Fireflies.ai vs tl;dv Comparison 2026
Both cover transcription & show notes. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Meeting notes that write themselves
Recordings and notes from every call, free to start
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Fireflies.ai | tl;dv | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $18 | From $18 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | None |
| Runs on |
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Fireflies.ai
Meeting notes that write themselves
Fireflies joins a call, records it, and hands back a transcript and a summary with the action items pulled out, which turns a sponsor call into a record you can search later. The free plan gives unlimited transcription and an API, which is unusually generous. Storage is what it rations, and the free tier's 400 minutes covers a few weeks at most.
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- Covers ai content tools
tl;dv
Recordings and notes from every call, free to start
tl;dv records Zoom, Meet and Teams calls, transcribes them in more than thirty languages and writes the notes, with the recording and the transcription uncapped even on the free plan. What the free plan meters is the AI on top: ten meetings of notes and ten questions. Paying removes that ceiling and adds templates, action items and a search across every transcript. This is aimed at calls rather than at published audio, so a podcaster wants a transcription service instead.
Our note
Stay on free until the ten AI-note meetings run out, because the capture is identical and most people discover they only want notes on a fraction of their calls. Compare against Grain on the free tiers rather than the paid ones: the two draw the free line in different places and which suits you depends on whether your calls are long or many.
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