Fireflies.ai vs Sembly AI

Fireflies.ai and Sembly AI price the same on the annual per-seat plan, at $10/seat/mo each. On the monthly plan, Sembly AI costs $17/seat/mo while Fireflies.ai costs $18/seat/mo. Both tools offer a way to capture meetings without a recording bot joining the call. On storage, Sembly AI includes unlimited recordings starting on its Pro plan, while Fireflies.ai caps storage at 8,000 minutes per seat on Pro and only removes the cap on its higher Business+ tier. For a consultancy juggling recordings across many client accounts without needing the top plan, that storage structure gives Sembly AI a slight edge.

For standups that need to land as action items in Slack, Notion, or Jira, Sembly AI integrates with Jira directly alongside Slack, Notion, Asana, and Zapier, matching all three named tools. Fireflies.ai integrates with Slack and Notion but not Jira, offering Linear and Airtable instead. Both tools auto-generate action items and offer a public API, so the automation itself is equally solid, and both price the same on the annual per-seat plan at $10/seat/mo. The direct Jira integration makes Sembly AI the better fit for this workflow.

Fireflies.ai's HIPAA BAAHIPAA BAA - A signed Business Associate Agreement that lets you handle protected health information under US healthcare privacy law., no-training guarantee, and GDPR-aligned EU data residency are all independently verified, giving compliance teams facts they can check rather than take on faith. Sembly AI states the same three protections, but as vendor claims rather than verified facts. Both tools offer a bot-free capture option, so capture method does not separate them. For teams where verification matters as much as the checkbox itself, Fireflies.ai is the safer choice.

Fireflies.ai publishes clip and highlight reel support for pulling key moments out of long interview recordings, a capability Sembly AI does not list. Both tools record video and offer an ask-your-meeting AI chat for querying sessions. Fireflies.ai exports transcripts to PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON, and MD, while Sembly AI exports to PDF, DOCX, HTML, and Markdown. Fireflies.ai supports 100 languages, and Sembly AI supports 48. For a clips-and-exports heavy research workflow, Fireflies.ai is the stronger fit.

Both tools auto-generate meeting summaries and identify individual speakers, covering the essentials for clean, labelled candidate interview notes. Fireflies.ai exports transcripts to PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON, and MD, giving recruiters more options for feeding notes into an ATS, while Sembly AI exports to PDF, DOCX, HTML, and Markdown. Both tools price the same on the annual per-seat plan, at $10/seat/mo. With the summary and speaker features matched and pricing equal, the wider range of export formats makes Fireflies.ai the better fit for recruiters.

Both tools list four CRM integrations each, Fireflies.ai with Salesforce, HubSpot, Affinity, and Redtail, and Sembly AI with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Zoho, so CRM breadth is about even. Both also auto-generate action items so next steps land without manual note-taking. Fireflies.ai additionally offers clips and highlight reels for coaching moments, a feature Sembly AI does not publish, and the two price identically on the annual per-seat plan at $10/seat/mo. The coaching clips are the deciding edge for Fireflies.ai here.

Fireflies.ai's free tier includes unlimited transcription minutes, limited only by 400 minutes of team storage and 20 AI credits, while Sembly AI's free tier caps recording and uploads at just 60 minutes per month. That is a wide gap for anyone who wants to use the tool regularly before paying. Sembly AI is slightly cheaper on the monthly per-seat price, at $17/seat/mo versus $18/seat/mo for Fireflies.ai, but the difference is only $1. Given how much more usable the free plan is, Fireflies.ai is the better starting point for solo users.