosting Fathom Cloud, with a desktop app for bot-free capture Fireflies.ai Cloud, with a Chrome extension for Google Meet plus mobile and desktop apps
- Languages Fathom Transcripts in 38 languages; summaries auto-translated into six Fireflies.ai More than 100 languages with automatic language detection; the vendor marks the wider set as beta
- MCP-ready Fathom Yes Fireflies.ai No
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Fathom
Strengths
- Free plan carries unlimited recordings, transcription and AI summaries
- Records without a bot in the call from the desktop app, or with one
- Transcripts in 38 languages
- Documented REST API with webhooks, SDKs and an MCP server
Limitations
- Transcription and summarisation only, with no voice synthesis, cloning or dubbing
- Summary translation covers six languages against the 38 it transcribes
- Team and Business plans carry a two-user minimum
- CRM field sync, coaching metrics and custom summaries start on the Business plan
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
Fathom
- Free $0 Unlimited recordings and transcriptions, bot-free or bot capture, instant AI summaries, clips, playlists and search across calls.
- Premium $20 Per user per month, $16 billed annually. Adds advanced call summaries, AI action items, the conversational meeting assistant and a custom meeting bot.
- Team $19 Per user per month, $15 billed annually, two-user minimum. Adds global search across calls, team playlists and collaboration with comments, folders and keyword alerts.
- Business $34 Per user per month, $25 billed annually, two-user minimum. Adds CRM field sync, deal view, coaching metrics and AI scorecards and custom summaries.
- Enterprise Not stated Quoted. Adds the Launch Assist onboarding programme, organisation-wide security controls, SSO and SCIM provisioning, custom data retention and a dedicated success manager.
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.
What users say
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Fathom
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Fireflies.ai
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Fathom https://fathom.video · checked against the official source on 2026-09-16
Fireflies.ai https://fireflies.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-12
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