Fireflies vs tl;dv (2026): Full Comparison, Real Pricing Math, and a Botless Third Option

Short answer: of the two, Fireflies is better for the widest platform coverage (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, dialers), 100-plus transcription languages, and analytics on a lower entry price, and tl;dv is better for sales coaching and revenue intelligence plus a generous free plan with video recording. Both put a bot in your call. Our pick over both is Scribbl: nothing joins the meeting on Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams, every meeting gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items, Automations do the follow-up, and the free plan needs no credit card. Below is the full side-by-side, the pricing math by team size, our read on each, and where each one fits. Last updated October 7, 2026.

The 60-second verdict (Fireflies vs tl;dv)

Before anything else, here is the head-to-head between the two tools you came to compare. They win on different things.

Fireflies

• Wins on: platform breadth (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, dialers) and 100-plus languages
• Price: lower entry ($10 per seat) and lower Business tier ($19 per seat), billed annually
• Analytics: conversation intelligence plus the Fred AI assistant
• Weak spot: video recording is limited and audio-first

tl;dv

• Wins on: sales coaching and revenue intelligence (playbooks, scorecards, AI reports)
• Free plan: more generous, unlimited recordings, video included
• Library: video recordings with clips, reels, and jump-to timestamps
• Weak spot: fewer platforms (Zoom, Meet, Teams only) and ~30 languages

In one line: Fireflies wins on platform coverage, languages, and price; tl;dv wins on sales coaching, video recording, and the free plan. Both send a bot into the call, which is where Scribbl comes in. The full evidence for each of those calls is in the tables below.

Fireflies vs tl;dv: the full comparison table

This is the centerpiece. Every row below is unpacked in the sections that follow. Scribbl, the tool we make, is in the first column, because the most common reason people compare two bot-based notetakers is that they have not realized a botless option exists.

Feature	Scribbl	Fireflies	tl;dv
Bot joins the call	No (botless)	Yes	Yes
Free plan (no credit card)	Yes	Limited	Unlimited recordings
Entry paid tier (annual)	$13/user/mo	$10/seat/mo	$18/seat/mo
Business/Team tier (annual)	See pricing	$19/seat/mo	$29/seat/mo
Video recording	Every meeting	Limited / higher tier	Yes
Meeting platforms	Meet, Zoom, Teams	~9 (adds Webex, dialers)	Zoom, Meet, Teams
AI summaries + custom templates	Yes	Yes	Yes
CRM logging	HubSpot, Pipedrive	Salesforce, HubSpot	Salesforce, HubSpot
Connects to ChatGPT or Claude	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rating (approx.)	5.0 from 3,000 reviews on the Chrome Web Store; 4.9 from 725 reviews on G2	~4.7 on G2	~4.7 on G2

The fork most comparisons skip: bot vs botless

Both Fireflies and tl;dv, in their common configurations, work by sending an AI assistant into the meeting. It dials in, appears in the participant list, and on some platforms it has to be admitted. That is genuinely convenient: one bot can cover Zoom, Meet, and Teams from a single dashboard, and it records even if you forget. But it also changes the room. On an external sales call, a first client meeting, or a sensitive internal review, a named recording bot on the roster is something people notice and sometimes object to. A bot is also a participant, which means it can fail to join, be denied admission, or get blocked by meeting controls.

A botless tool records the meeting without adding anyone. Scribbl runs as a Chrome extension on Google Meet and as Scribbl Desktop on Zoom and Teams, so there is no extra participant, no admission step, no email to other attendees, and no host or admin has to change a setting. We go deeper in our botless AI notetaker explainer. It is the first question to answer, because it shapes everything else.

Pricing, tier by tier

Both vendors price per seat per month, cheaper on annual billing. The numbers below are approximate for June 2026 and you should confirm them on each vendor's pricing page, because they change often.

