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Fireflies.ai vs Wudpecker

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. Fireflies.ai starts at $10, Wudpecker at $19. Both have a free tier. Only Fireflies.ai ships a public API.

Fireflies.aiMeeting recorder that files notes into your CRMWudpeckerMeeting bot that records Zoom, Meet and Teams calls and writes notes from your template

Side by side

FactFireflies.aiWudpecker
CategoryMeeting AssistantsMeeting Assistants
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$10 month$19 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome Ext, API, Slack AppWeb
CompanyFireflies.ai Corp.Wudpecker Oy
Launched2016—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 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

Wudpecker

Counting meetings rather than minutes makes the bill easy to reason about, and template-driven notes beat a generic summary when every call has the same shape. The catch is the ceiling: 100 recorded meetings a month on the top self-serve plan, no published API, and a hard length cap on any single recording.

Pros

  • Notes follow a template you pick, not one fixed summary shape
  • Transcription across dozens of languages with a custom vocabulary list
  • EU company and EU servers, stated plainly on the site
  • Free tier records 10 meetings a month rather than offering a short trial

Cons

  • Meeting caps rather than minute pools, so a short call costs the same as a long one
  • No documented public API
  • Notion, Slack and HubSpot integrations are paid-tier only

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 Wudpecker if you need

  • Sales, research or recruiting teams running the same call format repeatedly
  • Teams that need EU data residency for meeting recordings
  • Anyone who wants notes filed straight into Notion, Slack or HubSpot

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