Equal Time 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.

The short answer

Entry price: Equal Time from $15/mo, Fireflies.ai from $10/seat/mo — different billing units, so no direct winner
Free plan: Only Fireflies.ai (Equal Time has paid plans only)
Public API: Fireflies.ai has one; not confirmed by us for Equal Time
Higher Trust score: Fireflies.ai — 94 vs 89 for Equal Time
Best fit: Equal Time: Teams actively trying to measure and improve who gets airtime in meetings · Fireflies.ai: Sales and success teams who want call notes landing in the CRM by themselves

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

Equal TimeAI notetaker for Zoom, Meet and Teams that also scores who talked, who got interrupted, and flags condescending re-explaining.

Fireflies.aiMeeting recorder that files notes into your CRM

Side by side

Fact	Equal Time	Fireflies.ai
Category	Meeting Recording & Notes	Meeting Assistants
Pricing model	Paid	Freemium
Starts at	$15/mo	$10/seat/mo
Public API	Not confirmed	Yes
Trust score	89 / 100	94 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API, Slack app
Company	Equal Time	Fireflies.ai Corp.
Launched	2021	2016
Last verified	Oct 15, 2026	Oct 15, 2026

What our research says

Equal Time

Equal Time is a meeting notetaker built around participation fairness: it tracks who talked, who got interrupted and flags moments that read as condescending re-explaining, on top of a standard transcript and action items. A single seat now costs $15 a month on annual billing, and the five-seat Team plan adds admin oversight and team-wide inclusion trends.

Pros

Tracks talk time, interruptions, and monologuing per speaker, not just a transcript
Includes a detector for condescending re-explaining with timestamps and involved speakers
Integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Notion and thousands more apps via Zapier
Works across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams

Cons

Team-wide inclusion metrics and admin oversight start at the 5-seat Team plan, $80 a month on annual billing
Month-to-month billing costs more than the annual rate ($18 vs $15 per seat for Premium)

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 Equal Time if you need

Teams actively trying to measure and improve who gets airtime in meetings
Organizations already invested in DEI or inclusive-meeting initiatives wanting data to back it up

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