• Free plan. tl;dv has the more generous free tier, commonly cited with unlimited recordings and transcriptions and video included, leaning toward its recording-library and sales workflow. Fireflies free is more limited on stored recordings and transcription credits but gives you a taste of its analytics.
• Entry paid tier. Fireflies is the cheaper entry point: Pro is $10 per seat per month billed annually, or $18 monthly. tl;dv Pro is $18 per seat per month billed annually, or $29 monthly.
• Business / Team tier. Fireflies Business is $19 per seat per month billed annually, or $29 monthly. tl;dv Business is $29 per seat per month billed annually, or $39 monthly.
• Enterprise. Fireflies Enterprise is $39 per seat per month, billed annually only. tl;dv's Enterprise tier is custom pricing quoted on request. Both add SSO/SAML, advanced admin, and security controls.

The headline: Fireflies is cheaper at every paid tier; tl;dv is cheaper (or free) for a single light user because of its unlimited-recording free plan.

Annual cost by team size

Per-seat differences look small until you multiply by headcount and twelve months. Using the annual-billing entry tiers above (Fireflies Pro at $10 per seat per month, tl;dv Pro at $18), here is the yearly bill at common team sizes. Scribbl's free plan costs $0 and covers 10 meetings a month for each person, with nothing joining the call; Pro is on the pricing page.

Feature	Scribbl (free plan)	Fireflies Pro ($10)	tl;dv Pro ($18)
1 person	$0	$120/yr	$216/yr
3 people	$0	$360/yr	$648/yr
5 people	$0	$600/yr	$1,080/yr
10 people	$0	$1,200/yr	$2,160/yr
25 people	$0	$3,000/yr	$5,400/yr

A 10-person team is looking at roughly a thousand-dollar annual gap between Fireflies and tl;dv at the entry tier, before either adds higher-tier coaching or analytics features. If your reason for buying is purely clean notes and follow-up, a free botless tool removes the per-seat math entirely; if you need tl;dv's coaching hub, that is what the premium buys.

Free plans compared

The free plan is where the two tools diverge most.

Feature	Scribbl	Fireflies	tl;dv
Credit card required	– No	– No	– No
Recordings	10 meetings/mo	Limited	Unlimited
Transcriptions	Yes	Credit-limited	Unlimited
Video recording	Yes	Limited	Yes
AI summary / notes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bot in the call	No (botless)	Yes	Yes
Google Meet, Zoom and Teams	Yes	Yes	Yes

Scribbl's free plan covers 10 meetings a month, each with the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items, with nothing joining the call and no credits to track. Between the two bot-based tools, tl;dv's unlimited free recordings go further, and Fireflies free is best read as a sampler of its paid analytics. None of the three require a credit card to start.

Transcription accuracy and languages

Both vendors cite accuracy in the mid-90s percent range on clean audio. Every tool slips on heavy crosstalk, thick accents, and dense product jargon. Do not let a headline percentage decide this for you; run one real call with your own accents and product names and read the output.

Where they genuinely differ is language coverage. Fireflies is commonly cited supporting 100-plus languages, tl;dv around 30-plus. If your meetings are multilingual or in a less common language, that gap is the clearest reason to favor Fireflies. Both offer real-time transcription during the call.

Video recording

This is a clean win for tl;dv. tl;dv is built around a video recording library: it records video on free and paid plans, and lets you cut clips and reels and jump to timestamps to share moments out of a call. Fireflies is audio-and-transcript first; video recording is a known weakness and, where available, tends to sit on higher tiers rather than the entry or free plan. Between the two, tl;dv is the stronger fit for a searchable, shareable video library. Scribbl records the video of every meeting too, free plan included, with share links and no bot in the call. Confirm current per-tier video availability on each site, since plans change.

Meeting platforms and integrations

Platforms. Fireflies covers more sources: it is commonly cited working across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and dial-in or phone systems (roughly nine). tl;dv focuses on the big three: Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. If your team lives on Webex or dialers, Fireflies has the edge; if you only use Zoom, Meet, and Teams, the difference is moot.

Integrations. Both connect to Salesforce and HubSpot, Slack, and a wide app ecosystem via native integrations and Zapier (tl;dv markets a very large app reach through Zapier-style connectors). Both push notes and action items to where your team works. The practical question is whether the specific objects and fields you need are supported, so check each tool's current integration page against your exact stack.

