Fireflies.ai vs Krisp

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: Fireflies.ai from $10/seat/mo, Krisp from $8/mo — different billing units, so no direct winner
Free plan: Both have one
Public API: Both have one
Best fit: Fireflies.ai: Sales and success teams who want call notes landing in the CRM by themselves · Krisp: Remote and travelling workers with unavoidable background noise
Platforms: Fireflies.ai: Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, Slack app · Krisp: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome extension

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

Fireflies.aiMeeting recorder that files notes into your CRM

KrispReal-time noise removal plus an AI note-taker for calls

Side by side

Fact	Fireflies.ai	Krisp
Category	Meeting Assistants	Noise Removal & Enhancement
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$10/seat/mo	$8/mo
Public API	Yes	Yes
Trust score	94 / 100	94 / 100
Platforms	Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API, Slack app	macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API
Company	Fireflies.ai Corp.	Krisp Technologies, Inc.
Launched	2016	2017
Last verified	Oct 15, 2026	Oct 16, 2026

What our research says

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

Krisp

Krisp is worth paying for if you take calls from places you cannot control, because it fixes the audio at the driver level rather than inside one app. The meeting-notes half is competent but not why you buy it.

Pros

Works as a virtual device beneath any app, so it is not tied to Zoom or Teams
Bidirectional: it also strips noise from the people you are listening to
A perpetual free tier still exists rather than the 7-day trial the pricing page pushes
On-device private transcription is available on Enterprise for regulated buyers

Cons

The pricing page foregrounds a 7-day trial and buries the free plan, which reads as a downgrade
Accent conversion on the speaker side is capped by hours per day even on paid tiers
Month-to-month costs double the annual rate at every tier
Call Center AI is sold per agent on annual billing through sales or a prepaid trial, so it is not a self-serve option for small teams

Which one fits

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

Choose Krisp if you need

Remote and travelling workers with unavoidable background noise
Support and sales teams standardising call quality across many conferencing apps
Developers embedding noise suppression or accent conversion through the SDKs