Fireflies.ai vs Krisp
This is a bot-versus-audio-layer split: Fireflies.ai Pro ($10/seat/mo annual, $18 monthly; 8,000 minutes storage per seat, plan AI credits) sends a meeting bot that records, transcribes in 100+ languages, and runs conversation intelligence — sentiment, talk-time, AskFred Q&A across meetings, CRM sync — aimed at sales coaching. Krisp Core ($8/user/mo annual, $16 monthly) is a real-time noise-cancellation layer that works on any call without a visible bot, plus its own transcription and notes. Pick Fireflies when the meeting record must coach the team; pick Krisp when the bottleneck is the call audio itself. No transcription-accuracy shootout was run.
| Decision point | Fireflies AI | Krisp |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | Teams that search meeting records and route reviewed summaries into follow-up work. | People who want cleaner call audio and may separately enable meeting capture. |
| Plans and cost | Free is available, with limited AI summaries. The pricing page lists 400 minutes of storage per team, while the Free-plan help page says per seat; the account-level unit remains unresolved. Pro or higher is required for downloads of transcripts, summaries and recordings. | Krisp lists a seven-day trial without a credit card. Paid prices show a dollar sign without a clearly stated currency. |
| Limitations | Official pages disagree on the Free storage unit: the pricing page says 400 minutes per team, while the Free-plan help article says per seat. Confirm the account entitlement. Storage is a finite capacity, not a monthly refill. Desktop Take Notes does not save replayable media. | Noise cancellation and AI recording use different data paths; storage and notices depend on mode and settings. |
Use the same input
Run a sales discovery call and end with coaching analytics plus a clean transcript.
What a successful result must preserve
Conversation-intelligence depth versus real-time audio quality — they answer different questions.
Evidence and test status
Pricing and feature comparison based on publicly available information. Pricing from both companies' official pricing pages (via third-party comparison roundups: Fireflies.ai checked 2026-10-21; Krisp checked 2026-10-11). We did not run a scored comparison. Note: Fireflies' AI features consume plan AI credits (Free 20 one-time per seat; Pro 20; Business 30; Enterprise 50); Krisp monthly billing is twice the annual price.
- Fireflies AI — Official plans ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-25), Official Free storage and AI-credit limits ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-25), Official recording notice controls ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15), Official exports and downloads ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15), Official desktop capture output ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15)
- Krisp — Official trial and paid plans ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15), Official AI Assistant data handling ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15), Official recording modes and notices ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15), Official meeting exports ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15), Official privacy policy ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15)