AssemblyAI vs Fireflies.ai

Side-by-side comparison of AssemblyAI and Fireflies.ai: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	AssemblyAI Voice AI infrastructure for builders — industry-leading speech-to-text and voice agent APIs Visit	Fireflies.ai AI meeting notes with search, sentiment analysis, and CRM integration for sales teams. Visit
Category	Voice & speech	Voice & speech
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price		USD 10/mo
Free tier
Audience	Technical	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	AssemblyAI (Universal-3 Pro, Universal-2, Universal-Streaming, Whisper-Streaming)	Fireflies
Founded	2017	2016
Headquarters	San Francisco, United States	San Francisco, US
Key strengths	·Industry-leading transcription accuracy across 99 languages ·Real-time and pre-recorded speech-to-text with async-level accuracy ·Full Voice AI platform: transcription, understanding, agents, and guardrails in one place ·No concurrency limits or throttles — scales from MVP to 400,000+ hours/month	·High-accuracy transcription (95%) in 100+ languages ·Comprehensive AI meeting summaries with action items ·Conversation intelligence and speaker analytics ·Enterprise-grade security (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA)