Fireflies.ai vs tl;dv

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

tl;dv

tl;dv earns its place when the recording has to end up somewhere else, in a CRM field or a shared clip, rather than sitting in an archive nobody reads. As a pure note-taker it is unremarkable.

Pros

• +Clip-and-share is faster in practice than pointing colleagues at a timestamp
• +CRM sync is a first-class feature rather than a Zapier afterthought
• +Free tier is a real plan, not a trial
• +Desktop apps and an extension cover the three major conferencing platforms

Cons

• −Billing is euro-only, which creates FX exposure for non-EU buyers
• −The API is v1alpha1 and explicitly unstable
• −Free plan cannot retrieve meeting content through the API at all
• −The 40% annual discount is permanent marketing, so the monthly rate is the real price

Is Fireflies.ai cheaper than tl;dv?

Fireflies.ai starts at $10/seat/mo. tl;dv has a free tier; what its paid plans cost is not confirmed by us yet.

Does Fireflies.ai or tl;dv have a free tier?

Both: Fireflies.ai has a free tier, and tl;dv has a free tier.

Which has a public API, Fireflies.ai or tl;dv?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.