Fireflies.ai vs Granola (2026)

Best for

Teams that want a bot to record and transcribe every scheduled call in many languages, with video recordings, 100+ integrations and AI Skills for follow-up work

Best for

People who want meeting notes without a bot joining the call, across any meeting app and in person, built from their own jottings with only the transcript kept

Fireflies.ai

Granola

Fireflies.ai

Granola

What is the difference between Fireflies.ai vs Granola?

Fireflies.ai and Granola both produce notes from meetings, and they differ first on how they get in the room. Fireflies sends its Notetaker to scheduled calls on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and other conferencing apps, records and transcribes them, and writes summaries, action items and searchable notes. Granola never joins the call. It captures audio from the device you are using, so it works with any meeting app and in person, and it fills out your rough notes from the transcript afterward. That is what the human-in-loop row reflects. Fireflies reads Not Required because its bot joins scheduled meetings on its own, and a Chrome extension can record without the bot. Granola reads Required because recording starts manually for each meeting. Fireflies keeps the recording, with video recording and downloads from Pro, while Granola deletes the audio after transcription and keeps only the transcript and notes. The deployment row uses two different words for a similar idea. Fireflies runs as a cloud service with its bot and a browser extension, and Granola runs as apps on Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch. The starting-price row compares two different terms. Both products have a free plan. Fireflies' figure is the Pro rate billed annually, and month to month it costs more. Granola's figure is its Business rate billed monthly. Fireflies Free gives unlimited transcription with limited AI summaries and capped storage, while Granola Basic gives unlimited AI meeting notes with 30 days of note history in the app. Both publish an Enterprise price, and Granola's can be bought in the app while Fireflies sells Enterprise annually through sales, which is why the transparency row differs. Read the data-training row as stated. Fireflies' terms say it will not use customer content to train, retrain or fine-tune generative AI models, with a zero-day retention policy for its AI vendors. Granola trains its own models on anonymized customer data by default, with an opt-out for each user on every plan. Enterprise workspaces are opted out by default, and third-party providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic may not train on customer data. Each product carries one security chip the other's row does not. Fireflies lists ISO 42001 certification, a standard for managing AI systems, and Granola's privacy policy addresses the CCPA. Both offer HIPAA compliance on Enterprise only, and Granola's requires a signed Business Associate Agreement. Fireflies reaches wider. Transcription is strongest in English, with more than 100 other languages in beta, against Granola's 31 languages on desktop and 17 on mobile. Its integrations cover more than 100 apps, including recruiting tools and dialers, and more than 200 AI Skills handle follow-up work such as sales call analysis and interview scorecards. Granola connects natively to Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Attio, Affinity and Zapier, and its additions center on the person in the meeting: chat across past meetings with citations, Recipes, pre-meeting briefs and drafted follow-up emails. Both run an MCP server. Fireflies' official remote server lets assistants search transcripts, fetch summaries and share meetings, and Granola runs as an official connector in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Fireflies carries the larger G2 review base of the two. On the companies, Fireflies said in June 2025 that a tender offer valued it above $1 billion and that it had been profitable since 2023. Granola, based in London, raised a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation in March 2026. Choose Fireflies if you want a bot to record every scheduled call, need many languages, video recordings or a long list of integrations, or want AI Skills for follow-up work across sales, recruiting and operations. Choose Granola if you would rather no bot joined the call, meet in person or across many meeting apps, or want notes built from your own jottings with nothing but the transcript kept.

Which is best for my team: Fireflies.ai vs Granola?

Fireflies.ai is best for: Teams that want a bot to record and transcribe every scheduled call in many languages, with video recordings, 100+ integrations and AI Skills for follow-up work. Granola is best for: People who want meeting notes without a bot joining the call, across any meeting app and in person, built from their own jottings with only the transcript kept.

How does pricing compare between Fireflies.ai vs Granola?

Fireflies.ai uses a freemium model, starting at $10 per month on an annual commitment (month-to-month costs more). Granola uses a freemium model, starting at $14 per month.

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