Fellow vs Fireflies.ai

Fellow runs $7/seat/mo on an annual plan, well below Fireflies.ai's $10/seat/mo, a real gap once billing scales across many client accounts. Both tools support in person and mobile capture, and both offer a bot free way to join calls, so client facing flexibility is matched. Storage is close either way: Fellow gives unlimited storage on its Business annual tier and up, while Fireflies.ai caps Pro at 8,000 minutes per seat before unlimited on Business and above. With the core needs tied and a clear per seat cost advantage, Fellow is the stronger fit for agencies billing many seats.

Fellow connects into Slack, Notion, Zapier, Jira, Asana, and Confluence, giving engineering teams a direct path to land standup notes as action items in the trackers they already use, Jira included. Fireflies.ai covers Slack, Notion, Zapier, Linear, and Airtable instead. Both generate automatic action items and offer a public API, so execution is close, and both produce an AI meeting summary. Fellow also costs less on an annual plan, at $7/seat/mo against Fireflies.ai's $10/seat/mo. The direct Jira connection plus the lower price make Fellow the better fit for async engineering workflows.

Fellow and Fireflies.ai match on every point that matters most for legal, healthcare, and security conscious teams. Both include a HIPAA BAAHIPAA BAA - A signed Business Associate Agreement that lets you handle protected health information under US healthcare privacy law., both exclude customer data from AI model training, both offer a bot free way to join calls, and both meet GDPR with EU data residency. Retention controls are close too: Fellow offers configurable auto deletion on its Enterprise plan while Fireflies.ai offers custom data retention on its own Enterprise plan, both gated behind the top tier rather than included by default. With the top compliance requirements equally covered by each tool, there is no clear leader here.

Fireflies.ai builds clips and highlight reels, a feature not listed for Fellow at all, which matters directly for researchers pulling key moments out of user interviews. Both tools offer full video recording and an ask your meeting AI chat for querying past sessions, so that part is matched. Fireflies.ai exports transcripts in PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON, and MD, well beyond Fellow's Word Doc, video, transcript, and recap options. Fireflies.ai supports 100 languages, while Fellow supports 93. For research teams living in clips and exports across many sessions, Fireflies.ai is the stronger choice.

Both tools generate an AI meeting summary and identify speakers automatically, covering the core need for clean, speaker labelled interview notes. Fireflies.ai exports transcripts as PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON, and MD, formats that move cleanly into an applicant tracking system, while Fellow's export options are limited to Word Doc, video, transcript, and recap. Fellow does cost less on an annual plan at $7/seat/mo against Fireflies.ai's $10/seat/mo, which matters as a talent team adds recruiters, but the wider structured export formats matter more once notes actually need to reach the ATS.

Both tools sync into a CRM, each listing four integrations, and both generate automatic action items, so the basics of getting call data into the CRM are covered either way. Fireflies.ai adds clip and highlight creation, useful for building the coaching clips reps and managers review after a call, a feature not listed for Fellow. Fireflies.ai also documents live real time transcription during the call itself. Fellow costs less on an annual plan at $7/seat/mo versus Fireflies.ai's $10/seat/mo, but the coaching clips and live transcription matter more for a sales team that wants more than a plain transcript.

Fireflies.ai's free plan includes unlimited transcription minutes, capped only at 400 minutes of team storage and 20 AI credits, a recurring monthly allowance. Fellow's free plan caps at 5 AI notes and 5 recordings for the lifetime of the account, with 1200 minutes a month available up to that cap, a much thinner ceiling for ongoing use. Once it is time to pay, Fellow is cheaper at $11/seat/mo against Fireflies.ai's $18/seat/mo, a real advantage, but a solo user trying the product first gets far more room to work with on Fireflies.ai's free plan.