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
AI Voice & Speech Comparison
Fireflies.ai vs. Speechmatics
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for teams transcribing real conversations across accents and languages, including where the audio may not leave their own infrastructure.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
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Full Comparison
| Criterion | Fireflies.ai | Speechmatics |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | 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. | lower value From $0.129 / hour of audio Pro tier rate, billed to the second with no commitment. Volume discounts of 20% apply automatically above 500 hours per month for each speech-to-text type, with further discounts above 24,000 hours a year. One credit equals one dollar. |
| Free trial | Free plan | Free tier with $100 in credit, no card required |
| Commercial use | Not stated | Yes, usage-based |
| Output | Transcripts, AI summaries with overviews, bullet points and action items, plus searchable meeting notes | Transcripts, translations and synthesised speech |
| API | Yes, from the Business plan | Yes, batch and real-time speech-to-text, text-to-speech, translation and a management API |
| Languages | More than 100 languages with automatic language detection; the vendor marks the wider set as beta | 55+ languages and dialects for speech-to-text; translation across 69 language pairs |
| Hosting | Cloud, with a Chrome extension for Google Meet plus mobile and desktop apps | Cloud, CPU or GPU containers, Kubernetes, on-premises virtual appliance, or on-device |
| Made in | Not stated | United Kingdom |
| Voice cloning | No, Fireflies transcribes and summarises speech and does not synthesise or clone voices | No, the text-to-speech API ships four fixed voices, sarah and theo in British English and megan and jack in American English, and the documentation describes no custom or cloned voice; speed, pitch and emphasis are not adjustable either |
| Real-time use | Yes, a bot joins the call and records it live, and the mobile and desktop apps capture conversations held in person | Yes, streaming transcription returned in under a second, alongside batch transcription of recorded files |
| Speech-to-speech and dubbing | No dubbing or speech-to-speech translation is published | Audio translation across 69 language pairs, returned as translated transcript rather than dubbed audio; a Voice Agent API is in early access |
| Editing and controls | 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 | Speaker diarization and identification, custom dictionary, language identification, background speech filtering, and speech intelligence for summaries, sentiment, topics and auto-chapters |
| Consent and trust | 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 | Data is not logged as standard; container, Kubernetes, virtual appliance and on-device deployment keep audio inside your own infrastructure |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise |
| Support | Email helpdesk | Email helpdesk |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Documentation and knowledge base |
| Company size | more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | 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 | LiveKit, Pipecat, Vapi, Zapier |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Fireflies.ai Free plan; Pro from $10 / seat / month Speechmatics From $0.129 / hour of audio
- Free trial Fireflies.ai Free plan Speechmatics Free tier with $100 in credit, no card required
- Deployment Fireflies.ai Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Speechmatics Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
- Company size Fireflies.ai Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Speechmatics Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
- Hosting Fireflies.ai Cloud, with a Chrome extension for Google Meet plus mobile and desktop apps Speechmatics Cloud, CPU or GPU containers, Kubernetes, on-premises virtual appliance, or on-device
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
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
Speechmatics
Strengths
- 55+ languages with explicit accent, dialect and code-switching coverage
- Runs in the cloud, in containers, on-premises or on-device
- $100 in credit to start, with no card required
- Data is not logged as standard
Limitations
- A developer API rather than a ready-made voice studio
- Text-to-speech on the free tier covers English only
- The Voice Agent API is still in early access
- Volume discounts start at 500 hours a month, so small workloads pay the full rate
Plans
Pricing
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.
Speechmatics
- Free $0 $100 in credit, no card required. 55+ languages for speech-to-text, 2 concurrent real-time sessions and low-latency English text-to-speech.
- Pro $0.129 Per hour of audio, billed to the second with no commitment. 50 concurrent real-time sessions, 10 file jobs per second and email support.
- Enterprise Not stated Volume-based pricing that scales with usage, unlimited concurrency and no rate limits, custom models, custom vocabularies and formatting rules, and SaaS or on-premises deployment.
What users say
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Fireflies.ai
- Ease of use
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Speechmatics
- Ease of use
- Not rated yet
- User interface
- Not rated yet
- Onboarding
- Not rated yet
- Support and service
- Not rated yet
- Value for money
- Not rated yet
- Features
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Fireflies.ai https://fireflies.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-12
Speechmatics https://www.speechmatics.com · checked against the official source on 2026-08-30
This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.