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Fireflies.ai vs Recal

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, Recal from $14/mo — different billing units, so no direct winner
Free plan
Both have one
Public API
Fireflies.ai has one; not confirmed by us for Recal
Higher Trust score
Fireflies.ai — 94 vs 75 for Recal
Best fit
Fireflies.ai: Sales and success teams who want call notes landing in the CRM by themselves · Recal: Teams wanting meeting and Slack recaps pushed into existing task tools

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 CRMRecalTurns Slack threads, meetings, uploads and links into recap summaries, decisions and tasks

Side by side

FactFireflies.aiRecal
CategoryMeeting AssistantsMeeting Assistants
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$10/seat/mo$14/mo
Public APIYesNot confirmed
Trust score94 / 10075 / 100
PlatformsWeb, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API, Slack appWeb
CompanyFireflies.ai Corp.Recal
Launched20162025
Last verifiedOct 15, 2026Oct 15, 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

Recal

Ingests Slack threads, meetings, uploads and pasted text, then produces recap summaries, decisions and task lists, with Linear and Slack as the live integrations today. The free plan covers only 30 minutes of async recaps a month, so any real team use lands on a paid tier quickly.

Pros

  • Covers meetings, uploads, pasted text, links and async Slack threads, not just calls
  • Pushes extracted tasks into Linear and summarises Slack threads in place
  • Free Starter tier exists to test before paying
  • 14-day money-back guarantee on paid plans

Cons

  • Free tier capped at just 30 minutes of async recaps per month
  • Meeting-recap and async-recap minutes are tracked and billed separately, complicating usage estimates
  • Notion, Jira, GitHub and the meeting browser extension are still marked as coming soon

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 Recal if you need

  • Teams wanting meeting and Slack recaps pushed into existing task tools
  • Async-first teams summarizing long Slack threads into decisions
  • Managers wanting a searchable record of what was decided and by whom

Fireflies.ai vs Recal: the questions people ask

Is Fireflies.ai cheaper than Recal?

They charge in different units, so there is no like-for-like answer: Fireflies.ai starts at $10/seat/mo, Recal at $14/mo. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it.

Does Fireflies.ai or Recal have a free tier?

Both: Fireflies.ai has a free tier, and Recal has a free tier.

Which has a public API, Fireflies.ai or Recal?

Fireflies.ai ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for Recal is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.

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