Feature	Scribbl	Fireflies	tl;dv
HubSpot	Yes	Yes	Yes
Slack / email recap	Yes	Yes	Yes
Calendar (Google / Outlook)	Yes	Yes	Yes
CRM write-back	Notes to HubSpot, Pipedrive	Yes	Yes
Connects to ChatGPT or Claude	Yes	Yes	Yes

Scribbl's Automations do the follow-up for you: draft the email, log notes in HubSpot or Pipedrive, post to Slack or Teams, save to Notion, Google Drive or Confluence, open Linear, Jira, Asana or Monday tickets, or add a Google Sheet row. By default they ask before they change anything, and you can tell Scribbl the job in plain words and it runs with your own Claude.

AI summaries, notes, and templates

All three generate AI summaries with key points, action items, and (for Fireflies and tl;dv) jump-to timestamps tied to the recording. Both Fireflies and tl;dv support custom meeting templates so the summary structure fits your meeting type, plus action-item detection. Fireflies adds its Fred AI assistant for asking questions across meetings and its Soundbites and Live Assist features. tl;dv leans into meeting templates and AI reports.

Scribbl's difference is that the summary is not the end of the line. Every meeting gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items, with note templates, and Automations take the recap into a drafted follow-up email or a CRM note, rather than leaving you to re-read a transcript and rewrite it yourself. On Pro you can also ask Claude or ChatGPT about every meeting. The goal is that the work gets done, not just the notes.

Sales coaching and conversation intelligence

This is tl;dv's biggest differentiator versus Fireflies. tl;dv is built around a sales coaching hub: playbooks, scorecards, talk-time and sentiment analysis, AI coaching reports, and multi-meeting deal and revenue insights. If you run a sales or CS team and want to coach reps off real calls, tl;dv markets this hardest and it is the reason many sales teams shortlist it.

Fireflies has conversation intelligence too, topic tracking, talk-time, sentiment, and the Fred AI assistant, but it positions itself more as a broad meeting assistant than a dedicated coaching platform. Coaching features often sit on higher tiers for both, so confirm per plan.

If your team sells, the Scribbl for sales page shows the botless flow on prospect calls: nothing is announced to the buyer, every call gets the video, transcript, AI notes and action items, and Automations draft the follow-up email and log notes in HubSpot or Pipedrive.

Multi-meeting and aggregate insights

Both tools can pull insights across multiple meetings: tl;dv via its deal and revenue views and AI reports across a set of calls, Fireflies via Fred AI answering questions across your meeting history and its analytics dashboards. For a sales leader watching a pipeline or a team reviewing themes across many calls, tl;dv's revenue-oriented aggregation is the more deliberate fit; Fireflies aggregation is more general-purpose. Verify the depth against your reporting needs, because both are evolving quickly.

Security and compliance

Both vendors publicly cite SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, with SSO/SAML and advanced admin controls generally living on their business or enterprise tiers. Data-for-training policies and retention windows differ between the two and change over time, so read each tool's current security page (Fireflies security, tl;dv security) and data processing agreement.

The bigger privacy difference is who is in the room. Fireflies and tl;dv both add a recording participant to the call. With Scribbl, no bot or outside account enters the call, nothing is announced to the room, and no email goes to other attendees.

Fireflies and tl;dv pros and cons

Fireflies pros

• Lowest entry price ($10 per seat, billed annually) and lower Business tier
• Widest platform coverage incl. Webex and dialers
• 100-plus transcription languages
• Fred AI assistant and conversation analytics

Fireflies cons

• Video recording is limited and audio-first
• Free plan is capped on recordings and transcription credits
• Bot joins the call as a visible participant
• Coaching is lighter than tl;dv's dedicated hub

tl;dv pros

• Generous free plan with unlimited recordings and video
• Best-in-class sales coaching, playbooks, and scorecards
• Video library with clips, reels, and jump-to timestamps
• Large app reach via Zapier-style connectors

tl;dv cons

• More expensive at every paid tier ($18 then $29 per seat, billed annually)
• Fewer platforms (Zoom, Meet, Teams only)
• Fewer languages (~30+ vs 100+)
• Bot joins the call as a visible participant

Scorecard: who wins each category

Tallying the sections above into a transparent per-category call. This is our judgment, not a vendor's self-score; we mark a clear winner only where the evidence is one-sided, and call ties honestly.

