Fireflies.ai vs Granola

Billed annually, Fireflies.ai runs $10/seat/mo, undercutting even Granola's only published rate of $14/seat/mo, which matters most for agencies watching per seat cost across many client accounts. Both tools support in person and mobile capture, and both offer a bot free capture option, so meetings can be recorded without visibly adding a bot either way. Fireflies.ai also exports transcripts as PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON, and MD, while Granola offers a Markdown copy only, with no PDF or DOCX, a real limitation when handing polished notes back to clients.

Both tools push meeting notes into the tools engineering teams already use. Fireflies.ai integrates with Slack, Notion, Zapier, Linear, and Airtable, directly covering a ticketing tool like Linear, while Granola integrates with Slack, Notion, Zapier, and MCP. Both generate automatic action items, and both expose a public API for custom automation, so this integration list is what separates them here. Fireflies.ai is also the only one of the two publishing an annual per seat rate, at $10/seat/mo, useful for teams planning a rollout.

Fireflies.ai includes a HIPAAHIPAA BAA - A signed Business Associate Agreement that lets you handle protected health information under US healthcare privacy law. business associate agreement, while Granola explicitly does not offer one, ruling it out for healthcare and legal teams that need a signed BAA. Both tools state customer data is excluded from AI training, and both claim GDPR and EU data residency support, and both offer a bot free capture option. On retention, Fireflies.ai offers custom data retention on Enterprise plans while Granola offers org wide auto deletion, a similar level of admin control, but the missing BAA is the deciding gap for regulated teams.

Clips and highlight reels are core to this workflow, and Fireflies.ai offers them while Granola does not. Fireflies.ai also records video, which Granola does not, and exports transcripts in six formats, PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON, and MD, against Granola's Markdown copy only. Fireflies.ai additionally publishes support for 100 languages against Granola's 17. Both offer an AI chat to query across sessions. For researchers who live in clips, highlight reels, and video, Fireflies.ai covers what Granola does not.

Both tools generate an AI meeting summary and identify speakers automatically, covering clean, speaker labeled interview notes either way. The gap opens at export. Fireflies.ai produces transcripts as PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON, and MD, formats an ATS can typically ingest directly, while Granola offers only a Markdown copy, with no PDF or DOCX. Fireflies.ai is also the only one of the two publishing an annual per seat rate, at $10/seat/mo, useful for a talent team scaling interview volume across seats.

Fireflies.ai integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Affinity, and Redtail, covering Salesforce, a CRM most sales floors run on, while Granola integrates with HubSpot, Attio, and Affinity but not Salesforce. Fireflies.ai also produces clips and highlight reels for coaching, a feature Granola does not offer. Both tools generate automatic action items. Fireflies.ai is also the only one of the two publishing an annual per seat rate, at $10/seat/mo. For reps who need calls synced to a CRM with coaching clips, Fireflies.ai covers more of what this use case needs.

For solo users and tiny teams, Granola's free plan does not cap total recording volume, it simply limits visibility to the last 30 days of notes, while Fireflies.ai's free plan hard caps stored recordings at 400 minutes for the whole team plus 20 AI credits, a ceiling a busy solo user can hit quickly. Once a paid seat is needed, Granola runs $14/seat/mo against Fireflies.ai's $18/seat/mo billed monthly, the cheaper single seat this use case is looking for. Both include an AI meeting summary. Fireflies.ai does offer unlimited free transcription minutes per meeting, but the 400 minute storage ceiling limits how much history sticks around.