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Avoma vs Fireflies.ai

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Avoma starts at $19, Fireflies.ai at $10. Only Fireflies.ai has a free tier. Both ship a public API.

AvomaRecords and transcribes sales meetings, then writes structured notes back to the CRMFireflies.aiMeeting recorder that files notes into your CRM

Side by side

FactAvomaFireflies.ai
CategoryMeeting AssistantsMeeting Assistants
Pricing modelPaidFreemium
Starts at$19 month$10 month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext, API, Slack App
CompanyAvomaFireflies.ai Corp.
Launched20172016
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Avoma

Avoma covers more of the revenue stack than a plain meeting recorder, taking a call from scheduling through transcription and coaching into forecasting. The catch is modular pricing: the advertised seat price buys only the meeting assistant, and the intelligence modules that justify the platform are billed separately.

Pros

  • Scheduling, recording, notes and CRM write-back in one subscription
  • Free viewer and collaborator seats keep non-recording colleagues off the bill
  • API and webhooks for exporting meeting data
  • In market since late 2017, with HIPAA compliance available on Enterprise

Cons

  • Conversation and revenue intelligence are extra per-seat add-ons
  • Startup tier caps at 25 paid seats, forcing an upgrade as teams grow
  • Enterprise requires a 10-seat minimum on annual billing

Fireflies.ai

Unlimited transcription on the free tier is the hook and it is genuinely unlimited — the meter sits on storage and AI credits, which is where any team of real size ends up on a paid seat.

Pros

  • Transcription minutes are unlimited on every tier, including Free
  • API access is not paywalled — it starts on the free plan
  • Pro at $10/seat undercuts most rival meeting assistants
  • Storage becomes unlimited from the $19 Business tier

Cons

  • Monthly billing is about 1.8x the annual rate on Pro and 1.5x on Business
  • AI credits, not transcription, are the real ration — 20 a month on both Free and Pro
  • Free storage is 400 minutes for the entire team, not per person
  • Enterprise is annual-only at $39/seat

Which one fits

Choose Avoma if you need

  • Sales teams that want call notes landing in the CRM automatically
  • Managers who need call scoring and coaching rather than just recordings
  • Customer-success groups tracking account health from meeting content

Choose Fireflies.ai if you need

  • Sales and success teams who want call notes landing in the CRM by themselves
  • Distributed teams searching across months of past meetings
  • Developers pulling meeting data out through an API on any plan

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