Category	Winner	Why
Nothing joins the call	Scribbl	No bot on Google Meet, Zoom or Teams; Fireflies and tl;dv both send one
Price (every paid tier)	Fireflies	$10 then $19 per seat, vs $18 then $29 (annual)
Free plan generosity	tl;dv	Unlimited recordings, vs credit-limited on Fireflies
Transcription accuracy	Tie	Both cite mid-90s percent on clean audio
Language coverage	Fireflies	100-plus languages, vs ~30-plus
Video recording	tl;dv	Video library on free and paid; Fireflies is audio-first
Meeting platform breadth	Fireflies	Adds Webex and dialers
Integrations	Tie	Both cover Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and Zapier
Sales coaching / revenue intel	tl;dv	Playbooks, scorecards, AI coaching reports
Conversation analytics depth	Tie	Both track talk-time, sentiment and topics

Tallying it up between the two bot-based tools: Fireflies takes price, languages, and platform breadth; tl;dv takes the free plan, video, and sales coaching; the rest are close. The category neither of them can win is the first row, because both send a bot into your call. That is why our pick is Scribbl.

Our pick: Scribbl, the botless option

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Bots in your call, ever

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Chrome Web Store rating from 3,000 reviews

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Organizations using Scribbl

Scribbl is for people who want clean notes and real follow-up without a bot in the call. It captures Google Meet through a Chrome extension and never dials anyone in, so there is no participant named after the tool in the roster and no email sent to attendees. There is a free plan with no credit card, Meet is covered by the Chrome extension, and Scribbl Desktop (Mac with Apple silicon, and Windows) adds Zoom and Microsoft Teams, free plan included. Every meeting gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items.

After the call, Scribbl does the follow-up instead of leaving you a transcript or a dashboard to comb through. On Pro you can ask Claude or ChatGPT about every meeting. Automations draft the email, log notes in HubSpot or Pipedrive, post to Slack or Teams, or open a Jira or Linear ticket, and ask before they change anything by default. Smart Collections sort your meetings by themselves into groups you describe in one sentence. It is rated 5.0 from 3,000 reviews on the Chrome Web Store and 4.9 from 725 reviews on G2, and used across more than 10,000 organizations. See the Scribbl vs Fireflies and Scribbl vs tl;dv head-to-heads for the direct comparisons, or the pricing page for plans.

Who should pick which

Pick Scribbl if a recorder showing up in the participant list is a dealbreaker. You get:

• Nothing joins the call on Google Meet, Zoom or Teams (Zoom and Teams through Scribbl Desktop)
• The video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items for every meeting
• Automations that draft the follow-up email, log notes in HubSpot or Pipedrive and post to Slack or Teams
• Claude or ChatGPT answers about every meeting on Pro
• A free plan with no credit card

Between the other two, Fireflies suits teams that need Webex or dialers and 100-plus languages, and tl;dv suits sales teams that want a coaching hub, both with a bot in the call.

Still deciding between the bot-based tools and a botless one? Our roundups of the best botless meeting recorders and the best AI notetaker with no bot widen the field. If you have already ruled one out, see our Fireflies alternative and tl;dv alternative guides.

Fireflies vs tl;dv FAQ

Fireflies or tl;dv: which is better in 2026?

Between the two, Fireflies is better for the widest meeting-platform coverage (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, dialers), 100-plus transcription languages, and built-in conversation analytics on a lower entry price, and tl;dv is better for sales coaching and revenue intelligence (playbooks, scorecards, AI coaching reports) and a generous free tier with unlimited recordings. Both put a bot in the call. Our pick over both is Scribbl: nothing joins the meeting on Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams, every meeting gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items, and the free plan needs no credit card. Disclosure: we make Scribbl.

Is Fireflies cheaper than tl;dv?

On the entry paid tier, Fireflies is lower (10 dollars per seat per month billed annually, or 18 dollars monthly) than tl;dv (18 dollars per seat per month billed annually, or 29 dollars monthly). At the next tier the gap stays in Fireflies' favor (Business is 19 dollars versus tl;dv's 29 dollars, both billed annually). But tl;dv has a more generous free plan with unlimited recordings, so for a one-person, light-use case tl;dv can be cheaper or free. Prices change often, so check each vendor's pricing page before you buy.

Does Fireflies or tl;dv have a better free plan?

tl;dv has the more generous free plan in 2026, commonly cited with unlimited recordings and transcriptions, where Fireflies free plan is more limited on stored recordings and transcription credits. The trade-off is that tl;dv free leans toward its recording-library and sales workflow, while Fireflies free gives you a taste of its analytics. Confirm current free-tier caps on each site, because they change frequently. If you want a free plan that never puts a bot in the call, Scribbl is botless and needs no credit card.

Does Fireflies or tl;dv support more meeting platforms?

Fireflies supports more platforms. It is commonly cited working across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and dial-in or phone systems, roughly nine sources. tl;dv focuses on the big three: Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. If your team lives on Webex or dialers, Fireflies has the edge. If you only use Zoom, Meet, and Teams, the platform gap does not matter.

Which has better sales coaching, Fireflies or tl;dv?

tl;dv leans harder into sales coaching and revenue intelligence. It is built around playbooks, scorecards, talk-time and sentiment analysis, AI coaching reports, and multi-meeting deal insights, which is its biggest differentiator versus Fireflies. Fireflies has conversation intelligence too (topic tracking, talk-time, sentiment, and its Fred AI assistant), but tl;dv markets the coaching hub more aggressively.

Do Fireflies and tl;dv put a bot in the meeting?

Yes. In their common configurations both join your call as a visible AI assistant that appears in the participant list and may need to be admitted. That is fine for internal calls but it changes the room on an external sales or first-client call. Scribbl is botless by design, so nothing ever joins the meeting; it captures Google Meet through a Chrome extension instead. Whichever tool you pick, recording laws vary by region, so disclose that you are recording and get consent.

What is the transcription accuracy of Fireflies vs tl;dv?

Both vendors cite accuracy in the mid-90s percent range on clean audio. Accuracy depends heavily on audio quality, accents, jargon, and crosstalk, so no single tool wins every call. The honest test is to run one real call with your own product names and accents through each tool and read the output yourself.

Does Fireflies or tl;dv record video?

tl;dv records video on its free and paid plans and is built around a video recording library with clips and reels. Fireflies focuses on audio and transcripts; video recording is a known weakness and, where available, tends to sit on higher tiers rather than the free or entry plan. Between the two, tl;dv is the stronger fit for a searchable video library with shareable clips. Scribbl also records the video of every meeting, free plan included, with share links, and no bot joins the call. Confirm current video availability per tier on each vendor's site, because plans change.

What is a good botless alternative to Fireflies and tl;dv?

Scribbl is a botless alternative: no bot ever joins the call, nothing is announced, and no email is sent to attendees. It has a free plan with no credit card, works with Google Meet through a Chrome extension (and adds Zoom and Microsoft Teams through its desktop app), and connects each meeting to ChatGPT or Claude so the recap, action items, and follow-up actually get written. It is rated 5.0 from 3,000 reviews on the Chrome Web Store and used across more than 10,000 organizations. Disclosure: we make Scribbl. Run one real call on the free plan and compare.

Are Fireflies and tl;dv secure and compliant (SOC 2, GDPR)?

Both vendors publicly cite SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, with SSO/SAML and admin controls generally on their higher business or enterprise tiers. Data-for-training and retention policies differ and change over time, so if you are in a regulated industry, read each tool's current security page and data processing agreement and confirm whether your data is used to train models before you commit.

What is the best alternative to both Fireflies and tl;dv?

Scribbl, if you want nothing in the call. It captures Google Meet through a Chrome extension and Zoom and Microsoft Teams through Scribbl Desktop, with nothing in the participant list, and every meeting gets the video, a transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items. Automations do the follow-up (draft the email, log notes in HubSpot or Pipedrive, post to Slack or Teams), and the free plan needs no credit card. Disclosure: we make Scribbl.